Show IN JUST TEN DAYS china japan armistice will then close belief prevails china will resist japans demand onell the eleventh hour washington april lo 10 alie japan china armistice clows in ten days ro it ie anticipated by odi ciale and eliat the final terms of peace must be af hand it ie stated however by a diplomat of experience with chinese and comma that it ia characteristic with them not to meet the emergency until the last day ie cited in which japan gave corea three months to acquiesce in certain conditions there was no response until the day before alie three months expired when corean officials appeared and stated eliat the aub act had been overlooked and more time was desired which request however was not granted it would not be eur to odi cinie if li hung Chang took the full ten days before yielding to all of japan demands the reports eliat the indemnity will be about vena coincides with the understanding here eliat would be alie amount of alic payment alie present rate of exchange on a silver yen is 47 cents that silver yen would be it is agreed by all hand including japanese and chinese officials that the independence of corea will be one of the terms of peace this brings out the curious fact that alie united stales ia the only power which hitherto recognized coreas independence and has received diplomatic delegation from that country it is stated that some time ago china addressed a private letter to all alie foreign powers in which it argued that borea was independent in conducting her internal affairs ant was a tributary of china far as her dealings with foreign powers were concerned it never has been disclosed what answer the powers cave but from the fact that corea has no diplomatic legation outside of the united states it is concluded alie european powers acquiesced in alie chinese suggestion and failed to accord to corea complete independence of china it is understood alie united states never made any formal reply to chinas contention but the establishment of a corean legation at washington was a tacit refusal to recognize her authority over corea and a recognition of alie independence it is believed the peace agreement between japan and aliina will so cugsly attign corbae independence eliat the little kingdom will extend her treaty relations with the remainder of the world and establish legations throughout europe as well fie in the |