Evening star., 1915-02-18
JAPAN TO UPHOLD
CH|NA'S INTEGRITY
Demands of Toxic Government
Intended to Regulate
Leases to Powers.
ASKS CONCESSIONS ONCE
HELD BY THE GERMANS
Open-Door Policy to Be Maintained.
U. S. Government Fully Ad-
vised. Is Announcement.

Intense interest is manifest today by
United States officials and in diplomatic
circles who preserve a careful silence,
regarding the latest developments con-
cerning the demands of Japan on China
as conveyed to this country in press
dispatches.
Officials and diplomats have followed
throughout a policy of rigid secrecy.
The understanding, from the best in
formed sources, is that the Japanese
demands as revealed to the powers, re-
late to certain localities and do not
concern China a whole, affecting
only sections of Shantung. southern
Manchuria and inner Mongolia.
The recent statement given to the
press bv the Toxic foreign Office had
also been communicated to the powers
Briefly, it assured them that nothing
in the Japanese demands interfered
with the territorial integrity OF CHINA
or the principle of equal opportunity in
the far east. This tended to clarity the
situation, which had been somewhat
confused, for foreign governments by
various rumors and reports of an eX-
tensiye plan for commercial expansion
by Japan in China.
U. S. in Close Touch.
The United States government has
been kept in close touch with develop
ments, along with Great Britain, France
and Russia, through the embassies and
legations in Europe, as well as Toxic
and Peking. Also Secretary Bryan and
Ambassador Chnda are understood to
have discussed the situation Informal
ly here
1t was said in well informed quar-
ters that nothing thus far had devel-
oped which had occasioned any formal
inquiries from the United states to
Japan on the subject or had raised any
apprehensions that the open door.
policy to which the United States and
the powers were committed by Secre-
tary Hay during McKinley's admins
tration would be adversely affected;
Railway concessions. mining privi-
Jeees and other rights previously en-
loved bv Germany in the province of
Shantung and an extension OF the terms
of leases already held by Japan IN
southern Manchuria and inner Mon
golis and new railway concessions in
these regions are included in the jap
anese demands. with the added pro-
visions that in southern Manchuria and
inner Magnolia the employment by
China Of any foreign political, military
or financial advisers should not be con-
summated without the consent OF
Japan.
What Japan Demands.
Also Japan desires tnat II Chiid pidHS
the floating of any loans with any
third power, based on revenues or
properties in southern Manchuria and
inner Mongolia, Japan should first be
consulted Similarly Japan asks that
China shall grant no competing con-
cessionss, to- any third power in this
same section without first discussing
the subject with the Toxic government
and obtaining it's consent.
As for the demand that no ports
harbors or islands off the coast OF
China be ceded to any third power
Japan claims to have included this IN
line with her belief that the integ-
rity of China can best be preserved
by a discontinuance of the policy OF
cedine or leasing Chinese territory To
foreign governments.
In connection with reports that orig
inally Japan contemplated a much
more extensive plan for expansion in
China by obliging the Chinese repub-
lie itself to obtain the consent of ia
pan before employing any foreign po-
liticaI. military or financial officials
while various rumors of this kind have
been transmitted to officials and diplo-
mats here from time to time since the
negotiations began, the memorandum
finally given to the powers, Whlch con
stitutes IL is believed, the present basis
of negotiations. is known not 10 oeaI
be ,rp0fFicia1 adyiceS.