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No. 1556
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My telegram No. 1532 [of 30th November:
paragraph 8.
extraterritoriali,1
As you may already have heard from your United States colleague, United States Government have replied as follows to Chinese request that inland and coastal navigation should be dealt with as originally proposed by Chinese Government.
2. Although this subject is not related to extraterritoriality United States Government are prepared to deal with it by one of the following three me thods: (1) the inclusion of pertinent. provisions in the proposed exchange of notes, (2) the insertion in the treaty of a full article on the lines of articles on the subject which are normally included in modern comprehensive treaties between the United States Government and other countries, (3) the reservation of the matter for inclusion in the later comprehensive treaty. The last solution is the one which the United States Government would prefer.
3. In addition, your United States colleague has been instructed to show Minister for Foreign Affairs the draft article on navigation previously contemplated by the United States Government on the lines indicated in my telegram No. 1485 [of 17th November] a step which of course seriously prejudices our own chances of reaching a satisfactory settlement.
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4. We have informed the Americans that we greatly prefer the first solution, that we have instructed you to act accordingly and to make every effort to secure its acceptance, and that we trust the United States Government will do the same. We have pointed out that the second solution would be the worst possible one from our point of view, since its insertion in the United States treaty would make it much more difficult for us to obtain an understanding whereby the existing practice or some part of it would be zutcined on a reciprocal basis.
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