Abstract

Foreign Press

The imperial regime created in the East a special sort of hidden annexation, based upon so-called rights of European "concessions," or, as they used to called, "factories," and upon the institution of "capitulations"--the arrangement by which persons belonging to foreign countries were withdrawn from the domestic jurisdiction and thereby from the laws and regulations of Oriental countries. Thus imperialist countries, supported by the armed force which they had at their disposal on foreign territory, consisting partly of their own military forces and partly of native organizations formed on the spot, created conditions in the Oriental states in which their citizens and their interests were especially protected at the expense of the Oriental state.