Tariff Revision Conference.and the Futility of Endeavouring Tite Imprisonment. for' Opium to Bolster up One Faction in Peking: Clearing Old Debts to Make Way for New the following ebeiki John Jordan comes' dut az ig letter to the "Times" Sir an unsparing critic of the Legion "Pilgrim Society" of, Selence. and Arta es:
Opium at Nantao, The To Fight Opium Combines wid Bi Weer. fatuity of holding the Tariff Revision Conference merely to bolster up one faction in Peking and to clear of old debts in order to make room for new.
These objections to the Conference, as it appears to be projected in official quarters, have again and again been stressed-in the "North-China Daily News" and it is indeed welcome to find them Why Use' alcohol in Shanghai." Graven' of U.S.
Municipal Boats Held Up.) 399 Horticultural "Society Rose Show 379 rman A.D, C upheld by one of Sir John's great prestige at the Foreigi Sir-—I regret to be obliged to dissent from the views contained in from your Peking published in the "OMMINCE AND: FiNAtice 58: "Times" of to-day. pont AKD PAgvins Your Correspondent points out that the increased Customs duties WH, Me Supreme Court—contemplated by the resolution of 'Towing' a MotorCycle 389 the Washington Conference are to 'Two Mon gnd Wouseboat °° 389 devoted to securing the abolition Owner' Claim Againet of-internal dues, and he adds that until the signatory Powers discard sioned obsession there i conte, Witt ana Ware pie little prospect that the claims of the vendors of wireless, a
Russhi Volunteer Fleet, 490 receive much attention: He thi railway, and other material
390 /that it would be better to have no Army Oficer Chore 5, [conference at all than one confined ow the limita of the Washing: joo 0%, Fesolution. What is wanted, ihe suggests, is a conference' which sotPtiM uss $89 wil Taree a bassia for the conaalge Btn "of the foaling' dee, for reals sia 8 restoring solvency to the Govern-(om 'tHe Foun Wins 307309 ment, and for affording relief to "Vision" 400 the foreign creditors. All of which. Little Kingom 400 is very plausible, but, I venture to' ross Word. Pasi fon think, pernicious doctrine in the: doe Present condition of China.
'40s. The floating debt consists of what.
'408 ig known as the Nishihara loans, long experience in China and mn Office. cumstances which' will not bear close inspection and which would certainly not be endorsed by the Chinese people, and of other large sums advanced by foreigners, many of them for entirely unproductive Purposes. The claims of these unsecured loans were not admitted Washington be met from the duties, and if the foreign Powers now reverse that decision in order stifle the and to genuine foreign interests in that country.
It was felt at Washington that! any increased revenues given to Peking in the then existing chaos of political conditions would only fall into the hands of the m and" your Correspondent, vocaling the claims of" Peking, seems to admit this, as he. states that the militarists hotly debating the division of spoils cerning to the Provisional Govern:
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