| Show JAPAN WilL NILL t BUILD ROAD IX DESPITE CHINA Following the Ultimatum of Yesterday Active Construction Con Con- 7 Is Begun f ROAD A LEGACY OF THE RUSSIAN WAR WAR Its Control a and d M Modernization der iz k tion Long a Bone of Contention i TOKIO Au Aug 7 W Work ortt on th the thre re te reconstruction s r construction construction of t the e. e Il f 3 I line regarding which Japan has Jr issued is sued an ultimatum to China was beau begun at both ends Friday evening and pp ps rt to that moment there hero had bad been en no o j disturbance or interference on the part paR of the troops or authorities was the UW statement of President l h reV 1 today H I l' l have eves v reason to believe tJ lt the railroad will be completed accord according in lag ing t to the wishes wiehe of ot my coy government 1 said i wT J The feeling of Japan in this matter which is due to Chinas China's objection Jo O changing the existing narrow gau gauge e of the line to the standard gauge tf t. t the connecting lines linos in both Korea Koren Korea n. r i Manchuria was reflected hero today todal 1 h ha a J Japanese official l of high h stan standing who said that Japanese China rela relations at atthe the present moment bore a dan danger danger- erus er- er bus ou us resemblance to those of ot l Road Built by Japan i t This railroad line was built by Jap Jaa Japan during the tho war with mth Russia Russin A te the war a treaty was si signed ed betwee 1 J Japan and China under toe the terms term n of which Japan was to be permitted i. i t reconstruct or transform the lin linuse use se it for fi fifteen en years Jears and then tt tl it over to China i The distance from to toden I.- I. den i is' is about miles The cou coun traversed is rich and the line al 13 commercially but one of the main mai rl a aoi t vantages gained ined from reconstruct I will be bo the fact of through h f toi tion from froIn Fusan in southern Kore Kor to to- Mukden and thence to the n m i trans trans Siberian Siberian line lino and so 50 tp tp St. St r e and London With an ei eif eiga hour sea trip from Japan to Fusan existing line from Fusan to trip from Tokio to the capitals of fr f r rope pe would be very cry materially jh h cued ened Furthermore tho the line is strat ia-strat strat valuable to to Japan j I It If sto is s sto to make ae through traffic poss r ble that Japan wants to ehan change e tiff t Antun Mukden Mukden line from the existing narrow gauge to the standard gaug au inow i- i now in use in Korea from Fusan Fuan to A Am tun tung and from 1 Mukden to tho the we west west- warn wan 4 1 Japan and Chinese eD engineers some i time n ago o agreed to certain necessary changes change in the tho permanent way war an antI ana has ba insisted proceeding with s Japan on s the work of reconstruction but Chinn has been interposing difficulties Much r of the trouble arose from frona interpretation tion of the wording wordin of the original a agreement which is in Chinese Ha Course of Negotiations The matter was first taken up with mth the viceroy of ot Mukden who did not J take kindly to the chan changes es su suggested by Japan Then ne negotiations were x opened with tho the central government l at f Pekin which objected to the change to standard declared that tho northern terminal must be actually at Mukden instead of a few miles from rem the city a as the Japanese desired for tori reasons of economy and insisted that t the policing of the line should be left loft entirely in Chinese hands and that all aU t Japanese troops troop be withdrawn This last proposition was flatly refused by Japan Tapan Speaking broadly Japan insists in insists in t. t Bist that the changes chanles she proposes are necessary for the carrying out of the tho il ideas set lIet forth in the treaty |
