Oct. 18.
"LittLe or no progress has boon made with the Huangpu Conservancy negotiations," wrote our Peking correspondent on September 23. " Bat it is hoped that the representatives of the Waiwopu and the Diplomatic Body will hold another meeting shortly to discuss the matter." A fortnight earlier the same correspondent told us that the Chinese and foreign their second conference, at which representatives were then holding,
the varying points of view advanced by each party were for the first time to be set forth side by side. It has since been ascertained that the Chinese proposals virtually sweep away those made by Shanghai, but of their exact nature we have no inkling. To give one more quotetion, we would recall these striking sentences from the speech delivered by the chairman of the China Association, Shanghai branch at the annual general meeting on August 21:—* We have the Astra Channel completed, but the two quarterly reports which have been issued this year tell us that urgent work is necessary, even in this new channel. Within the last few days we have received the most disquieting news of the gradual silting up of this channel." The chairman then described broadly the steps YE
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