RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIX, Issue 12594, 7 September 1905, Page 5

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

United Pres3 Association—Copyright. Received September 6, 7.33 a.m. LONDON, September 5. Numerous Japanese trading colonies havo been established in southern Manchuria, especially at Niuchwang, Mukden, and Dalny. Six thousand Japanese are at Niiichw^ng, whero thero wero 100 before the war.

PARIS, September 5. French war correspondents in Mancliuria comment unfavourably on the disorder, ignorance, apathy, and completo disorganisation of the Russian army.

THE PEACE AGREEMENT.

DRAFT OF THE TREATY.

Received September 7, 1.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, September 6

The Peace Plenipotentiaries signed tho treaty simultaneously at 3.47 this afternoon. There was a complete absence of ceremony, and only four American officials were present. A salute of 18 guns was fired. The church bells ■are ringing and flags are hoisted everywhere. The Russian envoys immediately attended a thanksgiving service held at Portsmouth by the Archimandrite.

The treaty comprises fifteen articles, with two additional ones. The preamble recites that the Czar and Mikado, desiring to close the war, agree to re-establish peace and friendship. Russia recognises Japan's preponderance in political, military, and economic interests in Korea, and will not oppose any measures Japan deems necessary for the protection and control of Korea. The Russian subjects and their enterprises will enjoy the same status as other countries. The Russian and Japanese troops will simultaneously evacuate Manchuria. All private rights will remain intact. Russia leases Port Arthur and Dalny, with their lands, waters, and adjacent pass, to Japan, subject to the private rights of both nations to engage, but not oppose, China's measures for the development of Manchuria's commerce and industry, all nations being treated alike. Tho Manchurian Railway shall be worked jointly between the Russians and the Japanese, and Kwang CHengtuzo shall 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 Chengtuzo, working with a view to ensure commercial advantage, without obstruction. Russia cedes to Japan southern Saghalien as far north-as the fiftieth degree of latitude, with the adjacent island, free navigation to La Perouse and Taitary boys, and has assured the Russian colonists that they will be allowed to remain, but Japan is empowered to force all convicts to leave Japan. She has been granted fishery rights in the seas:of japan, Okhotsk, and Behring;

The Russo-Japanese treaty will be renewed and the. prisoners exchanged, each paying- the cost of ratification within fifty days. ,; '