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# AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[32763]
No. 1.
765
[September 29.]
SECTION 5.
3943/
Sir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received September 29.) RECO
(No. 187.)
Re 26 DCT 06 Sir,
Tokió, September 5, 1906.
IN an interview which I had this morning with Mr. Chinda, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, I alluded to the question of restoring the administration of Newchwang to the Chinese authorities, and asked his Excellency what exactly were the conditions required by the Japanese Government, and whether it was correct that there was a balance of 3,000,000 yen from customs duties, which Japan was prepared to hand over (see Mr. Carnegie's telegram No. 159 of the 25th August, which he kindly repeated to me).
On the latter point Mr. Chinda assured me that there was a very considerable balance, though he could not give me the exact figure, the statement of accounts not having yet been finally adjusted. His Excellency subsequently gave me a Memorandum, copy of which I have the honour to inclose, embodying the conditions which the Japanese Government were prepared to accept, and which present no material difference from the information on the subject given to Mr. Carnegie by the Japanese Minister in Peking, though entering somewhat more fully into details.
You will observe that the Japanese Government insist on the receipts from both the maritime and native customs being deposited in the Yokohama Specie Bank, which insures to the Japanese authorities a means of directly supervising the customs receipts in the port, and it is perhaps not unnatural that the Chinese Government should make an effort to resist the enforcement of this condition.
I have, &c.
(Signed) CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.
Inclosure in No. 1.
## Memorandum.
1. THE Chinese Government to provide, in consultation with the Japanese Government, such regulations for quarantine and for prevention of contagious and infectious diseases as are necessary for maintenance of the health of Japanese troops stationed in Manchuria, in pursuance of the Agreement between Japan and China (Protocol No. 14 of the Conference at Peking).
2. The Chinese Government to recognize the measures hitherto taken by the Military Administrator.
3. Police and sanitary affairs to be handed over to the Chinese local authorities, on the understanding that those authorities shall, in compliance with the request of the Japanese Consul, take all proper measures which he may consider necessary, and that in the execution of the affairs aforesaid some of the police officers and physicians engaged by the Chinese authorities shall be Japanese.
4. Administration of the maritime customs to be transferred to the Chinese Government, but the customs receipts to be deposited as hitherto with Yokohama-Shokin-Ginko, which shall be made the customs bankers.
5. Administration of the native customs also to be transferred to the Chinese Government, but the receipts therefrom to be deposited with Yokohama-Shokin-Ginko, and to be appropriated, pending the expiration of the term of evacuation, by the Chinese local authorities in consultation with the Japanese Consul, for the public benefit of the locality.
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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
[B]
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[32763]
No. 1.
765
[September 29.]
SECTION 5.
3943/
Sir C. MacDonald to Sir Edward Grey.~(Received September 29.) RECO
(No. 187.)
Re 26 DCT 06 Sir,
Tokió, September 5, 1906. IN an interview which I had this morning with Mr. Chinda, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, I alluded to the question of restoring the administration of Newchwang to the Chinese authorities, and asked his Excellency what exactly were the conditions required by the Japanese Government, and whether it was correct that there was a balance of 3,000,000 yen from customs duties, which Japan was prepared to hand over (see Mr. Carnegie's telegram No. 159 of the 25th August, which he kindly repeated
to me).
On the latter point Mr. Chinda assured me that there was a very considerable balance, though he could not give me the exact figure, the statement of accounts not having yet been finally adjusted. His Excellency subsequently gave me a Memorandum, copy of which I have the honour to inclose, embodying the conditions which the Japanese Government were prepared to accept, and which present no material difference from the information on the subject given to Mr. Carnegie by the Japanese Minister in Peking, though entering somewhat more fully into details.
You will observe that the Japanese Government insist on the receipts rom both the maritime and native customs being deposited in the Yokohama Specie Bank, which insures to the Japanese authorities a means of directly supervising the customs receipts in the port, and it is perhaps not unnatural that the Chinese Government should make an effort to resist the enforcement of this condition.
I have, &c.
(Signed) CLAUDE M. MACDONALD.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Memorandum.
THE Chinese Government to provide, in consultation with the Japanese Govern- ment, such regulations for quarantine and for prevention of contagious and infectious diseases as are necessary for maintenance of the health of Japanese troops stationed in Manchuria, in pursuance of the Agreement between Japan and China (Protocol No. 14 of the Conference at Peking).
2. The Chinese Government to recognize the measures hitherto taken by the Military Administrator.
3. Police and sanitary affairs to be handed over to the Chinese local authorities, on the understanding that those authorities shall, in compliance with the request of the Japanese Consul, take all proper measures which he may consider necessary, and that in the execution of the affairs aforesaid some of the police officers and physicians engaged by the Chinese authorities shall be Japanese.
4. Administration of the maritime customs to be transferred to the Chinese Govern- ment, but the customs receipts to be deposited as hitherto with Yokohama-Shokin- Ginko, which shall be made the customs bankers.
5. Administration of the native customs also to be transferred to the Chinese Government, but the receipts therefrom to be deposited with Yokohama-Shokin-Ginko, and to be appropriated, pending the expiration of the term of evacuation, by the Chinese local authorities in consultation with the Japanese Consul, for the public benefit of the locality.
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