CHINESE TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1929, Page 5

CHINESE TROUBLE

CHINESE LOSSES. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] SHANGHAI, Dec, 28. The Mukden Government officially estimates that the Chinese losses in the Chinese-Soviet dispute totalled ten thousand killed, and Hie monetary loss is estimated as Ireing equivalent to ten millions sterling. 'These figures represent the dfleetly ascertainable losses. It is believed in Manchuria that the losses were many times more indirectly. CHINESE MANDATE. AFFECTING FOR El ONERS. • (Received this day at noon.) SHANGHAI. December 29. Nanking Government’s promised official mandate on the abolition of extra territorially has been released through Karwin Official News Agency, bearing the stamp of the State Council. The text is as follows:—“Experts for more than eighty years have been bound to a system of extra territoriality, preventing the Chinese Government from exercising judicial power over foreigners in its territory creating defects and disadvantages which were unnecessary to the State. Until extraterritoriality is abolished China will be unable to exercise full sovereignity. Therefore for the purpose of restoring her inherent jurisdictional sovereignty, it is hereby decided and declared that on and after January Ist 1930, which is the first day o*f the first month of the nineteenth year of the Republic, all foreign national in Chinese territory now enjoying the extra-territor-ials privileges shall abide by laws, ordenances and regulations duly promulgated by the Central and local Government in Chinn.”