Office of the Historian

793.943 Manchuria/23: Telegram

The Ambassador in Japan (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo, June 11, 1936—6 p.m.
[Received June 11—9:08 a.m.]

125. Treaty between Japan and Manchukuo signed yesterday is published in the English press today.25 The Foreign Office has confirmed the accuracy of the text which is described as the first step towards abolition of extraterritoriality in Manchuria. This treaty is concerned primarily with questions arising out of the administration of the South Manchuria Railway zone and the payment by Japanese of Manchukuo taxes. It contemplates the withdrawal of special Japanese police by the end of 1937 and is to be followed in due course by other agreements looking to the extension of Manchukuo judicial authority over Japanese subjects resident in Manchuria. Text follows by mail.

Repeated to Peiping by mail.

Grew
  1. For text of treaty signed at Hsinking, June 10, 1936, see The American Journal of International Law, vol. 30, No. 4 (October 1936, Supplement), p. 188.↩