TROUBLE IN CHINA

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1927, Page 2

TROUBLE IN CHINA

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] ENTREAIISTS GAINING POWER. PIyKIN, Jan. 2. The rendition of Shanghai’s International Mixed Court to virtual Chinese control yesterday was an epochmaking change in Chino-foreign lehxlions, "and is regarded by foreigners with concern as amounting to a wedge thrust nr the abolition of extra territorial rights, and yet another Chinese diplomatic victory over the Powers. Foreigners realise that ultimate rendition is inevitable, believing China is entitled to govern her own Nationals. but they decry the Powers granting this while the country is convulsed in great internal disorder. It is feared that the Court was used for political ends. Foreign litigants outer it under prejudice front -the beginning. Further, it is not believed that the Chinese extremists will rest until the Mixed Court controls nil foreigners, which is hut a- step towards the control of foreign concessions. Foreigners are rapidly losing faith in the Ministers, who are fast stripping the Nationals of their few remaining means of protection, without which residence in China would become intolerable. AUSSIONAIRIES WARNED. LONDON. Jan. 2. Britain inis advised missionaries to withdraw from the interior of the Kiatigsi Province, China, owing to the difficulty of protecting life.