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A SHANGHAI PROBLEM..

CHINESE AND THE MIXED COURT.)

Practically overy list of Chinese do manda put forward during the past: months has included one for the rendr tion of the Shanghai Mixed Court What is this Court, and what is meant by its rendition?

HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

Nov 14, 1945. Hongkong Bank

..31,115 sol. Do

Louden.£180 nom..

.620 nom.. Chartered Bank..... Mercantile Back, A. & B...........£994 DOM.”

F.&

0. Bask East

Asia Bant Bank

Do

China Underwriters

Union

Insurance

Fire InsuranES

S$ nam $800 km.

Ths. 140 nom.

2250/48am

$95 bay. $160 nom.

500 nom.

$10 100.

The details of the matter are com- Cap

Canton IngaTADOS plicated: its csontials are not difficult Nerth China Insurance. to grasp writes a correspondent to The Times. State in the simplest terms gtare Insurance..... the problem of the Mixed Court may be Hongkong Fire Insurance

Douglasca ******** reduced to this: whether or not the EE, C. & M. Steamboatr. 19 bay, 2002. Chinese authorities are to exercise juris Indo-Chinas (Fred) $18 next.

Hongkong Tags... diction over their nationals living in Da (Del.), London...370 nom. Hongkong$70 nom. Shanghai International Settlement, Ac-Shell Transports.

Star Farring cording to the latest figures these num Waterbosts ber 897,939, and at the present time the Oriental Navigations Chinese authorities can neither arrest

Malabon Bugar.... nor try them. They can be arrested only Bengueta.. by the Shanghai Municipal police, and triod only by a Chincee Magistrate

Do.

China

Kallan Mining Ad...

angkata (combined).

Do. (single)

appointed by the foreign Conmila, sitting explorations..

Rauba

&

Loans

with a foreign Assessor who is to all in-Tronoh Mines tents and purposes a co-judge, the Court, Uml Caspians..... in which they sit being termed "mixed" & K Wharfa..

W. Docka because it was instituted (in 1884) to try Hungle targ cases in which foreigners were plaintiffs New Engineerings.

Shanghai Docks The law which it. & S. Hotels

Amusementa against Chinese. applies is Chinese law, but the Court, aines 1911, has been a foreign-controlled institution.

..

359 nom.

$18 buy.

: $250 nom.”

7 nom.

149 nom. 39 nom. 40/- nomi M...so buy.

TL. 17.10 boy.

Ms. b nom

Ts. 8 nom.

se-bay.

St. nom $140 nom.

Tis. 170 nom TL 74 buy.

1141 buy. $10 buy.

39 vol.

184 buy. $5 nom.

S& mol. $16 nom... 8150 nom.

Hotels (ald) Hongkong Lands. Hongkong Resitys (e.p.) HE. Teritoriale (f.p.).. Humphreys Estates.... Prince's Buildinga. Eural Lands. Ewe Cottons Orientals. Shanghai Cottons (old) ......The. 53 buy,

Do. (new) Canton Ices....... Cements (combined)

Do. (old) Do.. (new)

Evse

37 Bel

Tis. 9 bay. Tls. 8 bay.

Ths. 27 buy. $71

$16 col $13 BON.

Dom.

Tla, 10 buy.

$16 nom.

Before that year this was not the case. The Chinese Magistrates were appointed and paid by Chinese authority"" and tried all civil cases in which Chinese only were concerned. Foreign Assessors sit with them in criminal cases and, of course, in all civil cases in which fer- China eigners were interested. On all such Chins Lights (combined).....322) sel.

Do (old) occasions, however, the AsseÍSOF W25,

10. Do. (new).. $13 now.

434 nom. theoretically, no more than an Assessor. China Providents (comb.).

De. (old). ...... In 1911, however, when the anti-Manchu

Do.

(new) : $9:40 nom. Constractions revolution broke out, two of the Chinese)

2 LOT Dairy Farms. Magistrates of the Mixed Court fled, the Der A Wing (p.) whole local Chinese administration broke Hongkong Blectrica

Do (pp)....... down, and, faced with the necessity of Magno Electrien ..... H.K. Developmenta making some provision for this emer- EK. Ropes (e mbined). gency, the Treaty Consuls, as a tem

Do. (old) Do. (DON) porary measure, took control of the Hongkong Tramways Court. They and the Municipal Coun- Macintosh... Lane Crawfords cil have, however, retained control, Peak Trams (old) though the Chinese have frequently asked sinceres. for, and have lately demanded," its re- Taxis

Avad Asbestos ... turn. That it should be given backWatsons (old)..... everybody concerned is agreed: the Wm. Powells.

Do. (now) question is, on what terms. It is at bay-buyers; sel-sellers; sa-sales ;' this point that difficulties arise.

Do.

..$19+ sel.

310 nom.

$56 eel $40 com. 30 cts. bay. 530 T.DTS

$1st nom-

nom. $20 sel. $19 nom. 82: hem.

815.10 buy.

(acw) (c.p.)....................59 nom.

$20 nom. 816 sel. ..$15 sel .....$1.4 sci...

nom.--nominal

is 2 more

THE CHINESE, DEMAND.", For the Chinese, besides wishing to however, their proposal appoint the Magistrate and to exercise difficult one than this, for while they do jurisdiction without the presence of a not seek to reintroduce the evils that foreign Assessor in all civil cases in specially characterized the Court in pre-revolution daya-and there were which Chinese only are involved, want lahy-they want to wanken what for- also to dispense with foreign Assessora eigners regard as an essential anfeguard in what they

aamly, the presence of foreign Assessors call purely Chinese in all criminal eases. And, while criminal cases. The foreign authorities, fagreeing that the Registrar abould be a on the other hand, maintain that there Government on the recommendation of foreigner appointed by the Chinees is no such thing as a purely Chineas the Consular Body, they want to have criminal case, for in all such cases the the appointing of the subordinate

clerical staff." peace, order, and good government of the Settlement are affected directly or indirectly.

Neverthless, on paper, the Chinese case is a strong one. Foz there is no legal justification for the position of the Court as a whole, or for the particular foreign claims just mentioned. On the contrary,

In asking for complete jurisdiction in so-called purely Chinone criminal cases the Chefoo Convention of 1876, which in the Chinese are asking for more than the last treaty word on the subject;:dis.| they had before 18IE At that time the inctly lays down that- procedure of the Court was as follows: so long as the laws of the two countries it sat every morning at 9.15 and with differ from each other, there can be but the Chinese Magistrate sat a British, an one principle to guide judicial proceed American or a Gertaan Assessor. Whenings in mixed cases in China-namely, necessary the Shanghai City Magistrats that the case is tried by the official of (the city stands south of the Foreign the defendant's nationality, the oficin Settlement) was invited to come to the of the plaintiff's nationality merely Court, one of the Assessors sharing the attending to watch proceedings in the Bench with him. Warrants, summonses interests of justice. If the officer BO and orders were issued by the Magis attending be dissatisfied with the pro trate, countersigned by the Senior ceedings it will be in his power to protest Consul, or one of the Assessors repre against them in detail. senting him, and "were served by the Thus there is little treaty foundation Court's runners, accompanied by the for the present position and for much of Musicipal police. While the trial of the practice of the Court even in mixed criminal cases, when the accused were cases: "in cases where only Chinese aro ad represented by foreign counsel, was concerned there is none. left almost entirely to the Chinese Magistrate, the Assessor could

and

"Justification" for the foreign point of sometimes did take an active part in view in the matter has to be sought else- the proceedings, and decisions were which is a long story of struggle against where in the history of the Court," given concurrently;, no sentence being

valid unless concurred in by both inefficiency and corruption; in the con Assessor and Magistrate. There was no dition of Chipose judicial administra- definite provision sa to the penalties tion, which is rarely good and in most which it might inflict, but these places, according to foreign standardə practice included fines up to any amount at all events, very bad, and in the con and imprisonment up to five years. In ideration that the International Settle cases where longer terms of imprisonment is a place intended for foreigners, meat, or the death penalty, were in where there are very large foreign in volved, the condemnand person was handed foreste, the maintenance and protection over to the Chinese, city authoritiesystem In which connection it may be of which require a proper judicial A DIFFICULT QUESTION. observed that, sincs 1811, the Court has If by rendition the Chinese meant & been administered at a financial loss return to this procedure there would be sometimes amounting to over Tls.30,000 grave objections to the proposal-for the year in the hands of a dishonest procedure was full of evil which have into a money-making oncern would be magistrate the temptation to convert it since disappeared. In certain respects,

na considerable as the opportunities for (Continued on nezt Column). nsing it for that purpose would be.

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