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Description of Property,
Annual Rental.
British 33,600 dollars, reducible as in Columu 8
Concession (a) (see 3 | below) 1. Barracks
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2. Barracks in British Concession (6) (see 3 below)
three years, 7,000%; third three second
years, 5,6001. First three years, 8,700%;
Inclosure in No. 1.
LIST of Hirings for Accommodation of the British Troops.
Conditions of Surrender.
At the expiration of three years General Officer Commanding to have right to extond to six years and then for a further three years
by giving one month's notice and payment of six months' rent in advance as compensation Renewable at end of three years for further three years at 2,300 dollars a-month, or for two years at 2,500 dollars monthly Can be terminated at expiration of second year
Also renewable at end of six years for further period of three years at monthly rental of 2,100 dollars, or for two years at 2,300 dollars a-mouth
Either of the above renewals for periods of three years can be terminated at end of second year by one month's notice and payment of six months' rent in advance
So long as troops remain in North China in bired buildings they shall occupy these build- ings
Name and Address of Lessor.
Mesars. Adams, Knowles, and Tuckey, 59, Victoria Road, Tien-tsin
Remarks.
British portion completed on the 20th October,
1905.
Indian portion completed on the 11th September, 1905.
Accommodation for two companies British infantry and six companies native infantry.
Messrs. Adams and Knowles, Barracks taken over, part on the 1st November Tien-tsin
Accommodation for six companies British infautry battalion, complete with hospital and 82 married quarters; also extension to native infantry barracks and new detention barracks.
and part on the 1st December, 1907.
IMPORTANT.—Under Agreement dated the 19th September, 1908, the two hirings above detailed will cease from the 1st June, 1909, and a new hiring as detailed below will take effect :-
3. Barracks (a) and (b) as above, now occupied. Supply, transport, clothing, and ordnance depots in course of erection, and to be ready by the 1st June, 1909
12,725, reducible as in To be hired for five years certain. After five years Mr. G. S. Knowles. Column 3
4. Dwelling houses, British 1,8007
Extra Concession
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General Officer Commanding to have the right
to renew agreement on annual tenancy for two consecutive years at 9,350% a-year, and there- after at 6,2501. a-year,
to vacate at advance, but if it is decible quarterly in expiration of fifth year six months' notice in writing, or six months' rent in lien, to be given So long as troops remain in North China in .. Hired for three years from the 15th August, 1908 Mr. G. S. Knowles bired buildings they shall occupy these barracks and other adjoining buildings
. For use as officers' mess and quarters, British
infantry.
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AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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SECTION EGO 4 MAR 09
Mr. Whitelaw Reid to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 4.)
(Confidential.)
Dear Sir Edward,
American Embassy, London, February 3, 1909. REFERRING to your note of the 29th ultimo concerning the proposed inter- national solution of the Harbin situation, I have pleasure to express to you the high gratification with which my Government learned that the opinions you had reached about the Railway Settlement there coincided with its own. Hoping that this unanimity of opinion may permit co-operation in the effort to maintain Treaty rights, I venture to hand you herewith, for your confidential information, a copy of Mr. Root's note of the 29th December, 1908, to the Russian Ambassador in. Washington.
It will be of interest to add that our Consul at Harbin advised the State Depart- ment on the 1st instant that the Russians are now actively installing the adminis- tration referred to in Information Series No. 2, section (F), (which I had the pleasure
of transmitting to you on the 15th ultimo), and endeavouring to collect heavy taxeES from all nationalities. Our Consul thinks that the Russians are now pressing the He Chinese hard, and have quite changed their attitude within the past two weeks. says every resident is now bound by regulations to help the police by keeping track of
all persons and everything happening in their homes. Unless this policy should be checked there is an end to equal trade opportunities, and no other nation can do business there except by sufferance of the Russian authorities.
My Government would be glad to know your views as to the present status of the
matter.
Yours very sincerely, (Signed)
WHITELAW REID.
Inclosure in No. 1,
Mr. Root to Baron Rosen.
(Strictly Confidential.)
Department of State, Washington, Excellency,
December 29, 1908. YOU will recall that in response to a Memorandum of the 9th June the Imperial Russian Embassy was, on the 2nd July, assured of the regret with which the Govern- ment of the United States would learn that the American Consul at Harbin had really failed faithfully to reflect the views of his Government upon certain questions referred
to in the Embassy's Memorandum.
The reasonable and conciliatory views of the United States upon the situation at Harbin, in which it is our duty to take a keen interest, are well known to your Excellency through the candid explanations made both by correspondence and on the occasion of the conversations which I had the pleasure to hold with you last spring. These views were set forth in some detail in the note of the 9th April, to which allusion is made in the Memorandum to which I have now the honour to reply.
The promised thorough analysis of the attitude of Mr. Fisher as regards the points in question has now been completed, and I am happy to find justified the hope formerly expressed that any inconsistencies in the Consul's course were apparent rather than real. Being now fully advised of the action of Mr. Fisher, I am glad to be able to inform your Excellency that it is found to have been entirely in accord with the views of this Government views which I think we are agreed are in no essential detrimental to the real interests or repugnant to the well-known policy of the Imperial Russian Government. I may add that, under these circumstances, the Department has naturally been constrained to approve Mr. Fisher's course.
Adverting to the more recent reports from Harbin, moreover, I would add that this Government has learned with regret that the Superintendent of the Railway
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