CHINESE SITUATION

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 29, 3 January 1927, Page 8

CHINESE SITUATION

SECOND EDITION

EPOCH-MAKING CHANGE. VICTORY POWERS. CONTROL OF INTERNATIONAL COURT. Received January 3, 10.55 a.m. PEKIN, Jan. 2. The rendition of Shanghai’s international mixed Court, to virtual Chinese control, yesterday, was an epoch-making change in China’s foreign relations and is regarded by foreigners with concern, as amounting to a wedge thrust for the abolition of extra territorial rights and yet another Chinese diplomatic victory over the Powers.

Tlie foreigners realise that ultimate rendition is inevitable, believing that China is entitled to govern her own nationals, but they decry the Powers granting this while the country is convulsed in a great internal disorder. It is feared that the Court is used for political ends. Foreign litigants enter it under prejudice from the beginning. Further, it is not believed that the Chinese extremists will rest until the mixed court controls all foreigners, which is but a step towards the control of the foreign concessions.

The foreigners are rapidly losing faith in the Ministers, who are fast stripping the nationals of the few remaining means of protection, without which residence in China will become intolerable.—A. and N.Z. cable.

KIANGSI MISSIONARIES. '

ADVICE TO LEAVE.

Received January 3, 1.5 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 2,

Britain has advised the missionaries to withdraw from the interior of Kiangsi, .a province of China, owing to the difficulty of protecting life.— A. and N.Z. cable.