Nanking Denies Japanese Allegation of Secret 1905 Protocol Nanking, Apr. 17.
Refuting the allegation made. the Japanese to. the effect that a secret, protocol, was.
Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1905. prohibiting China from "constructing railways "inthe neighbourhood of paralleled to the South Manchu Raliway/" Mr. Shen Cheng-ting, Director of the Asiatic Depar.ment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a prose interview yesterday, point: ed out that there was no such "profocol" as. alleged by the Japanese, the matter being only informally yolerred to in the minutes of the Sino-Japanese conference which sulted in the Treaty of 1906." He further pointed out that since the minutes had not been formally sign-by. the. plenipotentiaries of, the yo contracting parties nor had they Resembly, in pursuance of Which the] Shanghai' conference, had. been called,
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