Subsidiary Note Great Britain Promising to Negotiate Treaty Revision in Due Course The announcement we printed last issue that Sir Sidney Barton had gone to Nanking the previous day must have been sufficient indication to most people of what was coming, though 7] more could not be said at the moment. The negotia ions over the Nanking outrage of March -24, 1927, were brought to a definite conclusion in Shanghai on the evening of August 8 and the agreement was signed between Great Britain and China on the evening of August 9 by the British Consul-General at Shanghai, it Sidney Barton, on behalf of the British M ister to China, Sir' Miles Lampson, the Nationalist minister of Foreign
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