. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . Li Himg Chang proceeded to Shimono-seki, where a treaty was signed on April 17th. The terms included the fulland complete independence and autonomy of Korea, and the cession of thesouthern portion of the pro\ince of Shin-king (with a frontier extending fromthe Yalu river to Ying-kau), of Formosa and adjacent islands, and of thePescadores group. Article I\ fixed an indemnity of 200,000,000 taels. ByArticle YI four additiona
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . Li Himg Chang proceeded to Shimono-seki, where a treaty was signed on April 17th. The terms included the fulland complete independence and autonomy of Korea, and the cession of thesouthern portion of the pro\ince of Shin-king (with a frontier extending fromthe Yalu river to Ying-kau), of Formosa and adjacent islands, and of thePescadores group. Article I\ fixed an indemnity of 200,000,000 taels. ByArticle YI four additional cities and ports were opened to Japanese trade,and rights of na\igation on Chinese rivers were extended. Wei-hai-wei wasto be occupied as a guarantee of performance. The of territory inthe pro^ince of Shin-king was subsequentlj cancelled by the joint action ofRassia, France, and Germany. Politically the main,results of the war were two: first, the raising ofJapan to the position of a great naval and mihtary power; and, second,the hastening by some years of the accomplishment of the plans of Russiafor the absorption of Manchuria and the Liao-Tung
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