893.5200/8–3149: Telegram
The Consul General at Peiping (Clubb) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 1—1:10 a. m.]
1447. Kuang Ming Jih Pao August 26 carried notice re registration real estate held by aliens in Peiping municipality and suburbs. Text follows:
“In order facilitate control over aliens’ property (both buildings and land) in this municipality, Municipal Land Administration Bureau has specially formulated measures for dealing with application for registration of aliens’ real estate in Peiping municipality. Measures provide that in respect to all property (buildings and land) owned by aliens in municipality, owner or legal representative bearing a power of attorney should, between September 15 and end of October 1949, get application forms from Bureau and apply for registration. In applying for registration of real estate, aside from referring to measures provided in ‘Rules for Registration of Real Estate in Municipal Area’, following procedure should be followed:
- “(a) Submit for examination complete set of title deeds (all title deeds in foreign languages should be accompanied by Chinese translation, latter to be accepted as correct version). Receipts shall be issued by Bureau.
- “(b) Bring applicant’s name, seal, and residence certificate.
- “(c) If applicant is religious body, school, company, store, social body, or other such organization, procedure shall be handled by responsible person or by designated agent. In addition, foreigners should fill out accurately and in detail facts concerning all their buildings and land, location, house number, use of property, present state of buildings and/or land, and from whom it was acquired, without concealment or omission or fabrication.
“Any property (buildings or land) acquired by a foreigner in name of a Chinese or under any other name shall also be correctly registered without concealing facts. And particularly without committing acts [Page 1106] such as concealing enemy or bogus property or invading other public or private property rights. Violators will definitely be dealt with legally.”
Sent Department, repeated Nanking 1045, Shanghai 936, mailed Tientsin.