People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — Treaty Is Ratified. [ARTICLE]

Treaty Is Ratified.

Shanghai, May B.—lt is stated here that the ratifications of the treaty of peace between China and Japan were exchanged today at Chee Foo. It is reported that Sir Robert Hart, Inspectorgeneral of the Chinese customs, has guaranteed the payment of the additional indemnity demanded by Japan as a result of relinquishing her claim to tl.e Liao Tung peninsula, in compliance with the views of Russia, France and Germany. Sir Robert Hart, however, makes his guaranty conditional on the financing of the total indemnity being left In bis hands.