CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915 — Page 490

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Treaty Powers. Should Japan be alone consulted, it is

reasonable to suppose she will take advantage of the situation and arrange that she soquires the greater benefit of the new part to the detriment of other nationalities.

Section 2. Article 1.

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consideration of our Governmen, than for comment by the Committee.

Article II. The permission to Japanese te omp,or

lease land in South Manchuria and Eastern Inner Lengolia if granted can only in the end result in the "Koreanising" of these

districts.

Such permission to om, er lease, land in China is denied to the nationals of the other Treaty Powers,

If these concessions are made to Articles III and IV. Japanese subjects, it should be distinetly understood that other nationalities should have equal opportunity with Japanese merchants and concessionaires.

Article V. Not only gives Japan an improper preference in a certain section of China, but directly infringes the sovereign rights of the Republican Gavernment.

Article VI. Here again the Japanese demand special

contrary to Treaty.

privileges which are

Article VII The handing over of this import tant branch line of railway is yet one more step towards the control of South Manchuria passing inte the hands of the Japanese

Government.

Section III. Articles I and II. By these Articles the Japanese are again demanding undue privileges, and in this instance in the centre of the Yangtee Valley, which has in the past been declared by H. h's Government as being the sphere of British

Influence. The Chinese Government are again asked to give over their rights, by sgrecing not to dispose of their own property except with the permission of the Japanese.

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