and control of the concession, including its official assets and obligations, were formally transferred to China under the 1943 Treaty on the Relinquishment of Extraterritoriality. It was agreed that existing rights and titles to property would be indefeasible, although the government of China could when it wished replace existing deeds with new ones. Exercise of the rightsand titles would be subject to Chinese law concerning taxation, defence and eminent domain.
TIENTSIN
1. There was no formal lease of the British concession at Tientsin. Inconclusive negotiations for its return to China were held in 1927. It was finally returned under the 1943 Treaty on the Relinquishment of Extraterritorial Rights. The terms were the same as those for Canton (see above).
NEWCHUANG
1.
A lease for a British concession was granted in 1861. In 1898 Britain requested that a further area be granted on the grounds that half of the original area had been eroded by the Liao River. There is no record of it being granted and the concession seems to have been washed away.
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