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Show GHINA VIRTUALLY Ifl HANDSOF JAPS NIPPONESE IN CONTROL IN FAR EAST AS FORMER FOE ACCEDES TO DEMANDS. Japan Will Control China's Arsenals and Dockyards, Command Chinese Soldiers and Police ar-.d Work Mines in All Parts of China. Shanghai. The statement is made in the first issue of the Shanghai Gazette Ga-zette that the Chinese government has agreed to new demands made by Japan, which are of such a nature that the country has virtually been turned over to the Japanese. The Gazette asserts It litis' been informed by a high official at Peking that the Japanese demands are far more serious than those in group V of the famous twenty-one demands de-mands made by Japanese In 1915. "Xotwithstanding the fact that the utmost secrecy is being observed," says the Gazette, "it may be stated safely that the following is not far from the true terms of the agreement : . "Chinese expeditionary forces sent to Siberia shall be commanded by u Japanese. Jap-anese. "Chinese police shall be organized by Japanese officers. "Japan shall control ail of China's arsenals and dockyards. "Japan shall have the privilege of working mines in all parts of China. "Special privileges shall be granted to Japan in outer and inner Mongolia and the whole of .Manchuria." |