l'exportation en Grèce des plantes en général provenant des régions du Royaume-Uni où pourrait exister le phylloxera. Afin d'avoir la franchise susmentionnée un certificat dument signé de la part des autorités compétentes britanniques est indispensable. En foi de quoi, les Soussignés, dûment autorisés à cet effet, ont dressé le présent Accord, qu'ils ont revêtu de leurs cachets. Fait à Athènes, en double exemplaire, le 27 août/9 septembre 1921. AGREEMENT between Great Britain and Hungary respecting the Settlement of Enemy Debts referred to in Section III of Part X of the Treaty of Peace between the British Empire and Allied and Associated Powers and Hungary, signed at Trianon, June 4, 1920.--London, December 20, 1921.* [Ratifications exchanged at London, April 20, 1922.] His Britannic Majesty's Government having given notice that they adopt Section III and the Annex thereto of Part X of the Treaty of the Trianon as between Hungary on the one hand and the United Kingdom, India and the British Colonies and Protectorates, with the exception of Egypt, on the other hand, it is hereby agreed between His Britannic Majesty's Government and the Government of Hungary that the said Section and Annex shall be subject in their application to the provisions set out below: I. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 231 (a) of the Treaty of the Trianon, direct communication may be permitted with the consent of the two Clearing Offices between the interested parties with regard to the settlement of debts due to British nationals. Such settlements may be permitted with the sanction of the Clearing Offices in each case. II. The British Clearing Office will be prepared to consider applications made before the 31st March, 1922, for the release of property, rights and interests chargeable under paragraph 4 of the Annex to Article 232 of the Treaty with a view to the settlement of debts by amicable arrangement, provided that the proportion of the assets so to be released to the amount of the debts removed by the arrangement from the operation * Treaty Series, No. 4 (1922)." Signed also in the Hungarian + Vol. CXIII, page 579. language. of the Clearing Offices is not such as, in the opinion of the British Clearing Office, will have the effect of reducing the dividend payable from Hungarian property subject to the charge to British creditors generally. It is understood that the pecuniary obligations referred to in Section III of Part X of the Treaty of the Trianon and therein described as "enemy debts" do not fall within the class of property, rights and interests in respect of which an application for release may be made under this paragraph. III. The proceeds of liquidation of Hungarian property, rights and interests and cash assets of Hungarians, within the territories of the British Empire in respect of which notice has been given of the adoption of the Clearing Office system, will be credited to the Hungarian Government in the account referred to in paragraph 11 of the Annex to Article 231. IV. Similarly, the proceeds of any liquidation of British property, rights and interests and cash assets of British nationals (other than property, rights, interests and cash assets of British nationals ordinarily resident, and British companies incorporated, in a part of the British Empire to which this Agreement does not extend) for which the Hungarian Government is liable to account in accordance with the provisions of Section IV of Part X of the Treaty of the Trianon shall be credited to the British Government in this account. Compensation awarded by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal under paragraph (e) of Article 232 shall also be credited to the British Government in the same account. V. To remove doubts, the claims by British nationals with regard to their property, rights and interests with the payment of which all property, rights and interests of Hungarian nationals within British territory, and the net proceeds of the sale, liquidation or any other dealings therewith may under paragraph 4 of the Annex to Section IV of Part X of the Treaty be charged shall be deemed to include the classes of pecuniary obligations referred to in paragraphs (3) and (4) of Article 231 of the Treaty. VI. The account referred to above may, at the option of the British Clearing Office, be rendered separately in respect of India. VII. The Hungarian Government undertakes to use its best endeavour to collect the debts due through the Clearing Offices from its nationals to British nationals as promptly as possible. VIII. Subject to the fulfilment of the following conditions, His Britannic Majesty's Government will not require payment of the balances referred to in paragraph 11 of the Annex to Article 231 within the periods therein prescribed. The Hungarian Clearing Office shall pay to the British Clearing Office not later than the 31st March and the 30th September each year, beginning with the 31st March, 1922, in respect of the debts of Hungarian nationals, including local authorities, the sterling value of the amounts collected from Hungarian nationals during the previous six months, the sum to be paid in each half-year, in respect of such debts and of obligations of the Hungarian State, being not less than 250,000l. sterling or the sterling equivalent of 225,000,000 kronen, whichever of the two is the greater. Nevertheless, the amount of each of the first two minimum payments shall be 150,000l. sterling, and the next two payments 250,000l. sterling, without regard to the exchange rate of the krone. Each of the first six minimum payments to be made may, however, be reduced to the extent of 100,000l. or, in the case of the fifth and sixth payments, the sterling equivalent of 90,000,000 kronen by the amounts previously paid in cash direct by Hungarian debtors to British creditors in accordance with arrangements sanctioned by the Clearing Offices, and provided out of funds which are not chargeable under the Treaty. IX. In addition to the interest provided for in the case of enemy debts by paragraph 22 of the Annex to Section III of Part X of the Treaty, further interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum (simple interest) shall be payable upon all sums credited to British nationals in the said account or any balance of such sums remaining for the time being unpaid, from the date of such credit until the date of payment to the creditor or claimant. Such further interest shall be borne by the Hungarian Government and debited to it in the said account. X. Payment of the above-mentioned instalments shall continue until the balance against Hungary in the account above referred to shall have been fully met. XI. So far as the assets and liabilities of the AustroHungarian Bank may be determined to be those of a Hungarian national, they shall be subject to the provisions of this Agreement. XII. In the event of the claims of British creditors in respect of interest coupons in arrear on Hungarian State loans or loans of the city of Budapest being satisfied by the funding of the amounts so due, His Britannic Majesty's Government will be prepared in principle to consider the modification of the amounts of the minimum instalments payable under paragraph 8, having regard to the liability outside the scope of the Clearing Office accruing upon the Hungarian Government by such funding. XIII. Subject to the right of the British authorities to refuse permission in any particular case, and to the laws for the time being in force, Hungarian nationals will be permitted, upon request notified to the proper British authority, to bid at any sale by auction of their property in the United Kingdom. XIV. Pending the ratification of this Agreement, direct communication will be permitted between the interested parties with the consent of the two Clearing Offices with a view to the negotiation only of the settlements referred to in paragraphs I and II of this Agreement. Done in English and Hungarian, of which the English text shall prevail in case of divergence, at London, the 20th day of December, 1921. (L.S.) CURZON OF KEDLESTON. AGREEMENT between the Post Office of Iceland and the Post Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland relative to the Exchange of Money Orders.—London, September 30, 1921, and Reykjavik, October 13, 1921.* ART. I. Between Iceland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland there shall be a regular exchange of money orders. II. The money order service between the Contracting Countries shall be performed exclusively by the agency of Offices of Exchange. On the part of the United Kingdom the Office of Exchange shall be that of London, and on the part of Iceland that of Reykjavik. III. The accounts as regards money orders in both directions shall be expressed in British money. The Post Office of Iceland shall convert into British money the amounts of orders issued in Iceland and into the currency of Iceland the amounts of orders issued in the United Kingdom. The Post Office of Iceland shall have the power to fix and to modify from time to time the rate of conversion applicable to the money orders issued by it. The rate of conversion applicable to money orders issued in the United Kingdom shall be in accordance with the rate of exchange of British currency on the date of receipt at Reykjavik of the advice lists in the case of ordinary money orders, and on the date of receipt at Reykjavik of the official telegrams of advice in the case of telegraph money orders. In each case the Post Office of Iceland shall keep the British Post Office regularly informed of the rates of conversion adopted. IV. The Post Offices of the two Contracting Countries shall have the power to fix, by mutual agreement, the maximum amount for single money orders issued in their Signed also in the Icelandic language. the International Quarantine Commission in Egypt are transferred to the Anglo-Egyptian authorities. In faith whereof the undersigned have signed the present Agreement and have affixed thereto their seals. Done in duplicate at Christiania the 22nd April, 1921. M. DE C. FINDLAY, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister C. F. MICHELET, Minister for Foreign Affairs of His PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT between Great Britain and Norway relating to Air Navigation.—Christiania, July 15, 1921.* His Britannic Majesty's Government and the Government of His Majesty the King of Norway, being desirous of entering into a provisional Agreement relating to air navigation between Great Britain and Norway: The undersigned, duly authorised thereto by their respective Governments, have agreed as follows: ART. I. This Agreement applies only to private and commercial aircraft, duly registered as such by the British and Norwegian Governments respectively. Each of the two Contracting States undertakes in time of peace to allow the private and commercial aircraft of the other State liberty of innocent passage above its territory and territorial waters provided that the conditions set forth in the present Agreement are observed. Each of the two Contracting States shall have the right to reserve to its national aircraft the carriage of persons and goods for hire between two points within its own territory. II. The British and Norwegian Governments shall have the right for military reasons or for the public security to forbid flight over certain areas of their respective territory under the penalties provided by their legislation but subject to the reservation that no distinction shall be made in this respect between the private and commercial aircraft of the two States. The areas thus prohibited will be notified to the State interested. III. Any aircraft which finds itself above a prohibited area shall immediately give the signal of distress provided in the regulations as to air navigation of the State flown over, * "League of Nations Treaty Series," No. 162. Signed also in the Norwegian language. |