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Show CHINA AMD JAPAN WILLJOT FIGHT THE NEGOTIATIONS REGARDING SHANTUNG AND MANCHURIA' BROUGHT TO CONCLUSION. Japan Has Lodged Against China Heavy Claims For Injuries to Japanese Subjects and Damage Dam-age Done to Ships. Pekin. Two treaties between China and Japan, together with thirteen notes, were signed Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock jn the Chinese foreign office. This act brought to a conclusion conclu-sion the negotiations which have been going on since last January, when Japan, shortly after the fall of the German Ger-man position of Kiao-Chow, presented her well-known demands to China. The first treaty signed Tuesday deals with Shantung and the second with South Manchuria and eastern inner in-ner Mongolia. The only difference between be-tween terms of the ultimatum sent by Japan to China and the treaties as signed Tuesday, is the substitution of one fort for another mining right in South Manchuria. The Japanese endeavored to secure other alterations, notably the omission omis-sion of the words "South" and "Eastern" "East-ern" before Manchuria and inner Mongolia, Mon-golia, respectively, as well as the substitution sub-stitution of the words "Iiao-Tung peninsula" pen-insula" for "Dalny" and "Port Arthur" but the Chinese representatives fought for and obtained a strict adherence to the, terms of the ultimatum with the exception previously noted. Japan has lodged against China heavy claims for the injuries to Japanese Jap-anese subjects and the damage done to Japanese ships in Hankow recently recent-ly by Chinese mobs. |