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Show JAPAN ASKED FOR DATE OF RETURN OF KIAOCHOW I HONOLULU. T. H., Sept. 16. The '. United States has asked the Japanese : government to fix a definite date for the return of Kiaochow to China, according to cable advices deceived here today by the jS'ippu Jiji, a Japanese daily newspaper. news-paper. The cable added that the Japanese Jap-anese government had not answered the communication. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. Officials here, in the absence of President Wilson and Secretaiy Lansing, will not comment upon the report that the United States has askeft Japan to set a definite date for the return of Kiaochow to China. The general impression in official circles is that the report is well founded. Japan's answer to such a request by the government would have an important bearing on the senate's consideration of the peace treaty, as one of the objections to it on which opposition is being centered cen-tered is the Shantung provision. Administration supporters of the treaty feel that a definite announcement by-Japan by-Japan setting a date for the return of Kiaochow would go far to remove that point. Various Japanese officials have stated that Kiaochow would be returned, but a. time never was set. ON BOARD PRESIDENT WILSON'S SPECIAL TRAIN, Sisson, Cal., Sept. 16. Associated Pres dispatches from Honolulu quoting Japanese sources to the effect that the United States had asked the Japanese government to set a definite defi-nite time limit for the return of Kiaochow Kiao-chow to China were shown President Wilson en route to California this afternoon. aft-ernoon. The president declined to comment on the news report, but it was understood that President Wilson has not yet received re-ceived any information from the state department relative to any action it may have taken concerning the Shantung situation. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. Japan has replied to the United States that she does, not favor -including Mongolia and Manchuria, as suggested by this government govern-ment in a recent note, in the terms of the concertorium which contemplates advancing ad-vancing a considerable loan to China by an international group of bankers. "Japan says that because of the peculiar status of the two provinces and the close relation they occupy to Japan she feels they must be excluded from the arrangement. arrange-ment. Reports reaching here from Peking say former American Minister Reinsch. who recently resigned the Chinese post, will become a special adviser to President Wilson on Oriental affairs. |