Tokyo, July 7.
With reference to the reports that Marshal Wu Pei-fu intends to request the foreign Powers concerned to re-open the Chinese Customs Tariff Conference, organizing a formal Ministry and thereby—appointing new delegates td the Conference, -to-day's morning papers here report that the foreign authorities have declared in main as follows:—
"The circumstances which led to the adjournment "of the—Chinese Tawift Conference are very clearly stated in the commuonigné issued by the foreign delegates. Whenever a Chinese delegation is appointed and ready to attend the Conference, the China requests the foreign Powers to re-open the Conference after she is fully prepared for it the foreign delegates will meet the demand of China even during the hot season."
Comment in Japan Both the Government and people of Japan are expressing deep regret at the suspension of the Chinese Tarif Conference, and earnestly hope that tthe political situation in China will the settled as soon as possible, so that the Conference may be re-opened at no distant date. In the meantime, almost all the papers here, commenting on the fate ofthe. Conference, are unanimous in saying that 1 -go-far as the Conference is concerned, there were no other Powers but China who favoured the Japanese
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