The commission may at its d cretion permit any person or public body concerned with the ssu! Ject matter of the inquiry to appear before it either in person or by Tegal representatives and call and cross-examine witnesses. The findings of the commission should if possible be unanimous."
Then follows the.names of the Ministers concerned and the document winds up with a statement of the personnel of the inquiry by the American, British and Japanese Ministers, the American nominee being Judge Finlay Johnson, societe Justice of the U. 8. Supreme Court, Philippine Islands.
'King Press and: Powers'
Note Peking, Sept. 16.
As was to be expected, the Chinese press strongly criticizes the decision of the Powers to holt a judicial inquiry into the Shanghai affair, Editorial comment is almost unanimous in the view that the proposal was sponsored because the findings: of the Com=
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