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Show POWERS AGREE ON IfflHJHlBB FOREIGN POST OFFICE TO BE WITHDRAWN ACCORDING TO ANNOUNCEMENT Committee on Far Eastern Pollcle, Decide Foreign Postofflce Shall Be Withdrawn from China By January 1, 1023. Washington. A resolution doclnrlna for relinquishment of foreign postofflce privileges In China was adopted Monday Mon-day by the '-' powers sitting ns i conmil'ltteo on I'aclllc and Fur Hasten questions. Tho dato of Jnnunry 1, 1023, wns sot for the nbiindomont ot forolgt postoffice, and this was agreed to bj all the powers represented except Jap .. .-..- ,...,..., ..lutlvnu nsknil foi 1111, IIUPU ivjm-.-'v tliuo to hear from their government. Tho Japanese delegates, It wns said, did not object to January 1, 1D23, an the duto for abandoning their postof. llccs, but tolt that they did not have the authority to agree to that dato without referring tho matter to Toklo The nine powers commltteo deferred final action until later on the question ques-tion of extra territorial rights In Chlnn. Tho prlnlclple of closing foreign-courts In China, It was said, wns agreed to, but consideration of tho formal resolution resolu-tion went over. Chlneso representatives nt Monday' meeting brought up tho domestic con. trol of Chlne3 railways. Tho question, ques-tion, however went over for consideration considera-tion at anothor meeting of tho nine powers Tuesday. Tho Chlneso rallwny question, nc cording to Chlneso representatives, would necessarily Involve the matter of Shantung, which is regnrded as ono of the big problems with which the Washington conference may have to deal, so far as Far Eastern affairs are coucorned. |