The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1915-05-08
JAPS TRYING To
GObbLE UP CHINA
NEW DRAFT OF JAPANESE De
MANos STRONGER THAN
THE ORIGINAL.
WOULD CONTROL GOVERNMENT
Chinese Foreign Minister Said BY The
Japanese To Have Agreed
To The New Pro-
visions.

japanese demands on China now In
the hands Of Chinese Foreign Minister.
Lu Cheng Hsiang. interest is aroused
in the nature Of the modification which
Japan has made in the original docu-
ment President Yuan Shi Kai and
his advisers have carefully examined
the demands as amended, but no de.
cision has been reached.
Group one OF the original demands
relating to Shantung province has not
been altered from the form to which
the Chinese government has already
agreed. The group dealing with south
Manchuria, to six articles OF which
China has also agreed. remains un-
| changed. The second article OF group
3, bearing on the property rights and
interests of the Henyehping Company
is eliminated, but the first article OF
that group is made stronger from the
japanese point by requiring that China
| shall promptly compel the share-hold.
ers of the Hanyehping Company to ac.
cept the formation OF joint company,
which shall include the two nations.
The japanese had already accepted
the Chinese proposal regarding group
four, which provides that the Chinese
government shall not cede OF lease to
any third power any island, port or
harbor along the coast.
Public Declaration, But No Promise.
The Chinese governments proposal
was that while II was willing to make
a public declaration China should nev-
er cede or lease port, harbor or is
land to another power, 1t would de-
cline so to pledge itself to Japan.
The new draft entirely reconstructs
group FIVE in a manner which the Chin.
ese representatives declare is more
menacmg, because they say the
amendments are based on statements
which Lu Cheng Hsiang made in the
conferences with the Japanese min
lister. Ekii Hioki and NJ. Obata and
which. 1t is alleged the japanese are
attempting to designate as pledges
from China. II is further declared that
the Chinese foreign minister permit
ted himself to be drawn into a discus
sion of these demands. which Yuan
Shi Kai had instructed him to refuse
to discuss.
Group FIVE comprises seven articles
relating to the employment by the
Chinese government of japanese as
advisers in political, financial and mil
itary affairs; supervision OF the Chi
nese police: the right OF japanese
ownership of land for the building of
hospitals, churches and schools, the
purchase of munitions of war from
Japan, various railway and mining
rights as well as the right OF the Japan
ese to propagate Buddhism i'm China.
Japanese Advisers In Crisis.
With reference to article one of
group FIVE, Japan requires a note from
China declaring that when any i'm.
portant crisis arises China shall ask
Japan TO appoint many Japanese ad'
visers" This peculiar wording is the
undertaking to which the japanese
state Lu Cheng Hsiang committed
himself. In article two OF group five
Japan now requires the right either to
rent or lease lands. The Chinese eX'
press themselves as being far from
satisfied with this because this article
which is a separate clause from that
relating to Buddhism would have the
effect Of opening the entire country "a
the japanese individually, as well as
under religious societies.
Article three of group five. relating
TO the police administration has been
Withdrawn. but Japan now requires
the appointment of police advisers and
also joint Chno-Japanese tribunals foi
land disputes in Manchuria besides
extra territoriality, to which the Jap
anese, like other foreigners. are ey
erywhere priyileged.
The requirement of article four o
this group, is also based on a commit
ment into which Lu ChenG Hsiang Ii
said to have allowed himself to b,
drawn, namely that China shall send 4
delegation of military men to Japan tC
adopt a procedure for the purchase o.
arms and the conduct of Chinas ar
senals
The new draft OF article says tina
China must grant TO Japan the righ
to build the railways demanded. sub
ject to Japan reaching an arrange
ment with an unnamed power (Grea
Britain or she must grant Japan thes,
coHcessions unless it can be showi
that they already been granted to an
other power, The railways in ques
tion are lines connecting WI CHAM
with Kiu Kiang and Nan Chang be
tween WI Chang and Hang Chow AM
between Nan Chang and Chiao Chau
No Concessions In Fuklen.
Article of group as amended say
that China must give Japan a pledg
that no foreign power shah receive
concession and that no foreign capita
shall be employed in the province o
tukien without Japan's consent
Regarding Buddhism as set forth Il
article 7, China must recognize Japan
right to discuss this at a future date
Japan has already secured conce:
| sinpa for tho condemnation of fOur ro a