In the Provincial Assembly this week a long discussion occurred as to whether or not Hunan was making such adequate provision of model prisons and of suitable legal Procedure as to give hope that at an early date foreign consular, courts and related issues of the extraterritoriality might be abolished. Representative Ma said, in Presenting the matter before' the Assembly, "preparation is made in many parts of the land for the taking back of extraterritorial Privileges: from the foreign powers. we of Hunan claim provincial autonomy, but we have no model prison all. This handicap alone would make it impossible for Hunan ta recover her rights from the foreigner. we must therefore bring pressure on the provincial government to pro ceed at once both to build up the needed model prison and to institute the needed reforms in judicial Procedure, Thus, in every district
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