Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-05-14
JAPAN C0MPELS
CHINA TO GIVE Up
THEIR ULTlMATUM HAD DESIRED
EFFECT AND WAR BETWEEN
THE TWO is AvERTED.
HAD MADE NOTIFICATIONS
China Offered Japs More Than They
Observation-Disclosures Iron Deposits
of China Is Real Bone of Conten-
tion-Outlet for Cheap Labor.

Peking.-The attaches of the foreign
office are at work translating Japan's
ultimatum and drafting the terms of
China's compliance with the demands,
submitted to Yuan Shi Kai and the
state council. The reply will be de-
livered to M. Hioki, the Jauanese min
lister, Immediately. The Chinese note
will review China's case, answer the
charges contained in the ultimatum,
and accept the demands without quail
ification.
The government expects no serious
revolutionary outbreak from the peo-
pie. The military leaders have assur-
ed Yuan Shi Kai that their support
would continue.
Ext Hioki, the Japanese minister to
China, went to the Chinese foreign
office and presented the Japanese ul.
timatum, which insists that China &C.
cede to the demands presented by the
Toxic government.
of the minister the secretary of the
legation visited the foreign office and
informed Vice Minister Tsao Yulin
that the ultimatum of the Japanese
government contained certain modifi.
cations of the "a demands presented
by Toxic.
The handing in Of the Japanese ul
timatum to China has brought out the
knowledge on one point which has
caused SURPRISE here.
1t seems that Japan after insisting
upon the acceptance of her demands
suspended in her ultimatum discus
sion on all of group ", with the ex.
ception Of the demand bearing upon
Fukien province, to which the Chinese
had agreed in their reply. The records
now show that China offered to con
cede to the Toxic government more
than the ultimatum now exacts from
her.
1t is learned that in the course OF
Vice Minister Tsao Yulin's visit to
the Japanese legation he proposed yer
bally to meet the Japanese railroad de
mands, to grant school and hospital
privileges, offered to bestow land with
out compensation upon Japanese anG
proposed to withdraw China's three re
quirements regarding Shantung prov
ince.
Japs Want Iron Mines.
Across the Pacific, on deep water In
China, are the most extensive iron de
posts in all the world. Mining en-
gineers who have Investigated these
deposits report that they can be min
ed with cheap labor and brought by
steamer to the Pacific coast of the
United States at cos which cuts fal
under the price of domestic ores laid
down in the iron manufacturing cen
tiers of the eastern United States.
If the principle of the open dool
can be preserved in letter and spirit
it would be but matter of time unit
a great industry could be built up by
the application of our cheap electric
power to these remarkably cheap ores
from China.
Here is the deep underlying motive
of Japan's demands on China. Selling
the inviting opportunity presented b,
the European war, and the resulting
powerlessness of the countries thai
pledged the maintenance of the oper
door in China to oppose or thwar
her ambitious designs, Japan is NOV
ing with swift determination to &C
quire for herself the immensely val
liable iron deposits of China.