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Show SECRET DEMAND! OF THEJAPANESE United States May Become Involved In-volved in the Quarrel Brought on by Japs. Washington, Sept. 4. Secret demands de-mands in addition to those published in despatches from Peking, are. being pressed on China by Japan as a result re-sult of the recent clash of Chinese and Japanese troops at Cheng Chla Tung. It became known here tonight that the situation is much more serious seri-ous than has been indicated, confidential confi-dential reports saying the unpublished demands threaten the authority of China over the whole of inner Mongolia. Mon-golia. Officials here view the development develop-ment with real anxiety, fearing another an-other China-Japanese crisis, which might involve the interests of the United States. Tho Cheng Chia Tung incident though trivial in itself but coming on jl top of the strained relations ever . i j since Japan took over Kiao Chow from I j Germany, Japan has hastened to send j 2,000 soldiers to the disturbed dis- jj trict and her cabinet announced that j j Jl a satisfactory outcome depended on j China. Reports from China indicate 1 J jl alarm there. Unanimous acceptance J of the new cabinet announced today J is believed to have been a result of f I the seriousness of the Japanese and j H financial problems. Japan'B demands as published, call I for dismissal of Chinese officers In I H command of the troops at the scene of the trouble, withdrawal of the . IH Chinese garrison, indemnification of I the families of the Japanese killed, and extension of Japanese rights in j inner Mongolia. Actual accounts of ;j the. dispute vary. The Chinese claim ij It arose when Japanese soldiers at- i lH tacked the Chinese garrison at Cheng j Chia Tung and seized both the local J Jfl magistrate and a Japanese merchant. rj who had refused to obey Instructions j JH issued by the Chinese, because bandits I were operating in the city. The Jap- III anese content the Chinese arrested Ij J the merchnnt Illegally and fired on a I j J small body of Japanese troops. W |