Tokyo, Mar. 8.
Marking a definite step towards an carly solution of the thorny perpetual ease question, a special" committee the Privy Council to-day examined and approved an Anglo-Japanese Bgreement for @ settlement of the issue.
The accord provides for the sbolltion of perpetual leases held in the former foreign settlements of Kobe, Yokohama and Nagasaki by British subjects and their substitution lilies of ownership or ordinary Jease.
'A similar agreement has been negotiated with the United States.
Mr, N. Sato, the Foreign Minister, explained the contents of the accord afore the committee. Final sanction rill be given the pact at a plenary: leeting of the Privy Council attended by the Emperor.
Mar.
Moving to remove the last remnant of days when foreigners enjoyed extrateritoriality in Japan, the Foreign Omice will soon initiate negotiations with eight nations for the rendition of the permanent leases held by third citizens in this country.
Similar conversations with Britain and the United States have already regressed to the point where sri accord will soon be signed.
Included among the nations to be approached will be China, France, Utaly, Belgium, the Soviet Union, Switzerland, Denmark and Portugal special' committee of the Privy Couneit yesterday examined—and approved "an Anglo-Japanese agree-mont for a cancellation of perpetual Teases held by Britons, and. their substitution by titles of ownership of ordinary leasehold.
The accord will be submitted plenary session of the Privy Council on March 17, which will be attended by the Emperor. The accord will then be signed in Tokyo snd published.
The new accords provide for the abolition in 1942 of the system of perpetual leases secured by foreign selllers in Kobe, Yokohama, and Nagasaki in the seventies. These holdings were exempt from taxation by virtue of a treaty concluded between the Shogunate and the various Powers in the Ansel era—Domal.
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