JAPAN AND CHINA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 244, 24 March 1915, Page 8

JAPAN AND CHINA.

JAPANESE ' TROOPS . LAND IX

CHINA

7,000 MEN ARRIVE,

By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. London, March 23. A thousand Japanese troop's have arrived lit Tsinanfu. and three thousand each at Mukden "anil Dalny.

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ALUKS.

71- c-icrivM :■■; d! nninre.l from C!ii;!:i hy .Tiipn.ii are reported to include the i'rl'iirt'in!;':-. .In general .i-iiinn demands that no part of fee Ch'en cast; end no island e|' !'i,. (">'!--t be cede' or ir:;;od to any foreign. Power. The following spe-ial privileges are demanded in the regions named: —

Eastern Mongolia.--Japan shall hr,v exc'iisivM mining rights; no railways .;i,„n i,,. coi'.-i.riieled without the consent of Japan; the Japanese shall be granted the right to., settle, farm, trade, and purchase land. South Mlinehn-hi. ■■ The T'T"' ef T>nvi ArMm- mid the hased territory shall he emended to !);i vour.v. (In. Mtimg-Mnk-den mid ('hirin-Cha.mrehuvi r'ilwo.v ngi meats shall he extended to "1 years; the JivpniH""' shiill he granted the right to se'l". farm, trade, and purchase land. shall transfer to Japan all mining find railway privileg*"* hitlievto eiiiovod bv the Oennans, a.ad shall agree to the construction of a railway from Clieefoo or "Lungkow to Woihsie» as .lapanes". Fnkien.—Tn the event that foreign capital is neod"d, China shall not grant mining, railway, or dock construct ion rights to other Powers -without the consent of Japan. Vnngtsze Valley.—Japan shall jointly control with China the Hanyang ironworks, ill which Japan has a large financial interest, the Tayeh iron mines, and the.Pingsiang collieries, and China shall undertake not to grant to other nationals mining rights calculated to impair those undertakings.