The' following highly important article by Mr. Rodney' Gilbert demands. general attention. There sort of feeling in the it that ai the days of foreign extraterritorial rights in China are numbered, and this feeling has at least gone far enough and been echoed by. sufficiently influential people make it necessary to rouse the foreign community to a sense of the danger so that they may seo to it that no erroneous ideas and misrepresentations gain credence at Home.
It_is becoming very apparent in Peking that some Chinese person or group is furnishing the inspir tion for a strenuous propaganda campaign against extraterritorial jurisdiction. The subject is one which is ingeniously raised at all Sino-foreign dinners at which _returned students ave present. The President in his farewell audiences with all Chinese who go abroad, particularly with those bound for Geneva, impresses upon them that they must campaign in foreign lands for the abolition of the "humiliating" extraterritorial clauses in the treaties, and it is rumoured that even foreign employees of the Government are requested to lend their weight +10 the campaign.
Taar Moprs Covert Acary.
Recently the Chinese press has carried the story of a projected model court. which is to be established in Shanghai and which is to be so perfect that the—foreigners will hasten to abandon their traditional privileges and put themselves at the mercy of this beneficent institution, As nearly as can be learned no dits representations have been made to the Legations on this score, but it is very apparent to any-one familiar with the workings of the returned student's mind, that all this campaign is by way of initia i The foreign diplomat is being shown what the returned student regards as signs of the inevitability of the abolition of qxtraterritoriality, prior to the great assault upon the sentimentality and sympathies of our Home Governments.
again characteristic of the mind of the returned-student that while this propaganda is being carried gaily forward, the Chinese enthusiasts are utterly oblivious to the fact that in foreign eyes the little incidents in Urga and elsewhere are much surer signs that no nation: will feel warranted seriously discussing a revision the treaties which -secure us munity from Chinese. judicial control for several more decades.
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