Peking, Jan, 7
Interviewed to-day by a representative of the Eastern News Agency, Mr. Silas Strawn, the! American delegate to the Tariff Con. Yerence, said in part:—
"The date of the opening of the extraterritoriality conference ha: been fixed for the 11th instant. The delegates of the Powers concerned in this connexion need to make practical investigations into this country such as Poking, Mukden, Tientsin, Shanghs king, Hankow, along the reports to be submitted by foreign consuls resident in these places with a view to bringing about better results.
Necessity to Investigate Judicial System it is the Chinese people that suffer most from it,"—Eastern News Agency.
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