Consular Activities May be Tokyo. Aug. 22.
Through informal inquiries here, virtually all the countries maintain-jing consulates-general and consulates jin Manchoukuo have learned. that the Changchun government intends, shortly, to take a decisive step in regard to consular activities. "The principal nations affected are the [United States and Great Britain.
Tt was learned to-day from authoritative sources here that nations which now maintain consuls in Man-Jchoukuo and accredit them to the Chinese Government at Nanking will be asked to place themselves in one lof three categories with respect to the new empire.
These three classifications are:
Nations that have recognized Man-Jchoukuo end maintain consuls.
Nations that exchange consuls. with Manchoukuo under special lerrangements like the Soviet Union, without the formal consent of Man: choukuo and without recognizing the authority of the government at In the opinion of the Changchun legal experts now in Tokyo assisting Dr. Chao Chin-pao, President of the [Legislative Yuan, in drafting the new Manchoukuo constitution, the JAmerican, British and most of the Jother consuls-seneral and consuls in Manchoukuo are in reality unofficial trade agents.
In the event of an emergency, inarm to an American, for instance, lor a law violation by'an American, the case must be adjusted through the good offices of the Japanese. Any formal exchange of notes between an American consul and. the Changchun Foreign Office might be construed as de facto recognition.
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