Nanking, Sept. 6.
The Nationalist Foreign Minister, Dr. C. T. Wang, to-day told a representative of Toho News Agency.
"As regards the Sino-Japanese Commercial Treaty, it is time, for the Nationalist Government to apply the provisional stipulations to Japanese who are resident in China, living as if the old treaties were Still in existence.
"In this connection, China waiting for the new treaty to be concluded, because we see that Japan is now in earnest on the subject of a new treaty."—Toho,
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