Chinese Lawyers' Resolution The abrogation of the right of extraterritoriality granted to foreigners in China will be the resolution of the Chinese delegates at the Eastern Bar Conference to be held in Tokio from April 1 to 3. Delegates from China, India, Japan. Siam, Annam and Indo-China will attend.
China will send 29 delegates of whom four are appointed by the Central Government, while the remaining 25 represent the various Lar associations in the provinces. Shanghai has two delegates, but on account of the inability of Mr. Chen Chi-ming, who is serving as preident of the Associated Street Union, to go, Mr. Wang Chen-pan will be the only local representative. The four delegates from Peking are Messrs. Sun Shen-yn, Ling Shin-kwei, Tsdo Tsu-fang and Yan Delegates from Hunan, Fukien, Hupeh, Anhui, Kiangsi, Chekiang, Canton and Kiangsu were present in Shanghai yesterday and will leave for Japan_ this morning by the Kumano Maru, They were guests of Mr. Chen Chi-ming at tiffin at the Yih Ping Shang Hotel when a number of the local legal fraternity were also entertained.
The Chinese delegation will contend at the Tokio conference that as China granted the right of extraterritoriality because of her mabi to cope with western judicial institutions, she should now recover her rights when she is sufficiently used to western forms of justice. The delegates will point out that she resents the existence of—extraterritoriality and the Tindrance caused in international commerce by its existence.
Tt is understood that Japan will also introduce one resolution. It will be the introduction of a system of jury trial in all Asiatic countries.
The Tokio conference is the second one in the history of the Fast. The initial convention was held last year in Manila. The next conference will be held in Shanghai a year from now, A mysterious epidemic has broken out in several villages on the Pootung side. The illness lasts only a few hours, and according to Chinese reports, many deaths have taken place during the past 10 days.
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