Prior a to the Chinese Government's recent decision to permit the former Russian assessors in Manchuria to liquidate all pending Russian law suits, a committee; made up of representatives of the former Russian judiciary prepared for private circulation a pamphlet! upon the administration of justice to Russians in the Chinese courts. This document is endorsed by Russians whose authority is beyond question and its accuracy is vouched for by others of the Jighest! standing. This statement of actual conditions does not appear to have been prompted by either pique or prejudice, for some of what is re lated would seem to indicate that the Chinese judiciary, unprepared for the onerous task of taking over the Russian courts and of adminis tering Russian law, was trying to mako the best of a bad job in many instances, was attempting to administer justice according to Chinese lights and had failed on account of a hopeless lack of equipment and experience.
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