AGREEMENT between Great Britain and France (through their Delegates at the Conference of Lausanne) regarding Article 34 of the Treaty of Lausanne of July 24, 1923 (Egyptian Nationality).-Lausanne, July 24, 1923.(1)

LES Délégations britannique et française, considérant que le Gouvernement égyptien n'est pas signataire du Traité de Paix avec la Turquie (2) en date de ce jour, et que les conditions d'acquisition de la nationalité égyptienne par les ressortissants turcs établis en Egypte ne sont pas encore fixées, sont d'accord pour juger nécessaire qu'avant ou aussitôt que possible après la mise en vigueur du Traité de Paix avec la Turquie et conformément à l'Article 34 dudit Traité, un accord, à conclure entre le Gouvernement égyptien et le Gouvernement français agissant pour la Syrie et le Liban, précise les conditions d'option prévues par cette stipulation. Le délai d'option courrait à dater de la conclusion dudit accord.

Fait à Lausanne, le 24 juillet 1923.

(1) "Treaty Series, No. 18 (1923)."

HORACE RUMBOLD.
PELLE.

(2) Page 543.

EXCHANGE CF NOTES between Great Britain and France providing for the further Renewal of the Anglo-French Arbitration Agreement of October 14, 1903.-Paris, August 29, 1923.(1)

(No. 1.)—Mr. Phipps to M. Poincaré.

M. le Président du Conseil,

British Embassy,

Paris, August 29, 1923. By his note of the 6th June last, his Excellency the Marquess of Crewe, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador, informed your Excellency that His Britannic Majesty's Government were prepared to renew for a period of five years from the date of its expiration the Arbitration Agreement concluded between our Governments on the 14th October, 1903, (2) and renewed on three cccasions since that date.

By your note of the 12th July, your Excellency was good enough to inform Lord Crewe that the French Government were, on their part, equally prepared to accept the renewal of this Agreement on the conditions indicated by His Majesty's Government.

(1) "Treaty Series, No. 20 (1923)." (2) Vol. XCVI, page 35.

Should your Excellency agree, it will be understood that the present note and your Excellency's reply will serve to place on record the understanding arrived at between our two Governments.

I have, &c.

ERIC PHIPPS.

(No. 2.)-M. Poincaré to Mr. Phipps.

M. le Ministre,

Ministère des Affaires étrangères,
Paris, le 29 août 1923.

J'AI l'honneur de vous accuser réception de votre note en date d'aujourd'hui, par laquelle vous avez bien voulu me faire connaître que le Gouvernement de Sa Majesté britannique était disposé à renouveler pour une période de cinq années, à partir de la date de son expiration, la Convention d'Arbitrage conclue entre nos Gouvernements le 14 octobre 1903, étant entendu que le Gouvernement de la République française fût également prêt à consentir à un tel renouvellement.

J'ai l'honneur d'accepter, de la part du Gouvernement de la République, la proposition que ladite Convention d'Arbitrage soit encore renouvelée pour une période de cinq années à partir du 14 octobre prochain. L'échange des notes actuelles entre l'Ambassade d'Angleterre et le Ministère des Affaires étrangères servira à constater l'entente intervenue entre nos deux Gouvernements à ce sujet.

Veuillez, &c.

R. POINCARE.

DECLARATION by Great Britain and France respecting Oyster Fisheries outside Territorial Waters in the Seas lying between the Coasts of Great Britain and those of France.-Paris, September 29, 1923.(1)

THE Government of His Britannic Majesty and the Government of the French Republic, desiring to regulate the period for oyster dredging outside territorial waters in the English Channel, have agreed upon the following

provisions:

1. Articles XLV and XLVI of the Regulations for the Guidance of the Fishermen of Great Britain and of France in the Seas lying between the Coasts of the two Countries, prepared in pursuance of Article ii of the Convention con

(1) "Treaty Series, No. 31 (1923)." Signed also in the French language.

cluded at Paris on the 2nd August, 1839, (2) between Great Britain and France, shall cease to have that effect.

2. Oyster fishing shall open on the 1st September and shall cease on the 15th June.

3. From the 16th June to the 31st August no boat shall have on board any dredge or other implement whatsoever for catching oysters.

4. The foregoing stipulations shall apply, outside territorial waters, in like manner and to the same extent as the Regulations referred to herein which they supersede.

5. It is understood that the foregoing stipulations are also applicable to the Irish Free State, the Government of which has given its assent thereto.

6. The present Declaration shall come into force on the 1st October, 1923. It shall be read as one with the Regulations for the guidance of fishermen prepared in pursuance of Article ii of the Convention of 1839 above referred to.

• In witness whereof the undersigned have signed the present Declaration in duplicate and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done at Paris, the 29th September, 1923.

(2) Vol. XXVII, page 983.

CREWE.
POINCARE.

AGREEMENT between Great Britain and France relative to the Conveyance of the Indian Mail.-Paris, September 20, 1923.-London, October 10, 1923.(1)

I. The French Administration undertakes to convey once a week from Calais to Marseilles and vice versa, by means of special trains, the mails for and from Great Britain which constitute the service called the "Indian mail."

II. The British Post Office will be responsible for the conveyance of the Indian mail between Dover and Calais in both directions.

The transfer of the mails at Calais from the ship to the train and vice versâ shall be undertaken by and effected at the expense of the French Administration.

III. The officer of the British Post Office who accompanies the mail shall be carried in the special train at the expense of the French Administration, which shall arrange for his accommodation. A compartment suitably fitted up shall be reserved for him in the train.

IV. The French territorial transit of the mails from Great

(1) Signed also in the French language.

Britain for all destinations, as well as that of the mails from British Possessions, Colonies, Protectorates, Settlements and Post Office agencies which may be carried in either direction between Calais and Marseilles by the weekly service of the Indian mail shall be paid for by the British Post Office to the French Administration according to the gross weight of the correspondence, and at the following rates, viz. :

(a.) One fr. 50 c. gold per kilog. for letters and postcards. (b.) Twenty centimes gold per kilog. for other articles; and subject, in each case, to a deduction of 10 per cent. for the weight of the bags, packing, &c.

The value of the gold franc is to be calculated according to the stipulations of Article XII of the Postal Union Convention of the 30th November, 1920; and the payments shall be made in uniformity with the stipulations of Article XXXVI of the Detailed Regulations to the Convention in question and with Article I of the final Protocol of the said Regulations.

The settlement of the cost of conveyance of the mails despatched by the special Indian mail train from the 21st July, 1919, to the 31st March, 1921, however, shall be effected on the basis of: £1-25 fr. 2215.

V. The mails from Australasia and Ceylon for Great Britain which may be disembarked at any Italian or French port from packets different from those which convey the Indian mail and handed over to the French Service, shall continue to be transmitted by the ordinary means of conveyance. The payment for their transit through French territory shall be regulated by the provisions of the Postal Union Convention.

VI. The British Post Office guarantees a minimum payment of 1,250,000 fr. gold a year for the French land transit by the special service of the Indian mail so long as the route through France remains available.

VII. The amount of the transit payments due to France for the conveyance of the mails from Great Britain for all destinations, and from British Possessions, Colonies, Protectorates, Settlements and Post Office agencies for Great Britain transmitted by the special service of the Indian mail, shall be established monthly on the basis of declarations furnished at each despatch or at each arrival by the London office. Each monthly account shall comprise the transit payments proper to the mails included in the special service which shall have entered French territory during the month to which the account relates. The monthly accounts shall be summarised quarterly in a general account, which shall be paid as soon as it has been checked on both sides.

VIII. The British Post Office has the option of substituting the route of Mont-Cenis for that of Marseilles for the

conveyance by special train of the Indian mail without any addition on this account to the transit rates provided for in Article IV.

IX. All the arrangements in force up to the present time for the Indian mail and not mentioned above shall continue to be applied in the absence of any ulterior understanding and in so far as they are not contrary to the stipulations set forth above.

X. The present understanding shall be regarded as having come into force from the time of entry into French territory of the first mails despatched from or addressed to Great Britain which reached Calais or Marseilles after the 20th July, 1919. It shall remain in force until the 31st December, 1924, and so long after that date as one of the parties concerned has not notified to the other, at least six months in advance, its intention to terminate the arrangement.

Fait en double original.

Paris, le 20 septembre 1923.

Le Sous-Secrétaire d'Etat des Postes et des Télégraphes: PAUL LAFFONT.

Londres, le 10 octobre 1923.

Pour le Postmaster-General,

G. E. P. MURRAY.

EXCHANGE OF NOTES between Great Britain and France extending the Provisions of the Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and France of August 14, 1876, and the Additional Convention of October 17, 1908, to the Mandated Territories of the Cameroons, Togoland and Tanganyika so far as Great Britain is concerned, and to the Mandated Territories of the Cameroons and Togoland 80 far as France is concerned.-London, September 21/ November 13, 1923.

(No. 1.)-His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the French Ambassador at London.

Your Excellency,

Foreign Office, September 21, 1923. By notes exchanged between His Majesty's Ambassador at Paris and the French Government on the 16th August, and the 15th October, 1909, the provisions of the Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and France of the 14th August, 1876, (1) and the additional Convention of the 17th October, 1908, (2) were extended to certain named British Protec(1) Vol. LXVII, page 5. (2) Vol. CI, page 186.