Addressing foreign pressmen this afternoon, Dr. Wellington Koo sail that the Chinese Government had sit come to this decision without great Yeluetance because it was hoped that the question would be settled by amicable arrangement.
It was only yesterday, the Actin, Premier continued, that they gave up hope that the negotiations would come to a satisfactory conclusion.
The insurmountable difficulty, up: parently, was the settling of a fixed period for the conclusion of a new Treaty, to which the Chinese Gov emnnient attached great importance, because, uniers this were done, it would mean the indefinite prolongation of the modus vivendi, which could only serve temporary purposes Dr. Koo emphasized that Chinese action was not taken with any unfriendly feeling towers Belyium and that the Chinese Government hold themselves ready te resume negotiations at any time for the conclusion of a new Treaty on a basis equitable to friendship and operation between the two countries,
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