Japanese Minister's Refusal to Extradite Peking, Aug. 30.
The Japanese Legation has handed to Reuter the following statement "The Waichiaopu sent to the Japanese Minister on August 22 al seq) Note, referring to the latter's communication of August 8 with regard to the sheltering of political refugese. The Waichiaopu's Note states that the Chinese Government regret their inability to accede to' the contents of the Japanese Minister's communication, that evidences of the crimes of all the offenders will be communicated to Mr. Obata after due investigations and that their extradition will then be requested. The Note expresses the hope that the offenders will be neither let loose nor removed elsewhere for concealment.
"In reply to the above Note, Mr. Obata sent a Note to the Waichiaopu on August 28 in the following! sense: "I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency's Note of August 22, replying] to my Note of August 9 on the subject of Mr. Hsu Shu-tseng and others in the Imperial Legation guard compound. In that Note it
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