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TREATY FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS RELATIVE TO SHANTUNG

Ratifications Exchanged at Peking on June 2nd, 1922

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Japan and China, being equally animated by a sincere desire to settle amicably and in accordance with their common interest outstanding questions relative to Shantung, have resolved to conclude a treaty for the settlement of such questions, and have to that end named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

His Majesty the Emperor of Japan: Baron Tomosaburo Kato, Minister of the Navy; Baron Kijuro Shidehara, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; and Masanao Hanihara, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs; and

His Excellency the President of the Chinese Republic: Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary; Vikyuin Wellington Koo, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary; and Chung-Hui Wang, Former Minister of Justice;

Who, having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

SECTION I.-Restoration of the Former German Leased Territory of Kiaochow

Art. I.-Japan shall restore to China the former German Leased Territory of Kiaochow,

Art. II.-The Government of Japan and the Government of the Chinese Republic shall each appoint three Commissioners to form a Joint Commission with powers to make and carry out detailed arrangements relating to the transfer of the administration of the former German Leased Territory of Kiaochow and to the transfer of public properties in the said Territory and to settle other matters likewise requiring adjustment.

For such purposes, the Joint Commission shall meet immediately upon the coming into force of the present Treaty.

Art. 111. The transfer of the administration of the former German Leased Territory of Kiaochow and the transfer of public properties in the said Territory, as well as the adjustment of other matters under the preceding Article, shall be completed as soon as possible and, in any case, not later than six months from the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty.

Art. IV.-The Government of Japan undertakes to hand over to the Govern- ment of the Chinese Republic, upon the transfer to China of the administration of the former German Leased Territory of Kiaochow, such archives, registers, plans, title-deeds and other documents in the possession of Japan, or certified copies there- of, as may be necessary for the transfer of the administration, as well as those that may be useful for the subsequent administration by China of the said Territory and of the Fifty Kilometre Zone around Kiaochow Bay.