Settlement of Incident of March 24, 1927, on Terms Similar] to Other Cases: Question of the Revision of the Treaties Nanking, Oct, 17.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued to-day the text of the Notes exchanged between Dr. C. T. Wang and M. Cosme in settlement of the Nanking Incident and also in con~ nection with the revision.of the Sino-French Treaties. The dacuments are as follows:—
Dr, C. T. Wang'
Note Nanking, Oct. 1, 1928, Monsieur lo Charge d'Affaires,—With reference to the Nanking Incident which took place on March} 24 last year, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency th: mated by a desire to promote the most friendly relations happily subsisting between the French and the Chinese people, the Nationalist Government are prepared to bring bout an inmedinte settlement of the case., alist Government undertake" speci-that there will be no similar ation against French lives or legitimate interests.
The Nationalist Government are prepared, for the sake of maintaining friendly relations between tke two countries to give full compensation and to pay as soon as possible for the personal injuries and material damage done to the French residents, in accordance with the general principles of International Law, 'The Nationalist Government Propose, therefore, to institute a ire-French joint' commission to y on the scene of the incident the actual injuries and damage suffered by the French residents at the hands of the Chinese, and to sweets the amount of compensation due in each case, (Signed) Curxorixc T. Waxe, Minister for Foreign Affai In the name Government, I have the honour to convey in the sincerest manner to Your Excellency's Government their regret at the loss of property sustained by the French residents in Nanking and the personal injuries jand material damage done to them, although it has been found, after The French Reply Peking, Oct. 1, 1928.
Monsieur lo Ministre-—In reply to Your Exeellency's Note of October 1, 1928, T have the honour to inform Your Excellency that, like Your Excellensy, I am prepared to settle the Nanking Incident on such investigation of the incident, that it be is as will permit the maintenance was entirely instigated by the Comand development of the amicable munists prior to the establishment relations existing between the of the Nationalist Government at French and Chinese peoples.
Nanking.
It is in this spirit that the Frerch The Nationalist Government hare, Government accepts the sincere re~ in pursuance of their established gret expressed to it for the loss of policy, taken effective steps for the ves, and for the injuries and Protection of the lives and property of the French residents in China and for the puniskient of the soldiers and other persons implicate ed in the incident. With the extermination of the Communists their evil influences; which tended to impair the friendly relations between the French and the Chinese people, the Nationalist Government feel confident that henceforth task of protecting foreigners will be rendered easier, and the: Nation-material damage suffered by the French nationals during the Incidy ent of March 24, 1927, In this connection, it is with satis. faction that I take note of the will clearly shawn by the Nationalist Government to punish the guilty parties, and I-do not doubt that re lo for the Incident will be the punishments incurred by those
meted out without delay.. It is understood that the Nat{ovalist. Government will henceforth take all the proper measures for assuring the protection of French nationals residing in Chinese territory, and that they will secure them from the recurrence of any incident of a like nature.
Finally, I beg to agree to the appointment of a Sino-French Joint Commission whose members will be subsequently chosen by the respec-parties, and whose mission it be to verify and assess, with to making immediate prepara, tions, material damage gf. every kind suffered by French" nationals or establishments placed under the protection of the Government of the French Republic, Tam confident that the fulfilment of the terms in respect to all the above points by the Nationalist ernment is of such a nature as to develop profitably the relations between France and China. It is im this spirit that I consider the execution of there terms which is to he effected within the shortest possible period as constituting a settlement of the questions from the Nanking Incident.
(Signed) H. Cosstr, Charge d'Affaires.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.