Hangchow, July 2.
Satisfactory trial runs on the newly completed railway line between Soo-how, on the Nanking-Shanghai Railway, and Kashing, on the Shanghal-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, were made yesterday. A regular' service will be inaugurated in the next fort-
Changchun. July 1.
Mr. Chang Yen-ching, Foreign Minister of Manchoukuo, to-day announced the Changchun Government's inten-Hon to abolish unilaterally extra territorial privileges enjoyed by nationals of various states now accorded such preferential treatment in China.
a statement issued on the occasion of the application of the treaty for the gradual rendition of Japanese extrallly rights in the new Empire, which was signed here on June 10, Mr, Chang declared that "it is selt-evident, in the light of international Taw and usage, that Manchoukuo, faving seceded from China, was not bound to assume such obligations a3 those imposed by the extra-territor-{ality system in China.
Therefore;" he continued, "there can be mo discrimination between the status of nationals resident in Manchoukuo of countries which. enjoy extra-territoriality and those which do not."
'The statement declared that the nationals of the first group have been treated in Manchoukuo as if they: enjoyed extrality rights, tut that such an act of favour' would be discontinued.
Mr. Chang set no date for the jpolition of the privileges but. abolition, he said, would be gradual.
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