Safeguards as Much Needed as Ever Till China Sets Her House in Order New York, Nov. 9. situation in says:
"About, the rights' and special privileges' of foreigners in China there has been much misinformation assiduously spread abroad. Under existing treaties the special status of foreigners may be classed under four general heads: the privilege of extraterritoriality, which makes them subject to their own courts rather than to Chinese courts: the right to administer and police small areas in the principal treaty porta! set aside as foreign concessions'; the vight to maintain guards at the! Legation quarter in Peking, and send naval vessels into the ports and rivers in times of stress if foreign lives are in danger; the right to trade in certain portions of the 3 and to send foreign missions and establish schools for Chinese, Because by treaty agreement with the principal Powers Ching cannot increase her Customs tariff beyond 5 per cent., the Chinese have sought to persuade the world that their finances are controlled by foreigners, and have implied that money from the Customs has been illegally diverted by the foreigners for their own use, "That some of the treaties grant~ ing these and other similar concessions ure antiquated has been re-agnized by all concerned. But the world has forgotten that for many of these special rights' there ya: special reason, and that this reason was and still is the inability of Chinese to keep their own house in order. Were China developed, politically, as far as the States of Europe, the necessity for special concessions to foreigners would not 'As Mr, Silas H. Strawn, the: 'Commissioner to' the ference, recently pointed out, China's greatest difficulties are
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