Peking, Nov. 17.
After to-duy's committee meet ing of the Tariit Conference, GE. T. Wang expressed his that the Conference was making good progress and that all the Chinese delegates were greatly satisfied with results that had far accrued, Eastern-News Agency.
In the House of Commons to-d Mr. Austen Chamberlain (Secretary of State for Foreign Affair), in the course of a statement on' China, said the instructions received by the British delegates attending the Tariff Conference in Peking were framed in a Liberal spirit and based the principle that the purport! of the tariff arrangements contemplated at the Washington Confer-fence was of benefit to China as a whole. Effective safeguards, ha added, must be devised to ensure the fulfilment of the pri Replying to questions, berlain said he was unable to report any progress in the settlement of the outstanding Anglo-Russian question during the Parliamentary recess Reuter,
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