Commissioner for' Foreign Affairs Instructed to Protest Against Existing Installations Nanking, Nov. 30.
In am order to the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs for Kiangsu, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is understood to have instructed Mr. Quo Tai-chi to lodge a protest with the! foreign authorities in Shanghai! against the erection of various! wireless stations in the Settlement, {a list of which is appended herewith) and to make the following demands:
'That all wireless stations in China, those erected within and exclusively used by the Consulates excepted, shall be taken down, within a' given period regardless of) the nature of their ownership and wireless telegraphy is a national right of China which no foreign government and its nationals are allowed to exercise in any part of China whether within or without the Settlement limits, and that foreign! countries and nationals urping China's right, not only infringe upon China's sovereignty bat also violate a fundamental provision of international Law. Below is a. list of foreign-owned: wireless stations known to be operating: in the Settle. ments in Shanghai:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.