CHINA
PAPER E
No. 4
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Memorandum Left by the Chinese Embassy at the Foreign Office on
28th April, 1948
The Government of the Republic of China and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have been considering an amicable and reasonable settlement of the controversy which has recently arisen in connexion with the city of Kowloon. Both Governments, having throughout maintained their claims in good faith, consider that the issue does not warrant a dispute between two peace-loving peoples with a long-standing tradition of friendship.
With this in view the two Governments have mutually agreed that the area in which the city of Kowloon is situated should be converted into a garden of remembrance, to be called the Chung Shan Park and to be dedicated to the sacred memory of the Chinese and British nationals who lost their lives in the common cause against the Japanese aggression. It has now also been agreed that the safe- keeping and administration of this garden of remembrance should be entrusted, under rules to be mutually agreed, to two trustees to be appointed respectively by the Provincial Government of Kwangtung and the British authorities in the leased territory of Kowloon, and that the Chinese trustee should have an office in the garden.
It is hoped that the inspiration of this sacred trust will ensure its undisturbed peace and tranquillity and that the spirit of remembrance to which the garden is dedicated will be perpetuated.
PAPER E
No. 4
By Exchange of Notes
(Not to be Published)
1. Any violation of the rules and regulations for the maintenance of order in the garden shall be punished by the two trustees. Such fines as may be imposed by them on the offenders in accordance with the said. rules and regulations shall go towards the upkeep and improvement of the garden.
2. Persons involved in civil or criminal cases arising in the garden shall be amenable to the jurisdiction of the competent court in the locality in which the defendant has his domicile.
27th April, 1948.
PAPER F
Leases granted by China to Foreign Powers in 1898 and 1899
(1) Germany
PART I-Terms of the Leases
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Article 1 of the Sino-German Treaty of 6th March, 1898, reads as follows:
His Majesty the Emperor of China, guided by the intention to strengthen the friendly relations between China and Germany, and at the same time to increase the military readiness of the Chinese Empire, engages, while reserving to himself all rights of sovereignty in a zone of 50 kilom. (100 Chinese li) surrounding the Bay of Kiao-chow at high water, to permit the free passage of German troops within this zone at any time, as also to abstain from taking any measures, or issuing any Ordinances therein, without the previous consent of the German Government, and especially to place no obstacle in the way of any regulation of the water-courses which may prove
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State Papers, Vol. 95, p. 1005,
et se
seq.