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We have written elsewhere of the good news that a

British Treaty with the Chinese Government has been signed at Nanking giving China tariff autonomy. There has been a shower of Treaties between China and the Foreign Powers during the past three weeks, and Mr. C. T. Wang, the Foreign Minister, must have worked overtime. Nearly all the Treaties contain most-favoured- nation concessions of some sort. These concessions could not have been obtained without consultation among the Powers themselves if the united front, as for at the Washington Conference, had not been broken by America. ,LaSt July America negotiated a Treaty. with a most-favoured-nation clause before the other Powers knew anything of it.

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