Nov. 19.
The message from. Reuter's correspondent in Nanking which we printed yesterday, on China's attitude towards extraterritoriality is of great interest and importance. It bears the indefinable stamp of an official communication, as it probably is, intended to define for the first time the National Government's real policy. There have been repeated statements in the Chinese press for some months past that the Government meant-to declare extraterritoriality abolished at the end of this year, whether the Powers agreed or not; and this, Reuter adds, is the demand of the more extreme group. But, the correspondent goes on, "in view of the complications which may follow Such a.move, and of the friendly spirit adopted by the Powers towards this issue, there isa stronger possibility that a less drastic step will be taken by the
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