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the interest they hold in the undertakings. In trying to develop mining property in China, Germany is actuated by no treacherous motives against this country, but seeks alone to increase commerce and improve the relations between the two countries.
If at any time the Chinese should form schemes for the development of Shantung, for the execution of which it is necessary to obtain foreign capital, the Chinese Government, or whatever Chinese may be interested in such schemes, shall, in the first instance, apply to German capitalists. Application shall also be made to German manufacturers for the necessary machinery and materials before the manu- facturers of any other Power are approached. Should German capitalists or manu- facturers decline to take up the business the Chinese shall then be at liberty to obtain money and materials from sources of other nationality than German.
This convention requires the sanction of His Majesty the Emperor of China and His Majesty the Emperor of Germany. When the sanction of His Majesty the Emperor of China reaches Berlin the agreement approved by His Majesty the Emperor of Germany shall be handed to the Chinese Ambassador. When the final
draft is agreed to by both parties four clean copies of it shall be made, two in Chinese and two in German, which shall be duly signed by the Chinese and German Minister at Berlin and Peking. Each Power shall retain one Chinese copy and one German copy, and the agreement shall be faithfully observed on either side.
Dated, the fourteenth day of the second moon of the twenty-fourth year of Kwang Hsu. (March 6th, 1898.)
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND
GERMANY RELATIVE TO CHINA
OCTOBER 16TH, 1900
No. 1.
THE MARQUESS OF SALISBURY TO COUNT HATZFELDT.
Your Excellency,
Foreign Office, October 16th, 1900.
I have the honour to inform you that Her Majesty's Government approve the Agreement, annexed hereto, which has been negotiated between your Excellency and myself with regard to the principles on which the mutual policy of Great Britain and Germany in China should be based.
I have, etc.,
(Signed)
SALISBURY.
Inclosure in No. 1.
AGREEMENT SIGNED ON THE 16TH OCTOBER, 1900.
Her Britannic Majesty's Government and the Imperial German Government, being desirous to maintain their interests in China and their rights under existing Treaties, have agreed to observe the following principles in regard to their mutual policy in China:-
1. It is a matter of joint and permanent international interest that the ports on the ivers and littoral of China should remain free and open to trade and to every other legitimate form of economic activity for the nationals of all countries without
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