The Chinese Native Products Maintenance Association, in a tele-from to the Executive Yuan and the Foreign Affairs Ministry. asks the Central Government to abolish the Boxer Treaty and gives two reasons for this request:—(1) that the treaty ju question was concluded under which an indemnity was pala to the Powers concerned, and (2) that for the "maintenance of communications between Peking and -Tientsin and the protection of foreign—legations, foreign troops were permitted under the treaty to be stationed at certain places.
The telegrams point out that condi tions have changed since the conclusion of the treaty, making "the {treaty in question virtually null and void. First, the various friendly powers have, since the establishment of Chinese republic, agreed to return their" respective portions of the Boxer Indemnity "to Chins, and secondly, since the establishment of National' Government in Nanking, various foreign legations and embassies in Peiping have opened offices either in Nanking or Shanghai.
For these two reasons, the Boxer Treaty has lost the reason for which it was, signed and should therefore be declared abolished, so. that. not Jonly Chinese'sovereign rights may be reserved, but also further troubles will be prevented, the telegram of the Association concludes,
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