JAPAN AND CHINA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 106, 29 January 1919, Page 5

JAPAN AND CHINA

BARON MAKINO INTERVIEWED SINCERE FRIENDSHIP DESIRED By Teiegraph--Pre6B Ae3ociation..Ooi>STight. Paris, January 27. Baron Maldno, in on interview, said that Japan would contribute m every possible way to the conclusion of a just peace. She neither expects nor desires territorial expansion in China or Siberia. She is willing to aid Russia to restore order, but.her interest (here has ceased. Japan's only desire is to demonstrate her sincere friendship for China. If the Peace Conference gave Japan the right to dispose of Teingtau, Japan .fcould return it to China.—Aus:iN.Z. Cable Assn. TUE 1915~TREATY CHINA ASKING FOR ITS REVISION. . New York, January 27. According to the Washington correspondent of tho "New York Times" Chinese officials have announced that China will ask at the Peace Conference for a revision of the Japanese-Chinese Treaty of 1515, including the Twoncy-one. De-Jiiands.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Tho twenty-one demands made by Japan covered, in the main, the following points: China was to make no concession of territory in Shantung, o( along the coa.it, to any Powur except Japan, the rights given'by the-Chinese to Germany in Shantung were to be transferred to Japan; the lease of Port Arthur and tho Manchnrian railway agreements were to be extended to ninetynine years; Japanese were to be given the right fo buy land and to settle in Southern llaneliuria and in Eastern llwsßolift, and Japan was" to receive a number of exclusive mining and railway rights, particularly in I'ukien and in the Yangtsze Valley; foreign advisers were not to be engaged without consultation with the Japanese frowrnment: railway concessions were not to begrantcd to other Powers, or loans raised on the •security of duties or taxes, without the consent of Japan.]