The Sentinel=record., 1915-05-02
JAPAN GETSA .CHINA'S RE;C IF JAPAN PREsENTSk -Tl- NAHUM CHINA WN& X
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CONCEDES ID SOME DEMANDS
The Fifth Group of Demands Made by
 Japan is Practically ReJected in
 Ful-China Asks Pay For Loss In cured in the Tsing Tau campaign.

Picking, May 2.-2:3O a. m-'Ohina has replied to the Japanese demands in a note which, while complying with some of the demands, definitely refuses to accede to others, including the most important embodied in what is known as group V.
 China has furnished to the Japan. csc minister, Eki IIioki, a list of fur ther concessions which she is willing to grant, but after perusing the note and the list. Hiod declared that it was far from complying with the 24 demands as presented by his govern ment This action was taken after President Yuan Shi Kai had thor oughly discussed the entire situation with the members of his cabinet and his advisers since last Monday
 The Chinese plenipotentiares met the Japanese plenipOtentiaries by ar rangement on Saturday at the foreign office and presented Ciina's reply, which, n substance, refused the so- called general demands of Japan.
 Mir Hiok asked whether thesy were Chiuas maximum concessions and then whether he should cable his government.
 Ilu Cheng-Hsiang, the Chinese for eign minister, replied that the wero Cana's maximum concessions and that the Jatanese minister could so inform his government.
 The conference terminated with neither the Japanese nor Chinese asking for another meeting. Should the Japanese government now pre- sent an ultimatum or occupy further territory in China it is inimated that the Chinese probably would ap- peal to the four powers which are pledged to Chnas independence.
 On perceiying that the Chinese reply failed to agree to the demands of his government the Japanese min ister declared the withdrawal of Japan's proposal to return to China Tsing Tau which was conditioned on China's deferring no longer the ac- ceptance of Japan's demands
 The Chinese note briefly recites the history of the negotiations It denies Japan's charge that China has displayed procrastuation and de- layed the conferences by diaputing various joints and also the charges of Chinese insincerity and unfriendli- ness. It further denies that China is conducting a newspaper campaign abroad. These were the reasons the Japanese plentipotentiares gave for presenting their latest list of 24 de- mands as a preliminary to an ulti- matum.
 The list of concessions is in the nature of counter proposals. China asks the right to participate in an in ternational conference i'll which the altered status of Shantung will be re- arranged; indemnity for the losses incurred in consequence of the Tsing Tau camp aign and also restoration of its status as before the war. These three requests are repeated from China's original counter proposals
 China offers further concessions with respect to Manchuria, almost meeting the Japanese demand. China accedes to three of the four demands regarding Mongolia, namely, the opening of treaty ports, pref renee in railway loans and the non-pledging of local taxes. The agriculture demand is rejected.
 Respecting the Hanyehping Com pany, China agrees that pending the eventual formation of a Chino-Jap- anese company, the government can not make the company state-owned or borrow foreign capital for the re- payment of the Japanese loan. The Chinese understand that this is ac- ceptable to Japan.
 China rejects the fifth group with the exception of the modified Fukien demand, offering in this connection a separate note, intended to meet Japan's 'wishes, by Nvdging that 10 foreigners shall receive coastal con- sessions or contracts without Japan s consent
 GrAb V comprises seven articles rels g to the employment by China of banese as advisers in political, find ,ial and military affairs super vis of the Chinese police. the ria of Japanese ownership of land, IJ4 anese supervision over the manu-