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Show AMERICA HAS OFFICIAL TEXT Japanese Claim That Their Demands Are Misrepresented Misrepresent-ed in United States Is Refuted. Peking, April 21. Official announcement an-nouncement was made today by the Chinese government that the translation transla-tion of the full text of the demands made upon China b Japan as already al-ready published in the United States was the official translation of the text as tho Japanese themselves presented pre-sented It to the foreign office here on January 28 in both the Japanese and Chinese language. This announcement was made by reason of the fact that the Japanese government has repeatedly protested because the Japanese goernment was informing crtain foreign legations aa to the progress of the negotiations. The Chinese government's translation transla-tion has been carefully ohecked by a legation which possesses a copy of Japans text and it is stated at iho legation that only the verbology dif-lrs. dif-lrs. The legation version is in somewhat some-what harsher language than that of the Chinese government translation For example the article in the text which is to provide that China shall agree to tho propogation of Buddhism by Japanese subjects in China is translated by the legation to read shall have the right to propogato religious re-ligious doctrines." |