To the Editor of the The writer had occasion recently. to refer to what is known as "the "NortH-Cuixa Dany News, Sm,—With reference to the telegram from Reuter which appears in Your to-day's issue under heading "C. C. Wu! Applies to America for revision of Treaties," and to that part of it where Dr. Wu is reported to be endeavouring to stampede America into recognition by the implication that Great Britain will get there first if Kellogg is not careful, a reminiscence of past history' may not be out of place for the information of Dr. Wu and his like, Some years ago, when the Japanese had secured by" war the control of the Manchurian Railway, the Chinese were very anxious to get another railway built alongside it (with other people's money):0 as to stalemate the Japanese. A. Mr. 'Tong Shao-yi was at that time First Secretary of the Mukden Viceroy and at his invitation Mr. J, 0. P. Bland and a Lord French (at that time Messrs. Paulings' representative in Peking were more oF less invited to come to Mukden to discuss the granting of a concession for a railway from Aisun-Tsitsihar down to somewhere near Chinwangtao. 'They went, J. 0. P. Bland with his tongue in' his check, and within three days or so Lord French came away with a full-blown railway concession permitting Paulings to advance the money and build the railway. The Japanese thereupon made it quite clear that they would allow no such railway to be built, Tong Shao-yi thereupon indicated to Lord French that it was up to him to make the British Foreign Secretary of State have it out with the Japanese. The Foreign Secretary (Lord Curzon, 1 think it was) was reported to have remarked that if Tong Shao-yi though that he, Curzon, was pulling chestnuts cub of the fire for him he was mi taken, I may be mistaken too, but would be as well to temined Dr. Wa of this story in case he has over-Tooked a like possibility in his endeavours to force the hand of America, not to mention Great Britain, "in his revision of Treaty schemes, Tam, ete, Ow Ther,
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