Legation Quite Unrepentant left for home.
There is official authority for stating that the Central Govern-iment does not n intend to take active measures against Canton, preferring to let the new administration there run its course.—Reuter, Peking, Dec. 97.
The Japanese Legation, replying to the Waichiaopu's Note of the; 4th instant regarding the escape of Hsu Shu-tseng, says the Chinese Note is practically a repetition of the Note of November 20, and was fully answered in the previous Japanese Notes. For this reason the Legation can only request the Chinese Government thoroughly to examine the repeated Japanese explanations with complete impartiality.
The Note adds that numerous precedents are afforded by Spanish South America and other countries of the right of the Legation to give refuge and protection to political refugees, and the absence of such cases in Europe and America is simply due to the fact that the political situation has not necess-irated such steps on the ground of humanity.
The Note further cites as remarkable the instances—_ that occurred in 1917 when Kang Yuwei, Li Yuan-hung and Chang Hsun received refuge in the American, Japanese and Netherlands Legations, respectively. The Note calls attention to the fact that in these cases the political motive of séeking protection or the political position of the refugee naturally did not enter into the question.
The Note concludes by repeating that the Legation cannot agree to any request for handing over the remaining Anfuites, whether guilty of an ordinary criminal offence er not.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.