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Show DAMAGES TO CHINA DONE BY LATE WAR CHICAGO. Nov. 20. A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington, V. C, says: Information has reached .Washlngioh which shows that the Chinese Government Govern-ment is well advanced In Its tak of estimating esti-mating the damages to Chinese property by the late war betweeil Russia and Japan. Ja-pan. This possibly will amount to S20.000.-000. S20.000.-000. the tlg-ures gathered so far showing a total of ll2.0oo.0lw, this being Incomplete. Whether China will be reimbursed is a question. It Is not thought now that the matter will be taken before The Hague tribunal, as would be the natural course, and China Is confident that the two powers pow-ers will settle without resort to arbitration. arbitra-tion. A careful estimate has shown that during the eighteen months' strife in Manchuria, 20.000 innocent Chinese lives were lost, and some reparation will be demanded de-manded on this score. |