Nov. 18 The effort which the Peking Government is now making to denounce the Spanish treaty of 1864, ratified in 1867, with the revision clause as the ostensible apology, and to force upon the Spanish Minister a new document of their own making, ought to be of the greatest interest to the nationals of other states be-the Chinese carry their point, they will have established precedent to which they will insistently refer in all subse-anent disputes over treaty ro-vision, The question at issue in Peking is simple enough and one does not have to be a professional diplomat to understand from the revision clause now in dispute that it can -have one possible interpretation only. Before entering into the argument it. would perhaps be best to quote the text, Article XXUT in the Spanish'treaty is simply a translation into Spanish of Article XXVII of the British treaty of 1858, which reads as follows:
It is agreed that either of the:
High Contracting Parties to this Treaty may demand a further' fo.
vision of the Tariff, and of. thie Commercial Articles of this Treaty; at the end of ten year Dut. if" no. demand: be made: on either side within six months
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.