And that was all—for although the general was plied with questions by Ingulsitive, correspondents, he managed very skilfully to avoid giving any direct answer to uny of them. Gen. Kita would appear to have a delicate sense of humour, for he got out of some of the more awkward questions by saying that they were a matter Jsolely for the Chinese government of whose intentions he was uninformed. Such important points therefore, as the date when the real government wilt be formed, what form it will take; whether it'will be given de recognition by the Japanese government, what extent of territory It will inelude—all these remain unanswer-
'Having enlightened us to this extent, the general handed us over to hig assistant, Col, Nemoto, who pro ceeded to give us a lecture on. the virtues, principles and objects of the New People's Party, the so-called Hsin Min Hui 'The' gallant colonel' appears to be a deep student things Chinese, for he was able fell us things about China that one had never heard before. The Chinese, 50 he said, had had a political system for over 2,000 years, a system quite peculiar to themselves. Tt was Rolther monarchical—the poor inter-prefer had some difficulty over this awkward word—nor was it republican.
Though what the colonel actually said it was the interpreter could not 2 Hankow, Jan. 6.
The Chinese Foreign Office has requested the British, "French and American Governments to take prompt measures to prevent the en-foreement of the Shanghai Municipal Council's proclamation of January 1—Issued as the result of numerous armoulrages_in the International Settiement—gWving the police eme [gency powers. The request 1s confined in an identical memorandum sent to the three Governments today.
'The Foreign OMce strongly objects the provision in the proclamation making offenders against armed forces in the Settlement lable to be handed lover to the forces "This feasure, the memorandum de-Jclares, cannot' be recognized by the Chinese Government. "since it con-fiots with the existing legal and administrative, system of the Settle:
The Chinese Government, the document adds, reserves all the rights it possesses within the Settlement, and Would regard as illegal the delivery to foreign armed forces of any person over whom the Chinese law courts should exercise jurisdiction—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.