New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-04
IL Of Demands
In Ultin1atlln1
Kept a Secret
Japanese Aggressions in
China, Korea and Other
Places Disturb Peace:
Will Be Inquired Into


aiming the same rights there as in
south Manchuria
The Group Three demands assured
Japan control of the Hanyehping com.
pany, operating iron mines and fur
naces in the Human. Hupeh and Kiansi
mine fields, and prohibiting any other
company than the Hanyehping fro,-
working coal or iron mines in that re-
gion.
China Forbidden to Lease
Any Portion of Coast
Group Four-contai ming a sing ar.
ticle-forbade China's ceding or leas-
ing to third power any harbor. bay
or island on the Chinese coast.
Group Five, which was subseque ntly
dropped out because of the violent
criticism it aroused, contained these
demands:
Article 1.-The Chinese central
government shall employ influential
Japanese as advisers in political,
financial and military affairs.
Article 2-Japanese hospitals,
churches and schools in the interior
of China shall be granted the right
of owning land.
Article 3-Iuasmuch as the Jap
anese government and the Chinese
government have had many cases of
dispute between Japanese and Chi
nese police to settle, cases which
cause no little ndine, it
is for this reason necessary that the
police departments of important
places Gin China) shall be jointly adj
ministered by Japanese and Chinese,
or that the police departments of
these places shall employ numerous
japanese. so that they may at the
same time help to plan for the i'm
provement of the Chinese police ser
vice.
Article 4--China shall purchase
from Japan fixed amount of NUM-
~>~@'o "a "oi toay OV per cent or
more) of what is needed by the Chi
nese government. or there shall be
established in China a Chino-Jap-
snese jointly worked arsenal. jap
anese technical experts are 10 be
employed and japanese material to
be purchased.
Article 5-China agrees to grant
to Japan the right of constructing
railway connecting Wuchang and
Kiukiang and Nanchang, another line
between Nanchang and Hanchow. and
another between Nanchang and Chao-
chou.
Article s--ff China needs foreign
capital to work mines, build railways
and construct harbor works (includ-
ing dockyards) in the Province Of
Fukien, Japan shall first be con-
suited.
Article China agrees that Jap
anese subjects shall have the right
OF missionary propaganda in China"
Mr.. Pooley's comment on this at.
tempted raid on Chinese sovereignty 4
as follows.
group Five must be apparent 10
every one as the most fragrant as
sauit on the independence and sew
ereignty of China. Administration.
ponce, finance. army and navy were to
be placed under Japanese supervis-
ION. Article 5, giving Japan GER
tain railway concessions in Kiansi.
simply as it reads, is, as may be
gathered from it's inclusion in Group
Five, OF the utmost Importance. Ia
conjunction with the Hanyehping
deal it would create an immense
block OF Japanese interests unlim-
tied in potentiality. which would
straddle. the Yangtze and reach as
tar south as the two Kwangs. The
position then would be that japan
would dominate and envelop the
north b. her possession of Man
churia, Inner Mongolia and Shantung.
In the center. astride the Yangtze,
China's main artery, Human, Hupeh,
Kiansi and Fukien would form jap
snese belt to the sea, completely
cutting off the north from the south
and eventually leading to that par
tition of China between Canton and
Picking, which has been cardinal
aim OF Japanese diplomacy since
191l."
Fortunately the powers with whom
Japan had covcnanted to maintain the
indepe ndence and sovereignty of China
and the open door" doctrine were able
to induce her to relax her grip or the
republic so far as the Group Five
spoliations were concerned Says
Pooley again: 1.-The victory thus 90.
tanned by Japan was Pyrrhic one. FOR
Group Five, the very existence Of which
was for SO long denied at Toxic. mean
the administrative and military supes.
vision of the whole of China. In thai
Japan failed to obtain acceptance Of
Group Five she failed in the contest, f,l
she disclosed to the world he2 whol,
hand"
1t is the fact that she did thus dis
close her whole hand. which makes
Japan dread q reexaminatioB of tn
record at Washington. Marquis okumi
doesn't hesitate to let the cat out o
the bag. 1t is quite clear he says
that America will assist China in tn
cancellation of the twenty-one De