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Extraterritorial rights. During the 19th Century, a series of treaties exempted nearly all non-Chinese residents in China from the control of Chinese law courts. Accused foreigners have their cases tried either in special international courts or in their local consulates. This was made necessary by the malconformation of Chinese law as compared with the beauty of Roman and Teutonic law, regarded by white men as their inalienable inheritance. Nationalistic China now resents the concession of extra-territorality, demands the abrogation of the treaties. The most important speech of U. S. Minister Schurman - recently promoted to be Ambassador at Berlin...
...articles this year will go to the relief of European students and to local charities, such as the Family Welfare Society of Boston, the Cambridge Welfare Union, the Industrial Aid Society of Boston, and the Salvation Army. The books and magazines will be given, as usual, to the Merchant Marine, except for textbooks, which will be placed in the Phillips Brooks House Textbook Loan Library...
...Kansas City Star and Times published several pages of local 1925 income tax returns. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington immediately announced that it was within his jurisdiction to declare when tax returns are read)' for publication, that the 1925 returns are not ready yet, that in all probability he will not consider them ready until such time as the Supreme Court makes its decision on the publication of the 1924 returns last October (TIME, Nov. 3, THE PRESS, TAXATION, BUSINESS...
...Premier Lubomir Davidovitch, representing the majority (all except the Communist and Raditch parties) Opposition, made a bold plea for a strictly constitutional monarchy, national unity and local government-a bold plea because it directly opposed the Serbs, who regard Yugo-Slavia as Greater Serbia instead of a Union of the South Slavs. At present, the government is highly centralized and largely in the hands of the Serbs. He vigorously attacked the Government for its questionable election tactics and advocated "greater electoral freedom for the people." At the same time, he disassociated himself from those parties (Communist and Croatian Peasants...
WHITE CARGO?Approaches its 600th local representation of white man and black woman difficulties in the wasted world of desert Africa...