Courtries Which Have and Have} a with Dr. note to th United States with regard to'extraterritoriality, he makes his plea on the basis of friendship. It is very dificult to test such an imponderable thing as friendship, which after all in the realm of' philosophy; but {for the purposes of practical polities, the test of friendship is trade, as the foreigners come to this country principally to trade, From. thet standpoint, itis interesting to judge whether those nations " enjoying extraterritorial privileges in-China do not also enjoy a greater friend ship than those: Who have lost traterritoriality, "The following figures are taken from the 1028 Customs returns. In" each case, where parts of a national unit. are noted separately, they are here combined, In the ease of the British Empire, Hongkong is included, but even accepting the Chinese. objection to such an inclusion in the total, the final figure would not be very Four countries enjoying extrater-
Great Britain japan, Vatea states of America Total 1,708,142,005
Which is more than 75 per cent. of the whole foreign trade, which in 1928 amounted' to Hk. Taels Four Countries which do not enjoy extraterritorial Germany Germany tarkey, Persia, Exybly Aden, eter PY 54267,000 ausitian" Hingary and Total 291,770,053 Or approximately 10 per cent, of the total,
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