JAPAN MODIFIES PROPOSALS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 8 May 1915, Page 4

JAPAN MODIFIES PROPOSALS

CHINA YIELDS PR/(CTIC«LLV EVERYTHING . (Bee. Mav 8, 10 a.m.) . . " LONDON, .May 7> r : Router's corresponderit states <. that' Japan has further modified her proposals,• and - instructed > thoi Jrlini|SteX: , at'Pekin to renew efforts towards a solu* Pekin correspondent says that China has offered to yield -practically t everything, except aiew demands, about which she is making proposals. CHINA'S DESIRE TO AVOID. A . RUPTURE. A TOKTOt'PAPERS STATEMENT. (Rec. May BjjOa.m.) ~ * - TOKtQ.,.The "Nichi Nichi .ShimhunV; (Tokio.) states that China, intiitajite<J- a desir*>,t*> enter an arrangement avoiding ArupttiMw. , t * GERMAN LIGHT ON THE QUARREL. •* . - _1 : •••"•* ■WELLINGTON, May 7. A Wellington resfSeni -who-<has bqe& in close touch-with tbe East dtlring tho. past few months had, some, interesting • light to throw on the Chinoquarrel when interviewed to-mght. Advices which he'lias received from China anting the" past foyr weeks dispose that German influence in that country haar caused considerable confusion jn administrative affairs .-since,. thfr .fall b o£ tau~at the hands,of the Japanese. Th? German influence has beendirected -in Pekin at the seat of the Chinese-official administration, with results ™at led to constant quarrelling and, d\sruption The President of the Repttpnc. (Yuan Shi- Kai) has been at-bay with his arch-enemy,. Dr. Sun Yat Sen, and, w» latter, it has been abun^ntly vproved, has fostered his desire Chinese -Empire, supported, bjr the,Ger> man official sot. In fact, inquiries goJfco i show that Dr. Sun Yat ,Sen has been working hand in hand with the for many years, and 'has, had ,-Qcrtnuai , capitalists in America supporting his intrigues. So far the cards have • against Yuan Shi Kai, who has. alway* desired friendsliio -with the Japanese Go : vernment. In January Ynan Shi Ivay left Pekin for Formosa, ostensibly .w» consult 'Japanese representative?. Thorn has Seen no advice that lie has yet .r«r turned to China. Dr. Morrison, Bntish adviser to Yuan Shi Kai, is.supposed to have left China again. in -December, ho unsuccessfully attemptedl to restore Yuan Shi Kai> counsellors to. a satisfactory frame of mmd in tticirre? lations with Dr. Sun Yat Sepy British- Japanese.po^t-of* view «ie-situa-tion in China has peached breakmg.pomt. a o much so that .the >-time hftd arrived for Japan, backed Ijy>: Grenl Britain' juxJ ( her Allies, to say tbOyt <&rman_ influence in China must bo eliminated., _ , - ' f" V,_i