Peking, Apr. 25.
The Japanese Legation handed the C! press to-day the text of the three memoranda it has sent to the Waichinopa, all urging the necessity for the despatch of Japanese troops to Shantung for the protection of, waner fives and property, The second sent on April 20, ese Note of pro-sent the same da; The third was sent on April 23 reply to the second Note of protest, The Japanese in Shantung, num-boring some 20,000, says the Lo. gation, have been sending repeated petitions to the Government and the Legation urging protection, The first batch of 5,000 Japanese troops to Shantung is expected in Tsingtao to-night—Reuter, Points in the Notes According to "the Toho Agency, in its Note of April 20 the Japanese Legation, after recalling' how troops were sent to Tsingtao and Tsinan last year but withdrawn directly tsin-Pukow Railway region recently: took a sudden turn, and hostilities now have spread all over Shantung. Dangers threaten to extend also the Tsinan district and there is a fear that the Kiaochow-Tsinan Rail way may be cut. Thus the Japanese residents in Shantung are again confronted by a menace, and danger} to their lives and property is imment, which has compelled the!
snese Government to take self-defensive mosures for safeguard men are to be placed on the Kino-_ chow-Tsinan railway and three companies of troops are to be sent to) Tsinan, the Japaneeo Minister adds:—
"The Japanese Government, need-Jess to say, has no intention whatever of interfering with China's internal affairs, nor has it any' design to support or interfere with the Northern or Southern Armies, ther directly or indirectly. Agai oes without saying that troops will be withdrawn immediate-Jy the situation has improved and the Japanese Government considers it mot necessary to keep there any.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.