People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — FOSTER BACK FROM CHINA. [ARTICLE]

FOSTER BACK FROM CHINA.

Ex-Secretary of State Leaves Sau Fran-elM-o at Once for Washington. Victoria, B. C., July 3. —Among the passengers on the steamer Empress of China, which arrived from Hong Kong and Yokohama, was ex-Secretary of State Foster, f who acted as China’s agent in the peace negotiations with Japan. He left at once for Washington. Advices from Tokio are that unless Japan is prepared to acquiesce in Russia's ambitious schemes in the peninsula she must declare her intentions without delay. The emperor of China has again offended Japan by officially acknowledging the service of France and Russia in preventing the cession of the Manchurian province. The Corean question also presents many difficulties. Count Inoyi is believed to have entirely abandoned the task of regulating that troublesome monarchy. The Corean government is rapidly giving itself up to Russian influences. It is doubted whether the Coreans will now yield to any course of treatment prescribed by Japan. The queen controls the political situation at Seoul and her hatred of the Japanese is undisguised.