CHINA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16507, 7 August 1919, Page 2

CHINA AND JAPAN.

SERIOUS CAUSES OF FRICTION. I’_v T elegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright, (Received August 7, 9.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 3. A dispatch from Peking states that the Government has received a petition signed by Shantung citizens, protesting against the brutalities of Japanese soldiers. Tho petition stated that soldiers robbed and ill-treated women and forced tho Chinese to sell their land.

The Japanese Consul at Knangchcnghu, where sixteen Japanese were killed during the recent disturbance, has made three demands upon the Chinese local authorities as the result of the incident, namely that Chinese troops should not bg allowed to approach within ten miles of Knangchcnghu anti that the two chief cities of the province of Kirin be opened to foreign trade and that the resident Japanese be granted the monopoly of operating the waterworks in the city of Ihuin.

The Chinese authorities .granted the first demand and notified Peking that they had refused the other two.