To the Editor of the "Norra-Caisa Dairy News proposed to take to thi Hage tribunal In view of the fact that China had
at a loss to understand the attitad her questions with Japan, 1 was quite
connexion with ber Portogel. No one could for a moment that the Imperial Goveroment of Peking would refuse to comply with the Portuguese Commissioner's proposal on the ground that foreigners favour foreigners. If this be indeed the reason for Chioa's attitude, some note shoold surely be takea of it by those who are bound to uphold the dignity of the Hague tribunal, because it is to this tribunal that Portugal proposed to submit the Mscao Boundary question Ax regards China's decision, consider-indeed s matter for could not see her way to pending question between China appears to be one to be adjudicated by an arbitration Court, as it involves points of Interostions! Law that can only be rightly judged by independent jorists, The genesis of the Portagaese Colony in South El the services rendered by the Portoguese arms to the Chinese adjacent i posite re and had their nest in the
occupation of the little peoiosals and ite dependencies, and the of the Luzo Chinese Treaty of 1887-8—these would be the matters to be anhmitted by Portugal for investigation.
On the part of Chios, she would, And there is, besides, an international instrament—Treaty of 1887-8—whereby the perpetual occupation and government of Macao and its depeodoneies by Portogal is fully recognized by China, in exchange for our co-opera tion in the collection of Imperial revenue in the places around the Portaguese Colony.
T may here mention en passant for'
th, that th recognition of our services in the extirpation of pi Troperial edict, or rome such ment, was lasaed, at the request of mandarins and merchants, in which the Vow sanctioned, La" the" Historic jon of Macan by the Portaguere Macao" by Mr. 0. A. Montalto de Jeane, there ina footnote at page 19 which reads thus "Ti 4. the existence of the doccment in question before its di appearance) is corroborated by an English sinologue "In the Senate house, which is built, of granite and two stories high, sre columns of the came material, with Chinese characters cat into them signifying " solemn erasion of the place from the Emperor of China. Sir George. Stannton's accounts of Lord Marartaey's Embassy to Chios, Vol. IT, 588.
I may also submit for consideration the attacks made upon Maceo by the Dutch in the seventeenth century. The place was no doubt considered by Holland as " Portuguese possession, and ao, she being at war with Spain, Portage bine of that time wader the Spanish domination, she thought of ccenpying it. The eonclasion to be drawa from this fact must be thea that the prevalent idea la Europe concern ing Macao, even before one century of orally, as she affirm that oftentimes done, hi oar occupation of the little peninsula, lad passed, that it Petia of ber territory by to Portugal. But let us suppose ney arid, the Portogaese were acti is well known in the history that the place was looked upon by the
occupied in their glorious Datch as Chinese Leroy in that sed a floger i discoveries daring the 16th and 17th its defence it is el Minot. abe has for. centuries, They found their way along feited her rights rounded the From the foregoing to the mi is of sll the Portuguese there cannot be any h question that Macso and its dependent of Good Hope,—traversed the cies belong to Portugal de facto sand 1 Ocean and reached Indin, the de jure, However, bad China agreed object of their quest. They sailed to the pending question being solved by thence to the far eastern rexs until they dependent third party, the learned Innded st the shores of Old Cathay, and, after many vicissitudes, Maceo might take was founded by them. The Porta-clined to allow China to recover what rhe guese Colony in Soath China was thas contends has been wrongly taken frow the outcome of the spirit of enterprise her, Anyhow a decision based only on This historical fact international justice would be given. does not not, it is trae, by itself, confer Bat, throazh China's obstinacy, or by on us any legal title to the possession, ome unknown reasons of hers, or it of the territory in our occupation. may be that she is it Bat our advent was marked by the destruction of pirates against whom the interesting and important award Imperial Naval forces had been unable in the history of disputes among to cope—we had to make use of mailed nations arising out of the Rights of flats to carve a way to the place where
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