Demand for Fundamental Revision of Treaty Peking, Nov. "10.
It is understood that the Chinese] Note to Japan.on October 20 regarding the Sino-Japanese Treaty fs based on the demand for the revision of Article 26 of lite Treaty of 1898, which laid down that either art, at the end of each ten years, might demand the "revision of tariffs and the commercial Articles of this Treaty." It was also laid down that if no such a demand were made and no such revision effected within six months, the Treaty shall) remain in force for ten yean more, The Note, however, demands fundamental revision of the whole Treaty, not only of the commercial clauses, and urges that negotiations should be begun speedily so that) they could be concluded within six] months.
If the now Treaty has not been successfully. concluded " within six] months, the Chinese Goverment reserves the right to declares _its attitude towards the old Treaty. This, presumably, is a hint at abrogation.
The Japanese reply is expected very shortly—Reuter.
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