At the request of the Hongkong and he realizes that the Govern- Government, the Indian Government official who negotiated a loan ment has agreed to renew the agreoat this moment for the Peking) ment for the direct supply of opium Government would be classed in at a fixed price for five years, be-the public mind with the gentlemen Pinning next year Reuter. who enjoy Mr. Obata's hospitality. For this and other reasons he does not want to affix his signature to loan contracts. Supposing that he is only a politician and has no conscience of his own, it must have been apparent to him that he had to "square" himself with the Chi ese people and the Chinese press at' once.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.