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in these trades pending the making of further arrangements between them and the Government of the United Kingdom or the conclusion of the comprehensive treaty referred to in Article 8.
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With reference to the last sentence of Article 5 (i) of the treaty, the Government of the Republic of China declare that the restriction on the right of alienation of existing rights and titles to real property referred to in that Article will be applied by the Chinese authorities in an equitable manner and that, if and when the Chinese Government decline to assent to a proposed transfer, the Chinese Government will, in a spirit of justice and with a view to precluding loss on the part of nationals or companies of His Majesty the King whose interests are affected, undertake, if so requested by the national or company of His Majesty to whom permission to alienate has been refused, to take over the rights and titles in question and pay adequate compensation therefor.
3. With reference to Article 6 of the treaty (here insert the text of the two agreed minutes given in my telegram No. 1486 [of 17th November relating to exclusion from certain areas in peacetime and in wartime, unless it is decided to record this point separately in an agreed minute).
4. (Here insert proposals with regard to personal status, text in my telegram No. 1515 [of 25th November] assuming the Chinese will agree and also Chinese declaration reference application of decree of 1931 with regard to police and prisons (see your telegram No. 1486 [of 31st October] paragraph 4)).
5. (Here insert any agreement with regard to the holding of real property in the future by British subjects etc. in China and Chinese in British territory (see my immediately preceding telegram: paragraph 13)).
6. It is further agreed that questions which may affect the sovereignty of the Republic of China and which are not covered by the present treaty or by the preceding provisions of the present note, shall be discussed by representatives of the Government of the Republic of China and the Government of the United Kingdom and decided in accordance with generally accepted principles of international law and modern international practice.
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