Sioux County pioneer., 1921-12-01
OF
RIGHTS SYSTEM
0rientals Want Scheme Now in
Vogue, Entirely Aband.
0ned.
CHANGE IS POSTPONED
The American Delegation Has Strong
Support for the Chinese Request
China Uneasy About the
"open Door,"

Washington.-Abolit of extra ter
titoria rights in China, by which
various powers maintain their own
courts for trial of their own nationals,
was agreed to in principle today by
the powers represented in the Wash
tngton conference on Pacific and far
eastern affairs.
The Chinese delegation presented to
the committee statement strongly
urging the abolishment of the extra
territorial rights and sympathetic re-
sponses We're said to have been voiced
by the representatives of the other
powers.
Belief was generally expressed, how
ever, that the rights could not be
given UP Immediately, in view of con-
ditions in China, but that the aboli-
tion should come as promptly as COM
patible with the present situation and
progress of China.
Authorize Resolution.
The committee upon reaching the
general agreement authorized the ap-
pointment Of subcommittee headed
by Senator Lodge of the American
delegation to present the principle in
concrete form of resolution.
The subcommittee also will work
out the details Of the surrender by
the powers of their rights. This task
will include the consideration Of a
number of treaties and for that rea-
son, the time required for its accom-
plishment was problematical.
The Chinese request for abolition
of the extra territorial privileges held
by other nations was understood to
have had the strong support of the
American delegation. Secretary Hughes
| declared that the foreign courts should
be abolished as soon as China demon
strated her ability to administer JUS
tice fairly, to oil within her borders.
Chinese Are Disturbed.
The Chinese delegation is SO seri-
ously disturbed over British view of
the ''open door," given general circula-
ti0n, that they declare that they
would not dare go home, should such
an Interpretation become the approved
policy of the Washington conference.
There is no indication that they con-
template such an outcome, but as they
await more complete development
of, all the facts in the case, they are
manifestly greatly puzzled.
One official of the delegation said
that China was ready to refuse to sit
in the conference any longer if the
British view in question really turned
out to be the attitude of the powers.
But he accompanied the declaration
with an expression of confidence that
the British suggestion for consortium
and the pooling of operation Of the
railway concessions, did not represent
the policy of the United States nor
that Of other delegations generally,
toward China.
Will Ignore Statement.
| One Chinese official said his delega-
ton would officially have to ignore
the publication of the British view, as
it was not put forward within the
conference room. "But," he added, "if
the British proposal was made public
as move on the diplomatic chess
board and other maneuvers among
] delegations were being made outside
the conference, then not only would
the purpose Of the United States in
calling the conference be set at naught,
but the properties violated as we'll"
It would mean, he declared, that
China would not be getting even as
fair an opportunity as at Paris and
that the Chinese delegation might just