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Agreement Concerning the Rendition of Exclusive Concessions in China, March 14, 1943

Type
Treaty
Date
14 March 1943
Parties
Japan · China
Printed in
Contemporary Japan, March, 1943, p. 377
Section
Documentary Material

Article I The enforcement of rendition of administrative rights of the Japanese exclusive concessions in Hangchow, Suchow, Hankow, Shasi, Tientsin, Fuchow, Amoy, and Chungking shall take place on the thirtieth day of the third month of the eighteenth year of Showa, or the thirty-second year of the Republic of China.

Article II Such establishments as roads, bridges, sewers, canals and embankments, in the exclusive concessions shall be transferred to China without compensation.

Article III The Natianal Government of the Republic of China shall respect and confirm rights and interests concerning real estates and others which the Japanese Government and nationals have on the basis of the existing conditions in the exclusive concessions and shall take necessary measures for that purpose.

Terms of Understanding

(1) Documents and records which are necessary for the enforcement of administration in the exclusive concession areas shall be delivered as soon as possible to the Chinese authorities of the localities concerned.

(2) The Chinese authorities of the localities concerned shall take over the Chinese police whom the Japanese have hitherto had under their employment for the enforcement of administration in the exclusive concessions, as well as the Chinese employees for the management and maintenance of roads and sewers.

(3) The establishments to be transferred under Article II of the Agreement on details shall include various fixed establishments attached to them.

(4) Concrete matters concerning Article III of the Agreement on details shall be decided by consultations between the Japanese and Chinese authorities of the localities concerned.

Transcription note

Source misprints retained ("Natianal" in Article III). Text of paragraph (2) of the Terms of Understanding has interleaved lines in the skewed scan; read as continuous.

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