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Daily Telegraph
2 0 OCT 1942 CHINA'S TREATY
HOPE
'COMPLETE EQUALITY' From Our Own Correspondent CHUNGKING, Monday.
The newspaper Ta Kung Pao pre- dicts to-day that "draft agreements based on absolute equality" will be drawn up by Britain and the United States to replace the existing equal treaties" with China.
un-
Urging that all imperialistic privileges" should be eliminated, the journal mentions the following:
concession settle- Consular jurisdiction:
as British- ments; Leased territories, such leased Kowloon, Portuguese Macao and French Kwangchowwan.
Rigid stationing of troops in China; The Chinese obligation to keep Taku unfortified; the right to have a Legation quarter in Peking;
administration of International
Whangpoo River, Shanghai, and the Pei River, Tientsin. Rights of navigating Chinese internal water- coastal ways and employing foreign pilots; trading: foreign warships
and anchoring in Chinese waters
patrolling
Foreign factories in the treaty ports: foreign employees in the Chinese Maritime Customs, salt administrations and foreign-financed rall- ways; use of foreign languages in Chinese official documents
Running railways and working mines; free- dom of missionary work: and the unilateral most-favoured nations clause.
The newspaper adds:
"In our
opinion Britain and America have no idea of concluding only a provisional, incomplete agreement for the abol tion of extra-territoriality.”
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