CABLE MEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT.]

Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 59, 7 September 1905, Page 5

CABLE MEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH — COPYRIGHT.]

THE PEACE TERMS. TREATY FORMALLY. SIGNED. ." JAPAN'S PREPONDERANT INTEREST IN KOREA. SIMULTANEOUS EVACUATION OF MANCHURIA. RAILWAY TO BE WORKED JOINTLY. CESSION OF PART OF SAGHALIEN. [FBESB ASSOCIATION.! WASHINGTON, 6th September. - The Russian and Japanese plenipotentiaries signed the peace treaty simultaneously at 3.47 o'clock yesterday afternoon. There was complete absence of ceremony. Only four American officials were present. A salute of eighteen guns was fired, church bells were rung, and flags Jjoisted everywhere. The Russian, envoys immediately attended a thanksgiving service held at Portsmouth by the" Archimandrite. Tho treaty comprises fifteen articles, with two additional. The preamble recites that the Tsar and Mikado, desiring to close the war, agree to re-establish peace and friendship. Russia recognises Japan's preponderant political, military, and economic interests in Korea, and will not oppose any measures Japan may deem necessary for the protection and control of Korea, Russian subjects and enter-" prises to enjoy the same status as those of other countries. Russian and Japanese troops to simultaneously evacuate Manchuria; all private rights to remain intact. Russian leases of Port Arthur and Dalny, with the lands and waters adjacent, to pass to Japan, subject to private rights. Both nations engage not to oppose China's measures for the development of Manchuria's commerce and industry, all nations being treated alike. The, Manchurian railway to be worked jointly between the Russians and Japanese at Kwang-cheng-tsu (73 miles W.N.W. of Kirin), but is to be employed for commercial and industrial purposes only. Owing to Russia, keeping her line, with the rights acquired under the convention with China, Japan acquires the mines connected with her section of the line. Russia and Japan engage to make a junction of the lines at Kwang-cheng-tsu, working with a view to ensure commercial advantage, without obstruction. Russia, cedes to Japan the southern portion of Saghalien Island to as far north as the fiftieth degree of latitude, with the adjacent island. Free navigation in the La Perouse and Tartary Straits is assured. Russian colonists to be allowed to remain at Saghalien, but Japan is empowered to force, the convicts tojeave. ' Japan is granted fishery rights in the Japanese, Okhotsk, and Behring Seas. s Provision is made for the Russo-Japanese treaty to be renewed. Prisoners of war are to be exchanged, each party payiag the cost. Ratification of the treaty is to be made within fifty days. EVACUATION OF MANCHURIA. (Received September 7, 7.41 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 6th September. The two aditional articles of the treaty are as follows : — Evacuation of Manchuria within eighteen months; militnry railway guards to be afterwards limited to 15 per kilometre. The Saghalien boundary to be defined by a special commission. Russia acknowledges that she does not possess in Manchuria territorial advantages, preferential exclusive concessions,or franchises impairing its sovereignty, or any advantages incompatible with the principle of equal opportunity. SIGNED IN SILENCE. CORDIAL SPEECHES. (Received September 7, 8.48 a.m.) .WASHINGTON, 6th September. The treaty was signed in silence until the last signature was affixed, when M. de Witte reached across the table and, grasped Baron Komura's hand. His colleagues imitated his example, and Russians and Japanese stood for a moment i tightly clasping hands. Cordial speeches were afterwards made. THE FEELING IN JAPAN, (Received September 7, 8.28 a.m.) TOKIO, 6th September. [",'■ Although the majority of the population accept the treaty peacefully, some noisy meetings of protest were held at Tokio, Osaka, and Nagaya. THE ORIGINAL DEMANDS. The original demands made by the Japanese were briefly as follows : — An indemnity or "reimbursement of the expenses of the war." The cession of Saghalien Island. " The cession of tho Russian leases of tho Liaotung Peninsula. The evacuation of Manchuria. Retrocession to China of any Russian privileges in Manchuria, and recognition of the "open door" principle. Tho cession to Japan of the Chinese Eastern Railway below Kharbin, tho main line through Northern Manchuria to Vladivostock remaining Russian. Recognition of a Japanese protectorate over Korea.. The granting of fishing rights to Japan in the waters of the Siberian littoral northward of Vladivostock to tho Behring Sea. , : Relinquishment to Japan of Russian warships now interned in neutral ports. Limitation of Russia's naval strength in the Far East.