On Thursday, says s Chinese local contemporary, the Prince Regent inquired of the Grand Council whether, inasmuch as a new code of laws had een prepared and the trial system is to be remodelled in Chins, the question of abolition of extraterritoriality might not be brought up at the next sess of the Hague Conference. The Gra Councillors replied that they must telegraph to H. E. Lu Tseng-belong, Minister in the Netherlands, and ask him to report on the subject.
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