CO129-529-4 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931 — Page 26

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interest and on payment of compensation.

(b) Movable property would at most only be protected against requisition if it formed part of or

Goods were actually situated on British premises.

in a non-British warehouse or in course of transport, for example, would have no treaty protection.

(c) It can not be the intention of the Chinese that immovable property can be requisitioned on payment of compensation, but that movable property cannot be requisitioned at all.

2. The best way out of these difficulties would seem to be to substitute "occupation" for "requisition" in the article dealing with immunity of premises (see your telegram No. 49) and deal with expropriation of immovable and requisition of moveable property in the article contained in your telegram No. 82. With the additional stipulation referred to in paragraph 5 of Mr. Teichman's telegram No. 21, the text of the latter article would then read as in my immediately succeeding telegram.