Tientsin, Aug. 17.
The inspection by Chinese boycotters of Japanese goods has been abolished. It is understood that on the 20th instant w grand social meeting of over 300 Chinese and Japanese merchants will be held here under the auspices of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce. I'rom this it may be gathered that the anti-Japanese boycott is about at an and in Tientsin.—Eastern News Agency.
Peking, Aug. 17.
Interviewed to-day by foreign press representatives, Dr. Wellington Koo, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, said, in effect, that the Chinese Government had more than once received Notes from the Japanese Government concerning repression of the anti-Japanese agitation, that China, since hhis assumption of office as the Minister for Foreign Affairs, had never entered into any agreement with the Federal Wireless Corporation, that with regard to the Lincheng affair a reply note would shortly be handed to the Diplomatic Corps, as the Chinese Government were now making inquiries into the affair in question and that Dr. G. T. Wang was at present assidueusly making preparations for the opening of Sino-Russian negotiations upon the arrival here of M. Karakhan, the new Russian Envoy in the Far East.—Eastern News Agency,
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