FOREIGNERS IN (MA

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1927, Page 7

FOREIGNERS IN (MA

SHANGHAI COURTS CONTROL VIRTUAL HANDING OVER ■ APPREHENSION OF WHITES By Tekgrai«h—rs’ess Af»n.—CWyHgM. Peking, Jan. 2 The handing over of the Shanghai International Mixed Court to virtual Chinese control yesterday was an epochmaking change in Chinese 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. Foreigners readise that the ultimate handing over ,of the Court 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 great internal disorder. It is feared the Court will be used for political ends and that foreign litigants will enter it under a 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. (Foreigners are rapidly losing faith in the Ministers who are fast stripping their nationals of the few remaining means of protection, without which residence in China will become intolerable. MISSION ERS IN DANGER. • London, Jan. 2. Britain has advised missionaries to withdraw from the interior of the Kiangs! province, China, owing to the difficulty of protecting life.