Firm Reply by Italian Minister to Nanking's Attempted Abrogation: The Right to Abolish Contested Peking, July 29.
The Italian Legation this morning handed Reuter a copy of the Note which i sent to the Nationalist Government on July 11 in reply the Nationalist Government's Note of July 1 regarding abrogation of the Sino-Italian Treaty—Reuter.
Shanghai, July 80.
The Note handed by the Taian Minister to the Minister for For-lations with the Chinese Government should have returned to their normal basis. In the name of the Royal Italian Government, I beg to express the wish that the Nationalist Government may soon accomplish i task and: thus bring about the conditions mentioned. accept, Monsieur Io} the assurance of my high consideration.
(signed) Danteve Vare. eign Affairs of the Nationalist
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.