CABLE NEWS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XII, Issue 2149, 7 September 1905, Page 5

CABLE NEWS

By KlcctriclTelegraph—Copyright.

the Convention with China, Japan acquires the mines connected with her section of the line. Russia aui Japan engage to make a junction of the lines at Kwangchengtozo, working with a view to ensure commercial advantage without obstruc tion. Russia cedes Japan Southern S; ghalien as far north as the I’ftitth degree of latitude, with the adjacent ’.stand. Russian colonists shall he ahewed to remain, but Japan scad be empowered to force the convicts to leave. Japan shall Le g'’allied fishery rights in the seas •■{ Japan, Okhotsk and Behring. The Russo-Japanese treaty x\ill le renewed and prisoners exchanged, each nation paying the erst Ratification of the treaty shall take place within fifty days.

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE TREATY. (Receaived this day at 7.4 a.m.) Washington, Sept. 6. The two additional articles of the treaty provide for the evacuation of Manchuria within eighteen months. The military railway guards are to be) afterwards limited to 15 pier kilometre. The Saghalien boundary is to be defined by a special commission. Russia acknowledges that she knows she is not to possess in Manchuria territorial advantages, preferential or exclusive concessions, or franchise impairing the sovereignty or incompatibility with the principle of equal opportunity. THE SIGNING OF THE TREATY. AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE. (Received this day at 5.48 a.m.) Washington, September G. The treaty was signed in silence until the last signature was affixed. M. de Witte then reached across the table and grasped Baron Komura’s hand. His colleagues imitated him. and the Russians and Japanese stood for a moment tightlv claspiing hands. Cordial speeches followed.