CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913 — Page 529

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NO. 46.

Sir:-

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April 28, 1913.

JUN 2 19P

I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of Your Excell-

ency's Note No. 49 of the 22nd instant, in which, under instr-

uttions of His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,

you in ora me of the adhesion of the Crown Colonies and Protect-

orates in the following list to the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Japan signed at London on

April 3, 1911, and state that the interpretation of Articles 1

and 8 of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty put on record in your Note No.22 of March will apply in the same way to the Crown Colonies and Protectorates now adhering.

To obviate misunderstanding I would add that, with

regard to Weihaiwel it was from the beginning the intention of

both Governments that the present Treaty should apply from the time of its coming into force, and, moreover, with this object, the plenipotentiaries of the two Powers exchanged secret Notes

on the occasion of the signature of the Treaty. The Imperial Government have therefore been extending its effectivity to

Weihaiwel from its coming into force, and understand that it is not with the recipt of Your Excellency's present notification

that it first becomes effective. To this view His Britannic Majesty's Government will of course take no objection.

Further, with regard also to the Kowloon Leased

Territory, as is expressly stated in the above mentioned secret

correspondence exchanged at the time of the signature of the

Treaty, the Imperial Government, in so far & concernis the

present Treaty, regard it as being part of Hongkong and included

therein.

I avail, etc..

(signed) Makino Nobuaki. Baron,

LIST.

Minister for Foreign Affairs.

(The list is identical with that given in our Note to the Jap nese Government of April 22, No.49. Register No. 76)