WAR APPENDIX
No. 19.Baron Komura to Mr. Kurino
(Telegram.)Tokio, October 16th, 1903.
In reference to my telegram of the 8th instant, negotiations are now going on between Baron Rosen and myself regarding the following proposals, which I had presented as amendment to the Russian Counter-Proposals:—
Article II. Insert the phrase "including military assistance" between "assistance" and "to Corea." Change the word "civil" into "internal."
Article III.Insert the phrase "the development of" between "impede" and "the commercial." "Undertakings" to be changed into "activities," and "taken" into "to be taken" and "them" into "those interests."
Article IV.Recognition of the right of Japan to send troops to Corea for the purpose mentioned in the preceding Article or for the purpose of suppressing insurrection or disorder calculated to create international complications.
Article VI.Mutual engagement to establish a neutral zone on the Corea-Manchuria frontier extending . . . . . . kilometres on each side, into which neutral zone neither of the Contracting Parties shall introduce troops without the consent of the other.
Article VII.To be struck out and replaced by the following three Articles:—
VII.Engagement on the part of Russia to respect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity in Manchuria, and not to interfere with Japan's commercial freedom in Manchuria.
VIII.Recognition by Japan of Russia's special interests in Manchuria and of the right of Russia to take such measures as may be necessary for the protection of those interests so long as such measures do not infringe the stipulations of the preceding Article.
IX.Mutual Engagement not to impede the connection of the Corean railway and the East China railway when those railways shall have been eventually extended to the Yalu.
Article VIIIof the Russian Counter-Proposals to be numbered Article X.
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