New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-06
Lansing Inquiries Into New
and Farreaching
Demands.
CONTROL OF ARMY
AIM OF NIPPONESE
Destruction of Pekings
Sovereignty Foreseen
in Note.

Washington, Sept. 5.-Sweeping de-
mands, far more drastic than any pub
ushed summaries have indicated, are
revealed in the secret terms being
pressed on China by Japan as result
Of the recent armed conflict between
soldiers OF the two nations at Cheng
Chiatun, in Inner Mongolia. Private
dispatchcs received here to-day reveal
that japan seeks indemnities, an
apology and political concessions
throughout the whole section OF Inner
Mongolia and South Manchuria.
The four formal demands are quoted
as follows:
First-The punishment of the COM
handing Chinese officer involved in the
trouble.
Second-Dismissal with punishment,
Of the other officers involved.
Third - instructions to Chinese
troops in Inner Mongolia and South
Manchuria not to interfere in any way
with japanese troops or civilians and
to publish this fact broadly.
Fourth-Recognition Of Especial in
terests" for Japan in inner Mongolia
and South Manchuria, comprising pow
ers of police and administration. pref
trence in loans and in the selection of
al foreign advisers, etc.
Concessions" Are Asked.
Besides the four demands" are four
Concessions" which China is asked TO
grant Japan without formal demand,
as follows:
I. The Chinese army in South Man
chura and Eastern Mongolia TO employ
japanese military advisors.
2. Chinese schools and colleges TO
lave japanese military inspectors.
This is not limited 10 any section in
dispatches so far received.
3. A formal apology in person from
the Chinese Governor of Mukden to the
japanese Governor at Dairien, and the
japanese consul at Mukden for the
Cheng Chiatun trouble.
4. Monetary compensation to the
families of japanese killed, the amount
to be settled by later negotiation.
Secretary Lansing refused tonight
to comment on the dispatches or to
outline what might be the attitude of
the American government. II is known,
however, that steps will be taken i'm
mediately by the State Department to
secure detailed reports and learn the
full significance OF Japan's act. Amer
lean interests seem at first glance 10
be more deeply involved than IN any
event in the Far East since Japan's
famous ultimatum to China OF May,
1915.
At most, Japan had been expected to
demand the extension 10 inner Mon
golia of rights already secured in
South Manchuria Instead il is pointed
out. she seeks more than she has ever
before demanded in this section, and
besides asking full reparation for the
specific difficulty, she has made il the
basis for demanding political rights
which are interpreted in Picking as de-
stroying China's sovereignty in that
whole enormous section.
Apology To Be Humiliation.
Special attention is attracted here
to the demand for formal apology in
person from the Chinese Governor in
Mukden TO the Japanese Governor at
Dairen and the Japanese Consul at
Mukden. This would require the
Chinese official to humiliate his gov
eminent by going into japanese ter
But it is the political articles which
cause deepest anxiety to Washington
officials. They were omitted entirely
in the published demands. The recogni-
ton Of special rights" is open to the
most extreme Interpretation, and. it is
feared, might cut directly across the
American policy of the integrity Of
China. Also 1t has in it possibilities of
violation of the open door policy, and
the making of the whole vast region in
volvcd mere dependency OF Japan.
Articl, of the demands" places
japanese soldiers and troops in this
Chinese territory entirely above the
control of Chinese soldiers, virtually
annullns China's sovereignty there.
japanese have already won the right
to their own courts, and in many places
their own police.
The employment of Japanese mill
tary advisers for Chinese forces in
that vicinity is thought to be first
move to secure japanese control of
China's armed forces there. For long
time the military party in Japan has
urged the construction of huge Chi
nesc military machine under japanese
officers. japanese military inspectors
in Chinese schools and colleges would