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Show WOULD RULE CHINA WITH RUSSIAN AID JAPAN PLANS 'TO RENEW DE-MAN DE-MAN DS ON CHINA AT AN EARLY DATE. Mew Elements of Peril to American Interests Develops in Plan of Mikado to Gain Control of Concessions Con-cessions in China. Washington. The gravity of the Japanese-Russian-Chinese situation is increasing and new elements of peril to American interests has developed. It has become known that Japan plans to renew at an early date the demands on China contained in the famous group five, which were presented pre-sented originally in January, 1915, but were withdrawn because of the great powers' opposition to them. These demands, if acquiesced in, would invest the Japanese emperor with sovereignty over China. Japan, it is known here, confidently expects the new Chinese president, Li Yuan Hung, to accede to her demands. LI Yuan Hung was educated in Japan, and the Japanese government has sounded him out on the subject of "cooperation "co-operation for mutual advantages" under un-der the provisions of group five. This is taken to be an informal renewal ot these demands. An attache of the Japanese embassy is quoted as saying the treaty was a negative alliance for mutual protection against aggresr.ion, and does not concern con-cern the United States in any way. This attache continued: "Russia and Japan are restrained by the treaty irum entering into any agreement with a third -power, which would be to the prejudice of either in Asia. The fear of Asia was that some other power misfit join with Japan. Russia is prevented pre-vented from entering into an alliance with Germany or any other power against Japan. That is about all there Jo to the treaty." The state department is not satisfied and has renewed its instructions to its ambassadors at Tokio and Petro-grad Petro-grad to send all the information they can get concerning the new alliance. |