Intensive Campaign Conducted by Chinese Bodies The abolition of consular jurisdic.
been the subject of con-Chinese ce of the paign to urge the people to rise and fight for China's judi ndenee, it learned, a meeting is to be held Ly the Kuomintang in a couple of days to discuss the matter further.
Gen. Chang Chun, Mayor of ter Shanghai, stated in the course of an interview with th vernacular press, that the proposal to abolish consular jurisdiction was but one scheme in the programme to take back China's sovereign rights which had been grabbed by the foreign Powers by force. Consulac Jurisdiction, he said, must Abolished' unconditionally: the Chinese people would never consent to any other arrangement. Tt was ell oF nothing.
The local British, "American, Iapanese and French " Chambers-of Commerce are said by the Chinese newspapers to have telegraphed to their respective governments opposing the Chinese demand and asking that it should be rejected. Hearing of this, the National Associated Chambers of Commerce of China have wited to the Congress of the International Chamber, now sitting in Amsterdam, asking them to veto the foreign recommendation and to act in accordance with the desires tf the Chinese people.
The Disturbance of Peace In this connection, the. Chinese Ratepayers Association have ad-Greased a telegram to. the Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying among the many unequal treaties, those: relating, to. consular jurisdic tion are responsible for the disturbances of peace and order in China,. whilst to the. tariff treaties the gradual exhaustion of Chinas economic resources is due. The People throughout the country, the telegram says, are greatly pleased over the fact that China's economic condition is gradually returning to normal state and they say that this is due to the enforcement of tariff autonomy brought about by the efforts of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. 'The people are now feere than pleased to learn that tha Foreign Minister is about to open negotiations with the various foreign, Powers concerned Yor the abolition consular jurisdiction. But, the writers say, the majority of foreig' merchants do not know the difference' between right and wrong, 120 they have resorted to the practice of raising unreasonable objec Ching's reform movement, Tt was for this reason, the telegram adds, that Mr. Wang Heiao-lan, chairman of the Chapel C} explained, in 0 the visiting American journalists at a tiffin given at the China United Assurance Sotiety's Winter Garden on Wednes-ay, how consular jurisdiction had been an obstacle to the development fund progress of Sino-foreign trad fu conclusion, ghe telegram requ the Foreign Minister to take drastic action in this matter and to declare the end of consular jurisdiction on Ganoary 1, 1930, and to issue a Yormal declaration that no judicial protection will be accorded Zoreign: G's who continue to oppose the abolition of consular jurisdiction after that date,
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