"That this Conference records with regret and concern the com-piete absence of progress towards the establishment of properly constituted municipal government in the ex-enemy Concessions at Hankow and Tientsin: it reminds H. M. Government that the attitude thus successfully maintained by the Chinese Government for five years constitutes a direct breach of the latter's engagements, and is therefore of the opinion that, in view of the important interests involved, and the possible ultimate effect of the resolutions adopted at the Washington Conference on foreign rights in China, there should be no further delay in devising means calculated to guarantee foreign Lotholders in these Concessions the rights to which they are unquestionably entitled."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.