Interviewed by members of the Chinese press on Wednesday morning, Dr. C. T, Wang, the Nationalist Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that he lid come to Shanghai for the purpose of receiving the various foreign Consuls. He had already received eight members of the Consular Body and was to receive the other ten yesterday morning. The attitude of the various foreign Powers towards the Nationalist Government was very. satisfactory.
Questioned regarding the matter' of Yecognition, Dr. Wang said that be was not paying much attention to that, China had now to become unified and it did not ter whether the foreign countries accorded the Nationalists recognition or not.
With the exception of China, he stated, there was no such title a Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in any foreign country and, since the establishment of the Republic, the abolition of the post has been under loration. garding the unequal treaties, he earnestly hoped that these would be abrogated and after that the Foreign Commissionerships would be done away with.
Asked whether the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would send Ministers abroad, Dr. Wang said that the Foreign Ministry already had sent representatives to various foreign, countries, When China was unified, these delegates would be withdrawn and Ministers would be appointed.
The Capital at Nanking the Foreign Minister, in answer to a question whether he expected the foreign Legations to move from. Peking to Nanking, said that, since the Nationalist Government had decided to make Nanking the capital, the Foreign Ministry would be tenioved to Nanking.—For convenience sake, therefore, the Powers, should transfer their Legations from Peking to Nanking.
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