People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — PROTEST TO JAPAN. [ARTICLE]

PROTEST TO JAPAN.

EUROPEAN POWERS OBJECT TO TERMS OF TREATY. CbinSM Mainland Inviolate —Envoys of Rnssia, Germany and France Present the Views of Their Government at Tokio. Berlin, April 24. —A dispatch received here from Tokio says that the envoys of Russia, Germany and France have formally protested to the Japanese minister of foreign affairs to the incorporation in the terms of the treaty of between China and Japan of any ol the Chinese mainland in the Japanese empire. The terms of the treaty make the indemnity payable in seven years, with interest at 5 per cent, but if the amount (200,000,000 taels) is paid Japan in three years, no interest will be demanded. Japan gets the right to navigate the Chung Klang, Soo Chow and Hong Kong rivers, to establish factories and import many classes of goods and machinery" free of duty. China agrees to throw open to civilization over 100,000,000 square miles of the richest territory in the empire, having an estimated population of 200,000,000. Six closed cities, the largest in the empire, are also thrown open, and the Yang-Tse-Kiang, Canton and Shanghai rivers are opened to commerce. Many" miles of the rivers are to be dredged so that ships of the deepest draught can reach inland cities and markets. Japan will continue the occupation of Wei-liai-Wei as a guaranty of the payment of the indemnity.