The privileges extended to members of the Chinese Embassy, he said, included the use of code in telegrams, exemption from taxes and freedom of visiting the Diet while the latter is in session Chinese consular officials and residents throughout Japan, the statement continüed, are also being given a "considerate and generous treatment."
The Government, the spokesman said, has taken every care to protect the' Chinese diplomatic establishments here.
"The Chinese Embassy here," the official remarked, "will be closed shortly for reasons unknown to the Japanese Government.
"It is hardly necessary to point out that the Japanese authorities will give full protection to the Chinese diplomatic establishments even after the withdrawal of the Chinese diplomatic representatives."—Domei.
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