U.S. to Follow "Good Example of Britain"
Nanking, Aug. 14.
"Britain's act In withdrawing her troops from the Shanghai area, will leave the American troops, stationed in the Shanghai area in the same illegal way as were the British, as the sole defenders of Western Impenalism in China," declared Mr Tang Leong-li, Ambassador-at-Large and Director-General of the International Publicity Board of the National Government of China, in an oral statement to the press on the British withdrawal of their garrisons from China, "The National Government of China, Mr. Tang emphasized, "has already solemnly declared that it would not tolerate any private trans-for of treaty rights.
"It is to be hoped that in the interest of friendly relations between the two countries and of peace in the Pacific, the United States of America will follow the good example of Great Britain and similarly withdraw the American troops stationed illegally' on Chinese territory and against the wishes of the Chinese people, the Chinese statesman concluded.
The Boxer Protocol of September 7, 1901, named the places in North China, including Tientsin, where signatory Powers could station troops te maintain open communications between Peiping and the sea, but Shanghai was never mentioned.
The stationing of troops in Shanghai by the Powers accordingly was never sanctioned by the so-called Boxer Protocol and the practice of doing so for long carried out by Great Britain and still being done by the United States, is entirely illegal.
"Any private transfer affecting China's sovereign rights after the withdrawal of the British troops om China, "Mr. Tang Leong: in. ending his statement, "would ce: tainly not be tolerated."—Domei.
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