Tokio, Feb. 2.
In the Diet_to-day, when Chinese questions were being discussed by the Budget Committee, Count Uchida, replying to an interpella-! tion regarding Shantung, withheld his explanation of the reasons for) Japan's concessions except in ing that the Government considered such were advisable in view of future Sino-Japanese relations, and the changed conditions. He believed that the settlement with regard to Shantung would improve the prospects of a settlement of the Twenty-One Demands Agreement. Japan did not intend to yield her Manchurian rights, which were closely connected with the basis of hor national existence.—Reuter.
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