As regards the right of financing a railway from Wuchang to connect with the Kiu-kiang-Nanchang line, the Nanchang-Hangchow railway, and the Nanchang-Chaochow railway, if it is clearly ascertained that other Powers have no objection, China shall grant the said right to Japan. B As regards the rights of financing a railway from Wuchang to connect with the Kiu-kiang-Nanchang railway, a railway from Nanchang to Hangchow and another from Nanchang to Chaochow, the Chinese Government shall not grant the said right to any foreign Power before Japan comes to an understanding with the other Power which is heretofore interested therein. [Illustration: The Original Constitutional Drafting Committee of 1913, photographed on the steps of the Temple of Heaven, where the Draft was completed.] [Illustration: A Presidential Review of Troops in the Southern Hungtung Park outside Peking: Arrival of the President.] NOTES TO BE EXCHANGED The Chinese Government agrees that no nation whatever is to be permitted to construct, on the coast of Fukien Province, a dockyard, a coaling station for military use, or a naval base; nor to be authorized to set up any other military establishment. The Chinese Government further agrees not to use foreign capital for setting up the above mentioned construction or establishment. Mr. Lu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated as follows:-- 1. The Chinese Government, shall, whenever, in future, it considers this step necessary, engage numerous Japanese advisers. 2. Whenever, in future, Japanese subjects desire to lease or purchase land in the interior of China for establishing schools or hospitals, the Chinese Government shall forthwith give its consent thereto. 3. When a suitable opportunity arises in future, the Chinese Government will send military officers to Japan to negotiate with Japanese military authorities the matter of purchasing arms or that of establishing a joint arsenal. Mr. Hioki, the Japanese Minister, stated as follows:-- As relates to the question of the right of missionary propaganda the same shall be taken up again for negotiation in future.