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Enclosure No.2 in Harbin despatch No.86 of 9th December, 1938.

His Excellency Mr Tadeusz Romer,

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Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the

Republic of Poland in Tokyo.

The 19th October 1938

The 5th Year of Kangte

Monsieur l'Ambassadeur,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency' a note of to-day's date, in which you have been so good as to make a communication to me as follows:

*With reference to the recent conversations between us on the present subject, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that, desiring to render normal the legal status of the Consulate of Poland in Harbin, pending the definitive settlement thereof by an appropriate agreement between our two countries and in view of the recent change of the officer at the head of the said Consulate, the Polish Government wishes to obtain the Imperial Exequatur of Manchoukuo for the new Consul and for each new appointee in

future.

"Under instructions from my Government, I have the honour to declare to Your Excellency that, if your Government contemplates opening & Consulate of Manchoukuo in Warsaw or other suitable place in Poland and requests the grant of the Polish Exequatur for the Consul of Manchoukuo there, my Government is prepared to accede to the requset on normal conditions and on condition of reciproci-

ty".

I have the honour hereby to declare that I am authorized to accept, in the name of my Government, the contents of the above

communication.

I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency, Monsieur l'Ambassadeur, the assurance of my highest

consideration.

(signed) C.T.Yuan.

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