The Archive · 1920

The Concessions

6.—To recognize that all the Rus. sian Concessions must dispose of their own police, depending from the Mun cinel Councils and institutions which will depend from the Russian Prosecutor with regard to measures to be taken cavernning criminal activities which might erase.

7.—The Municipal Administrations of the Russian Concessions must remain intact end continue to function strictly on the basis of existing regulations; the Russian Counsellors attached to the Chinese Commissioners for Foreign Afiairs will be entrusted with the immediate control of the Municipal Coun-oils of the Russian Concessions.

'A conference is proposed for the arrangement of some such measures, and pending that the Chinese Government is requested to suspend the action of the local Chinese authorities.

The document is signed by representatives of the Harbin Municipal Council, Harbin Chamber of Commerce, Association of Members of the Judicial Rody in Manchuria, Association of House Owners of Harbin, Russian Concession, Hankow, and the Russian Colony of Tientsin.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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