A. Valles, 3 local Spanish citizen, and was set for hearing In the First Special District "Court at 9 am, on March 8. When the hour for' the hearing arrived, the plaintiff, his counsel, the judge, and all the urf officials were there, but Mr. Valles was an absentee. The hearing, after a short discussion, was postponed to March 18.
Mr. Ngai 'Tehen-ling. of the law ofice of Int. Paul Primet, appeared plaintiffs counsel, and told the Court that his client' had brought the action against Mr. "Valles in accordance with the recent edict of the Ministry of Justice to the various courts, the Chinese Government hav-Ing decided to assume full jurisdieion, for the time being at least, over all Spanish citizens.
Spain has had no consular_or diplomatic representation in China since Senor Julio Larracoechea, acting Consul-General for Shanghai and concurrently Charge d'Affaires re-sigmad towards the and of last October. "Prior to this, Senor Justo Garrio y Gisneros, Spanish Minister to China for many years, and Senor Muniz, Secretary" of the Spanish Legation, both sent their resignations Madrid and offered their allegince to the insurgent junta at Burgos, 'A message from Madrid on October 1990, "said that Senor "Garrido Cisneros had "been removed from the rolls of the diplomatic corps, with the loss of alt diplomatic rights? Since then, no attempt hasbeen nade to secure Spanish consular or diplomatic representation in China.
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