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of validity fixed by the Agreement concluded between the two Administrations for the exchange of money orders are, at the expiration of the period of validity, receipted by the office of the country of payment, and are claimed from the office which issued them.

(2.) Trade charge orders of which the payees have not claimed payment within the period of validity fixed by the Agreement concluded between the two Administrations for the exchange of money orders are returned to the office of issue to authorise the extension of the period of validity, or are replaced by authorities to pay. The authorities to pay are drawn up by the office which issued the orders, as soon as it has been able to ascertain that the originals have not been paid within the period of validity. They are receipted by the Post Office of destination, and claimed by it in the first account rendered after their receipt.

9.-(1.) Trade charge money orders of which payment cannot be effected for one of the following reasons:

(i.) Incorrect, insufficient, or doubtful description of the name or residence of the payees;

(ii.) Difference or omissions of names or amounts;
(iii.) Erasures of, or additions to, the entries;

(iv.) Omission of stamps, signatures or other service indications;

(v.) Use of irregular forms;

shall be corrected by the Post Office which has issued them. (2.) For this purpose the orders shall be returned as soon as possible, officially registered, to the office of origin by the office of destination.

10.-(1.) The amounts in respect of trade charges paid by each Post Office on behalf of the other Post Office are incorporated in detailed accounts (specimen A annexed).*

(2.) In the trade charge accounts, which are accompanied by the paid and receipted trade charge orders, the orders are entered in alphabetical sequence of the offices of issue and in numerical sequence of their issue at that office. At the end of the account the office which has drawn it up deducts from the total sum of its credit per cent., representing the share of the other office in the trade charge fee.

(3.) When the Detailed Accounts have been mutually accepted, the Post Office of the creditor country prepares and forwards to the Post Office of the debtor country a general account in which the smaller credit is converted into the currency of the larger credit at the average rate of exchange current in the debtor country during the period to which the account relates. After examination, accepted copy of the general account is returned by the

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debtor country. In the absence of other arrangements settlement of the balance is effected by means of drafts drawn on a place in the creditor country and in the currency of that country.

11. The present Regulations shall be brought into operation on the day on which the Agreement comes into force. They shall have the same duration as the Agreement.

Done in duplicate at London the 19th day of August, 1919, and at Paris the 9th day of January, 1920.

(L.S.) ALBERT H. ILLINGWORTH. (L.S.) L. DESCHAMPS.

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AGREEMENT between Great Britain and France fixing the Telephone Charges between the two Countries.-Paris, December 15, 1919, and London, January 10, 1920.*

THE Postmaster-General of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on the one part, and the Minister of Commerce, Industry, Posts and Telegraphs of France on the other, in view of the Agreement of the 5th February, 1912, t respecting the conduct of the Anglo-French Telephone Service, which provided (Article V, last paragraph) that the Administrations shall have the power by mutual agreement to alter the elementary charges have agreed upon

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ART. I. The provisions of Article V of the general Agreement, concluded on the 5th February, 1912, between Great Britain and France, with a view to regulating the telephone service between the two countries, shall be altered as follows:

"ART. V. The charge shall be paid by the person who asks for the communication. It shall be made up of the total of the elementary charges fixed as follows for a conversation of three minutes :

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In France. At three francs seventy-five centimes (3 fr. 75 c.) for conversations originating in, or destined to, the telephonic centres of the following Departments:

Aisne, Ardennes, Aube, Calvados, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Loiret, Marne, Meuse, Nord, Oise, Orne, Pas-de-Calais, Seine, Seine-Inférieure, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-et-Oise, Somme, Yonne. (First zone.)

"At six francs (6 fr.) for conversations originating in, or

* Signed also in the French language.

+ Vol. CV, page 268.

destined to, the telephonic centres of the following Departments:

Ain, Allier, Charente, Charente-Inférieure, Cher, Côted'Or, Côtes du Nord, Creuse, Doubs, Finistère, Ille-etVilaine, Indre, Indres-et-Loire, Isère, Jura, Loire-Inférieure, Loir-et-Cher, Maine-et-Loire, Manche, Marne (Haute), Mayenne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Morbihan, Moselle, Nièvre, Puy-de-Dôme, Rhin (Bas), Rhin (Haut), Rhône, Saône (Haute) et Territoire de Belfort; Saône-et-Loire, Sarthe, Savoie, Savoie (Haute), Sèvres (Deux), Vendée, Vienne, Vienne (Haute), Vosges. (Second zone.)

"At eight francs (8 fr.) for conversations originating in, or destined to, the telephonic centres of the following Departments:

Alpes (Basses), Alpes (Hautes), Alpes-Maritimes, Ardèche, Ariège, Aude, Aveyron, Bouches-du-Rhône, Cantal, Corrèze, Dordogne, Drôme, Gard, Garonne (Haute), Gers, Gironde, Hérault, Landes, Loire (Haute), Lot, Lot-etGaronne, Lozère, Pyrénées (Basses), Pyrénées (Hautes), Pyrénées Orientales, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Var, Vaucluse. (Third zone.)

"In Great Britain.-At three francs seventy-five centimes (3 fr. 75 c.) for conversations originating in, or destined to, the telephonic centres situated in the following counties:

"Bedford, Berks, Buckingham, Cambridge, Dorset, Essex, Gloucester, Hampshire, Hertford, Huntingdon, Kent, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northampton, Nottingham, Oxford, Rutland, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwick, Wilts, Worcester. (First zone). At six francs (6 fr.) for conversations originating in, or destined to, the telephonic centres situated in the following counties:

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"Anglesey, Brecknock, Carnarvon, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Chester, Cornwall, Cumberland, Denbigh, Derby, Devon, Durham, Flint, Glamorgan, Hereford, Lancaster, Merioneth, Montgomery, Monmouth, Northumberland, Pembroke, Radnor, Salop, Stafford, Westmorland, York. (Second zone.)

At eight franes (8 fr.) for conversations originating in, or destined to, the telephonic centres situated in Scotland or Ireland. (Third zone.)

"These rates include the share of each Administration in respect of the transit of the submarine cables.

The Administrations shall have the power by mutual agreement to alter the elementary charges and reduce them for conversations during the night. They shall also have the power by mutual consent to make any alterations to the zones which shall be rendered necessary by the development of the telephone system of either country.

II. The present Agreement shall take effect on a date* to be fixed by the contracting Administrations and shall remain in force the same length of time as the General Agreement of the 5th February, 1912.

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Done in duplicate at London the 10th January, 1920, and at Paris the 15th December, 1919.

(L.S.)

(L.S.)

ALBERT H. ILLINGWORTH,

The Postmaster-General of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
L. DESCHAMPS,

The Minister of Commerce, Industry,
Posts and Telegraphs of France.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES between Great Britain and France respecting the Restoration of Property and Payment of Debts due by Enemy Businesses in Liquidation.London, September 24, 1919, and January 10, 1920.

(No. 1.)-The French Ambassador in London to the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

LES délégués techniques à la Conférence de la Paix ont examiné la question du règlement des intérêts français et anglais dans les liquidations des biens ennemis dans les deux pays.

Ces délégués sont tombés d'accord sur le texte suivant : "Dans les liquidations en Angleterre des entreprises ennemies ou des sociétés contrôlées par les ennemis, les ressortissants français auront les mêmes droits que les ressortissants anglais en ce qui concerne la restitution des biens détenus pour leur compte et à leur profit, le payement des dettes à eux dues par l'entreprise ou la Société liquidée ainsi que leur participation d'actions à la répartition des produits de la liquidation en tant que participants ou porteurs d'actions, pourvu que les dettes dues à l'entreprise ou Société par des ressortissants français ou les biens détenus pour le compte de ces entreprises ou sociétés soient payés ou restitués à la personne chargée d'effectuer la liquidation.

"Réciproquement dans les liquidations en France des entreprises ennemies ou des compagnies contrôlées par les ennemis, les ressortissants anglais auront, dans les mêmes conditions, les mêmes droits que les ressortissants français en ce qui concerne les questions ci-dessus visées.

* March 22, 1920.

'Les dettes ci-dessus visées sont seulement celles dues à ou par les établissements existant en Angleterre."

Il est bien entendu qu'il ne serait tenu compte pour l'application de ce texte que des droits que les français et anglais possédaient avant la guerre. Il est, en effet, nécessaire d'éviter toute fraude.

En outre, il est évident que le dernier alinéa exclut, dans le cas de séquestration de simples succursales ou d'Agences, le règlement des créances relevant du principal établissement ou du siège social resté lui-même en dehors de la séquestration et de la liquidation. Enfin le texte dont il s'agit laisse en dehors le règlement des droits que des séquestrations ennemies en France et en Angleterre peuvent avoir les unes à l'égard des autres.

L'Ambassadeur de France a été chargé de communiquer ce qui précède au Gouvernement Royal. Le Gouvernement français désirerait que l'accord sur le texte arrêté par les délégués techniques soit constaté par un échange de notes entre le Foreign Office et cette Ambassade.

Ambassade de France, Londres,
le 24 septembre 1919.

(No. 2.)—The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the French Ambassador in London.

Sir,

Foreign Office, S. W. 1, January 10, 1920. WITH reference to your note of the 5th instant relative to the Agreement between the United Kingdom and France for the reciprocal payment of enemy debts, I have the honour to inform you that His Majesty's Government accept the Agreement in question, the last paragraph of which should read as follows::

"The debts referred to above are only those due by, or to, establishments in the United Kingdom or France.'

2. I have the honour to state that His Majesty's Government now consider the Agreement* to be concluded.

I have, &c.

CURZON OF KEDLESTON.

* See Annex. The French Ambassador in London was notified by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on April 23, 1920, of the desire of India to adhere to the Agreement, and a further notification with regard to the adherence of the Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa and Newfoundland was made on July 31, 1920.

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