Evening star., 1928-06-17
DR.. WU REQUESTS
EARLY REVISION OF
CHINESE TREATIES
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the United States as well as other for
eign powers to recognize the govern
ment In power in Peking," he said.
THE Eationalists now are In charge of
that city and recognition no doubt soon
will follow.
Recognition Is not absolutely neces-
sary. The new government OF China
doesn't really care whether 1t Is recog-
nized or not so long as the powers show
an inclination to adjust the wrongs so
blatantly obvious in the old, outworn
unilateraI treaties now In force"
DR.. Wu said that China had no in
clination TO adjust any one portion Of
the old treaties. but hoped that the
United States would see flt TO scrap
the entire lot and start new relations
with the new government on per-
fectly clean international slate"
Hopes for Recognition.
Or. Alfred SEE, Chinese Minister to
the United States, has informed the
State Department that he now repre-.
sents the Nationalist government In this
country and has raised the Nationalist
flag over the legation here. He would
not talk concerning the attitude of the
State Department toward his new gov
ernment, other than TO say that he
hoped this country soon would follow
the traditional policy of recognizing the
government In power tn Peking
Information from London. DR. WI
said led him to believe that. unless the
United States acted soon, Great Britain
would be the first Of the great powers
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ment. He declared that the psycholog-
icai effect OF such an act by Great
Britain would be exceedingly favorable
to the British In China.
There Is increasing evidence that
Great Britain and China will arrive at
some mutually satisfactory agreement
In the near future DR.. WI said "The
relations between the two countries
have been strained at times, but there
are no problems which the Chinese and
British have 10 face which cannot be
arnicably solved"
The moving OF the Chinese govern
n1ent from Peking is the carving out
OF an announced intention of the lead
ers Of the Nationalist movement made
before their armies started on their
long march TO the north, DR.. Wu said.
Scene of Failures.
Members OF the new government feel
mat the atmosphere OF peking Is not
conducive TO a national spirit, Ii having
peen the scene Of 80 many failures OF
government since the 1911 revolution.
Foreign influences Of many years stand
ing also would have 10 be overcome In
Peking, while the city Of Marking Is
essentially Chinese In Its makeup as
well as It's atmosphere.
RANKING, DIR, WI declared, Is the
traditional capital OF South China and
its central location makes IL the Logical
capital for all China. II has been the
provisional capital city of the National
ISIS since its capture In March, 1927.
RANKING IN walled city 200 miles
up the Yangtze River from Bhanghai
ana connected with that city by a rail-
ROAD and by boat. It Is one of the
Oldest cities In China and for centuries
was Known as the "city of scholars
because 1t was there that young Chinese
vent 10 stand their examinations on
the classics.
The great 2a-miie~long wall around
tne city u In a good state of preserva~
tion. except al the south gate, where
portions Of II fell before the battering
rams OF the TAPPING armies In d revolu-
lion In the nineteenth century. Out
side the. walls 10 the south is the great
tomb OF the one Ming emperor, who
ruled from Yangtze Valley capital. II
is guarded by huge stone figures ex~
tending for over mile along the road
running TO the city.
On the slope Of Purple Mountain,
which throws It's shadow across the
Ming tomb, IL the framework OF an
other great pagodaiike tomb. being
built for the body of Dr. Sun Vat Sen,
the father of thu Nationalist movement
The new tomb. s.ie Nationaltats believe,
viii become one OF China's shrinea.
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