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native goods to the newly-opened ports in Manchuria” should serve as a satisfactory solution of this question.
By these Regulations not only duty-paid foreign imports, but also native goods on which coast-trade half-duty has been paid, may, at the option of the merchant, be provided with an exemption certificate when they are being transported to the new Manchurian ports from the Treaty ports of Tien-tsin, Newchwang, &c.
This arrangement fulfils Treaty obligations, and its application to the Shanghae-Nanking Railway as it stands appears desirable, in order that uniformity of practice may be preserved.
0
I avail, &c.
(Signed)
J. N. JORDAN.
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
[June 29.]
SECTION 5.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received June 29.)
(No. 214. Confidential.) Sir,
Peking, May 12, 1908. I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, in translation, copy of a note which was addressed by the Wai-wu Pu to the Japanese Minister on the 6th instant, in reply to Baron Hayashi's protest of the 22nd January last, on the subject of the Hsinmintun-Fakumen Railway.
This paper was furnished to me privately by his Excellency Tong Shao-yi, who informed me that the substance of it had been telegraphed to the Chinese Minister in London for communication to you.
As reported in my telegram No. 86 of the 25th April, the question has been under consideration between the Japanese Minister and Tong Ta-jên, but no basis of settlement has so far been reached, and the difference of view which separates the two sides is still very considerable.
The Japanese Government have on more than one occasion suggested that the Chinese should be satisfied with permission to construct branch lines from Fakumen or other points eastwards to the South Manchurian Railway, but the Japanese Minister has fully realized that such an offer would not meet the wishes of China, and has expressed his personal view that a solution might be found if Fakumen were made the terminus of the extension from Hsinmintun and this were connected with the South Manchurian Railway by a branch line as above indicated. Even this, however, would not prove acceptable to China, who insists upon the right to extend the line, if necessary, to Tsitsihar, but is perfectly ready to make as many connections with the South Manchurian Railway as the interests of trade may demand.
The Japanese Minister leaves for Japan on the 15th instant, and he told me to-day that he intends to confer with his Government on the subject.
The Chinese are now inclining to the view that a prolongation from Fakumen to Hailar might suit them better than one to Tsitsihar, and as this would increase the distance from the South Manchurian Railway, it might tend to facilitate the solution of the question.
Some days ago my French colleague, acting upon a telegram from the French Ambassador at Tôkiô, naïvely suggested to me that we should seek compensation for the abandonment of the Fakumen project in securing from China railway advantages between Hankow and Szechuan, to be shared, presumably, with the French group interested in that line.
I am sending a copy of this despatch to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tôkiô,
I have, &c.
(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.
Inclosure in No. 1.
(Translation.) Your Excellency,
Wai-wu Pu to Baron Hayashi.
Peking, May 6, 1908. WE have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's despatch of the 22nd January, in which you declared again that, in view of the stipulation in the records of the Sino-Japanese Conference, the Japanese Government were absolutely unable to agree to the extension of the Imperial Railway of North China to Fakumen; that a definite engagement had been entered into at the Conference, for the protection of the interests of the South Manchurian Railway, not to construct a parallel trunk line in the neighbourhood or a branch line which would damage those interests; and that the Chinese authorities were responsible for the due observance of this engagement, and must see that it is not disregarded.
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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.
4
native goods to the newly-opened ports in Manchuria” should serve as a satisfactory solution of this question.
By these Regulations not only duty-paid foreign imports, but also native goods on which coast-trade half-duty has been paid, may, at the option of the merchant, be provided with an exemption certificate when they are being transported to the new Manchurian ports from the Treaty ports of Tien-tsin, Newchwang, &c.
This arrangement fulfils Treaty obligations, and its application to the Shanghae- Nanking Railway as it stands appears desirable, in order that uniformity of practice may be preserved.
0
I avail, &c.
(Signed)
J. N. JORDAN.
CHINA RAILWAYS.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[22280]
No. 1.
[June 29.]
SECTION 5.
Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received June 29.)
(No. 214. Confidential.) Sir,
Peking, May 12, 1908. I HAVE the honour to transmit to you, in translation, copy of a note which was addressed by the Wai-wu Pu to the Japanese Minister on the 6th instant, in reply to Baron Hayashi's protest of the 22nd January last, on the subject of the Hsiumintun- Fakumen Railway.
This paper was furnished to me privately by his Excellency Tong Shoa-yi, who informed me that the substance of it had been telegraphed to the Chinese Minister in London for communication to you.
As reported in my telegram No. 86 of the 25th April, the question has been under consideration between the Japanese Minister and Tong Ta-jên, but no basis of settle- ment has so far been reached, and the difference of view which separates the two sides is still very considerable.
The Japanese Government have on more than one occasion suggested that the Chinese should be satisfied with permission to construct branch lines from Fakumen or other points eastwards to the South Manchurian Railway, but the Japanese Minister has fully realized that such an offer would not meet the wishes of China, and has expressed his personal view that a solution might be found if Fakumen were made the terminus of the extension from Hsinmintun and this were connected with the South Manchurian Railway by a branch line as above indicated. Even this, however, would not prove accept- able to China, who insists upon the right to extend the line, if necessary, to Tsitsihar, but is perfectly ready to make as many connections with the South Manchurian Railway as the interests of trade may demand.
The Japanese Minister leaves for Japan on the 15th instant, and he told me to-day that he intends to confer with his Government on the subject.
The Chinese are now inclining to the view that a prolongation from Fakumeu to Hailar might suit them better than one to Tsitsihar, and as this would increase the distance from the South Manchurian Railway, it might tend to facilitate the solution of the question.
Some days ago my French colleague, acting upon a telegram from the French Ambassador at Tôkiô, naïvely suggested to me that we should seek compensation for the abandonment of the Fakumen project in securing from China railway advantages between Hankow and Szechuan, to be shared, presumably, with the French group interested in that line.
I am sending a copy of this despatch to His Majesty's Ambassador at Tôkið,
I have, &c.
(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.
Inclosure in No. 1.
(Translation.) Your Excellency,
Wai-wu Pu to Baron Hayashi.
Peking, May 6, 1908. WE have the bonour to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency's despatch of the 22nd January, in which you declared again that, in view of the stipulation in the records of the Sino-Japanese Conference, the Japanese Government were absolutely unable to agree to the extension of the Imperial Railway of North China to Fakumen; that a definite engagement had been entered into at the Conference, for the protection of the interests of the South Manchurian Railway, not to construct a parallel trunk line in the neighbourhood or a branch line which would damage those interests; and that the Chinese authorities were responsible for the due observance of this engagement, and must sce that it is not disregarded.
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