762.93 Manchuria/17: Telegram
The First Secretary of Embassy in China (Salisbury) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 14—7 a.m.]
292. The following telegram has been received from Mukden:
“39, May 13, noon. Hsinking announces that German-Manchukuo Treaty of Amity was signed yesterday at Berlin1 by Kato, representative of Manchukuo in Germany, and the German Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and that Treaty contains four articles as follows:
- Article 1. Each country being of independent and equal status, it will cause Consuls to be exchanged with and stationed in the other and will afford them the same treatment as Consuls of the several countries.
- Article 2. The nationals of each country shall be assured freedom of residence, movement, and business in the other country and each government shall afford to nationals of the other country protection of life and property.
- Article 3. In order to promote their friendly relations the two Governments agree that immediately after the signing of the present treaty they shall begin negotiations for commerce.
- Article 4. The text of the present treaty shall be in the Manchurian and German languages.
Hsinking bulletins state that the treaty will go into effect following ratification by the Heads of each State which is expected to take place towards the end of this month. They add that nothing definite has been arranged as to place or scope of negotiations provided by article 3.”
- Text printed in Reichsgesetzblatt (Berlin), 1938, pt. ii, p. 286. The telegraphed version is an inexact summary of the German text.↩