Won't Recognize China Yet.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 8, 1913:
England Will Wait — Mexico Is About to Follow Our Example.
    LONDON, Tuesday, April 8.— Great Britain has no intention of following the lead of Washington in recognizing the Republic of China, according to a statement made in the House of Commons yesterday by Francis Dyke Acland, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, speaking on behalf of the Foreign Office.
    The British Government at the time of the establishment of the present administration in China exchanged views with the Governments of the other powers regarding recognition, said Mr. Acland, and it was agreed that the powers should act in concert and that the recognition of the republic should be conditional on the formal confirmation by the republic of the rights resulting from treaties and established usage enjoyed by the powers' subjects. The British Government, he concluded, still adheres to these views.
    The Peking correspondent of The Daily Telegraph says that Mexico will join the United States to-morrow in recognizing the Chinese Republic. He adds that the American Legation has received no official instructions as to what procedure to adopt.
    The correspondent understands that the decision of Tuan Shi-Kai not to open the Parliament in person is due to the fact that the American and French Legations, in reply to inquiries, informed him that their countries did not follow such procedure.