The Archive · 1930

SINO-BRITISH RELATIONS Renewal of Present Trealy Held Impossible

review of the polities! outlook in China, submitted to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce by Mr. Kuangeon Young (special commissioner in Europe of the Chinese Goverment), has just. been issued.

expresses the opinion that a renewal of the treaty on which rests Sino-British relations. and which will expire in two years, is plainly impossible.

Nationalist Chins, he says, while desirous of abolishing" extraterritoriality does mot desire abolition of foreign: legitimate interests in property tights and personal safety. He notes with satisfaction a decrease of a similar nature as provided by the law. The rebel leaders to whom reference is made in the preces paragraph include the following: the leader of the Canton rebellion on June 16, 1922 (Gen, Chen Chiung-ming), and the leaders who organized the illegal Peking Government on September 9, 1930 (of, whom Gen, Yen Hsi-shan was Oddurate Communists are those] who have failed voluntarily to surrender themselves to the Government authorities in accordance with the Government's regulations relating to the voluntary surrender of Con munists and traitors are those who have been convicted for high trend on, violating the provisional laws governing the punishment of counter-revolutionaries and other charges of a similar nature as provided by the law.

Political offenders who have been convicted on charges non-political in. nature will not be pardoned on the latter charges. Political offend-ere for whose arrests orders have

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