Tokyo, Oct. 23.
Mr. Wang Jung-pao, Chinese Minister to Tokyo, called on the Foreign Minister, Baron Shidehara, at the Foreign Office on Thursday! and handed him the Note, announeing the termination of the Sino-Japanese Commercial Treaty and Wesiving to start negotiations for the conclusion of a new Treaty—Toho, Belgium Willing to Revise Clauses!
Peking, Oct. 26.
It appears that the Chinese Government will not demand abrogation of the Sino-Belgian Treaty, which expires on October 27, a the extremists have been urging, bhut will urge an immediate revision of the clauses in it considered unequal. The Belgian Minister, M. Dewarzee, who was interviewed by Reuter this morning on the matter, pointed out that the Chinese demands placed him and the Belgian Government in " difficult position in view of the fact that the Tariff Conference was at present in abeyance and the findings of the Extraterritoriality Commission had not yet been announced.
MIN, Dowarzee emphasized that the Treaty clearly laid down in article 46 that it was unilateral, Belgium alone having the right to ask for revision, Nevertheless, Belgium had always adopted a liberal policy towards Ching, and the Socialist Foreign M, Vandervelde, was particularly anxious that China should have fair treatment, hence Belgium was meeting China in a friendly manner and was willing to negotiate a new treats.
Naturally, however, the drawing!
negotiations in this had not of any treaty tok time and Yet really begun, but the nego tions now proceeding: were concerned with the modus vivendi during [the interim period. Such a modus indi should be established before to-morrow, but the arrangements may not be completed by then.
MIN. Dewarzee is again to meet Dr. Wellington Koo, the acting Premier, on this matter this afternoon,—Reuter,
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