10
95
I
of have mentioned the attempt...
made by the French to induce
Japan to join them against China, in short, to play a part analogous to that played by cardinia in the Crimean War. There was a
in
powerful party among the Japanese
favour of seizing this opportunity of attacking their___ -hereditary enemies; but the wiser Counsels of the leading statesmen of Japan, especially of Counts __ Inouye and Ito, ably supported by Her Majesty's Minister at
Jokie
Jokio, (M. Plunkett), have prevailed; and the serious differences between China and Japan have been amicably settled as I learned on the 20th instant by a telegram from the British Legation at Peking. This settlement, like the promised peace
between France and China, will
remove a
fertile
source
of future.
disturbance in this quarter of the
globe.
le
As I have already
reported, both by telegraph and by despatch" the prospect of an early
"See Gour to Sexy of State
M: 161 of April 11, 1885.
11,.1885. 1/4
peace
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