0, de Kat Angelina (Netherlands); Inv, W, Moriya Gapanese); Me. A. Van Cutsen (Belgian); Dr.
Cheng, Me. 8, We Hsu, Mr. Wang Yungenien, Me, San and Mr. Yang (Chinese), Mr. Strawn (American) ind M, Toussaint (French) did not come With the party to Dairen.
Ta Harbin, there is great interest evinced aver" the coming of the On one hand, the delegates have bee shown newly whitewashed gaols and carefully arranged courts, stage-settings elaborately contrived for! [their edification by the Chinese in the naive hope that tive strangers clit thus be beguiled. The comners studied them gravely, eon [coaling courteously such chagrin a: they may have felt at the rather low] estimate of their intelligence evident ced by the belief that they might be taken in thus easily. "But," one of the delegates is said to have remark. led, "we are not such fools as that,' and, since then, the chief of the American delegates, Mr. Strawn, has told the Chinese frankly that! the ponderous and imposing codes which the Chinese jurists had worked out painstakingly for the occasion were all very well as literature, but hie failed to see how they had any bearing on the situation as long, tug the laws contained therein were Laws That Mean Nothing As this writer says, the delegates Ihave had plentiful evidence, during their stay in Peking, of how the Chinese fire under the administra. tion of their own laws. They have several editors summarily imprisoned without warrant or trial, thes: have seen at Toast one such seonsteman executed without sen fuer lo 6 by none upon Hussinns and non-Chinese that the Commission isa very represents and is not Hikely tg be all sentimental re tran ha sulla the/mvenbern of the Commie can aye mien 8 cestounteal for hele integrity, honesty" find general fuirsess of purpose, and Aelll not, in any degree, allow the solver 10 be carried away by allege lations und generalities. They are more Hikely to rely wr¢in their own Investigations than upon hearsay, und all present indications! are that while they are in Tarbin, the members of the Commission will be fouled with petitions, affidavits aad scotements by individuals. with their avn axes to grind, The Oppressed Russians Circumstances beyond their com trol have lone since affected the perspective and mental vision of Harbin Russians, Politieat sere, backs, misuse of authority om the! part of Chinese rulers, pratt in the police depiartaweat and severed other Factors have all contributed a share in the distortion of reason. Cons sequently, et a prominent news. paper mar, from Europe or America Come here on an investigation tour, and he would be flooded with "docu ordinary written statements made individuals who have since become 40 desperate that they would even. elvteh ata straw if they were pos-reesed of a feeling it would help them the least bil—or let w foreign Uficil pay a similar visit albeit unofficially, and he would experience the same thing.
All the consuls of the Powers that count will tell you that driving then tenure of office in Harbin they have been bombarded with petitions appeals and requests from Russians Tnostly on matters over whids they, the consuls, have no control Not only Russians but the Jews ax well, the namber of Jews in Martin ig net ut all inconsiderable,— been known to make such petitions, appeals and requests in respect of trievaress against the Chines. authorities. It is difficalt to draw the line where truth begins and imagination ends for white many these grievances are without founda. tion, there are, on the other hand, a large number of legitimate kick against the arbitrariness and incon-stendes of the Chinese authorities.
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There can be "no doubt, as one writer has so ably put it in the columns of the "Manchuria Daily News," but that the investigation of the commissioner has been of great benefit and that they will be able te furnish an illuminative report as to the degree to which conditions in China justify abandonment by. the Powers of extraterritorial rights.
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