No Need for Misgiving if It be Abolished: Happiress of Peoples Who Are Without It: Demand for Immediate Negotiation Nanking, Sept. 12.
The following is the rejoinder of the Chinese Government to Ameri: a's reply to China's note concerning the abolition of extraterritoriality:
Ministry for Foreign Afairs, Nanking} Sept. 5, 1929. Monsieur lo Ministre, have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's Note of August 10 in: which you fare good enough to submit to "me the views of your Government in regard to the request of the Chinese Government contained in my Note of April 27 for the removal of restrictions on Chinese jurisdictional authority. The Chinese Government pleased to be reminded by ti American Government that it has for some time past given constant and sympathetic consideration to the ational aspirations of the people: of China, and that it has repeatedly given concrete evidence of its desire: to promote the realization of those aspirations. The traditional friendship between China and America has not only common material Vasis, but is also deeply rooted in the idealism which is common to the Chinese and the American peoples. 'The "American people with their love of liberty, their zeal for justice, their desire to further the advance! of civilization and their sympathy. for the aspirations of nations. in' their spiritual rebirth, all of which reveal unmistakeably the noble attitude of the American mind, have von the admiration and lov of the Chinese people.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.