Two direct results of the conspiracy in which Tsao Jui is credited with being the directing genius are that the abolition of extra territoriality is now a joke and that further tariff increases will probably not even be considered. A foreign official who is highly placed, and who speaks with authority remarked yesterday that it was his opinion that the international tariff conference which was to thave convened in Peking three months after the ratification of the effective five per cent. tariff will probably never meet at all row. The Home governments, when the report of recent doings in Peking reaches them through the medium of disgusted repre sentatives here, will simply decide that China is not fit to administer an increased revenue and_ will forget about the conference.
For the same reason it is generally believed that there will be no commission sent here to study the Chinese courts and to discuss the possible abolition of extraterritorial jurisdiction. It will not be required. All the Home governments will have to do will be to read a summary of the Lo Wen-kan case. If they want anything more the Legations can readily supply them with translations of Mi. Liang Chi-chao's caustic but restrained analysis of that case and see how the President, the only, legal Parliament," the metropolitan police chiefs and several Cabinet Ministers were all guilty parties to a gross miscarriage of justice in which a Cabinet Minister was the victim. They will not have to ask which of these high functionaries was moyed by malice or by political considerations, and which acted illegally through stupidity or cowardice. The bald facts of the case are enough to convince any foreign Government that the Chinese cannot guarantee justice to their own people and that it would be absurd to expect justice from them for inconspicnous foreigners in the interior. For this consummation in the foreign official mind the Chinese interested in the abolition of extraterritoriality have to thank Tsao Jui and his colleagues,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.