Tarif Autonomy Said to Have Been Recognized Nanking, Nov. 10.
The now Sino-Norwegian treaty recognizing tariff autonomy for! China was signed on Tuesday, November 13, by Dr. CT. Wang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Mr. N. Aall, Charge Affaires of the Norwegian Legation, the Kuo Min News Agency correspondent: learned from De. Wang yesterday. The text of the treaty. will be re-Jeased.on Monday, the 19th, simultaneously at Nanking and" Oslo.
According to the Foreign Miniefor, negotiations for similar agreenents with Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portigal are in progress and successful results may be expected Soon. AS for Japan, the question vill probably not be dealé with until after the settlement of other out Standing Sino-Japanese issues, The nly country with which negoti tions have not yet been opened is Spain But it is expected that the Spanish Government will shortly follow in the footsteps of the other Questioned as regards the raising of the status of the American Lega tion in China to an Embassy, Dr. Wang said that ho had not yet received official confirmation of the report though there have been powrpaviers towards sach a step. "Of course," said the Foreign Miniater, "thie means that we will also be raising our Legation in Washington to an Embassy. In fact, five or six
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