From Our Ows Peking, Sept, 16.
The Commission on Extraterritoriality met in' final' session to-day to sign a joint report on their investigations. It is interesting to note that China was among. the signatories, Although, no details will be given out here, it is, understood that the report provides cold comforts for the proponents of the relinquishment of Consular jurisdiction. conversation the Chinese off cials ecoept, the verdict as the only tone possible in the circumstances, 'Mr: Silas Strawn, who has been chairman of the Commission as! well as the moving spirit of the foreign side of the Tariff Conference, is due to leave for Shanghai tonight, travelling to Tokyo en route to' America, There is as little possibility his return as there ig of the sumption of the Tariff' Conference. When the Conference rose for the summer recess it, was resolved to restart when China had regained some appearance of governmental unity, but all artificial aids. respiration having been previously tried and found wanting, it is now tacitly agreed it has languished its death, influence Gen. Chiang to reconsider hig decision to fight.
'Two delegates have beer ed by the Chekiang Provinc sidents' Association to interview Gen, 'Chiang and appeal' to him not to invade Kiangsi, According to the Chinese press there ate now some 1,000 workers engaged in the Shanghai Arsenal where 30,000 rounds of ammunition are produced each day as well as several new guns and the repair of old ones, A Pointed Remonstrance In the course of a circular telegram, Mr. Tong Shao-yi, the veter-di
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