CO129-421 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [3-4] — Page 440

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I beg to inform you that the Committee of the

Chamber of Commerce have recently had under consideration the

terms of the new Agreement which it is understood Japan has recent- -ly submitted to China and which is now under discussion between the two Governments, and I now enclose copy of this proposed

Agreement which I believe to be correct. I would add that this

copy has been received from a reliable source, on the understanding that the Chamber of Commerce does not make the doctment public.

▲ copy of this paper has no doubt been already

considered by His Excellency the Governor, but the Committee hold-

-ing the opinion that in many respects an infringement of the

policy of "the open door" and "equality of opportunity to all the

Treaty Powers alike is seriously threatened, should the demands

put forward by Japan be accepted by the Peking Government, consider it advisable to lay their views before His Excellency and trust that he will see his way to submit them to His Majesty's Govern-

-ment.

The enclosed translation of the document handed to

His Excellency President Yuan Shih Kai by the Japanese Minister consists of four sections, containing in all 20 articles. I under- -stand that a further article has since been added, but this may

be merely a repetition of the preamble of Section IV, while it is

reported that in representing their case to the friendly Treaty Powers the Japanese Government only communicated eleven of the

twenty-one articles as being a statement of their case.

Be this as it may it would appear from the very guarded statements made in the House of Commone by the Government

that on the whole the Japanese demands are not considered as