FOREIGNERS IN CHINA.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18890, 4 January 1927, Page 9

FOREIGNERS IN CHINA.

GROWING ALARM.

CONCESSIONS BELIEVED TO BE IN DANGER.

(b7 cable—press association—copybight.) (Stdhet "Suit" Service.)

PEKING, January 2.

The transfer of Shanghai's international mixed Court to virtual Chinese control yesterday was an epochmaking change in the relations between China and the Powers, and is regarded by foreigners with concern, as amounting to a wedge-thrust for the abolition of extra-territorial rights, and yet another Chinese diplomatic victory over the Powors.

Foreigners realise that the ultimate transfer is inevitable, believing that China is entitled to govern her own nationals, but they criticise the Powers for granting this while the country is convulsed in great internal disorder. It is feared that the Court will be used for political ends, and that foreign litigants will enter it under prejudice from the beginning. Further, it is not believed that the Chinese extremists will rest until the mixed Court controls all foreigners, which is but a step towards control of foreign concessions. Foreigners are j rapidly losing faith iu their Ministers, who are fast stripping their nationals of the few remaining means of protection, without which residence in China will become intolerable. Great. Britain has advised missionaries to withdraw from the interior of. the Kiangsi province, in China, owing * to the difficulty of protecting life.