A Reuter message from Peking says that the Powers are
on the point of sending an Identical Note in reply to the Chinese Government's Note on the " unequal treaties." It is also announced that both Great Britain and America have accepted the Chinese invitation to take part in the Tariff Conference in October. In the meantime the situation does not seem to be improving much though the Cantonese embargo on shipping has not proved capable of enforcement. The Shanghai correspondent of the Morning Pact, in a message published on Tuesday, said that no progress was being made towards holding the Judicial Inquiry into the Shanghai riots. The Chinese Government refused to be repre- sented at the Inquiry, and most foreigners felt that without Chinese representation the inquiry would be useless. He added that the continued silence of the diplomats and also of the Shanghai Municipal Council was being criticized, but that the idea of sending out a special British Commissioner to China (which we men- tioned last week as having been proposed by Lord Gosford) was warmly welcomed by the business men of Shanghai.
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