CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942 — Page 233

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Daily Telegraph

2 0 OCT 1942 CHINA'S TREATY

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'COMPLETE EQUALITY' From Our Own Correspondent CHUNGKING, Monday.

The newspaper Ta Kung Pao pre- dicts to-day that "draft agreements based on absolute equality" will be drawn up by Britain and the United States to replace the existing equal treaties" with China.

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Urging that all imperialistic privileges" should be eliminated, the journal mentions the following:

concession settle- Consular jurisdiction:

as British- ments; Leased territories, such leased Kowloon, Portuguese Macao and French Kwangchowwan.

Rigid stationing of troops in China; The Chinese obligation to keep Taku unfortified; the right to have a Legation quarter in Peking;

administration of International

Whangpoo River, Shanghai, and the Pei River, Tientsin. Rights of navigating Chinese internal water- coastal ways and employing foreign pilots; trading: foreign warships

and anchoring in Chinese waters

patrolling

Foreign factories in the treaty ports: foreign employees in the Chinese Maritime Customs, salt administrations and foreign-financed rall- ways; use of foreign languages in Chinese official documents

Running railways and working mines; free- dom of missionary work: and the unilateral most-favoured nations clause.

The newspaper adds:

"In our

opinion Britain and America have no idea of concluding only a provisional, incomplete agreement for the abol tion of extra-territoriality.”

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