General of Customs, has proceeded on a short spell of leave. It is understood that he spend] a part of his holiday in Weihai-wei, where it is hoped that the vigorating breezes a: the entrance to the Gulf of Chi-li will compensate him for the last two er three some what sultry months in Shanghai. The work of the Customs has teen exceptionally strenuous of late, and no debt the Inspector-General bbe glad to be free for the time being of the ordinary routine of his post.
That File Yesterday a telegram from Lon. don appeared to confirm the view expressed in certain quarters here to the effect that on the occasion of his visit to Nanking, Sir Miles Lampson will discuss the question extraterritoriality with the recognized Government of Chin: is one of the more irri ting banalities of newspaper life to find what ig known as the "damnable iteration" of the Press a fertile source of speculation which often extends beyond the limits justified by the course of events.
'There reason to believe that the condi to which a speci "North-China Daily New: ly and exclusively referred, just a month ago, have materially' altered Indeed, there are good grounds for asserting that recent events centrate the conditions which, as the cable then pointed out, postula delay in coming to grips' with thi particular subject. In the light the comment then made in ai thoritative newspapers in London. this position still holds. for his file on ex-
Nanking, and the subject of that fle may come under review, but it would be most surprising if there were an attempt mace to convert necessarily static into an immediately dynamic problem.
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