The "North-China Daily News" was officially informed by DIN, Koeehlin, the French Consul-General, that there was no truth in a report which appeared the Chinese newspapers to the effect that "the French Government has decided to move its Legation from Peking to Nanking immediate.
'The report stated that the French Consulate at San Pai Lao, Nanking, be transformed' into the jon and that a certain gen-residence was to be rented for the Consulate. Tt was further said that the French Legation archives would be sent to Nanking shortly, M. Koechlin said that M. Wilden, the Minister, was erecting a personal residence in Nanking but this was in no way connected with Legation, the Japanese authorities are start in regard to the question of railway construction in Manchuria, There is good reason to believe, according to this authoritati opinion, that even if Japan confines her propositions to a minimum,! China would go so far as to de. mand the abandonment of some of an's acquired zights in the mat~ ter of railway construction and other pending Manchurian railway questions.—Rengo.
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