§ 42. Mr. T. WILLIAMS (for Mr. W. BAKER)asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether His Majesty s Government is prepared to announce its willingness to agree to the abolition of extra-territoriality on the lines of the recommendations of the Report of the Commission on China, No. 3, of 1926?
§ Sir A. CHAMBERLAINIn their Commercial Treaty with China of 1902 His Majesty's Government had already announced their willingness to agree to the abolition of extra-territoriality on the general lines now recommended in the Report of the Extra-territoriality Commission. In many respects the proposals for treaty alteration recently made by His Majesty's Government to the authorities in China go further than the specific recommendations of the Report. In other respects those recommendations merely embody what has long been our practice in China.
§ Mr. H. WILLIAMSCan the right hon. Gentleman say whether when extra-territoriality is being abolished, British traders will have trading rights in all parts of China?
§ Sir A. CHAMBERLAINI cannot say what the result of the negotiations will be, but that is, of course, a question which I have before me.