Report of the Commission on Extraterritoriality in China, Peking, September 16, 1926, being the report of the Government of the Commission appointed in pursuance to Resolution V of the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments, together with a brief...
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1926. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Wraps. xiv, 156, [2] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. [Title continued] summary thereof. This report was published in the United States by the Department of State. The Commission was composed of representatives of the United States, Belgium, the British Empire, China, France, Denmark, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden. It inquired into the present practice of extraterritorial jurisdiction in China and into the laws, judicial system, and methods of judicial administration in China. The Commission held twenty-one full sessions, the last being on September 16, 1926, at which time a joint report was agreed to by all of the thirteen commissioners. Dr. Wang Chung-hui was elected as the honorary president of the Commission. Mr. Silas H. Strawn was the American Commissioner. A travelling committee carried out a tour of investigation of the courts, prisons, and detention-houses in the various provinces and of the working of the Chinese judicial system in general. Condition: Good. No dust jacket as issued.
Keywords: Arms Limitation, Arms Control, Disarmament, Silas Strawn, Prisons, Extradition, Morphia, Insurgency, Commercial law, Chinese Judicial, Military Courts, Chang Chih, Shao Piao Ping, Hsu Shu-tseng, Otto Heinshohn, Boris Ostroumoff, Military Tribunals
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