China

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 37, 15 February 1915, Page 5

China

EXPLANATION OF JAPANS

CLAIMS.

United Press Association. London, February 14

Regarding Japan’s reported faireaching demands, China has officially explained that Japan is only asking for an adjustment of old outstanding localities where Japan had special interests, and that it is untrue that Japan seeks to change Cln vi’s political status. Japan asks that Chinese stories emanating from Pekin should he received with caution, because they are the outcome of Geuna.i inspira. tion.

Speaking in the Duma, M. Sazatiofl (Foreign Minister) stated that Japan’s demands were not jont”t.y to Russia's interests.

ADVICES FROM PEKIN.

Loudon, February 14

Pekin, advices’state that Japan has made demands on China tantamount to asking China not to enter into territorial arrangements with any foreign Power without first consulting Japan, thus practically giving Japan control of the railways, rivers, and transnorts.

The Times’ correspondent reports that the demands include exclusive mining rights in Fast Mongolia, the extension of the lease of Port Arthur to 99 years, and the transfer of all railway and mining privileges m Shantung, formerly held by Germans. The Times understands that Japan s demands on China were communicated in the course of January to Retain and France, Russia and America. The desire of Japan to place her relations with China on a well-defined basis appears to have been prompted in the first instance by China’s attitude under German influence at the I beginning of the war.