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PART XAPPENDICESAPPENDIX ARECENT TREATIES^BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN*L Treaty Respecting the Province of Shantung(Signed at Peking May 25, J9J5)His Excellency the President of the Republic of China and HisMajesty the Emperor of Japan, having resolved to conclude a Treatywith a view to the maintenance of general peace in the Extreme Eastand the further strengthening of the relations of friendship and goodneighbourhood now existing between the two nations, have for thatpurpose named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say :His Excellency the President of the Republic of China, LouTseng-tsiang, ( Innifj-cliiny, First Class Chia Ho Decoration, Ministerof ForeignAnd Affairs.His Majesty the Emperor of .Japan, Mr. Eki Hioki, ,///x////,Second Class of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure, MinisterPlenipotentiary, and Envoy Extraordinary:Who, after having communicated to each other their full powersand found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon andconcluded the following Articles:Article \. The Chinese Government agrees to give full assent toall matters upon which the Japanese Government may hereafteragreewith the German Government relating to the disposition of allrights, interests and concessions which Germany, by virtue of treatiesor otherwise, possesses in relation to the Province of Shantung.Article 2. The Chinese Government agrees that as regards therailway to be built by China herself from Chefoo or Lungkow toconnect with the Kiaochow-Tsinanfu railway, ifGermany abandonsthe privilege of financing the Chefoo- \Veihsien line, China willapproach Japanese capitalists to negotiate for a loan.Article 3. The Chinese Government in the interest ofagreestrade and for the residence of foreigners, to open by China herself assoon as possible certain suitable places inas Commercial Ports.of Shantungthe ProvinceArticle 4. The present treaty shall come into force on the dayof its signature.vThe translation is taken from Supplement to tho far RnMern tier it n\ May,1915,