Japan's Position: No Withdrawal of Offices in Railway Zone or Leased Territory Peking, Nov..7.
In an interview with Mr. Kiji Amau, Secretary-General of the Japanese Delegation to the Sino-Japanese Postal Conference, yesterday Reuter's representative asked the following questions and received the following replies:—What Japanese post offices in South Manchuria are to be withdrawn?—It is contemplated withdraw, in accordance with the Washington resolution, post offices other than those in the leased territory of Kuantung and the South Manchuria zone.
Has China made any proposal respecting the post offices in the railway zone?—China, has asked for an expression of Japanese opinion on the meaning of the Washington resolution regarding the railway zone.
Ts it true that the Chinese Delegates presented at the Conference 2 demand for the withdrawal of the Japanese post offices in the railway zone{—No. China presented no such demand at the Conference. Nor is there any reason, why such a question should be discussed at the present conference, because, first of all, Japan agreed at the Washington Conference to the resolution concerning the withdrawal of the foreign postal agencies in China on the understanding that it did not apply to her leased territory and the railway zone, and the resolution was adopted in that sense. Consequéntly, og far as Japan is concerned, she has but to carry out her part in the resolution with that understanding. Furthermore, - in the second place, while the Japanese delegates are commissioned at the present conference to make arrangements for the execution of the Washington resolution, as just mentioned, they are not authorized to alter such resolution.
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