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WEIHAIWEI-EXTRATERRITORIALITY
ANNEX
List of Facilities to be granted and Land and Buildings on Liukungtao to be leased to the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by the National "Government of the Republic of Ching.
1.
2.
Golf Club and golf club-house. Royal naval canteen teahouse.
3. Naval cemetery.
4.
6.
Admiralty village.
5. Warrant officers' club and tennis courts. Officers' and Men's recreation grounds together with the buildings thereon and the hockey and cricket grounds and tennis courts; and the officers' squash courts.
7. That portion of the hospital site," with buildings, etc., thereon, situated southward to the road traversing the site about its centre, together with the Commander-in-Chief's tennis courts, as shown on the accompanying plan (Marked “A”).
8.
9.
10.
Commander-in-Chief's office (61) and house adjoining (62).
United Services Club and garden (57). Residences Nos, (52), (54), (55), (58), (59), (60), (73), on plan with their gardens.
11. Hospital (68), hospital store (60), re- sidence for slok berth staff (49), and dynamo house (51).
12.
13.
Store-houses Nos. (70), (30-40), in- oluding (75), (47), (48), (68), (29a), and two bays of No. (29), t.e., suffiolent for the storage of 6,000 tons of coal.
Royal naval canteen (temporarily pending the provision by the National Government of the Republio of a suitable building in lieu).
(Note)—The numbers in brackets refer to the numbers on the plan (marked “B”) attached.
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Joint use with the Chinese Navy of the following facilities, and land and buildings : 1.
Rifle ranges, including land and buildings. 2. Two artesian wells.
3.
Iron pier.
Also accommodation in camber for naval coal lighters and facilities in respect of coaling coolies.
As regards the quarries to be handed over under the provisions of the Convention for the Rendition of Weihaiwel, the Government of the United Kingdom shall be permitted to obtain stone therefrom when required free of
cost.
Two plans (marked “A” and “B”) showing the land and buildings, etc., abové referred to are attached.
IV. EXTRATERRITORIÁLITY
On the subject of the negotiations for the abolition of extraterritoriality the document- ary narrative in the previous
Year Book
was brought down to September, 1929. Since then there have been further exchanges of notes as well as counter-proposals and re- joinders thereto.
Exchange of Notes between Great
Britain and China Relating to the Relinquishment of Extraterri- toriality
(The following Aide-Memoire handed to the Chinese Minister in London by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on December 20, 1929, together with the reply handed by the Chinese Minister to Sir Victor Wellesley on December 24, 1929, was officially issued at London.)
(a) From the Rt. Hon. A. Henderson to
Minister Sze.
Ch. XX
"His Majesty's Governinent in the United Kingdom have had under,consideration the position which has arisen in consequence of the Note addressed to them by the Chinese Government on April 27 last, and the sub- sequent correspondence on the subject of the proposed modifications in the present system of extraterritoriality in China. His Majesty's Government are aware of official and semi- official declarations on the part of the Chinese Government, which thoy Interpret us in- dicating the earnest desire of the Chinese Government that substantial progress should be made before January 1, 1930, if not with the actual process of abolition of extraterri- toriality, at any rate with serious negotia- tions having in view the initiation of that process in the immediate future.
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His Majesty's Government, animated by a desire to meet the wishes of the Chinose Government in a liberal and sympathetic spirit, sought to elicit from thein concrete proposals which might serve as a basis for detailed negotiations. When it became ap- parent that the Chinese Governinent felt some difficulty in putting forward concrete proposals for preliminary study, His Majesty's Govern- ment hoped that the common purpose which both Governments had in view might best be sorved if discussions could be initiated beforu the end of the year between His Majesty' Minister in Peking and the Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs in Nanking. It was their intention that Sir Miles Lampson should proceed to Nanking for that purpose, but unfortunately the outbreak of civil war over a wide area in China made it impossible to carry that intention into effect.
"The Intricate readjustments that will be necessary, both in the legal and administrative spheres, in a gradual and progressive solution of the problem of extraterritoriality such as is contemplated by both Governments can only be effected as a result of negotiations conducted in a friendly and unprejudiced atmosphere. It would be a grave misfortune were anything to occur to prevent such negotiations from being initiated or from being carried to a satisfactory conclusion. The Chinese Government themselves will realize that any attack upon the legal rights of British subjects or the interests which they have built up, with benefit to China as well as themselves, in the course of nearly a hundred years on the faith of solemn treaty stipulations, would confront His Majesty's Government with a serious responsibility, as such an attack would be gravely prejudicial to the prospects of negotiating a friendly solution of an intricate problem.
"His Majesty's Government desire to do their utmost to create a favourable atmosphere for negotiations. No responsibility attaches to them for the political conditions in China which have prevented the commencement of serious discussions. They deplore the fact that this step has been prevented by such conditions, and they appreciate the difficulties with which, in view of the prominence which has been given to the particular date of January 1, 1930, the Chinese Government may be faced should that date arrive without any visible progress having been made with the detailed consideration of the problem of extraterritoriality. His Majesty's Gover- ment are, therefore, willing to agree that January 1, 1930, should be treated as the date from which the process of the gradual abolition of extraterritoriality should be regarded as having commenced in principle, and would have no objection to any declaration con formable with that attitude which the Chinese Government may think it desirable to lasue. His Majesty's Government are ready to enter into detailed negotiations, as soon as
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