A subsequent Kuo Min message was to the effect that certain new proposals had been made by Dr.
'T. Wang and that Sir Miles Lampson had replied that he would have to submit them to his home Government.
The position with regard to Weihaiwei, according to Chinese information, which appears to be trustworthy, is that the British proposed to surrender the ter to China, without any reserva to foreign representation in i future administration, but that China should preserve Weihaiwei as cept, insisting that the rendition should be without-any conditions whatsoever.
Tt was also suggested that in consideration for the release to China of the British portion of the Boxer Indemnity, China should agree to the use of the island as absolutely unconditional return of the place.
So far as the Sino-British Commercial Treaty is concerned we are informed that there was a serious divergence of views expressed in the draft treaties put forward by either side, and it is towards the climination' of these differences, that experts are to meet to explore the possibility of finding a common ground,
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