Peking, as the Times correspondent tells us, is awaiting the
arrival of the Cantonese representative for the Military Conference to begin. There will then be five Army leaders, and though Nanking is marked down as the future Capital in accordance with the will of Sun Yat-sen, most people harbour in their minds the possi- bility that the Army leaders may develop other ideas. One of the latest acts of the Nanking Government is the announcement that the Chinese Treaty with Italy has expired. As a matter of fact, the Treaty as a whole cannot legally be denounced in this way, for the time has merely arrived for the revision of the commercial clauses. Den- mark, which has been treated in the same way, is likely to refer the matter to The Hague Court. The Belgian and Spanish Treaties had already been illegally denounced.
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