FOREIGNERS IN CHINA

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 858, 30 December 1929, Page 9

FOREIGNERS IN CHINA

MUST OBEY COUNTRY’S OWN LAWS PRIVILEGES WITHDRAWN Reed. 10.30 a.m. SHANGHAI, Sunday. The Nanking Government’s promised offlcial mandate on abolition cff extraterritoriality has been released through the Komuia official news agency, bearing the stamp of the State Council. The text is as follows: “Ex parte, for more than 80 years, China has been bound to a system of extraterritoriality, preventing the Chinese Government from exercising judicial power over foreigners in its territory, and creating defects and disadvantages which it is unnecessary to state. Until extraterritoriality is abolished, China will be unable to exercise full sovereignty. Therefore, for the purpose of restoring her inherent jurisdictional sovereignty, it is hereby decided and declared that on and after January 1, 1930, which is the first day of the first month of the nineteenth year of the Republic, all foreign nationals in Chinese territory now enjoying extraterritorial privileges shall abide by the laws, ordinances, and regulations duly promulgated by the central and local governments in China.” RIGHTS OF AMERICANS STRINGENT PROTECTION MEASURES WASHINGTON, Saturday. It is announced by the State Department that the Government of the United States will take stringent measures to protect the rights of its subjects in China, if there is jmy infringement of their privileges under the present extraterritorial provisions of the treaty with America.