Peking, Feb. 13, The Tariff Revision Conference, provided for at Washington January and February, 1922, has now been sitting nearly " four months, devoting most of this time to what are known as informal discussions, which to some—degree may be interpreted as conspiracy be-lural the scenes, and about all that anyone within the delegations outside of them knows at ti moment is that the Conference should not have been held. Quite a few very humble persons knew this Jong before the distinguished ones began t> assemble, Small voices expressed most of the opinions along which big voices are now!
ig known to the Peking community as original discoveries, months and even years before the, convocation of this assembly was formally announced, We hear now for instance from the high places such statements as these:
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