The Chinese Government has been informed that the latter will only be recognized if they are made effective and absolute.
In regard to Article III, duties on li-kin levied on goods carried from Hong Kong to the Treaty ports in the Canton Delta, and to Article IV, obligations of Chinese shareholders in foreign Companies, it is reported that no questions have arisen.
Articles XI, XII, and XIII, contain undertakings on the part of His Majesty's Government, and no occasion for their fulfilment has yet presented itself.
The execution of Article VIII, abolition of li-kin and substitution of a surtax on imports depends, as above explained, on the adhesion of all the other Treaty Powers. Article II, the establishment of a uniform national coinage, and Article IX, the revision of the existing Mining Regulations within twelve months from the 5th September, 1902, have not been carried into effect in circumstances which have been dealt with in the earlier part of this Memorandum.
It is stated in the last paragraph of the letter from the Shanghae merchants of the 6th June last, that the Chinese Government and the officials throughout the Empire are now more obstructive in their treatment of British subjects and trade than formerly, and that there is no evidence of any endeavour to carry out either the spirit or the letter of the Treaty.
Lord Lansdowne is informed that His Majesty's Minister at Peking does not share this view.
Differences of opinion from time to time in regard to the interpretation of the Treaties have arisen in the past between His Majesty's Consular officers and the local authorities, and between His Majesty's Legation and the Central Government, but Sir Ernest Satow does not consider that such differences have recently become more numerous than usual.
Foreign Office, October 6, 1905
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Chinese Government that the latter will only be recognized if they are made effective and absolute.
In regard to Article III, duties on h-kin levied on goods carried from Hong Kong to the Treaty ports in the Canton Delta, and to Article IV, obligations of Chinese shareholders in foreign Companies, it is reported that no questions have arisen.
Articles XI, XII, and XIII, contain undertakings on the part of His Majesty's Government, and no occasion for their fulfilment has yet presented itself.
The execution of Article VIII, abolition of li-kin and substitution of a surtax on imports depends, as above explained, on the adhesion of all the other Treaty Powers. Article II, the establishment of a uniform national coinage, and Article IX, the revision of the existing Mining Regulations within twelve months from the 5th September, 1902, have not been carried into effect in circumstances which have been dealt with in the earlier part of this Memorandum.
It is stated in the last paragraph of the letter from the Shanghae merchants of the 6th June last, that the Chinese Government and the officials throughout the Empire are now more obstructive in their treatment of British subjects and trade than formerly, and that there is no evidence of any endeavour to carry out either the spirit or the letter of the Treaty.
Lord Lansdowne is informed that His Majesty's Minister at Peking does not share this view,
Differences of opinion from time to time in regard to the interpretation of the Treaties have arisen in the past between His Majesty's Consular officers and the local authorities, and between His Majesty's Legation and the Central Government, but Sir Ernest Satow does not consider that such differences have recently become more numerous than usual.
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