On the surface it would appear to be a wise, fair and tactful dipplomatic gesture, satisfying a reasonable people by giving them an opportunity to earn one of the rights that they talk so much about, spike ing a few of the guns of the agitators, and-at the same time furni ing adequate safeguard to an foreign interests. That it may not. appeal to the Chinese in this way at all, is only too likely. They are quite capable of feeling, in their present temper, that they have been cheated out of an opportunity to Hsvreck the conference and put the responsibility for its failure upon the foreigner and therefore be much more annoyed than pleased.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.