'The following is the English' translation of the reply of the Netherlands Government to China's note concerning the abolition of Legation des Pays-Bas, Peking, Aug. 10, 1929.
Monsieur lo Ministre, T have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency's Note of April 27 last in which the Chinese Government expresses the hope that Her Majesty's Government would take into sympathetic consideration the desire of China to come to an agreement by which the limitations on China's jurisditional sovereignty will be removed and which will enable the Chinese Government to assume jurisdiction over all nationals within its domain, Your Excellency expressed the conviction" that the. Feeiprocal sudvantages resulting from the tariff convention recently concluded. between our two countries. would be considerably enhanced if the relations between our two countries were regulated on, the basis of equality' in matter# of jurisdiction, and that by the abolition of the system of consular jurisdiction an obstacle would be removed for the full cooperation between the Chinese! People and foreign nationals: especially in commercial matters; the desire of the Chinese Government for promoting the material] {interests of all who choose to asso-ito themselves with the Chinese people would in that case find its carly realization, The 1926 Recommendations Hep Majesty's Government _has given this request its most careful consideration, and now instructs me to inform Your Excellency that just as it was happy to join the other Powers in bringing about the Resolution adopted "on December 10, 1921 by the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament, which placed on record its sympathetic disposition towards China's " aspiration, so it will be pleased to cooperate with these Powers and with China for the] realization and fulfilment of China's desire with regard to the question of jurisdiction.
Tt'may here be recalled that with this end in view Her Majesty's Government wholeheartedly parti-Jeipated in the work of the International Commission which was instituted as a result of the abovementioned Re-clition and which drew up 9 number of valuable recommendations for the benefit of the Chinese Government.
It cannet-be gain said that there lexists a close: relationship between the internal situation of China, the guarantees which the laws offer to foreign rights and interests. and their administration in the whole'
Note under reply.
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