ficial - Announcement that Agreement is Reached Nanking, Jan, 21. t is reliably Learned that the agreement relative to the rgunization of the Shanghai visional Court is now under-ug final revision in regard to ails, the general principles of cial administration to be exered by the National Government the Shanghai International tlement having been agreed upon ween the Chinese and: foreign three meetings of the foreign 1 Chinese delegates were held relay for the purpose of going the entire text of the agree-ut which will be signed this Dr. C, T. Wang, "Minister of reign Affairs, who was to have urned from Shanghai to-day, is ted to' have decided to remain wre for a few days in order to tinue his negotiations with Sir los Lampson, British Minister—0 Min, Nanking, Jan, 24.
Dr. C. T. Wang, Minister for reign Affairs, officially announced is morning that an agreement d been reached regarding the eposed reorganization of. the anghai Provisional~Court.
While the text of the agreement not been made public it is wined from reliable sources that proposed agreement will be good a period of three years and that includes ten articles. According the agreement, the new court will known as the District Court and I be under the direct control of Judicial Yuan of the National ernment. It is stated that the puty-judge system will be abolish-'The Shanghai Municipal Coun-however, may be represented by reign lawyers at trials, if the neil so desires.
It has net been definitely decided nether or not the procurator stem will be maintained, as this gestion has been the subject of a ry heated debate among the deletes representing the National vernment and the Powers. The tention house attactied to the urf will be under the direction of e court, The delegates representing the wers have reported the details of agreement to their respective gations for instructions.—Upon proval by their Legations, the treement. wil ill be signed. The full tails of the agreement will be on Monday morning, 10 o'clock, when Dr.
Chung-hui, Chairman of the ieial Yuan, will deliver. an address on the Shanghai Provisional Gourt case at the broadcasting station of the Central Kuomintang.
Nanking, Jan. 27.
Reorganization of the Shanghai Provisional Court will be started on February 1, although the agreement governing its reorganization will Met be signed before then, according to President Wang Chung-hui of the Judicial Yuan in an interview with press' representatives.
The Ministry of Judicial Administration ist understood to have ready issued instructions to President Hsu Wei-chen of the Provisional Court to complete all necessary' arrangements for the proposed ¥e-organization.
Tt is reported that a number of Jchanges in the personnel of the. Court is also contemplated and that, pending conclusion of the reor~ ganization, appointment of all judges of the Court and other important stof? members will be confirmed by the Ministry of Judicial Adpinistration under" instructions:|from the Judicial Yuan—Kuo Min.
The Foreign Lawyer Little light could be thrown on ie above telegrams at the Pro-Visional Court, The President, Judge Hau was absent in Nanking thd in his stead Judge Woo said that no official communication bearing on the Court had been received from Nanking along the lines as given' above.
Judge Woo had heard indirectly that a settlement had been reached similar to that contained in our telegram and that on.the question of participation of foreign lawyers it was decided that they were to have full rights similar to Chinese lawyers on the proviso that they should register and be approved by the Ministry of Justice at Nanking. This would mean complying with the full Chinese regulations which Chinese lawyers have to pass and with that accomplished there would be no further stipulations.
Tt is understood that the agreement is unlikely to be signed immediately, one reason being the absence of several plenipotentiaries of the Powers.
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