JAPAN AND CHINA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 7 May 1915, Page 4

JAPAN AND CHINA

MARTIAL' LAW IN: THE KWAN- , TUNG PENINSULA. (Press Association. —(jopyeight.) LONDON, CVlay 6. £ Japan lifts declared martial law in the Kwantung Peninsula. DISCUSSION AT WASHINGTON. LONDON, May 4. The "Times" correspondent- at Washington states that .the-relations between ■China and Japan are being prominently discussed. The State Department is working energetically to moderate the demands which Japan is alleged to have irlade. It is hoped, for many reasons, tliat the action of Washington will re[sult in a satisfactory elucidation. AmeriI can friends of Japan do not believe that j she will-us© the opportunities of the war | to tamper with China, but the American public is rendered anxious by a constant stream of reports of Japan s acts. Pekin thought is probably tainted by Teutonic intrigue. The trouble over the California land laws, together _ with the menace of Japanese ambitions in the Pacific, has made a vague distrust of Japan chronic. The average American has also felt that the dissatisfaction with the part played by Japan in the Fax; East would react on the England is deemed to bo a/cei> tain amount .of responsibility for the policy of Tokio. A LONDON* REPORT. (Rec. Mav 7. 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 6. * The Japanese legation'does not confirm the ultimatum. . The latest unofficial advice from 1 okio state that the ultimatum has been wiiliheld in order to prove that Japan does I not desire war.