The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-16
CHINA FACING
NEW DEMANDS
FROM RUSSIA.
Recognize IN of the Full Au-
tonomy Of Outer Mongolia
Is Required Under the
Urga Protocol.
CHINESE PARLIAMENT
CONSIDERING MATTER
Strong Opposition to Russia
Is Apparent at Pekin and
Great Excitement Is
Said to Prevail.

PEKIN, July i5.-Russia today sud-
denly preserted TO the Chinese govern
ment new demands requiring recogni-
tion of the full autonomy of outer
Mongolia, declaring China to be suzer-
ain only, binding China to accept Rus
sian intermediatiou and recognizing all
the rights conceded to Russia by The
agreement and protocol signed at Urga,
the capital OF Mongolia, on November
3. 1912.
These fonr new demands are sub
mitted -by Russia in substitution for
the recently proposed agreement, which
has not yet been signed, and which,
Russia aurounces she has decided to
annul,
Oppositim Apparent.
Both hoses of the Chinese parlia-
ment have been hastily. summoned To
consider the demands. Strong opposi.
| ton to than is voiced by both Chinese
and foreipers and great excitement
prevails 81 the unexpected turn of
events.
The agreement signed at Urga in
Novemberwas as follows:
BY an agreement signed on No
| vember 3, Russia undertakes to aid
Mongolia and to maintain the au-
tonomous government which she has
establshed She will support her right
to maintain national army and cx-
clude bot the presence of Chinese
troops and the colonization of her ter
ritory by the Chinese. The Mongolan
sovereign and the government viii as
sure Rusian subjects and Russian
| commerce,a as heretofore, a full enjoy
ment Of the rights and privileges
| foreign sbiects in Mongolia being
| granted f5ler rights than those Of Rus
sia.
Other hovisions.
The gently proposed agreement
declared that Russia acknowledged
Otter Mogolia as Chinese territory, +
while CHA agreed that Mongolia was
to have stonomy. The Pekin govern
ment agreed not to send soldiers into
outer Mogolia, which was to have
its own army and police Russia
agreed nt to send soldiers into Mon.
goIia except as consular guards in ac-
cordarcew the terms of previous
treaties She further agreed not to
send coloists into Mongolia, but re-
tanned th extensive commercial priv.
leges Acknowledged in treaties With
the headla of Mongolia.
Fightiy in Progress.
W9SHN GlON, July 10. - Two
America warships, the gunboats
Helena sd Samar, are in the interna-
tional fst of Kiukiang, China, where
heavy 6bting is in progress between
the govrnmewt forces and the pro-
vincial loops Of Kiangsi province.
Todays dispatches to the state de-
partmen say that the many foreign
ers at Gukiang are unguarded, but
that noanti-foreign sentiment is be.
lleved ; exist. The report from the
America legation at Pekiu says the
result the fighting is as yet un-
known. Road and telegraphic com
municaicn to Kuling, the summer re-
sort foiforeigners in central China, is
interruyed
The loops in Kiangsi province are
said toiave been the aggressors: The
movemet is headed by the former
militau governor of Kiangsi, who
was recntiy removed from Office and
who hs for allies General Huanp
Hsing. ,ne of the leaders of the Ma
tionalli or southern party, and the
preside of the national senate.