File No. 793.94/269.
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Peking, March 25, 1915—midnight.
In continuation of my telegram of March 24, midnight. The meeting today resulted in an agreement to concede to Japan for mining purposes nine specified areas in Manchuria; the questions as to Hanyehping and the right of unrestricted residence in Manchuria were discussed without reaching an agreement.
Japanese Minister said he had been instructed to state in reply to Chinese inquiry that the troops are being sent into China only to relieve those already here although the latter will be retained during the discussion of the demands.
Further increase of troops at Tsinanfu to twenty-five hundred with artillery are reported today; one thousand also stationed at Fangtze near Weihsien.