The text of the letter of the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs is as follows:
"I have the honour to acknow-receipt of your letter of June 80 in which you explain—what has already been quite clear and obvious to me—that recognition isnot im= plied in your despatch of June 16 acknowledging my Note of June 4, notifying you of the abolition of the Office of Commissioner of Foreign Affairs and the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deal with all" international cases in future.
"Though in ordinary circumstances your letter might call for no specific Toply, I believe the best interest the American people and of the [Chinese people, we wapnannntad my Government, would be served I make a categorical statement that while my Government (which has ized an independent political regime founded here nearly 10 years ago and has unified a group of territories larger in area than France and Italy combined, with a Population of (60,000,000) demands that it be treated with respect, it neitiler desires nor expects. from America and other foreign Powers the sort of recognition which even considerations of political realism and international dignity have not prevented them from granting to Phantom Governments successively set up in Peking by Mandarin 'Squoczers, military plunderers and ex-bandit' chiefs. 'The foreign Powers have not' yet realized that it is to-day but an organ of ex+ ploitation and plunder in the hands of the Mandarinate and Northern As long as this fundamental fact remains ungrasped by the foreign Powers the state of China must necessarily worsen and some of the ominous possibilities of the may become realities "with apprehension of what it all means, my Government the work of the Chinese system ple in their organ land politico-economic aggregate) and Jan altered environment brought about largely by foreign intercourse Jand pressure; and though unrecognized, but withal the only ruling group in China at the moment that. really governs, my Government is not without hope of planting the foundation of a great new structure of relations between China and America and other friendly Powers, which, while assuring the latter of a friendly and profitable market for their goods and services, will enable the Chinese people to live in freedom. and to work out the modernization of their country in terms of the best, in terms of the best both in their historic experience and ind culture, and in the doctrinal systems and material progress of the West.
"Bureau of Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs."~ Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.