French Conventi is on Frontier Trade Denounced: Proposal to}
Negotiate New: Foreign Status Till New Treaties Come Nanking, July 13.
The following is: a translation of the Note sent by Dr. C. T. Wang, Minister for Foreign Aairs to the Charge 4'Affaires of France, term-mating the three Conventions relative to the frontier trade between China and France concluded between 1886 and 1895:—
Monsieur lo Charge Affaires:
"On behalf of the Nationalise [Government of the Republic of China, have the honour to address the following Note to your Excel-louey with the request that your Excellency be good enough to transmit the same to your Government fand to favour me with a reply.
"The Convention of Tientain rela tive to the frontier trade between [China and France signed at Tientstn jon April 25, 1886 (the 22nd day of the 3rd moon of the 12th year of Kuang Hou), the Additional Comrmiereial Convention signed at Peking on June 26, 1887 (the Gth day the Sth moon of the 13th year 0 Kuang Hsu), and the Convention Supplementary to the Additional Commercial Convention signed at! Peking on June 20, 1896 (the 2ath day of the 5th moon of the 2ist year of Kuang Hsu) have all lone expired, and notification for the con. clusion of mew agreements in their place has already been given to your Government.
stu view of the importance of the trade relations between the frontiers tance of 200 metres, but it is quite clearly stated that the Japanese guards were sent to the South Manchuria Railway bridge, on which the explosion took place. "That the duet was quite efficiently guarded by the Japanese is confirmed by various witnesses who agree that during the days immediately preceding the outrage, Japanese sentries were invariably posted at the viaduct, either on the top of the embankment or on the Huang Ku-tun Road. The Japanese official inves tigation committee states also that the spot was patrolled throughout the night preceding the fatal morning,.and that one of the sentries al actually saw the explosion. Chinese witnesses declare that people coming' from Mukden who wanted to pass through the viaduct in the early morning were refused passage Ly [Japanese sentries posted on the roan feast of the crossing.
'A Joint Sino-Japanese Committee was. immediately formed to inves tigate the affair and endeavour to discover the plotters but no authentie statement has been issued up to the present. It is understood that' the Japanese members of the Committee presented a report but the Chinese members refused to sign it—Reuter. of Yunnan, Kuangsi and Kuangtung and Prench Indo-China, it is yecessary to agree upon new regulations for the, purpose of developing such trade and promoting the friendship between the two countries.
"The Nationalist Government therefore, have to declare that the above-mentioned Conventions shal! he considered terminated as. from Joly 7, 1928 and propose that the Governments of China and France each immediately appoint Plenipo-tentiones to negotiate now agreements on the basis of equality and mutual, respect for sovereignty, to meet the urgent needs of the present time, "I have the honour to add tha', after the termination of the above mentioned Conventions and pending, the conclusion of new agreements, the Nationalist Government wil: promulgate interim regulations in order to maintain the land trade relations between China and France,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.