CO129-588-23 China- British extra-territorial rights- negotiations with China 28-3-1942 - 27-11-1942 — Page 256

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UK Commmel's on

US. Dreft.

FOREIGN OFFICE. 9. W. 1.

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14th October, 1942.

ky dear Ambassador,

With regard to the draft treaty covering the

abrogation of extraterritorial jurisdiction in China

which you sent me in your letter of the 5th October

and the comments contained in my preliminary reply

of the following day, I send you herewith a memorandum

containing some suggested amendments for the consideration

of your Government and some indications of the points

on which additional provisions will be required in the

British treaty to cover, for example, the rendition of

the British concessione at Tientsin and Canton.

I should be grateful if you would note that these

observations are subject to the views of the Governments

of the Dominions and India and may therefore be modified

in the light of the consultation which is now taking

place. But in view of the intention of your Government

of which you informed me on the 10th October to hold

themselves in readiness to present their treaty to the

Chinese within a week, I have thought it best to let you

have at once our views even though in provisional form.

His Excellency

The Hon. John G. Winant,

etc., etc., etc.

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