| Show OUR RELATIONS WITH winI RUSSIA Correspondence Corr Relating to Man Incident TEXT OF OP JI tidily ol bt Conui CoLi Co l L of Czar ura Jov li It I to III tie Iii l I ly r With nt the United WashIngton May Iny the tho ceries of ot diplomatic exchanges l In the volume plume of ot foreign relations now In press Is given Riven the text to t of ot n a communication addressed by Ambassador Tower Toner to 10 the tho Russian foreign for o oe relative to the announcement that Chi Chinn ChInn nn no was about to sign an tin agreement with the bank by which valuable exclusive g were er to tobo tl tobe be bo secured by 1 that Institution The note brought rought I forth the lie Important dee from Count minis tar tor for foreign affairs l that nu nUll sla In pur fur purposed posed to restore le Manchuria to 10 China ant would rull her from train that province and that there was as no Intention In ten tion tinn to interfere with the open Opel door loor arrangement Mr Towers note to t the Ih Russian minister for tot foreign affairs fol follows ci lows ions In Iii obedience to Instructions which h I 1 have 1100 received from the cov nt of th United States I J have tho Iho ho honor to your excellency that the tho Annul Ameri American can cen minister to China Chino has h ita reported In Inu Inn ina u n telegram recently received at Wash Washington Wa h ington that lint Prince has agreed to sign the Manchuria convention and alo a 1 separate convention with the tue bank under which ex cx privileges of ot Industrial dovel devel development In Manchuria nrc aro to be granted to that bank 1 am Instructed to say gay III that the tho gov gos government go nt of the United States could look only with concern upon ulon any arrange arrangement arrangement ment by which China ChIno should extend to ton toC toa n a corporate C company tho the right within Its lis territory to open op n mines con construct railways and to exert other In Industrial industrial privileges It U Is the belief belld of o the government of the Ih United States that hat by b permitting or a n monopoly of this t II character r China would contravene the treaties which It has already alread entered Into with powers power and would Injure the rights of American Amerl n citizens citizen by b restrict restricting log ing legitimate trade also that such would lead lea to the Impairment of ot ChInese sovereignty and tend to dl di the ability of China to meet Its Ita obligations Other powers ns na well might seek seal similar advantages in different of the Chinese empire and am would destroy the tho policy poll C of ot equal f ual treatment of or nil all nations nation in regard to tho ho navigation na navigation tion anti and commerce throughout China Chinal ChInaI 1 l am further Instructed In to convey to your our excellency the sentiment of tho the United States government that the ac no acquiring quiring by any an one on power of ot exclusive privileges In China for Its Is subjects or nr its Iti I own awn commerce would be contrary to the thea I assurances a repeatedly given by the Im Ito Imperial ministry for tor foreign nf at a fairs to tho United States of the tion ton of the Russian government to tile the policy of ot the rhe oin ol n door In China as an 1 that pulley policy has hi been by the United States and ac accepted 11 accepted by nil all ni the powers power who have corn com om Interests within the Chinese 1 J am ant al to assure you that the govern meat of the United States Is I now ns M It I has always been bran heretofore animated by b the desire to 0 secure for nil all ni nation entirely equal eual Intercourse with China and I am Instructed to present to your excellency enC the request that the tho Im un Impel pel lesial Russian government will wi give attention to the foregoing con n which have hae also I o heart been b n ad addressed dressed to 10 the limes Chines government and andt to t express to your our excellency the hope hOlle that hint such measures measure of It procedure may moY maybe tv be 1 adopted as will wi allay the Iho slon sUm df t the government of at the United REPLY Following is the reply tep of Count Lama Iama Ilma dorff dl rt The Imperial government al III always ways was desirous of cultivating and devel devol developing the best relations with wih the United States l I Is fully ruly full disposed to remove that anxiety which the t e proposed arrange arrangements arrangements ments meats between Russia and China ap op appear opt pear t nr to have caused the them cabinet at nt Washington hut bitt It feels reels Itself bound bund at atthe atthe atthe the came sume time Ur to declare that negolia negotiations ns carried on between two entirely Independent states are aro not subjects to tobe tobe tobe be submitted to the approval of ot other powers There Is no thought of ot attacking the principle of or the open door as tie al that principle Is la understood by the Imperial of or Russia and Russia has hal no Intention whatever to control the policy followed by her hr In that respect up to the present time Iliac If I the bank should obtain concessions In China the agree agreements ments of a private character relating to them would not nt differ from those here heretofore hel conceded cow eld to to so many other for foreign foreign eign corporations nut But would It not be bevery beery beery ery very strange If the door that Is la open to 10 o certain nations should bo be b closed to Russia unla whoso whose frontier adjoins that of ot Manchuria and who has hos been forced forcell by b recent reent events to ro send nd her troops Into that province to reestablish r order In Inthe inthe the tie plain and common Interest of all QI nations U it 1 Is ts true that Russia has hn con cn Qu quoted Manchuria but she still main maintains tame her firm determination to restore ri lOr lOrIt It to China hina and Ind recall her troops as ni soon coon nil as ni the conditions of ot evacuation have been agreed alree upon and the necos necessary neel sary lar steps taken token to 10 prevent it fresh freh cut ut break of trouble In the neighboring tor ter t territory r It lt I Is la Impossible to 10 deny an all Inde Independent Independent pendent state the tho right to grant others Irant oters such concessions concession as It Is free tree to dispose and I have hat every reason to believe belCo that the he demands of the bank do not hot nt In the least lent exceed tho tint that have been ben so often oten formulated by other foreign companies and nn I feel that thA under he the circumstances It would not be b easy ts eap for IC 1 the Imperial government to deny 0 o Russian nus lan companies support which Is by b other governments to 0 corn com cm nl s and syndicates s of their own on na nationalities tonalities I I I n nt At t all ni events I beg Leg your excellency 11 to believe beleve that tha there ther Is II I not nor ran mui I b b be any question Queston of tho the contradiction lion tion ton of ot assurances which under the or orders ders herA of ot his hll majesty the emperor I 1 have had hall Olon to give Rhe heretofore In re regard reo acid gard ud to the hI principles which Invariably the policy pUr of RUMO Because of or the announcement of the then n Agreement at al a about the theme came sume me Mr aIr Ir Haj imy lt addressed the Itus inn Ial government relative to the tho Ru Russo so bank Mr Ir Jl Directed Am g dor Tower to the Iho Russian I ment that this th did didt tot t know that tha negotiatIons tons for tor such an arrangement f pending and anc that tha neither elther reat Britain nor nr Japan was Wa consulted regarding reCI the tho note not |
