Brussels, Oct. 26.
The newspaper "Lo Vingtieme Siecle" states that the Foreign! Minister, M. Vandervelde, is still negotiating with the Peking Gov. ernment with regard to the Sino-Belgian Commercial Treaty of 1865, which expires to-morrow.
Hopes for a satisfactory solution of the question should not be abandoned, says the paper.
Chinese Students Demonstrate in Brussels Fifty Chinese students demonstrating for abolition of the Belgo-Chinese Treaty of Commerce 1805 (which expires to-day) this afternoon. endeavoured to hold up traffic in front of the Bourse.
The police intervened and used their truncheons. Several of the Chinese were severely hurt and had to be taken to hospital. A policeman was also badly injured, Thirty demonstrators were arrest-
The Negotiations in Peking Peking, Oct. 28.
'The Belgian Minister, M. Warzee d'Hermalle, called on Dr. K, Wellington Koo' (Acting Premier fand Minister of Foreign Affairs) this afternoon, when the discussed the Sino-Belgian Treaty for four The Chinese official position that a new Treaty based on prin ples of equality and reciprocity must replace the old Treaty.
The Chinese are willing to agree to a modus vivendi in the meantime, but insist that it must be for a Himited period of six months.
The Belgian Minister agreed to the modus vivendi for an interim period but was not willing to fix such a time mit, He will again consult the Belgian Government.
Following these discussions, the Cabinet convened a special meeting jon the subject of the Treaty—Reuter, to such cases, and he seems to have had his instructions from Canton all right, and to be prepared to act' on them, and see that this kind of thing is stopped.
Question of Reinstatement Allsorts of employees are coming round to find out if their old jobs are still open to them. Some of them find that they are not, either because their. places have been already filled. or in some cases deeause they have been so virulently hostile and mixed up in such dirty' work that even the patient Britisher car hardly overlook it. Indeed it is just here that there may be snags in the way, when demands are made for the reinstatement of "all or n the ease of individual firms. They may be other snags too, and more disappointment in store, but terday and to-day we have become 1 decidedly more optimistic. We have had two Douglas Ca, steamers here in the last few days, one up and one down, and each of them brought several hundred passenger and got them landed. The first time the sampan-men demanded two dollars a head for putting their ashore, and the agents landed them by motor-boat; the second time tie spans again made exorbitant de mands but lighters went alongside and took passengers ashore xt} ordinary rates.
Vague War With Fukien It is very difficult to get at the] truth of what is happening in the war on the. Fukien border... There is/ma doubt that the: Cantonese have Native City. taken Yungting and Fungshi. The Fukien torves have been as near as Unkung and Jiaop'ing, but probably never really in occupation of either; and for several days now the rumours of "their advance have ceased. For no very obvious renison Swatow has for more than a Jweek put under very strict martial law, and people moving about the streets at night are liable to close scrutiny, if not worse. If is said that several ave been shot for failing to pay attention to the chailenge of entries at military quarters.
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