The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-21
CHINA GIVES NOTICE;
 MUST BE CONSULTED
PLAINLY DEFINES HER ATTI- TUDE TOWARD THE PEACE
 CONFERENCE.

Officially Notifies Powers She Will Not
 Recognize Any Arrangement Regard
 ing SIanchuria Which She is Not Con-
 suIted-Has Not Requested That She
 be Allowed to Take Part in the Con-
 ference-UneOnditiOn Return of
 Manchuria Favored.
 Washington, July 2O.-China's official notification to the powers that she will not recognize any arrangement regard ing Manchuria concerning which she has not been consulted before hand has reached washington and will be forth with forwarded to the president at Oys- ter Bay. Before dispatching this note to the neutral powers China sent to St. Petersburg and Tokio an identical note containing this notification. The Chi nese communication is briefly worded and is so expressed that it calls for no reply.
 The arrival of the text of the note dis poses of the unofficial report reaching Washington recently from Europe, which found credence in official circles, that China had requested that she be allowed to participate in the confer ence.
 China has not yet taken this step for several reasons. The Chinese govern / nent is anxious that, so far as possible, the belligerents be allowed to negotiate directly with each other, and is adverse to being forced into the negotiations. China's motive in addressing to Russia and Japan such notification was to re- mind them that she had never acqui- esced in the alienation of the province of Manchuria from Chinese sovereignty and that she expected as the first re- suit of the war the full restoration to Chinese control of that province. That this position might receive the contin- ued support of the neutral powers, cop les of the note were forwarded to the other capitals for presentation by the respective Chinese representatives.
 Before sending this notification the Chinese government addressed to it's viceroys, governors and diplomatic rep resentatives abroad a long list of ques- tions about <Manchuria asking their opinions regarding the steps which the government should take to insure it's restoration to Chinese control. On one point these replies were singularly in accord-that this restoration should be made internationally. It was also sug- gested in some of the replies that China immediately declare open to the worlds trade several additional ports in Manchuria for limited number of years, and, provided in the meantime the Chinese legal code had been re- vised and regular Chinese court had been firmly established, that the powers be asked to waive extra-territorial rights in Manchuria in favor of the Chi nese government, If this were done it was recommended that the remainder of Manchuria be declared open to foreign commerce. This is only one of many suggestions affecting trade in Manchu- ria now under consideration in Pekin.
 Advices reaching Washington indicate that the insistence upon the uncondi- tfonal restoration of Manchuria without condition finds favor in the Chinese capital, and this, 1t is realized opens up an important subject in connection with the Washington conference Having been the chief zone of operations Man churia will naturally figure prominent ly in the conference. China's insistence that ske be consulted about any ar rangement concerning Manchuria will, if respected by the belligerents, it is believed necessitate an indirect partici- patton in the negotiations by China. It is. learned on the highest authority that the Chinese government is inclined to trust Japan to execute her many pledges regarding Manchuria and unofficially has already given assurance to the Japanese of her confidence in their sim cerity in this matter. On the other hand Russia, it is said, will come to the con- ference ready to forfeit her sphere of influence in Manchuria, only on condi- tion that China give to Japan no priv ileges there not accorded to all the pow CTS. Therein lies China's best assur arlces that little headway can be made regarding Manchuria without commit nication with Pekin.