This is one of the slogans Young China! On their lips it nothing more than a slogan and a meaningless slogan at that! Not one in the thofands of the Chinese who prate so glibly about the unequal treaties know anything about China's treaties with foreign ce tries. Not one of them has ever read a single one of those treaties which they so glibly dub as unequal.
There is not a single student who 80 glibly parrots the Red Russian ry of "extraterritoriality abolition":
rho has ever read a single clause of the treaty of Nipchu (Nerchinsk) signed in 1639, If they had yead it they would not so willingly play the tune of their Red taskmasters, for behind that tune there is no love for China; only an attempt to make use of the unthinking end of China for Red Russian purposes, Young Nationalist China has got hold of, ed wherein lies the inequality, has ever been able to point out the equality, their invariable reply ing that they have been told that the treaties are unequal and therefore they must be unequal. Could anything be so childish upon which to build up a political slogan, sine it only holds up to ridicule and contempt, for their colossal ignor-nee, those who use the slogan Those" sane so-called unequal treaties debarred foreign nationals the wrong end of the Russian mus privileges la. China which fal use ith te tort Cha ie pre [6,2 STaoes the wrong: tune, tu fect duces" the wrong tune, in fact 1 thee nations." mem China which Cansequenty es of if Geafening young China itself to all reason.
The first instance of extra te toriality may be found in Article VI of the treaty of Nipchu:—"If hereafter "riy of the subjects of either nation pass the frontier and commit crimes of.0r life, they are at once to be ar-"ested and sent to the frontier of their own country, and handed over to the chief local authority, who inflict on them the death penalty as punishment for their crimes.'
This it will be seen: corresponds to the handing over of foreigners to, "the nearest local authority. nauiely ARS ney or "eathaternitora™ Gwn Consul and, emphasis there is any kick in regard to the inequality in those treaties, yet equality of the treaties it should surely come from the foreigners who have been treated on a basis of inequality in those treaties, yet the foreigners thus differentiated against hat seldom raised a protest against this invidious treatment, but they accepted the acts of their governments as binding upon the citizens. It, therefore, comes badly from China to be the' first "and loudest protestor concerning th equality of treaties when the Chinese government of the day. de-Tiberately" made: things © unequal ju" their "disparaging treatment. lof foreigners. The following "tk
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