Peking, Feb. 2.
The political parties as well as the Peking Press Association and the Chamber of Commerce have elected representatives who will ask the Government to make a statement as soon as possible about the reply given to Japan with regard to the latter's demands, as China is not a State of officials but of the people.
According to the Peking Gazette" the Government has decided to make no compromise in the demands which affect the sovereign rights of China.
Liang Chi-chao, the well-known essayist, writing in the " Peking Gazette" on: My views on Sino-Japanese advises Ja-Pan not to think erroneously that China is a second Korea; China is not inclined to lean towards any
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