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Kuantung Leased Territory
Position of Kinchow
According to Article IV of the supplementary agreement of 7th May 1898 between China and Russia "The Russian Government assents to the request of the Chinese Government that the administration and police of the city of Kinchow shall be Chinese. Chinese troops will be withdrawn from Kinchow and replaced by Russian troops.
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In fact the Russians prevented the Chinese from exercising exclusive civil jurisdiction within the city and Chinese officials of Mukden who had nominal jurisdiction over Kinchow were actually permitted to proceed to the city only on sufferance of the Russian commissioner at Mukden. The local Chinese deputy residents were withdrawn from Kinchow in 1903 and thereafter the Chinese exercised no sort of jurisdiction in the city. In the autumn of that year (1903) Kinchow had been definitely excluded from the Chinese provincial administration of Mukden, the four deputy lieutenant-generals under the Governor General of Mukden having been replaced by three, the Kinchow residency being abandoned. When therefore the Russo- Japanese war broke out, Chinese civil administrative authority in Kinchow was already non-existent, and during the Japanese tenure of the Leased Territory the Japanese exercised complete civil and military authority in the city of Kinchow.
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