RENUNCIATION BY N.Z.

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 5

RENUNCIATION BY N.Z.

EXISTING RIGHTS IN CHINA,

P.A.

WELLINGTON, Oct. 10.

"In tlie relations oi the outside v/orld with China, there still remaincertain anomalies and differentiations in treatment which are unjust to China and I am sure will be removed. In particular I refer to thoss rights of extraterritoriality under which for a long period past, a number of foreign nations have retained certain rights in China, including the power to administer justice among their nationals in China independently of the Chinese Government and the Chinese Courts," stated the Prime Mfnister, Mr Fraser, at a gathering of the Chinese community in celebration of Chinese Independence Day this afternoon. "As far as New Zealand is concerned, I take* the opportunity, on China's National Day, of affirm'ing that we desire no rights in China other than those freely accorded to us by the Chinese Government, under its distinguished leader, Chiang Kai-shek, as equal partners in thegreat enterprise in which we are joined together, with all tlie United Nations, to preserve freedom and justice in the Pacific and throughout the world, and that for our part we are in agreement with any step to be taken by the United Nations con - cerned, to renounee all rights in /)hina, howsoever acquired, which are not in accordance with these principles, and the full status of the Republic as a full sovereign State."