[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government, and should be returned to the Foreign Office if not required for official use.]
(F.1866/34/10.)
Το CHINA.
Code telegram to Sir M. Lampson (Peking).
Foreign Office.
11th April, 1931.
2.30 p.m.
No. 104.
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Your telegram No. 107 (of April 6th:
territoriality negotiations).
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Reciprocity clause suggested in paragraph 1 is unacceptable for reasons given in my telegram No. 93.96 You may however add at the end of the paragraph the following sentence which is based on the article usually inserted in our commercial treaties:-
"Reciprocally, Chinese citizens shall in the United Kingdom have free access to the Courts of Justice for the prosecution and defence of their rights without any conditions, restrictions, taxes or payments other or greater than those imposed on native subjects."
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