Monday's Mandate Appointing Body to: Consider Tariff Autonomy: Preparing for Next Year Poking, March 6.
"WA: mandate' issued last night states: "Tariff autonomy is an em-itin of national sovereignty....1t '#8 mow less than a year before it} comes into operation according to the: resolution adopted at the conference in 1925. All preparations: therefore, must be ready as. soon.
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The mandate goes on to emphasize the importance of the matter and instructs members of the Committee to proceed with arrangements with! 4 view to "preserving China's sover-eighty and improving the lot of the: revenue, on the ground that these will merely help the Chinese warlords to continue their civil wars. The resolution contends that the Governments of North and South China must unite to-ask the Powers to reopen the Tariff Conference and declares that the Peking Governmen's procedure is a breach of treaty.
'The "Asalik" taking up the matter in an editorial article, urges the closest vigilance over the activities! of the Peking Government in regard' to tariff autonomy, the paper recommends that Japan should take the proper steps before it is too 'A second mandate appoints the following Committee: Dr, Wellington Koo, Mr. Liang Shih-yi, Mr. Tsao Vu-lin, Mr. Wang Keh-min, Mr. Li Shih-hao, Mr. Lo We Mr. Yen Tze-pu; Mr, Shen Jub-lin, Mr, Mo Teh-huei, Mr. Hsia Jen-hu, Mr. Wu Ching, Mr. Chu Vu-chi and! Mr Ma Soo—Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.