New Minister's Reservations on Extraterritoriality Tokyo, Dec, 11.
The formal appointment of Mr. Torikichi Obata as Japanese Minister to China may be expected at the Cabinet conference on Decem-
Minister China from 1918 to 1922 and he feels that he needs preparatory study, ow.
when years' absence from China. Therefore, negotiations for the new commercial treaty between China and Japan are likely to be delayed.
Discussing his appointment wi representatives of the press, to-day, Mr. Obata expressed full sympathy with the principle of the abolition of extraterritoriality for China but recalled that Japan was faced wita the problem of the protection of 300,000 nationals in a country which, he said, was still lacking admin unity or judicial independ fence; hence they must "go slow. He said that it would be better China to seek the establishment of conditions permitting the relinquish! ment of extraterritoriality than attempt its abrupt—abolition.—Reuter.
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