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closure No. 3.

Spanish Consulate.

Shanghai,

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29th April, 1922.

Sir and dear Colleague,

I must again call your attention and that of the

Consular body to the attempted interference with the jurisdiction and rights of this consulate, and all other

consulates as well, by ar. Blackburn, the British Assessor,

at the Mixed Court, who has acted in a very high handed and

presumptuous manner by refusing to recognise the paramount

authority of this consulate over persons bearing its certifi-

cate of registration.

If there is to be any rulings on the question of

jurisdiction in the cases of persons registered in this

consulate this consulate alone will make the rulings and shall

It is not act in co-operation with the Consular Body.

within the province of an Assessor of any nationality to deal with questions of this nature, which are distinctly beyond

the scope of his authority.

The British Assessor has not the mission of

examining the competency of the consuls before the Mixed Court neither to interpret the ends of the international

Treaties with China regarding the protection clause.

Those

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who say that the protege tries to elude justice have a very

little common sense or a mistaken pretence of moral. Foreign

Tribunals do not exempt the culprit of responsibilities and

Juander G. de' Rossi,

Consul-General for Italy

and senior Consul,

Changhai.

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