• This is it vety important fact, but fortunately for
the Government. China has gained in the negotiations the point which she considered the most important. The Chien-tao territory is restored to her with all its Korean population, the only stipulation being that whenever sentence of death is passed upon a Korean by the Chinese Courts the Japanese Consul shall be informed. As regards the Fa-kn-men Railway, China reaffirms the declaration of December, 1905, promising not to build a railway near or parallel to the South Manchurian Railway. Farther, she will not extend the Hain-min-tun line to the north without consulting the Japanese Government. The rights of the Fushun and Yentai collieries are granted to Japan in return for certain payments. The Northern Chinese Railway and the South Manchurian Railway are to be continued to Mukden. The chief thing to hope for now is that China and Japan will be able to work their railways in the same country so as to help and not to hinder one another.
