While we have been watching the Salt service tie itself into a Gordian knot with all due patience, other equally difficult situations have beer arising. In spite of a determination fon the part of the Powers to give Chit ration for the abolition of extraterritoriality the most len-lent and indulgent consideration possible, officials and people have made such as amazing show of thole capacity to give themselves peace, Jcomfort or justice during the pas six months that no Power could even [consider an amendment to the presen* extraterritorial system unless it were prepared at the same time to order its nationals to leave the country. The treatment of missionaries in South China and of Russians in Manchuria have been sufficient in themselves to convince the—most casual observer that, under Chinese jurisdiction. foreigners in this! country would live always in the' same state of object terror and, misery as the natives in so many parts of the country or, if they took care of themselves, would be reduced 1|to the states of ieslated outlaw communities, ever on the defensive against imposition and persecution, like the Red Spear communities in ithe bandit areas of Shantung and Honan.
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