Summary of Resolutions Published in London The following report of the mecting held in Tientsin on Septemb 15 appears from the Peking correspondent of "The Times" in a message dated September 16 and published on September 17:—Under the auspices of the China Assockation amd the British
meeting of the British resider Chamber of Commerce "a public was held at Tentsin which @ resolution was carried unanimously recording "profound dignation at the continued failure of the Chinese Government to deal satisfactorily with the Thorburn case." "While taking it for granted that, his Majesty's Government Will) refuse to resume negotiations until complete satisfaction has. been obtained in the cage" the resolution declared: "The meeting Views. with the groutest -apprchehsion the possibility of a change in the status of British subjects China until such time as a Government exists which can in actual fact rule the country and is capable of implementing its engagements."
was further urged that the existing conditions in Tientsin should be maintained, and that if and when the extraterritoriality negotiations were resumed Tientsin should be treated on the same basis as Shanghai, Reference to this resolution was also made in a message, dated September 17, to the same newspaper from Shanghai and published in its issue of September 19. An extract from this message runs as follows: mass meeting of British residents in Tientsin en the 16th their indignation at the tinued failure of the Chinese Government to deal satisfactorily with the Thorburn eng, y..."
"The Tientsin resolution ther stated that, while taking it for granted that the British Government would not resume the extraterritoriality "negotiations satisfaction was obtained, the meeting was apprehensive of any change in the status of the British until 'a Government was established in China with vould rule and implement its engagements, and urged that if and when negotiations were resumed the conditions relating to Tientsin should be similar to those pertaining to Shanghai, to which its position is analogous and to which the conclusions of the Feetham Report are equally ap-
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