[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
Finally, having reference to the concluding paragraph of your letter of the 4th instant, I am to state that during Mr. Bland's temporary absence from Peking the Chinese Central Railways are represented, as regards the Tien-tsin-Yangtsze negotia- tions, by Mr. Cordes, in whose knowledge, loyalty, and zeal the Board places complete confidence an arrangement which the Board understands was communicated to, and approved by, Sir John Jordan before Mr. Bland's departure. Similarly, as regards the negotiations for the Hankow Viceroy's loan, it was understood that Sir John Jordan fully approved the appointment of Mr. Hillier to carry on these negotiations, and the bank's interests are protected by the fact that another agent is carrying on its business at Peking while Mr. Hillier is engaged on railway business. Under these circumstances the Board hopes that these temporary arrangements may not produce results detrimental to the conclusion of the Loan Agreements under discussion or inconvenient to His Majesty's Minister.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
THOS. GILBERT, Secretary.
FAIRS
OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[22819]
No. 1.
[July 10.]
SECTION 3.
Chinese Engineering and Mining Company to Foreign Ofice.-(Received July 10.)
Sir,
22, Austin Friars, London, July 9, 1907. REFERRING to my letter of the 3rd July, 1905, sending to His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs a copy of the Agreement of the 13th April, 1905, entered into between the Imperial German Minister in Peking, on behalf of the Imperial German Government, and this Company, I beg to advise you that a fresh Agreement has been entered into under date the 24th May, 1907, by which the land described in the above-mentioned Agreement of the 13th April, 1905, is given back to this Company, and this Company leases to the German Government three parcels of land at Changwangtao, with a total surface area of 41,765 square feet, for an unlimited period at a nominal rent of 1 dollar annually.
I beg to inclose a copy of the new Agreement for your information.
I have, &c. (Signed)
ALFRED W. BERRY,
Secretary.
(Translation.)
Inclosure in No. 1.
Agreement dated 24th May, 1907.
HIS Excellency the Imperial German Minister in Peking, actual Privy Councillor Count von Rex, on behalf of the Imperial German Government, on the one part, and - the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (Limited), or their legal successors, represented by Major Nathan, duly empowered for this purpose, on the other part, conclude with each other the following Agreement:-
Article 1.-The Agreement concluded on the 13th April, 1905, between the Imperial Gerinan Minister in Peking, Baron Mumm von Schwarzenstein, on behalf of the Imperial German Government, and the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (Limited), or their legal successors, is hereby annulled.
Art. 2.-The two parcels of land indicated in the Agreement of the 13th April, 1905, under (a) as 1 and 2, which the Company leased to the German Government at a nominal rent of 1 dollar a-year, are restored to the Company to dispose of at will, and the existing conditions of lease are hereby terminated.
Art. 3. The German Government sells to the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company the buildings belonging to the German camp at Chingwangtao for the sum of 2,500 dollars. This purchase money is to paid in to the German Garrison Administration in Tien-tsin. The buildings must be handed over in the same condition as they are in at present.
Art. 4. The Company leases to the German Government the three parcels of land, 1, 2, and 3 of the blocks A and B, selected conjointly by the representatives of the German Minister and the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (Limited), with a total surface of 2,876 30 square metres, or 41,765 square English feet, for an indefinite time at a nominal rent of I dollar a-year.
Art. 5.-The Company will grant on the landing stage at Chingwangtao all practicable facilities for the discharging and loading of materials and consignments destined for German naval and military establishments or for German civil authorities. The Company will also, if necessary, transport such materials and consignments to or from Tangho by rail, and for such transport will only apply their minimum tariff.
Art. 6. The Company will facilitate the berthing at the landing stages of German ships arriving at Chingwangtao, on payment of appropriate dues, under couditions similar to those applied to those of other nationality. It is, however, understood that the Company, on account of the limited space at their disposal, cannot
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