SHANGHAI AND EXTRA-TERRITORIALITY
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sia,—The most extreme anti-Imperialist would, if he realized what it meant, refuse to consider the latest Chinese demand to abolish even the judicial capitulations in Shanghai, and thus to make life impossible for anEnglishman in a city which ----apart from its possibilities in the future—was created by Englishmen.
The Englishman there only asks for the same justice, and the same protection against persecution through unfair taxes; which the Chinaman himself gets in almost every country in the world. They are the fundamental rights of human beings ; but unfortunately China will not concede them -Co foreigners unless forced to by the Capitulations: The- decline of ConstantinoPle since the abolition of 'the Capitulations shows the folly, from every point of view, of setting the chide back. Foreigners are now being debarred there -from almost every employMent.—I din, Sir, &c:,
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