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results.

In other words, the recommendations of tho Commis-

gion should be framed in such a way that, whatever the administrative stages by which the surrender of exterritorial jurisdiction is to be completed, the surrender should be com pleted progressively as regards the three classes of case judicated. So long as foreign jurisdiction is even partially retained in civil cases it should be wholly retained in criminal cases; and so long as it is even partially retained in criminal cases it should be wholly retained in personal status cases.

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Features of the present system of Extra- territoriality of which the modifica- tion mood not necessarily be made də- pendent on ection on the part of the Chinese.

It may be expected that the Chinese representative on the Commission will urge that the Commission should investigate certain matters which constitute grievances in the eyes of Chinese opinion, and which, although th y do not directly come under the head of jurisdictional privileges, arise out of those privileges or are otherwise intimately con- nected with them. The British Commissioner 'a general attitude in such matters will be determined by the instructions con-

tained in the Secretary of State's despatch of

that is to say, he will bear in mind that His Majesty's

Government would welcome any suitable opportunity to disarm

Chinese dislike of the privileged position of foreignora of

abandoning superfluous and irritating rights. A review of

the sort of matters the Chinese are likely to raise on the

Commission suggests that this principle the principle of

shortening so far as possible the front which the foreign

powers expose to the avoks of Chinese national feeling

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