Show SA CHINA AND JAPAN the treaty of powe peace negotiate at hi ex secretary roster who was the con adent lat adviser ot or the emperor ot of china tella of the work done by ll LI hang chang gen foster who accompanied I 1 HUBS chang on his bia mission to diate peace with japan in the capacity ot of conf confidential iderA ial adviser to the emperor of china contributes a characteristic sk sketch eith of the chinese viceroy concerning c the treaty of sir mr foster says while he thus bore the most in important trust ever committed to him by the emperor it was by no means a task to his liking ail ing lie he was by nature high spirited and his military and political liti 1 success had made ira im haughty and imperious he was proud of hib codr country itry of its past history and of its institutions he partook of the national I 1 feeling of contempt for the japanese and he felt keenly the humiliation hi bich the war had bad inflicted upon his eople lie n knew the mission lie aie had been assigned would make lim him unpopular and expose him to tr fr sh in acs from his partisan enemies he ie felt that he was taking staking his life in his liand hand when he should place himself on J japanese soil and he be so expressed himself if to the incredulous foreign ign diplomats at peking but he dared not shrink from the duty which his bis sovereign hau had imposed upon him seldom has a public man unger under sue such h trying circumstances borne him alf if with wi ib such true trize heroism and patriotic devotion A high spirited and road oud man he went to the land of the despised but triumphant enemy to sue for wace peace and yet he never failed to maintain his accustomed demeanor or Us his count rys dignity and it is due to the Japa japanese pese plenipotentiaries who were ere designated to receive and treat v th ith him at to state that they e exhibited hibi ted toward him the highest of respect and durin during the entire negotiations allowed noord no word to escape from their lips and nothing to occur which might be considered personally offensive to their distinguished c ile he had the good fortune to conduct negotiations with two compeers com peers inen inea of marked ability and worthy representatives of their government and race I 1 marquis ito the prime minister s a typical member of the prat progressive asive party educated in europe and trained in modern political science and methods of government but an ardent and patriotic japanese he had a valuable colleague in count mutsu minister of foreign affairs who had bad been long in his count rys service at home and abroad marquis ito ten years before had been zent sent by hk hie government to to arrange with the viceroy li a settlement of corean affairs nf Fairs and the same subject brought the viceroy to japan but under changed conditions for the negotiators the defeated party always negotiates at t A disadvantage and the viceroy did not fail to appreciate the situation but the judgment of the impartial observer is that he came out of it with aws as much credit as was possible and it is quite certain that he obtained better terms forr for his country than any other chinese official could have secured this was due in part to the personal consideration shown him by the ithe japanese farie se negotiators but mainly to his own diplomatic experience and his thorough knowledge of his own govern adut japan was robbed of a a re of her triumph by the interposition of the european powers and it has been stated that the viceroy consented in the treaty to the cession of th the liao tung peninsula only because of his knowledge that these powers wo would 11 id its return to china but this is is not a fair statement of the facts neither the viceroy nor his government had received any information from russia or any other power before the treaty was signed as to its action OL 01 the subject bu but t he had been a close st student u of european politics for many years 1 and his action was based upon convictions bom of that study tie ile neither reads nor speaks any foreign language but he has secretaries charged with the duty of keeping him informed nf ormed of current events and lias has had much intercourse with diplomats and other intelligent foreigners and he well ram knew that russia if no other nation would not allow the domination of corea by japan or its permanent lodgment on the continent to so near to peking and dussias Rus sias own possessions possession and he was willing to make the Lioa tung cession in order to escape other hats harsh I 1 terms but the viceroys vice roys statesmanship and strength th of character were most conspicuous in his conduct after the treaty was signed and he had returned to china he sent urgent telegraphic representations to the emperor and to the foreign office calling lor prompt ratification fi and exchange of the treaty in spite pite of the tae foreign influence and national clamor his personal erme mies were actively exerting themselves against I 1 the ahe treaty led by viceroy chang chi tung who had written the hi highly illy laudatory address on the th occasion of his birthday celebration and who to that end was fomenting the rebellion in formosa and supplying the rebels with arms fro from rathe ithe im imperial peral arnal arenal nal at shanghai shiang hai it greatly tr redound cd d to the credit of the th youad young I 1 emperor in n such a frays cris h ha followed V advise a 3 aralla lo 10 ar ratified tv tra r |