In his speech during the weekly memorial service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this morning, Dr.
Wang, Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared that some progress. has been made in relation to China's demand for the abolition of extraterritoriality, The Foreign Minister deplored that "certain groups of pol have failed to accord the National Government their fall ce-operation jand have suffered from lack of far-sightedness and full understanding of the Chinese situation.
Continuing, the Foreign Minister said that since he came into office in June, 1928, at one of the most difficult times in China's diplomacy, he had been striving to carry the will of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the programme of the Kuomintang. to lift China to the plane of interna-ister expressed the hope that the abolition of extraterritoriality would be achieved by the end of this year. When that was accomplished, he said, he would consider his principal task completed and would resign his post. In the event of China's failure to regain her jurisdictional sovereignty over: foreign nationals resident in this country, he continued, he would take it to mean the failure of his own task and would, therefore, be constrained to let 'a better and abler Person succeed him.
Dr. Wang also voiced his deep regret over the death of Mr. Sadao Saburi, the late Japanese Minister to China. The untimely demise of Mr. Saburi, according to the Minister, would probably delay the: opening of negotiations for the ro-vision of the which were originally due to begin some time this month—Reuter,
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