On July 1 the treaty for the partial abolition for Japanese extraterritorial rights together with the various laws and regulations which have since been enacted to implement the original agreement of June 10, became effective, 'Since the Manchoukuo Jaws' do not apply residents of the South Railway Zone, until Manchoukuo arranges to take over the Japanese police and courts, Japan has enacted certain temporary laws in order to equalize in part, the tax, burdens on Japanese" within and without the Zone, Under these 1 ulations the Japanese Government will collect in the Zone taxes equivalent to taxes charged by Manchoukuo, Figures issued last year indicate that about one-thousandth of the total population of this country are for-feigners other than Japanese, one-thirtieth of this number 'a Jecls or citizens of countries which enjoy extraterritorial rights,.—The} number of countries is. Usted Afteen. The British Empire tops the list with 470 subjects in Manchoukuo, and 14 in the S.MAR, Zone, Ameried follows with 212" scattered through the country and 21 in the zon France lists 187 outside of the Zone fand 3 in that area, Denmark reports 14; seven more countries have less than 50 each, and four countries had none of their nationals residing in this country when the count was made last November, and absurdly sensational style in Which these normal trips have been hailed in the local press cannot but give one to think, The principle is fairly well established, that when one party constantly insinuates, or accuses that others intend certain actions or entertain certain habits of thought, the accuser's conduct along these same ines is at least open to question, Thus when any group of officials assume that every amateur photographer, every person with a slightest Ability for sketching or drawing, is necessarily an international spy with definite commission of sinister intent, they may not succeed in unearthing any of the heinous plots, which existed only in their own fertile imaginations, but they do a certain service to others by clearly pointing out the channels in which their minds run and indicating to their neighbour that it would be wise to keep @ watchful eyo on the activi-les of fellow-subjects of such acusing officers.
The local press has not hesitated to bring the most amusing accusations against foreign banks, whom they insisted operated not one but many They accused "A centre of Usually such grotesquely Inaccurate reports appear {in the Japanese and Russian editions. Those in charge of publicity in English 'OF more discreet.
'At the time of the founding of this country, communications were addressed' to all of the countries who maintained consular establishments, and over fifty other nations defining the foreign policy of the new State, Briefly they claimed all rights which China had and assumed China' Viabilities in so far as they had ference 10 this region, The statement was volunteered that Manchoukuo would respect the rights enjoyed by foreign countries by virtue of treaties with the Republic of China,
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