Peking, March 2.
In the expurgated edition of the demands presented by the Japanese Government. to China there are several of more than academic interest to other Powers, especially to Great Britain. Not least. among these is the application to China for the right to construct a railway from Chefoo or Lungkow to meet the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu line, probbly at Weihsien, As already pointed out, the Japanese do not seek to provide capital for the construction of a Chinese Government Railway under Japanese auspices, but to obtain the right to build a semi-official Japanese line similar in status to the South Manchuria Railway. Even granting that Japan has succeeded to the rights possessed by Germany in Shantung, this claim on the part of the Japanese cannot be defended, Germany compelled the Chinese to agree that if foreign capital were
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