Washington, Sept, 21.
It has been suggested in high quarters here that an informal trilateral conference be held next month, in which Groat Britain, the United States and China should participate, to deal with matters rising out of the extraterritoriality question.
Nanking is named as the most suitable place for such a conference. It is felt that negotiations could be carried on there most profitably, since the actual problem is concentrated ix China and the necessary documents and other material to be dealt with would be most easily obtainable there.
In Chinese quarters the possibility was suggested that, should such a conference be held. Dr. Wu Chao-chu, Minister to the United States, might proceed to Nanking directly from Geneva, where he has been re-Presenting his government, instead returning to Washington.
This conference project and other announcements indicating the willingness of the Powers to resume discussion of the extraterritoriality problem are linked by impartial observers here with the recent military success of the Nanking Government.—United Press, Break-Down of the Negotiations Nanking, Sept, 22.
According to Chinese reports, Great Britain and China have failed to reach an agreement in the ne~ gotiations which have been taking place here regarding the abolition of extraterritoriality, It is believed that the British Governnient agreed that civil eases, in which British subjects were concerned, should be tried in Chinese courts on the understanding that such eases might be withdrawn if the British authorities considered the judgments to te untall As regards criminal cases, it Is stated that the British Government proposed that those in which British subjects were involved should be tried in the British courts in China for the next five years.
The British Government also desired that British subjects residing in Shanghai, Hankow, Tientsin and Canton or in territory within 50 Ti of these centres should continue to enjoy extraterritorial privileges.
The above, it is understood, were the chief points in the British proposals to which the National Government took exception and it was <n these points that the negotiations broke down, New proposals are now being drafted by the Chinese Foreign
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