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The Tariff Conference is due to open at Peking next

Monday, but owing to the suspension of railway traffic the Chinese delegates are slow in arriving. The difficulties of the Conference will be extraordinary. It was intended to arrange for the surrender of the Mixed Court at Shanghai and for Chinese representation on the Shanghai Municipal Council, but unfortunately the representative of the Peking Government at Shanghai has just been driven out of his home and office by the enemies of the Central Government.

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