JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13848, 7 September 1905, Page 7

JAPAN AND RUSSIA.

JAPANESE IN MANCHURIA. United Press Association —By Electric Te! egrr.ph—Copyright. LONDON, September 5. Numerous Japanese trading colonies j have been established in southern Manchuria, especially, at Niuchwang, Mukden and Dalny. Six thousand Japanese are at Niuchwang, whore there were only 100 before the war. THE RUSSIAN ARMY. DEMORALISATION IN MANCHURIA. PARIS, September 5. French war correspondents in Manchuria comment unfavourably on the disorder, ignorance, apathy and complete disorganisation of the Russian army. THE PEACE TREATY SIGNED. ITS PROVISIONS. WASHINGTON, September 6. The plenipotentiaries signed the treaty simultaneously at 3.47 yesterday afternoon. There was / a complete absence of ceremony. Only four American officials were present. A salute of eighteen guns was fired, church bells rung and flags were hoisted everywhere. The Russian envoys immediately attended a thanksgiving . service held at Portsmouth by the archimandrite. The treaty comprises fifteen articles, with two additional. The preamble recites that the Czar and the Mikado desiring the close of the war, agree to re-establish peace and friendship. Russia recognises Japan’s preponderant political, military and economic interests in Korea, and does not oppose any measures Japan deems necessary for the protection and control of Korea. Russian subjects and enterprises enjoy the same status as other countries. The Russian and the Japanese troops will simultaneously evacuate Manchuria. All private rights will remain intact. The Russian leases of Port Arthur and Dalny, with lands and waters adjacent, 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 shall be worked jointly between Russians and Japanese. Japan acquires the mines connected with her section of the line; Russia and Japan engage to make a junction of lines at Kwang Chengtozo, Working with a view to ensure commercial advantage without obstruction. Russia cedes Japan Southern Saghalion as far north as the fiftieth degree of latitude, with the adjacent island. Free navigation of La Poronse and Tatary Bays is assured. Russian colonists are to be allowed to remain, but Japan is empowered to force convicts to leave. Japan is graiited fishery rights in the Seas of Japan, Okhotsk and Behring. The Russo-Jap-anese treaty will be renewed. Prisoners will bo exchanged, each paying the cost of maintenance. Ratification of tho treaty is to be made within fifty days.