The Treaty of Peace.

Opunake Times, Volume XXII, Issue 771, 8 September 1905, Page 2

The Treaty of Peace.

———♦ — Washington, Sep. 6. The Plenipotentiaries signed the treaty simultaneosly at 8.47 yesterday afternoon. Russian and Japanese troops are to simultaneously evacuate Manchuria. All private rights are to remain intact. The Bussian leases of Port Arthur and Dalny with the lands and waters adjacent thereto, pass to Japan, subject to the private rights. Russia ce.des Japan Southern Saghalieu as far north as the fiftieth degree of latitude, with adjacent islands. Free navigation of La Perouse and Taitary Bays is assured. Russian colonists will be allowed to remain, but Japan is empowered to force convicts to leave. Japan is to be granted fishery rights in the seas of Japan, Okhotok and Behring. The Russo-Japanese, treaty will be renewed, and prisoners exchanged, each paying the cost of ratification within fifty days.