E CLOSURE NO. 1 in Canton Despatch No. 129 of 29/5/40 to B.. SHAN 35-
Notes of Discused on on 13th my 1940 between Mr. Z.
Okazhi, the Hon. Mr. N.. smith, tr. A.P. Blunt à kr.
0.0. Roberta
1.
Mr. Okazaki stated that it was the intention of
the Japanese to re-open tradinst and navigation on the
Iver by suozessive and gendurl stages, and that
the notification issued by the Japanese Consul-(-neral
in Denton on ap 11 19 th was intended to represent the
first of these steges. He understood that certain points
arising out of this remorandum were not acceptable to th
British Authorities and interesta concerned, and he would
therefore like in an unofficial way to explore the possi-
bilities of reaching @ mutaully acceptable comprouise.
2.
ished to
Mr. (kazaki pointed out that the question of
the re-opening of the earl River and of the Yangtze {ive>
were not the same, in that while the
re-open the order in gradual stages, it was impracticable
to follow that aœurse in the onse of the latter, and it
was their intention to re-open it absolutely when the
time came for that st
The British present, while
apreciating fr. Ole anki's point, made the reservation
that any step taken in regard to the one right still have
a bearing on the other.
3.
It was agreed that the Blunt/Ukazaki @greement
remains the basis governing soʻmunie-tions on the Pearl
River pending its re-opening, and that it might be possible
to arrange for the suavessive stages towards that
opening to
the form of extensions to that agreement;
all such extensions would, as in the case of the greement
itself, be withou: prejudice to Treaty rights pending the
re-opening of the River and the restoration of such Freaty
richts, and nothing therein would be construed as a precedent.