Brussels, Oct. 22.
The Government, making known its viewpoint on the question of Sino-Belgian relations, says cally Belgium alone has the right to denounce the 1865 Treaty, but she is ready to conclude a modus vivendi until a new Treaty may be signed with a stable Chinese Government, in which there will be no inequality clauses.
The Foreign Minister, M. Vander. verde, in a statement to the delegates of the chief Belgian com-Panies interested in China, to-day said that the Government had unanimously decided that the Treaty must still be regarded as in operation, but if the Chinese proceeded to any hostile acts, for example, after October 27 to refuse Consular: Jurisdiction to Belgians or take any' steps contrary to the Treaty, Belgium would bring proceedings before the Hague Court.
Forty Chinese to-day demonstrated as a protest to" "unequal treaties" imposed on China—Reuter.
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