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Show I pea aeamnracBgxCTi iiiiim - y i j i 1 1 iJSPIESETflilM OVERTURES TO CH 1 i I Ministers Will Open Negotia-, Negotia-, tions Regarding Retrocession ! of Kiau Chow Bay j TOKIO, Jan. 2C HJy tho Associat-i led Press) Tho foreign office, in a I 'statement, today, says Japan acquired J the German rights and interests in ' j Shantung by virtue of the terms of i peace but that in pursuance of its own .reported declarations and agreements Japan has instructed its minister at Peking to make overtures to the Chinese government as follows: , (1) Tho government desires to open negotiations regarding the retrocession retro-cession of Kiau Chow and other measures meas-ures with the view of effecting a sin-core sin-core and speedy settlement and hopes that the Chinese government will make necessary preparations, (2) With regard to troops along the Shantung railway Japan intends I to withdraw them as soon as possible, even before reaching an agreement i with China, unless the absence of other railway guards affects the sccur-'ily sccur-'ily of communications and the inlCr-l osts both of Japan and China., her; 'partner, in which' case the Japanese! will garrison until the Chinese govern-1 j ment has organized a railway police I force. Since, however, Japan desires to withdraw even before a Japanese-Chinese Japanese-Chinese agreement has boen reached, Japan hopes for the earliest organization organiza-tion of Chinese railway police. |