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Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Extract from the "Shengking Daily Newspaper" of April 15, 1908.
(Translation.)
THE case of the murder of Kao Ching Hsien at Kaiping and the Hsiung Yueh fishery rights has been the subject of frequent discussion between Mr. Kato, the Japanese Consul-General at Mukden, and their Excellencies Hsu and Tang with Tao, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. We have now heard that the case has been satisfactorily settled on the 13th instant on the following terms:
1. The late Chief of the Fishery Bureau of Fengtien Province, Huang Chia-lin, will be denounced to the Throne, deprived of his rank, and expelled from the province.
2. The Chinese Government will, in order to show their commiseration for the family of the late Kao Ching Hsien, pay over to them the sum of 2,000 dollars.
3. Chinese subjects residing within the limits of the Kuantung leased territory will, in accordance with the former practice, be allowed to take fish in territorial waters outside the limits of Kuantung.
4. Chinese subjects fishing in territorial waters outside the limits of the leased territory must, in accordance with the Chinese official Regulations, pay fishery dues and take out licences. They shall be taxed at the same rate as Chinese fishermen, no difference whatever being made between them.
5. The protection of the fisheries is the responsibility of the Chinese Government. The said Government will therefore on no account collect additional taxes, nor will it intrust its duties in connection with the fisheries to private persons or private Companies.
6. Orders have been already issued during the past year for the abolition of the Japanese Company for the protection of the fisheries. On no account will such Company be allowed to re-establish itself.
7. The question as to whether Japanese residing in the leased territory can or cannot take fish in territorial waters outside the limits of Kuantung will be submitted to Governor Tang and the Japanese Minister at Peking for discussion and settlement.
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to the Marquis de Soveral.
RECO[June 18.3 15 001 08]
SECTION 2.
Sir,
Foreign Office, June 18, 1908.
I HAVE the honour to inform you that after my conversation with you on the 11th instant, I addressed a communication by telegraph to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, on the subject of the difficulties which have arisen at Macao between Portugal and China.
A telegram has now been received from Sir J. Jordan in reply, stating that he was told on the 15th instant by the Wai-wu Pu that they had no information as to the reported refusal of the mandarin in charge of a Chinese vessel to sign the register of entry when in the inner harbour of Macao, or as to the claim preferred by him that these waters were Chinese. They had, however, on the receipt of a representation from the Portuguese Minister at Lisbon, telegraphed to the Canton Viceroy for an explanation.
Acting in concert with the Portuguese Minister, Sir J. Jordan supported the former's verbal suggestion that a Mixed Commission should be appointed to delimit the boundaries of Macao. The Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu present on the occasion seemed to regard the proposal favourably, but said that they could come to no decision before consulting Prince Ch'ing and other Ministers who were out of town at the Summer Palace.
I have, &c. (Signed) E. GREY.
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[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government) C
37616
38
Inclosure 2 in No. 1.
Extract from the "Shengking Daily Newspaper" of April 15, 1908.
(Translation.)
THIE case of the murder of Kao Ching Hsien at Kaiping and the Hsiung Yueh fishery rights has been the subject of frequent discussion between Mr. Kato, the Japanese Consul-General at Mukden, and their Excellencies Hsu and Tang with Tao, the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs. We have now heard that the case has been satisfactorily settled on the 13th instant on the following terms :---
1. The late Chief of the Fishery Bureau of Fengtien Province, Huang Chia-lin, will be denounced to the Throne, deprived of his rank, and expelled the province.
2. The Chinese Government will, in order to show their commiseration for the family of the late Kao Ching Hsien, pay over to them the sum of 2,000 dollars.
3. Chinese subjects residing within the limits of the Kuantung leased territory will, in accordance with the former practice, be allowed to take fish in territorial waters outside the limits of Kuantung.
4. Chinese subjects fishing in territorial waters outside the limits of the leased territory must, in accordance with the Chinese official Regulations, pay fishery dues and take out licences. They shall be taxed at the same rate as Chinese fishermen, no difference whatever being made between them.
5. The protection of the fisheries is the responsibility of the Chinese Government. The said Government will therefore on no account collect additional taxes, nor will it intrust its duties in connection with the fisheries to private persons or private Companies.
6. Orders have been already issued during the past year for the abolition of the Japanese Company for the protection of the fisheries. On no account will such Company be allowed to re-establish itself.
7. The question as to whether Japanese residing in the leased territory can or cannot take fish in territorial waters outside the limits of Kuantung will be submitted to Governor Tang and the Japanese Minister at Peking for discussion and
settlement.
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[20883]
No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to the Marquis de Soveral.
RECO [June 18.3 15 001 08
SECTION 2.
Sir,
Foreign Office, June 18, 1908. I HAVE the honour to inform you that after my conversation with you on the 11th instant, I addressed a communication by telegraph to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, on the subject of the difficulties which have arisen at Macao between Portugal and China.
A telegram has now been received from Sir J. Jordan in reply, stating that he was told on the 15th instant by the Wai-wu Pu that they had no information as to the reported refusal of the mandarin in charge of a Chinese vessel to sign the register of entry when in the inner harbour of Macao, or as to the claim preferred by him that these waters were Chinese. They had, however, on the receipt of a representation from the Portuguese Minister at Lisbon, telegraphed to the Canton Viceroy for an explanation.
Acting in concert with the Portuguese Minister, Sir J. Jordan supported the former's verbal suggestion that a Mixed Commission should be appointed to delimit the boundaries of Macao. The Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu present on the occasion seemed to regard the proposal favourably, but said that they could come to no decision before consulting Prince Ch'ing and other Ministers who were out of town at the Summer Palace.
I have, &c. (Signed) E. GREY.
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