Ardent Desire (o Conciliate the Powers and Then Negotiate Loan: Peking Ready to Sign Anything: All Loan to Await Canton Settlement Peking, Feb. 24, The delegates to the Tariff Revision [Conference say that the motive of the Chinese behind their readiness to accept the Washington increases, now, apparently to be traced to: an ardent desire to conciliate the Powers and then to negotiate a loan in the immediate future before the! presen administration collapses and the leading Chinese and the delegates are forced to flee. The feel 1g in financial circles is that in exchange for the loan the Powers could now get China's signature to all] favourable agreements covering all conference disputes, but that suc"
ties would be worthless neither this réyime nor its successors could guarantee the fulfilment, by China of uny of its terms. 1 bunkers say that any fund oan must certainly await the settlement of the Canton question since the security offered by-the Customs is utterly worthless if the precedent of interference with the Customs is, once established.
The whole attitude of the foreign delegations is. so radically changed, October that itis Tikely that the removal of Marshel Tuan Chie iui, or the flight of the Chinese delegates would prompt the sugaestion that the conference be post= poned until a representative, po manent government is. establishe: here. A diplomat to-day confer laily told the writer that it was now realized by many that the sue eessftl issue of the canteronce would only serve to make Peking worth fighting for, while the eon= tinued recognition of ale venturers China put a premium on disorder. ins the government
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