Show aanThe Alleged Concessions London April 17n official dispatch I dis-patch has been received at the foreign office here announcing the conclusion of peace between China and Japan The secretary of state for foreign affairs the earl of Kimberly returned to town unexpectedly today and informed In-formed a reporter that the terms of the treaty of peace included matters relating relat-ing to commercial concessions The exact nature of the latter were not known to him but generally speaking the terms were correctly stated In the dispatch to the Associated Press from Tien Tsin last night Tbedlspatch referred to by the earl was the dispatch sent out exclusively I by the Associated Press last night announcing an-nouncing that an imperial edict had been Issued authorizing Li Hung Chang to sign the terms of peace in accordance with the Japanese untima tum Accordingly the indemnity to be paid by China Is 200000000 taels the Japanese are to have possession of the Liao Tung peninsula to the fourth degree de-gree of altitude and are Also to possess gee island of Formosa In addition Pekin and four new ports of China are to ie opened to commerce and the Japanese are to have the power to open cotton factories and other industries indus-tries in China The decree also provides pro-vides that the import duties at the open ports are not to exceed 2 percent per-cent |