Four Sino-Japanese postal agree ment relating to the exchange of mail, insured letters, parcel post and postal money orders were signed yesterday evening in connexion with the withdrawal of the Japanese Post Offices on January 1, 1923.
Commenting on the negotiations the Peking Leader" says that everything had been arranged when the Japanese proposed that the Japanese Post Offices in South Manchuria should be cn_ exactly the.same basis as the Imperial Japanese Posts. The Chinese pretested saying that this would be tantamount to giving the Japanes: the sane right in the railway zone as possessed in Japan. The.ession then adjourned. The next day the Japanese delegates came to the meeting prepared to drop the proposal but the Chinese declared that the Waichiaopu was not satisfied and since a diplomatic question had been raised the wishes of the Waichiaopu must be considered. The matter, however, was left for the two Governments to settle later The Sino-Japanese postal agreements contain much uninteresting technical detail. They provide for the withdrawal of 63 post offices, 93 stamp-selling shops and. 148 postal pillars. The agreements show that 57,000,000 mail matters were transported last year and 910,000 parcels, while 90,000,000 were remitted by postal orders. The only disagreement related the interpretation of the clause of the Washington resolution provid ing for the withdrawal "save or except in leased territories or as otherwise specifically provided by treaty." Both sides apparently agreed that this exempted Kuantung and Port Arthur. The Chinese, however. objected when the Japanese contended that the Portsmouth Treaty gave exemption to the South Manchuria Railway zone but ultimately agreed to maintain the status quo of the railway zone accordance with the Sino-Japanese Postal Agreement of 1910 parding final settlement between the Chinese and Japanese Governments. Mexnwhile the local authorities in Saucy Manchuria w arrange a working view of the disruption the withdrawal of the cther Japan ese post offices in China.—Reuter. him of their willingness to become
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