Show u. u S. S PREPARES 1 I FOR CHANGE IN SYSTEM I I Favors Adjustment Of or Territorial Extra Extra Extra- Territorial Rights I i I Situation i I AMERICA IN LEAD I Policy Long Has Been I i Against Special I Privilege Abroad i WASHINGTON W July 1 iQ 1 P Instructions for Minister Mac Mac- MacMurray Murray who will arrive at his i i iI post host In tn Peking by b July 4 4 are ex- ex expected exI I to 10 Indicate a desire here j that the fhe whole question of ot extra- extra extraterritorial i I territorial rights rl In China be tak- tak takI taken taken taken I I i en under consideration at the earliest practicable moment I If the other powers concur In that viewpoint the International commission authorized during luring the I I Washington ashington arms conference to todeal to todeal todeal deal with territorial extra rights probably would take tale up Its tunc- tunc functions I lions together with representatives of If all nations who have a natural Interest t In iti Chinese questions NEW NE' INSTRUCTIONS I New Instructions are under preparation at nt the state depart depart- department department ment to 10 be cabled to Mr Ir Mac- Mac MacMurray Murray They lire are based bu ed on all advices received from China In connection with the null foreign disturbances ii Including the pro provis provisional ional lonal governments government's demand that territorial extra privileges be dis continued Initiation of such an Inquiry into Inlo the question would be the first affirmative e step taken by any foreign n country toward pro pro- providing providing viding n a permanent solution for Cor forthe Corthe forthe the present situation In China U. U S. S S IX IN LEAD LEl The Washington government al always ai- ai aia always ways a s 's has favored curtailment of ot I special privileges in countries able to establish judicial sj stems systems of ot otI their own In common with other I powers the United Slates States has al already ai- ai ready really relinquished rights of ot extra extra- extraterritoriality extraterritoriality I territoriality In Turkey and Pales Pales- Palestine Palestine tine and It sponsored at the Wash Wash- Washington Washington ington ton conference the proposal for tor fora tora I a commission comm to study the Chinese Judicial situation Even Es-en before the present wave of foreign anti excitement ment in China which Was 1 by bythe bythe bythe the Shanghai Incidents Jacob Jacoh Gould Schurman then American minister to 10 Peking In an address delivered in that city cHy outlined a course of oC action in regard to the changes chanse in the Chinese Judicial system which he said would pave the theay way ay for an abandonment of ot othis his government of ot extra extraterritorial al rights There has been ben no rea rea- reason rason reason son to doubt that he be spoke the mind of or the govern govern- ment Fourteen nations probably will willbe willbe be ba given an nn opportunity to par par- participate participate In an Inquiry now pro pro- posed They are aI the nine which signed the extra territory proportion proportion proportion tion resolution at Washington WashIngton- the United States Belgium m Great Britain China France Italy Ita Japan The Netherlands and Por Por- Portugal and and the four who since have to the policy expressed III In that resolution Denmark resolution Denmark Peru Spain and Sweden 00 00 |