77
of 86th December).
by no conceivable stretch of the imegin-
ation could a regler and unrestricted Japanese passenger
service between Hongkong sau senton come within the framewⱭ PİK
of the agreement, particulaěly en conditions in para raph 4
(d) to (c) could not #pply to any much regular service.
However, since the preamble to the reemant states that
any differences shall be sioraly Lieu, sed and rectified
by the
onsule-lineral ho drew it up, rná ince it
states specifically in the preamble that the agreement itself
is a sumary nece by **. saki end myself ́or convenience
of reference of
anto which we had arrived at sith the
concurrence of bi her authorities concerned, I said that
while I was quite ready to refer the whole matter to Your
ve
Excellency, by despatch, in view of the quotations cited
above which I had submåsted to you and the Grummander-in- hief,
the decision ss to whether sailings of the "uhiro ane reru“
雞
ithin the
remment or not could not be mine, out
must be that of the higher mutho ities on whose understanding
of the Japanese position (which, au:ing the nego÷iations
which led up to the formulating of the agreement, had certainly
not included the establi-weent of a regolør Japanese passenger
service on the jearl #iver) the agrement had been
4.
3eru"
later in the morning I had a long, and, on his side,
increasin ly heated conversation with Mr. kazaki himself.
It became immeälutely obvious that, for some resson, he was
most anxions for the firogene eru to visit Hongkong es
planned and that he me not prepared to accept the delay
involved in referring the question to Your Excellency.
explained again the reasons why I was not prepared on my
own #thority alone, and without reference to arrange for
the required visit. ar. Okazaki thereupon informed me that
I had broken the reesent and that no more requesta sould be
He also
mede for visits of Japanese transports to Hongkon .
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