The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-13

ese advisers be stationed at the Chi nese garrisons in South Manchur1a and Eastern Mongolia.
 Fifth-An extension of Japan's eX- tra territorial rights so as to permit the stationing of Japanese policemen in towns where there are large Japan ese settlements.
 The instructions from Secretary Lansing to Ambassador Guthrie were sent last Wednesday morning, Sept. 6, following the publication in Amerl- can newspapers that secret demands had been made on China by the Mi kado's government. In these publlca- tions it was contended that on their face the demands appeared to violate American treaty rights in a manner which wouldd force action from this government unless American rights were waived. First intimation that any demands had been presented to China by Japan reached this country the night of Sept. in a newspaper dispatch from Picking, which said that Japan had made the following de- mands:
 First-Dismissal of the Chinese off, cers in command of the troops.
 Second-Withdrawal of Chinese troops from the district in which the trouole arose.
 ird-Indemnifcation of the famt- lies of the Japanese killed.
 Fourth-Granting to Japan of police rights in "inner Mongolia"
 Reports Vary From Official Story.
 On Sept. reports were published Tn American newspapers that Japan also had sought four so-called concessions or secret demands as follows:
 First-The Chinese army in South Manchuria and Eastern Mongolia to employ Japanese military advisers.
 Second Chinese schools and colleges to have Japanese military instructors.
 Third-A formal apology in person from the Chinese governor of Mukden to the Japanese governor of Da1r1en and thes Japanese consul at Mukden for the Cheng Chiatun trouble.
 Fourth-Recognition of special inter- ests for Japan in inner Mongolia and South Manchuria.
 In directing Ambassador Guthrie to call the attention of the Japanese For eign Office to the American newspaper reports, Secretary Lansing instructed the ambassador to ask for "a state ment of the facts" and to inform the
 
 demands made had greatly disturbed the American government, which trusted that 'it was not true" At the same time the American minister at Peking was asked for the facts. The text of the messages just received from the American diplomats at Tokio and Peking was not given out by the State Department. The contents of these messages were partially dis closed in the following statement, for mally issued by Secretary Lansing yesterday:
 China's Sovereignty Unharmed.
 Secretary Lansings announcement was as follows: "The department on Sept. instructed the American Am bassador at Tokio to call the atten- ton of the Japanese Foreign Office to reports published in American news papers of certain demands made upon China by Japan in consequence of disturbance of the peace at Cheng Chiatun, involving Chinese and Japan csc troops. The Ambassador was in structed to ask for a statement of the facts and to inform the oFreign Office that the report of the demands made had greatly disturbed the American government, which trusted that it was not true.
 To-day (Sept. 12) a message has been received from the Embassy at Tokio saying that the Japanese Min ister for Foreign Affairs had replied to his inquiries that some of the items reported as included in Japan's de- mands were approximately true, but that others were colored by mixture of untruth and exaggeration.
 "He stated that there was nothing