London, Aug. 14.
With reference to recent reports un connection with the negotiations between China and Great Britain regarding extra-territoriality, Re ters Agency learns that the British Government is preparing draft proposals on the subject. Nothing is known in London about Chinese Jdraft proposals, nor about instruetions to Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister to China, to' pro-leeed to Nanking, although he obviously will go there if the negotiations reach a definite stage.
Reuter also learns that up to the present no decision has been reached regarding the removal'of the British Legation from Peking to Nanking Reutee, Mr. Yuen Liang, Secretary of the Chinese Legation' at Washington, declared to-day before the Institute of Politics that extraterritoriality in China should be abolished immediately.
The old treaties, he said, are antiquated and should be altered it favour of others recognizing China' national sovereignty.
Chinese law has been vastly modi fied from its older provisions, according to the Secretary, and it now follows modern Occidental pattern and fully complies with the requirements of foreign nations for the protection of their nationals United Press.
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