Hankow, Sept. 25.
"pxtratertitoriality should now be a thing of the past, Its continued existence is morely a hind-vance to mutual understanding and friendly relations between the Chinese and foreigners," declared Gon. Liu Shih, Commander of the Nationalist Armies in Wuhan, in a speech Inst night at a dinter given to leading foreign Consular and other officials and residents of the port. Gen. Liu Shih, who is in command of all the Nationalist Armies in Wuhan and is holding a dozen other high posts the Government and Party including membership of the Central Executive Committee, the leading man in Central China to-day and is one of the principal military leaders of Nationalist China, Gen, Liv explained" why the: Nanking Government had demand the abrogation of extra rights, declaring that the present system is doing more harm than good to the foreign nationals, in view of the change of conditions and ideas of the Chinese peop! The Chinese, he said, hate Consular jurisdiction, because it is the greatest obstacle to their national development and progress, added:—
Freedom and Equality:
"The Chinese are secking freedom and equality. Guided by the principle of Nationalism as laid down by our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, we are striving to build up anew China and a new Chinese race, We are revolutionary, but we are not anti-foreign. (Antiforeignism has no place in our spiral id we can assure our foreign friends that China looking to them for ce-operation
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