In the course of an_ interview [with a representative of the "North-China Daily News," Dr. G. Zay Wood, former Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Shanghai, who now Chief of the Department of Euro-American Affairs in the Na-alist. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said thut hix negotiations with the French Consul-General with re-{ference to a settlement of the Nun-king outrage so far as the French Government is concerned, were pro-acceding very smoothly and speedily.
Dr, Wood, who left Shanghai on Munday night and who came to Shanghai expressly to continue his" negotiations with Meyricr. expressed the hope that the question would settled very shortly. The French JGovernment had no Consulate in Nanking. The fact that the French gunboats did not bombard Nanking ust year was a point which made a settlement of the affair com: paratively easier, Because of the fact that the French Minister was in Peking, it iwas necessary, said Dr. Zay Wood, that a good deal of time should be spent th telegraphing to "Peking and Nankiog and ice, versa, "Still," he said, "we have great hopes of securing a settlement within the shortest possible time.
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