Simultaneously British snd American assurances must be given that all truly local aims and objects of the Japanese community will be given the most esrnest and sincere Consideration. Given such mutual assurances among the several com-nunnifies there is then no need for ihe "technicality" of the Land Regulations to stand in the way of Lecessiry reforms in the municipal administration. That technicality, fundamentally, is that there shall, by our local acts, be no further abridgement of the degree of Chinese sovereignty in respect of the Settlement which the letter of that ancient charter acknowledges and signifies. The essential of the preservation of China's sovereignty is fundamental to what is urged here. China is sover-ign of the Settlement soil. Furthermore, ultimately in municipal affairs, too, the sovereignty of China in the Settlement is unquestioned.
Judge Feetham was unequivocal in that insistence. For the time being. however, and consistent with the fundamental policy here urged of the exclusion of any national governmental direction of local affairs, posi can or should be made el Chungking or to Nanking to abridge the Land Regulations.
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