CHINA AND POWERS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 554, 8 July 1909, Page 5

CHINA AND POWERS.

TREATY RIGHTS. - CAVEAT AGAINST BUSSO-CHINESE , _ AGREEMENT. (By Telegraph.—Press Associatlon.-Oopyricht,) ' London, July 6. Renter's Pelting correspondent states that Britain, Austria-Hungary, and tho United States are notifying China that they will not recognieo tho preliminary Russo-Chincse agreement for the administration, of railways in Manchuria. They emphasise that any laws affecting the right to reside in the international settlements in China must originate with tho Treaty Powers. PUSSJAN CLAIMS IN MANCHURIA. The agreement affects the railway eettlemcnte nnd towns in Hanohnria along tho route of Eiiisi.ui lailways. Tha Russian railway company claims Jo exercise territorial jurisdiction, and tho Russian' General Hoi vat closed Chinese sliopa nt Teiteihar, Khailar, and oibei towns, in order to onforde payment of taxes. Ihc question of China's sovereignty, was thus involved; nnd t]iß objecting Powers'evidently fear that tho recent Russo-Chinoso agreement will convey too much to tha Bear. The claim of tho Russian railway authorities to special jurisdiction, with the right to tax Chinego β-ihjeote, includes the important town of Kharbin. ' Jjittlo has been published about tho BussoCliinese agreement. > It appears to aim at the administration of Kharbin as an international settlement; nt tho same time, it emphasises Russias intention to respeot 'China's sovereignty, together with the treaty rights of other nations. But expressions of intention are sometimes only amiable platitudra. Russia maintains that Genera.l Horvnt'9 actjon in closing the Chinese shops in order to enforce payment of Russian taxes docs not overstep the bonds of the Convention ot 1806, Aitiolo 0 of which expressly places in tho hands of the railway the administration of tho territory feded to or lepsed by it