Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-02
RETURN OF TSING-TAU
PLAN NOW WITHDRAWN
japanese Minister at Peking So De-
clares Upon Receiving the
Chinese Reply.
RELIGIOUS QUESTION UP
Yuan Shi Kai's Government in Re
jecting Proposals Offers Counter
Suggestions Unsatisfactory
to Toxic.

PEKfNG MAY = c.G9 am hina has
replied 10 the Japanese demands in a
note. which. while complying With
some of the demands. definitely re
fuses TO accede to others. including the
most important embodied in wha: is
Known as group five.
china also has furnished 10 the Iapa-
nese minister Elk! Hioki list of fur"
ther concessions which she is willing tc
grant. but after perusing the note and
the list, NJ Hioki declared that it was
far from complying with the twenty
four demands as presented by his gov
ernment.
This action was taken after President
Yuan Shi Kai had thoroughly discussed
the entire situation with the members
of his cabinet and his advisers since
last Monday. The Chinese plenipoten
tiaries met the japanese plenipoten-
tiaries by arrangement Saturday at the
foreign office and presented China's re-
ply. which. in substance. refused the
so-called general demands" of Japan.
The Last Word of China.
" Hioki asked whether these were
Chiua's maximum concessions. and,
then. whether he should ca Bile his gov
errment
l-u Cheng-Hsiang, the Chinese for
eign minister, replied that these were
hinas maximum concessions. and
. taat the Japanese minister could so
inform his government
The conference terminated with
neither the Japanese nor Chinese ask
ing for another meeting. Should the
Japanese government now present an
III China il is intin1ated that the
Chinese probably would appeal to the
four powers which are pledged to
China's independence.
Rescind Offer of Using Tau.
On perceiving that the Chinese reply
failed to agree to the demands of his
government the Japanese minister de-
clared the withdrawal of Japan's pro-
posal to return to China Tsing-Tau,
which was conditioned on China's de-
ferring no longer the acceptance of ia
pans demands
The Chinese. note briefly recites the
history of the negotiations. 1t denies
J,pans charge that China has dis
played procrastination and delayed the
conferences by disputing various
points. and also the charges of Chinese
r1l 1rns,neerity and unfriendliness. It
Ing a newspaper campaign abroad.
These were the reasons the Japanese
plenipotentiaries gave for presenting
mands as preliminary to an ulti-
rnatum.
Asks International Conference.
The list of concessions is in the ma
ture OF counter proposals China asks
the right to participate in an interna
'iohai conference in which the altered
status of Shantung will be rearrauged:
indemnity for the losses incurred in
consequence of the Tsing-Tau cam
pa:gn, and also restoration of it's
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 demands China sccedes
TO three of the four demands regard
ing Mongolia, namely. the opening of
treaty ports. preference in railway
toans and the non-pledging Of local
taxes The agricultural demand is re-
Jected
Respecting the Hanyehping company
'h,na agrees that. pending the event
nal formation of Chino-Japanese
'ompany, the government cannot make
me company state owned or borrow
foreign capital for the repayment of
the Japanese loan. The Chinese under
stand that this Is acceptable to Japan.
demands In Group Five.
China rejects the fifth group. with the
exception of the modified Fukien de-
mand. offering in this connection
separate note, intended to meet Japan's
wishes. by pledging that no foreign
ers shall receive coastal concessions or
contracts without Japan's consent
Group five comprises seven articles
relating to the employment by China of
japanese as advisers in political, hnan-
ciai and military affairs. supervision
of the Chinese police. the right of
Japanese ownership of land. Japanese
supervision over the manufacture or
purchase by China of munitions Of
war. various railway and mining rights
and the right by the japanese to prop
agate Buddhism in China.
Lu Cheng-Hsiang informed NJ Hioki
at the conference yesterday that the
quotations embodied in Japan's re-
and statements of which he had maze
use in the course of his explana tions
as to why China could not consider
group 5. the japanese minister hav-
ing requested such explanations. Lu
Cheng-Hsiang added that, a funda-
mental misunderstanding existed. the
plenipotentiaries had better say moth
ing further concerning group 5.
NJ Hioki made inquiry regarding the
absence of railway concessions, to
which the Chinese foreign minister re-
piled that China's good faith was at
stake, as she had already granted
definite concessions to another power
Religious Questions UP.
Dispatches from Toxic say that. at
meeting of the progressive members
Of the Buddhist sect there today reso-
luton was passed insisting that ia
pans demsn on China be complied
with, especially that demand giving the
Japanese the right to propagate re-
Continued On Twenty-nrst Paga)