New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-27
REVIEWS
CHINA DEMANDS
British Fear Fresh Note
Carries Danger to
Picking.
MAY THREATEN
u. s. ENTERPRISE
TOkiO'S Latest Stand Built on
Seven Articles of Old
Programme

London. Jan % The Japanese gov
eminent has delivered to the Chinese
Minister in Toxic for transmission to
his government note emDodying
seven demands which were included in
the japanese programme of last spring
The Manchester Guardian learns
from Far Eastern sources.
The Guardian" expresses the hope
that this news will be "authoritatively
contradicted." as the demands when
previously presented were full of dan
ger to China's independence and their
general effect would have been TO place
China under the tutelage of Japan.
at is the aim and hope Of British
policy" the newspaper continues. ITO
see China strong and independent, de-
veloping peacefully without interior
ence from any foreign power
cit is duty we owe both to our
selves and to China 10 help her in that
direction. and we have enormous ma
terial interests. too. which reinforce
what is for us the only right and just
policy
On January Is. 1915. Japan presented
TO China a list of twenty-one demands,
arranged in five groups. The first
group related TO the Shantung province
and TO conceding TO Japan rights and
privileges previously enjoyed by Ger
many in Shantung, as well as new pre-
negatives.
Group two related to South Man
churia. and TO concessions there for
leasing property. trading, railroad op-
Grafton and construction. the appoint
ment of Japanese as political. financial
and military advisers, and other con
cessions. This group also included a
demand for special rights TO be grant
cd 10 Japan regarding inner Mongolia.
Group three referred TO the Hanyeh-
Ping Company. Group four. known
as the special group" demanded that
China proclaim that hereafter she
would not yield or lease any coastal
territory 10 any power.
Group five. known as the general
group" was the one which aroused
most vigorous protests from the Chin
csc government. II contained seven
articles, the first regarding the en-
ployment by China Of japanese as ad-
visers; the second. the construction of
Japanese hospitals. churches and
schools in China; the third. the en-
ployment of japanese in the police de-
partments in the large centres; the
fourth, China TO purchase a certain
proportion Of war munitions from
Japan; the fifth. Japan's right to con
struct certain railroads in China; the
sixth. concessions TO Japan in the
Province of Fukien. and seventh, the
right of japanese subjects to propagate
Buddhism in China.
The United States government ad-
dressed a note to Japan with regard to
the demands made on China, querying
in particular with respect to three
points: the selection of foreign ad-
visers by China. the purchase Of war
munitions. and the question of for
eign loans. The japanese government
replied 10 the note on March %.
On May 26 two treaties between
Japan and China, together with thir-
teen notes, were signed in the Chinese
Foreign Office, covering, II was an
nounced, the practical conclusions
reached on the japanese demands, Of
which, however. five articles were left
for Interior argument.
II was understood at the time that
the articles for consideration were
those of Group five. The articles in
this group were originally seven in
number, but 1t was later stated that
Article 3 had been eliminated and
that Article had been displaced by
pledges that China would undertake
no military or naval preparations. nor
authorize foreigners 10 undertake such
preparations on the Fukien coast in
the future. it is possible that the
seven demands alluded to in THE
Manchester Guardian's' article we're
the original seven of Group five.