The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-28
Keen Interest Aroused as to the Nature of
 Qualifications
NO DECISION HAS
 BEEN REACHED YET
President Yuan Shi kai Examines New Document-Articles AL ready Agreed to Are
 Not Changed

PcisInn. April es.--,s,s5 n. n,.p
 With the new draft of tho Japanese
 demands on China in thc hands of tho
 Chinese foreign minister. interest Is
 cations Japan has made in tho original
 document. President Yuan shi I>ai mud
 his advisers have examined the de-
 mnnls ms amended. hut no decision has
 bccn reached nnd they nrc likely to
 he fbc subject of further discussions.
 Group one of the original demands has
 not been altered from the form to which
 the Chinese government already has
 agreed. This group relates to Shantung
 province
 The group dealing with South Man
 ohuria, to six articles of which China
 also has agreed remains unchanged The | second article of group three. bearing on
 property rights and interests of the Ham,
 yehping company, Is eliminated. but the
 first article of that group is made strong 1 CT from tho Japanese viewpoint by re- duiring that China shall promptly com-
 pei shareholders of the Hanyehping com
 pany to accept the formation of d joint l company, which shall include the two nations.
 The Japanese already had accepted the
 Chinese proposal regarding group four.
 which provides that the Chinese governs i ment shall not eedc or lease to any third
 power any island, port or harbor. along
 the coast.
 Group Five Reconstructed | Tho group five in manner which the Chinese | representatives declare Is more menace ing. because they say. the amendments are based on statements which Lu cheng-
 Hsang. the Chinese foreign minister.
 made in the conferences with the Jap. anese minister. lsl1i HiolSi. and M Obata. and which, 1t is alleged, the Japanese
 are attempting to designate as pledges
 from China. It further is declared that
 the Chinese foreign minister permitted 1 himself to he drawn into discussion of
 these demands which Yuan Shi Kai had instructed him to refuse to discuss. | Group five comprises seven articles re- | lating to the employment by the Chi nese government of Japanese as advisors 1 in political. financial and military af- l fairs; supervision Of the Chinese police. the right of Japanese ownership of land | for the building of hospitals. churches and schools; the purchase of munitions 1 of war from Japan; various railway and mining rights. well as the right by the Japanese to propagate Buddhism in China.
 At the beginning of the conferences the Chinese proposed the taking of joint minutes. but to this the Japanese rep resentatives declined to accede. As a re- suit both Japanese and Chinese kept
 records of the slttings. Nevertheless. from time to time the Japanese pleni- potentiaries, Il is asserted, insisted that the Chinese initial certain statements. which was done.
 | With reference to article one of group ] five, Japan requires note from China declaring that when any important crisis arises China shall ask Japan to appoint
 many Japanese advisors This peculiar wording Is the undertaking 10 which, the | Japanese state, lu Cheng-Hsia com mitted himself
 | In article two Of group five Japan now requires the right either to rent or lease lands. The Chinese express themselves as being far from satisfied with this. because this article. which Is separate clause from that relating to Buddhism would have the effect of opening the entire country to the Japanese individ- | ually. well as under religious so- cieties.
 Police Administration
 Article three of group five. relating tO pOllcc dumlnlStfdtlOn, mas been withdrawn, but Japan now requires the appointment of police advisers and also joint Chinese-Japanese tribunals for land disputes in Manchuria, be- sides exterritoriality. to which the Japanese like other foreigners. are everywhere privileged The new requirement. of article four of this group is also based on com mitment Into which Lu cheng Hsiarg is said to have allowed himself to be drawn. namely, that China shall send delegation of military men to Japan to adopt procedure for the purchase of arms and the conduct of Chnas arsenals.
 The new draft of article five says that China must grant to Japan the right to build the railways demand- ed, subject to Japan reaching an at rangement with unnamed power (Great Britain) or she must grant Japan these concessions unless it can be shown that they already have been granted to another power. The rail- ways In question are lines connecting Wu-Chang with Kieuk lang and 1ain- Chang, between Wu-chang and Hang Chow. and between Nan-Chang and Chiao-Chau.
 Article six of group five, as amend ed, says that China must give Japan q pledge that no foreign power shall receive a concession and that no fo-- eign capital shall be employed in the province of FuISien without JapaL's consent
 Regarding Buddhism as set forth In article seven, China must recognize Japans right to discuss this at fu- ture date
 The four articles in the new Mon- golia group provide. First. no foreign loans may be sc- cured by Mongolian taxes without Ja- Ian's consent; second. no railway cor- sessions can he granted without Jd- pans consent third, the opening ofNa number of treaty ports is required: fourth, farming privileges to last year.
 Japan already has secured concea- sions for the construction of four railways in Mongolia.
 When on Monday last Lu-Cheng- Hsiang received the new draft of tho demands, he wished to discuss ths question with the Japanese minister but M. Hfoki replied that his instrOc- tions were not to enter into a discus- sion. I.u Cheng- Hsiang asked him to define the limits of eastern or iun62