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ACTIONS AND REACTIONS IN CHINA,

(Continued from page 3)

Another clause of the same Trenty actually provides for the suspension of extraterritoriality in anc case. The decision of the Chinese Courts with regard to the reserva liability attached to partly paid-up sharce has already been referred to; "Article IV, of the Treaty rectified the unstisfactory state of affairs created by that decision, providing that Chinese shareholders in a British Joint Stock Company were to be held to have accepted the Articles of Association, etc.. of the Company. "as interpreted by British Courts"; and also "that British subjects investing in Chinese Companies shall be under the same obligations as the

131 Chinese shareholders. much Companies."

It is generally recognized that, in the ordinary course of events, a day must ultimately come when extraterritoriality will be abolished in Chiou, though, none but the most optimistic sinophile would. prophesy the speedy consummation of that event. The time that must elapse : before the conditions laid down in the Mackay Treaty" when. Great Britain is satisfied that, the state of the Chinese Laws, the arrangements for, their admin

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It would be comparatively easy to bring the laws of China into 51 state satisfactory fur the above purpose. The inadequacy and unsatisfactory nature of the Chinese mercantile law has already. been dealt with, but there is little room for doubt that, if the removal of extra- China territoriality doperided on it. would soon evolve a code of irreproach- able perfection on paper. The penal laws of China, again, have often been described as a model of all that such a code should be: Sir Robert Douglas says: To read the list of authorized punish- ments one would imagine that the Chinese were the mildest mannered men who ever had culprits before them" (Society in China, p. 73); while Professor Giles says of the Penal Code of the late dynasty thu has been pronounced by

degree of confidence, and, in spite competent judges to take a high rank of the lofty protestations of Young indeed" (The Livilisation of Chur, p. China, there is no room for doubt that 42), and later on, he refers to the many of the old abuses go on unchecked.

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administration of the laws is sufficiently and to the precautions prescribed by the lea-handed to excite general confident law for avoiding unjust sentences of it is obvious that it is premature to Gentle This Code was revised in discass the abolition of extraterritor}- reform days at the close of the Ta Ch'iality. The ingrained habits of a people dynasty, and is being subjected to further are not to be changed in a day, and the ToVision by the Republic, and though best friend of China must admit that there are a few clauses that would run "squeeze is a deep-rooted untional

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counter to Western ideas (the clause"

It is, however, incompatible forbidding strikes under penalty of penal with the honest administration of the sorvitude or fix would scarcely commend laws, and nothing can be hoped for until itself to everyone, and many offences are his defect is rectified. The first essential made capital: which would scarcely be

for this is the payment of adequate regarded as worthy of the, extronie penalty in countries where human life salaries, which will raise the deals is mores highly regarded, F., burning above the need of looking for illicit building valuable for its religious or additions to their income, but even were historical associations is, under section 180 of the Provisional Penal Code of the Republic of China, punishable with death, as is also, under section 192, the flooding or destroying by water of any arable land, garden, pusture, or other land profitably employed), it may be broadly end that there would be small objection to subjecting foreigners to its operation, provided only there were some guarantee that the second requirement of the Treaty satisfactory administra tion were attainable..

this realized at once, it would still be necessary to wait until the generation. that has grown up under the old condi tions had passed away and a generation. raised under the new traditions had grow up. The satisfactory administra tion of justice is impossible, too, unless it is in the hands of men of legal educa tion and practice: not only does China need a body of honest and legally qualified judges, but the whole army of legal lights-barristers, solicitors magis trates' clerks, and so forth who do ̈só much to facilitate the administration of justice in Western lands are almost unrepresented among the Chines

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It is in this resport that China will, for many years to come, find it impossible to comply with Western requirements No work of China is considered complete

China has, thon, much to accomplish without expositions of the illegalities that before the abolition of extraterritoriality existed in the administration of "justice" can be ecusidered to be within the sphere in the olden days before the dawn of of practical politics, but the knowa the Republic of the torture to which aspirations of Young China make it a witnesses were subjected, of the prolonged certainty that agitation in that direction unprisonment of innocent persons; of the will always be a prominent feature of its ronality and ignorance of the officiul activities. This derives much of s All this is sufficiently illustrated in the strength from the success of Japan in this deeply rooted aversion of Chinese to respect, and also from the movement that taking legal proceedings, which leads is going on for the abolition of the them in many cases to submit to palpable capitulations and of the Consular Courte wrongs rather than seek redress in the in Egypt. The case of the capitulations law courts: insome parts of the country, in Egypt is, however, scarcely on the it is common to see by the side of the same footing as that of extraterritoriality

The case of Japan, with its Treaty and in is hardly to the expected that roud large stone tablets bearing the in China: Egypt posseses civilized codes Ports, corresponds more exactly to the Chins, with her vast inertia to overcome inscription. Die of anger rather than administered under British control, and of Chirm, so it is of interest to observe will stain her and more speedily.

In the meantime, the existenes of go to low." The faults and defeobs in there is not the same restriction on the the course of events in this connection extraterritoriality must always be a spur the administration of the laws in the past free residence of foreigners in any part there. Japan's first application for the to the reforming energies of Young too notorious toned detailed of the country that obtains in China, abolition of extraterrieriality was made China, and an incentive to teal in the 1871, as was summarily rejected. extirpation of corruption, until sho enn instances, nor can it be pretended that and while the former consideration She thereupon set berself seriously to answer in the affirruative the questions Hongkong, 12th November, 1913. republican China has yet gone far proves de possibility the latter argues work to fatroduce the necessary reforms, that must be the test her fitness to towards abolishing them.

over the stranger Torture was the necessity of having but one law and and again made archeaton 1883, assume jurisdiction made illegal under the late dynasty and scheme, of administration of justice and even then

Negotiations continued för eleven years within her gates, Can China offer with the working of the security of tenure to her judges hence the Chinese objection, to the use of Furthermore, the same considerations reformed system had to be subjected to ample pay! And, if so, will she treat the "cat" in the Mixed Court at camot apply to the capitulations, which the abolition was complete and every time lime, the Courts of the Treaty a five years probation before, in 1859 the least sign of corruption as treason to

the State and punish it accordingly Shanghai in cases of robbery with Sir Auckland Colvin describes as "conresident in Japan was subjec; to Japanes

Powers violence yet cases are still heard of from cessions which were contemptuously and Law Since then there have been occ of Observing at first hand Western in China give her an opportunity time to time; a system of Law Couris, as of grace cupferred upon the Christian sional complaints-complaints are even methods of administering justice; they

of the has been established, and the judicial and trader or traveller, and to extraterri-English Law end of the anghai Courts furnish her with valuable standards of executive functidas are now separated toriality, which was wrested by the but on the whole the step has proved impartiality and nureness as well 28 instead of being all in the hands of the Westerr. Powers from Chins only after a success. The point for China to notice is sometimes giving her citizens cause, to District Magistrate, but these Courts experience had shown the need of its from the time when Japan set her hand Chinese Courts, that are not favourable however, that nearly thirty years elapsed make comparisons between then and the have not succeeded in attracting, any protection.

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