A private telegram to local Chit from the United States was lown to a member of our staff on Sunday containing information with regard to the Tariff Conference and containing a sentence to the effect that the Peking Government had approached the United States Government for a loan on the curity. of the additional revenue from the Tariff Confer Although the source in the United States of the message cannot be given, there appears no dowf as to the authenticity of this report.
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