Peking, July 11.
Mr. Chu Ao-hsiang, the Director of Foreign Affairs for the Northern ers, declared to-lay that the! suggestion of "The Times" that the Legations should move from Peking" could not have been made at a more'! inopportune moment. It would, "he Said, convey the impression that the Powers were taking sides against the allies in-the civil war.
'Mr. Chu then criticized the conditions" at Nanking and said that at present there were no suitable butldings-there to house the Legations and that the sanitary arrangements, drainage and water-supply were': inadequate. On' the other hand emphasized that Peking' was well? off in these respects. It had, he" said, an agreeable climate. From. the historical point of view ite claims were pre-eminent." It had been the capital for mote than 950" years through five dmasties "and for most of the yeats of the Republic, Tt was, moreover, linked" up by means of four great railways vith the main rivers of the 60 tay so that it was, a most suit centre from: a commercial and a political point of view.—Reuter.
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