'A semblance of diplomatic Jations with China has been maintained, although for several yea there has been only the form rather than the substance of a national government there, and diplomat representatives of other nations have been sent to a place where national Central Government formerly existed by where such an fact does not now exist, having deen disrupted by the conflicts of military Governors. of various provinces who have seized orbitary: power over large sections of the country and in effect have created. insurrection and civil war.
Tonday portions of the Chiness people, apparently with the approval of the semblance of Government Poking, are demanding the revision or abrogation of exist ing treaties which secure to} foreigners the right to the protec tion of life and property under the Jaws of their own countries anid demand also tariff autonomy and the administration of their customs receipts which have been pledged ax security for loans made te China by other nations, The treaties now sought to be amended—or—denounced were regotinted to meet actual needs and are more necessary under the <onditions existing to-day than at any time since the establishment of extraterritorial rights
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