London, Aug. 25.
The British Government has now \China's Invitation to Powers:
Notification of Desire for accepted the invitation of the Chinese Government to attend the Tariff Conference on October 29.—
Reuter, Tariff Autonomy Peking, Aug. 19.
The following is an official trans lation of the Chinese Government's invitation to the Powers to attend Special Tariff Conference at Peking on October 26, "M. lo Ministre, have the honour to communicate to your Excellency, for transmis: to your Government, an invitation to a Special Conference relating. to Chinese Customs Tariff from the Chinese Government as follows:
Tu accordance with Article 11 the" Treaty" between the United States of America, Belgium, the British Empire, China, France, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands and Por-ngai" relating to" the. Chinere Customs Tariff, signed at Washington on February 6, 1922, a Special Conference shall meet in China within three months after the coming into force of this Treaty, oft a day and at a place to be designated by the Chinese Govern. ment, with a view to continuing and completing the work of the Washston Conference relative to the Chinese Customs questions.
Washington, Aug. 25.
The United States Government has formally accepted China's invitation to participate in the Customs Conference in October.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.