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Cypher telegram to Sir M.Lampson (Peking).
Foreign Office.
No. 299.
By Wireless.
October 6th, 1931. 5.00 p.m.
My telegram No. 144 to Nanking (of July 31st;
American criticism of Article XVI. in British draft.)
Following is text of memorandum communicated
to United States Embassy on October 5th.
With reference to the proposed Extra-Territoriality
Agreement with China, the Foreign Office have had
under consideration the State Department's Memorandum
and Draft of Article 16, relating to reserved areas,
copies of which were enclosed in Mr. Atherton's lotter
to Mr. Orde of July 25th last, They have, however,
deferred communicating their comments and suggestions,
as requested in the final paragraph of the Memorandum,
until they had consulted His Majesty's Minister in
Peking. A despatch and a subsequent telegram have now
been received from Sir M. Lampson on this subject,
from which it appears that negotiations between the
United States and Chinese Governments on the basis
of the Draft Treaty prepared by the State Department,
including the Draft of Article 16 referred to above,
may shortly be resumed in Nanking.
2. Article 16 in the British Draft of June 6th
provides that subjects of His Majesty in Shanghai shall
become amenable to Chinese jurisdiction on the ex-
piration of ten years from the date when the Treaty
comes into force. The effect of this, as the State
Department's Memorandum points out, is that the
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