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Show JAPAN'S DEMANDS ARE DENOUNCED Would Seriously Impair Independence Inde-pendence of China If Put Into Effect. REAL MEANING HIDDEN Some of Most Important Clauses Omitted From Announcement An-nouncement Made to Public. London, March 18. 10:15 a. m. The Manchester Guardian today review! the recent political developments between be-tween Japan and t'hiuH and publishes what is described as a complete list of Japan's demands concerning which it saye, editorially, that the general effect therefore would be seriously to impair the independence. 0f China and to place entire provinces under the tutelage of Japan A compaiison is then made between the Japan demands as sent out by newspapoi correspondents ;a Peking and as published by Japan. it will immedia'eiv be apparent from this comparison' the paper continues, "that not only have many of the most Important demands been omitted from the list as supplied to the powers interested, in-terested, but others had been so modified modi-fied as to disguise their real character char-acter TY us, Japan did not Indicate that while she Insisted China should agree not to alienate any portion of her coast line or any islands off her coast to a third power, she retained the right to demand for herself the lr;ise. ot cession, ol such territory. Neither dl : Japan let it be known that she demunded exclusive mining rights in the Yang Tse basin and that she be allowed to construct railroads which would seriously affect their interests in that rerjion." A dispatch from Peking yesterday set forth that the allies had warned Japan against pressing her China demands de-mands and that Washington had told Tokio that certain of the requirements upon China violated existing American treaties with that republic. The views of the allies were presented by the British and Russian ambassadors at Tokio, who advised the foreign office of-fice that Japan confine herself to her first requests upon China as otherwise other-wise it would be difficult for Japans allies to negotiate diplomatically with her in the future. |