The Diplomatic Body held a meeting this morning at which the answer to the reply from the Waichiaopu to the Lincheng note was approved. The Dean of the Diplomatic Body handed the note to Dr. Wellington Koo, the Minister for (Foreign Affairs, this afternoon. The text of the note is as follows:
The Diplomatic Body have examined with great care your Excellency's note of September 24, regarding the Lincheng incident and Were ged to find in it, along with fresh expression of the regret felt in China for that deplorable outrage, a positive declaration that the Chinese Government and people were not actuated by any anti-foreign feeling.
The Diplomatic Body, however, feel bound to recall that in their note of August 10 they did not declare the existence of an antiforeign movement in Chin they declared the existence cf_a situation resulting from the development of brigandage in China threatening with danger the life, liberty, rights and property of foreigners residing in this country. In this regard, the special character of the Lincheng outrage does not appear to have been understood by. the Chinese Government, and the Diplomatic
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