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Show JAPAN FIRMLY IN HANCH11RIA Pekin March 23 Seventy-three thousand troops, the flower of the C hineee army, have been concentrated about the capital to forestall coercive measures by Japan on the republic there are 180 guns ready for action Pekin, March 24, 3:35 a. m. Five articles bearing on the Japanese demands de-mands upon China were initialed as concluded by the Chinese foreign minister, min-ister, Lu Cheng-Hsiang, and Fki Hioki, the Japanese minister at the conference confer-ence which was held at the Japanese legation yesterday. The Japanese minister recently suffered slight In juries by a fall from a horse, and his condition did not permit him to go to the Chinese foreign office, and for this reason the meeting was trans ferred to the legation. Manchuria Affected. All the articles concern Manchuria China agreed to the following stlpu lations: First The Japanese governments consent shall be obtained before a loan is made with a third power in-lving in-lving the pledging of local taxes In South Manchuria. "Second The Japanese govern ment's consent shall be obtained whenever permission is granted to a , subject of a third power to build a railway, or when a loan is made with ; a third power for the building of a j railway in South Manchuria. 'Third- If the Chinese government ; in South Manchuria employ--- adisers I or instructors for political, financial j or military' purposes, the Japanese government shall first be consulted "F'ourth The transfer of the Kir in-Changchun railway to Japanese con trol for ninety-nine years." The fifth article was proposed by bins and provides for the eontlnu ance of such treaties as are not af fected by the present treaty |