la Suède renonce en sa faveur à tous les droits et privilèges qu'elle tient en Egypte du régime des Capitulations. qui concerne la représentation dans les tribunaux mixtes reconstitués, auxquels serait transférée la juridiction exercée Jusqu'ici par les tribunaux consulaires, les mêmes droits seront assurés à la Suède qu'aux autres Puissances intéressées. II. Dès la mise en vigueur de l'organisation judiciaire en Egypte maintenant projetée, les tribunaux consulaires suédois cesseront de siéger, si ce n'est pour terminer les affaires en cours. III. Les ressortissants suédois jouiront en Egypte, en ce qui concerne les libertés publiques, l'administration de la justice, les droits privés, y compris la propriété foncière et les droits miniers, les professions libérales, industrielles et commerciales, les impôts et taxes, du même traitement que les ressortissants britanniques. Les enfants nés en Egypte d'un père ressortissant suédois y jouissant des privilèges de l'étranger auront droit à la nationalité suédoise; ils ne deviendront pas sujets égyptiens. IV. Les Consuls généraux, Consuls, Vice-Consuls et Agents consulaires de la Suède en Egypte jouiront, dès la fermeture des tribunaux consulaires, des mêmes immunités qu'en Grande-Bretagne. Ils continueront d'exercer dans l'intérêt des particuliers, pour autant que les lois de l'Egypte ne s'y opposeront pas, toutes leurs fonctions non judiciaires dans les mêmes conditions que par le passé. V. S'étendront à l'Egypte les traités en vigueur entre la Grande-Bretagne et la Suède, à l'exclusion de la Convention du 26 juin 1873,* relative à l'extradition des criminels, et de l'Acte additionnel à cette Convention du 2 juillet 1907. + Sous condition de réciprocité, le régime actuellement appliqué en Suède et en Egypte respectivement aux importations provenant de l'autre pays ou aux importations vers ce pays ne sera pas modifié à moins de préavis donné douze mois à l'avance. Il est entendu, toutefois, que le présent engagement ne fait pas obstacle à la faculté pour le Gouvernement Suédois et le Gouvernement Egyptien d'apporter au régime existant entre les deux pays les modifications qui seraient rendues applicables à tous les autres pays indistinctement. VI. La Suède accepte que, sans autre réserve que celle du consentement unanime des Puissances intéressées, tous les droits et devoirs du Conseil international sanitaire, maritime et quarantenaire d'Egypte passent aux Autorités AngloEgyptiennes. * Vol. LXIII, page 175. + Vol. C, page 572. En foi de quoi les soussignés, dûment autorisés par leurs Gouvernements respectifs, ont signé la présente Convention et y ont apposé leurs cachets. Fait en double à Stockholm le 8 juillet 1921. (L.S.) COLVILLE BARCLAY. (L.S.) WRANGEL. EXCHANGE OF NOTES between Great Britain and Sweden concerning the Importation from Great Britain into Sweden of Morphine and similar Drugs.-Stockholm, August 29, 1921.* (No. 1.) The British Chargé d'Affaires at Stockholm to the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs. Your Excellency, Stockholm, August 29, 1921. I HAVE the honour to inform your Excellency that in pursuance of the steps which His Majesty's Government are taking to assist in preventing the improper consumption of opium, morphine, cocaine and similar drugs, they have prohibited the exportation from the United Kingdom to all destinations of the drugs specified below, except under licence. Applications for the grant of licences for exportation to Sweden should be accompanied by certificates previously issued under the authority of the Royal Swedish Government to the effect that the Royal Swedish Government are satisfied that the consignment is required exclusively for legitimate medicinal or scientific purposes and will not be re-exported. The drugs for which certificates will be required are raw opium, morphine, cocaine, ecgonine and diamorphine (commonly known as heroin) and their respective salts, and medicinial opium, and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing not less than one-fifth per cent. of morphine or one-tenth per cent. of cocaine, ecgonine or diamorphine. His Majesty's Government may, however, find it necessary to extend this list to include any new derivative of morphine or cocaine or of any salts of morphine or cocaine or any other alkaloid of opium or any other drug of whatever kind which may, in their opinion, be productive, if improperly used, of ill-effects substantially of the same character or nature as or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine. I am directed by His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to express the hope of His Majesty's Government that the Royal Swedish Government will assent to the League of Nations Treaty Series," No. 160. * 66 above arrangement and will be prepared to issue the necessary certificates to bonâ fide importers as proposed by His Majesty's Government. I avail, &c. PATRICK RAMSAY. (No. 2.)-The Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs to the British Chargé d'Affaires at Stockholm. Sir, Stockholm, August 29, 1921. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Note of to-day's date in which you are good enough to inform me that in pursuance of the steps which His Britannic Majesty's Government are taking to assist in preventing the improper consumption of opium, morphine, cocaine and similar drugs they have prohibited the exportation from the United Kingdom to all destinations of the drugs specified below, except under licence, and that applications for the grant of licences for exportation to Sweden should be accompanied by certificates previously issued under the authority of the Royal Swedish Government to the effect that the Royal Swedish Government are satisfied that the consignment is required exclusively for legitimate medicinal or scientific purposes and will not be re-exported. Furthermore, it is stated in your Note that the drugs for which certificates will be required are raw opium, morphine, cocaine, ecgonine and diamorphine (commonly known as heroin) and their respective salts, and medicinal opium and any preparation, admixture, extract or other substance containing not less than one-fifth per cent. of morphine or onetenth per cent. of cocaine, ecgonine or diamorphine. In conclusion, you add that His Britannic Majesty's Government may, however, find it necessary to extend this list to include any new derivative of morphine or cocaine or of any salts of morphine or cocaine or any other alkaloid of opium or any other drug of whatever kind which may, in their opinion, be productive, if improperly used, of ill-effects substantially of the same character or nature as or analogous to those produced by morphine or cocaine. In reply to this communication I have the honour to state that the Swedish Government assent to the arrangement proposed and will be prepared to issue the necessary certificates to bond fide importers in the form proposed by His Britannic Majesty's Government. It is intended that these certificates should be issued by the Royal Medical Board under the authority of the Swedish Government. I avail, &c. HERMAN WRANGEL. ACCESSION to the Convention between Great Britain and the United States relating to the Disposal of Real and Personal Property.-Signed at Washington, March 2, 1899.* Hawaiian Islands ... October 5, 1921. CORRESPONDENCE between the British Government and the Government of the United States of America respecting Economic Rights in Mandated Territories.-May 1920February 1921.† (No. 1.)—Mr. Davis to Earl Curzon.—(Received May 13.) My Lord, Embassy of the United States of America, PURSUANT to the instructions of my Government, I have the honour to inform your Lordship that the Government of the United States has been unofficially informed that the mandates for Mesopotamia and Palestine have been assigned to Great Britain; the mandate for Mesopotamia being given subject to friendly arrangement with the Italian Government regarding economic rights. 2. The Government of the United States desires to point out that during the peace negotiations at Paris leading up to the Treaty of Versailles, it consistently took the position that the future peace of the world required that, as a general principle, any alien territory which should be acquired pursuant to the Treaties of Peace with the Central Powers, must be held and governed in such a way as to assure equal treatment in law and in fact to the commerce of all nations. It was on account of, and subject to this understanding that the United States felt itself able and willing to agree that the acquisition of certain enemy territory by the victorious Powers would be consistent with the best interests of the world. The representatives of the principal Allied Powers, in the discussion of the mandate principles, expressed in no indefinite manner their recognition of the justice and far-sightedness of such a principle, and agreed to its application to the mandates over Turkish territory. 3. The administration of Palestine and Mesopotamia during the interim period of military occupation has given rise to several communications between the United States Government and that of Great Britain relative to matters * Vol. XCI, page 119. + Parliamentary Paper, "Miscellaneous, No. 10 (1921)." Vol. CXII, page 1. that had created the unfortunate impression in the minds of the American public, that the authorities of His Majesty's Government in the occupied region had given advantage to British oil interests which were not accorded to American companies, and further that Great Britain had been preparing quietly for exclusive control of the oil resources in this region. The impression referred to has, it is believed, been due in large part to reports of authoritative statements regarding the general oil policy of Great Britain, and of actual work such as the construction of pipe lines, railways and refineries, the operations of certain oil wells, the acquisitions of dockyards, cotton investigations, and permitted researches by certain individuals whose activities, though stated to be solely in behalf of the civil administration, were attended by circumstances which created the impression that some benefit. at least would accrue to British oil interests. 4. Certain of the occurrences above referred to have been explained by His Majesty's Government as due to military necessity, and certain others as due to laxity on the part of local authorities. It must be realised, however, that it has been difficult for the American people to reconcile all of these reports with the assurance of His Majesty's Government that the provisional character of the military occupation does not warrant the taking of decisions by the occupying Power in matters concerning the future economic development of the country," and that the invitation of new undertakings and the exercise of rights under concessions would be prohibited. The United States Government has confidence in the good faith of His Majesty's Government in attempting to carry out the assurances given by His Majesty's Foreign Office, but desires to point out that the considerations above referred to indicate the difficulty in ensuring the local execution of such undertakings, and the necessity for careful measures to guarantee the practical fulfilment of the principles expressed and agreed to during the peace negotiations at Paris. 5. With this thought in mind the Government of the United States ventures to suggest the following propositions, which embody or illustrate the principles which the United States Government would be pleased to see applied in the occupied or mandated regions, and which are submitted as furnishing a reasonable basis for discussions. In the event of such discussions, it would be assumed that the legal situation as regards economic resources in the occupied or mandated regions would remain in statu quo pending an agreement (1.) That the Mandatory Power strictly adhere and conform to the principles expressed and agreed to during the peace negotiations at Paris, and to the principles embodied |