New-York tribune., 1921-11-26
Conference Members Ex-
press ssSympathy'' for
Republics Desire to
Regulate Own Affairs
Committee to Act
On New Demands
Decides ON Inquiry Into
Conditions Complained
Of as an Initial Step
BY Thomas Steep

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-Momen-
tous precedents were set by the con-
ference committee on Pacific and Far
Eastern questions to-day looking
toward the restoration of China's
sovereignty. Two proposals presented
by the Chinese delegates for the re-
moval of foreign control which China
considers an infringement of her ad-
ministrative autonomy were received
with sympathy" by all the powers,
including Japan.
Next to foreign control Of her Gus
toms, DR.. Wang Chung Hui, chief
justice of the Supreme Court of
China, declared the most serious OBJ
stacle to China's recovery from bank
ruptcy and revolutionary chaos is the
exercise by the powers of what is
known as extraterritoriality by which
foreign laws in given areas are SUBJ
stituted for Chinese laws He asked
that the system be abolished and that
the Chinese judiciary be extended
throughout the republic without hin
drance.
The committee is expected to-mor-
row to vote to send commission of
jurists to China to investigate and re-
port to the governments represented
at the conference on the advisability
of granting the request of the Chinese.
Senator Lodge is chairman Of the sub
committee which will frame the resolu-
tion.
DR. Wellington Koo, of the Chinese
delegation to the conference, declared
to-day he planned to bring the Shan
tung question and the "twenty-one de-
mands" treaty before the Far Eastern
Committee at an early date DR.. Koo
said China would ask for complete
abrogation of the treaty and the un-
conditional return Of Shantung.
Postal Control Requested
DR.. Alfred SEE, the Chinese Minister,
proposed at to-day's session that for
eign postal systems in China be abol-
ished. He held not only that the in
vasion Of foreign postal systems con-
stitute violation Of China's territorial
integrity, but that the existence of
postoffices under foreign flags are not
DdoSu Ou any treaty Or OCHeT legal
rights. He said that Japan now main
tains in China 1874 postoffices, France
thirteen, Great Britain twelve and the
United States one.
Particular antipathy is felt by the
Chinese against the Japanese system,
it was charged, because Japanese mer-
chants use the mails throughout Man
churia and the treaty ports for the dis
tribution of morphine, cocaine and
opium designed to degenerate the Chi
nese Inhabitants and to weaken their
resistance to foreign control.
Both proposals were discussed at
length before the Pacific and Far East
ern committee. When it was officially
announced that they had been referred
to subcommittee for the purpose Of
working out practicable plans it was
indicated that both of the Chinese de-
mands, which are considered vital ele-
ments in the solution Of China's prob
lens, had been received sympathetic
cally. On the part of the United
States, it was said, no objection would
be offered to giving China the fullest
and most unhampered opportunity for
self-development. Significance was at
tached to Japan's attitude. Masanao
Hanihara, Japanese Vice Minister of
Foreign Affairs, asserted Japan would
heartily support any plan which sought
the elimination of foreign postoffices
and extraterritoriality.
Japan, perhaps more than any other
nation, sympathizes with China in this
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