MINISTÈRE DE L'INTÉRIEUR ET DE LA SANTÉ PUBLIQUE. DIRECTION DE LA SANTÉ PUBLIQUE. Certificat No. pharmacien à ..... Le présent certificat est délivré par la Direction de la Santé publique à département de pour certifier que ledit pharmacien s'est engagé par écrit devant la même Direction et les autorités sanitaires respectives, que les médicaments, en quantités énumérées ci-après, notamment : qu'il demande à se procurer directement de la maison (Angleterre), il les emploiera exclusivement pour la préparation et l'expédition de médicaments prescrits par ordonnances de médecins pour les traitements des malades ou bien pour expériences scientifiques, et qu'en même temps il s'est engagé à ne pas faire exporter lesdits médicaments hors les frontières du Royaume de Bulgarie. Le Gouvernement bulgare approuve et autorise la commande cidessus de médicaments, et déclare qu'ils serviront exclusivement pour le traitement des malades et travaux scientifiques, et qu'ils ne seront pas exportés hors des frontières du royaume. Sofia, le 19.... Directeur: Chef du Service de Pharmacie : LETTERS Exchanged between the Heads of the British and Chinese Delegations to the Conference on Limitation of Armament, Washington, 1921-22, regarding the Retrocession of Weihaiwei.-Washington, February 3/5, 1922.* Dear Mr. Sze, (No. 1.)-Mr. Balfour to Mr. Sze. Washington, February 3, 1922. You will, of course, recollect the precise language which I employed when announcing before the plenary session of the Conference on the 1st February that Great Britain proposed to hand back Weihaiwei to China. Although already in your possession, you may care to receive from me the verbatim report of what I then said, which I take pleasure in confirming. You will be the first to appreciate that there must be certain matters of detail to attend to and dispose of to the satisfaction of our two Governments before the transfer can be effected. I have in mind such matters as the making of arrangements which will permit His Majesty's ships to use Weihaiwei during the summer months as heretofore without restriction or harbour dues, to land, store and ship without restriction or duty goods required for naval use, and to retain Parliamentary Paper, "Miscellaneous, No. 1 (1922).” properties required for the above purposes. In addition, we shall wish to discuss certain points in connection with naval training, as well as matters affecting the due safeguarding of foreign property rights, and making suitable provision for the adequate representation of foreign interests in municipal affairs. It is also possible that my Government may desire some intimation of the willingness of the Chinese Government to grant facilities for the linking up of Weihaiwei with the hinterland by railway. These and other similar matters, such as the precise status of the port, will naturally have to be adjusted by mutual consent. Very possibly the most convenient method may prove to be following the precedent of the settlement just reached between China and Japan respecting Kiaochow, to establish an Anglo-Chinese Commission to study the question locally, and make the necessary recommendations to our two Governments. I shall be glad to learn from the Chinese Delegation, for the information of my Government, that these considerations have been duly noted, and that when the time comes the Chinese Government, bearing them in mind, will afford all possible facilities in mutual consultation with my Government for a final adjustment of this matter. Yours faithfully, ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR. Enclosure in No. 1. Extract from Minutes of Fifth Plenary Session, Mr. Balfour: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I should not have intervened at this stage of our discussions, but for two reasons. The first is the most kindly references made by the representative of China to such assistance as Mr. Hughes and I have been able to give to the happy settlement of this great and long-controverted question. I am sorry that, from physical defects, I missed a similar statement which Lord Lee tells me was made by my friends from Japan. I did not doubt the warmth of their feelings, although I happened to have missed this particular expression of them. I beg for myself-it would be impertinent to do it on the part of your Chairman, but I doubt not that he shares my sentiments-I beg to thank you for what you have done. None can doubt that through all this great assembly there is not an individual who does not rejoice at this most happy settlement. But if there are two who especially rejoice, I think it must be our Chairman, and, in a secondary degree, myself, who have worked together in absolute harmony to do what lay in our power to end this longstanding and most unfortunate dispute. That is the first reason that. I intervene upon your patience. The second reason is one in which I speak for the British Empire Delegation, and for them alone. The result of the termination of this Shantung dispute between China and Japan is to hand back to the sovereignty of China a great port and a most important railway, the port giving access to and the railway giving communications within what I believe is the most ancient and the most thickly populated province of China. But there is another leased territory within that province, and its keeper is the British Government. I refer to Weihaiwei. Those of you who have followed the course of events in China during the last generation are aware that a most critical position arose when Russia and Germany began to attempt to dominate more and more the Chinese Empire. It was when Russia seized Port Arthur that, in order to bring some foreign equipoise to the assistance of China, and to maintain international equality in the East, an arrangement was come to between the Chinese Government and the British Government by which Weihaiwei was leased to Great Britain for a term of years under conditions which left it possible to use that port as a defence against Russia, though impossible to develop it as a great commercial centre or as a rival to any existing commercial interests. The circumstances under which Weihaiwei thus came under the control of Britain have now not only fundamentally changed, but they have altogether disappeared. The rest of the province of Shantung is now handed back under suitable conditions to the complete sovereignty of China. Under like suitable conditions I have to announce that Great Britain proposes to hand back Weihaiwei to the country within whose frontier it lies. It has so far been used merely as a sanatorium or summer resort for ships of war coming up from the tropical or more southern portions of the China station. I doubt not that, arrangements can be made under which it will remain available for that innocent and healthful purpose in time to come. But Chinese sovereignty will now be restored, as it has been restored in other parts of the province, and we shall be largely guided in the arrangements that we propose at once to initiate by the example so happly set us by the Japanese and Chinese negotiators in the case of Shantung. They have received from this great assembly unmistakable proof of your earnest approval, and most surely they deserve it. When that is accomplished, this great province of China will again be what every Chinese citizen must desire that it should be, in the fullest sense an integral part of that great Empire, and I rejoice to think that I am in a position to-day to add, if I may say so, this crowning word to the statement of policy made by our Chairman on behalf of the Conference and responded to in such felicitous terms by our Japanese and our Chinese colleagues. (No. 2.)—Mr. Sze to Mr. Balfour. Dear Mr. Balfour, Chinese Delegation, February 5, 1922. I AM in receipt of your letter of the 3rd instant, enclosing a copy of the verbatim report of your statement made at the plenary session of the Conference on the 1st February, that Great Britain proposed to hand back Weihaiwei to China, and indicating certain matters of detail which your Government may desire to discuss with my Government and adjust by mutual consent before the transfer can be effected, and that very possibly the most convenient method for this purpose may be the establishment of an Anglo-Chinese Commission to study the question locally and make the necessary recommendations to our two Governments. On behalf of the Chinese Delegation, I wish to thank you for this communication, and to assure you that my delegation will not fail to communicate it to my Government, who, I feel confident, will be glad at an early moment to discuss and adjust by mutual agreement all necessary matters of detail with a view to effecting the transfer which you so cordially proposed on behalf of your delegation, and which the Chinese people will long remember in grateful appreciation. Yours sincerely, SAO-KE ALFRED SZE. CONVENTION between Great Britain and Costa Rica for the Submission to Arbitration of Certain Claims against the Government of Costa Rica.-San José de Costa Rica, January 12, 1922.* [Ratifications exchanged at Washington, March 7, 1923.] His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; and * 66 Treaty Series, No. 7 (1923)." Signed also in the Spanish language. His Excellency the President of the Republic of Costa Rica; Whereas there has arisen between their respective Governments a difference as to the application of Law No. 41 of the 21st August, 1920, to two cases in which British corporations are interested, to wit: to the concession granted by the Aguilar-Amory Contract of the 25th June, 1918, of which the "Central Costa Rica Petroleum Company is owner, and the delivery to the Royal Bank of Canada of 998,000 colones in notes of 1,000 colones each in payment of a cheque drawn by the Tinoco Administration against the International Bank of Costa Rica, which cheque was deposited in the Government's account with the said Royal Bank; and Whereas the claims and contentions of the two Governments in regard to these points have been set forth, on the part of His Britannic Majesty's Government, in the notes which His Britannic Majesty's Minister addressed to the Costa Rican Ministry for Foreign Affairs on the 13th July and the 8th November, 1921, and in antecedent correspondence; and, on the part of the Costa Rican Government, in their notes in reply relative to the present diplomatic controversy and especially in the Congressional Resolution of the 13th December of that same year; and Whereas both Governments are actuated by a lively desire to reach, within that spirit of cordial friendship which has always inspired their relations, a speedy and just settlement of the pending question; and as the medium of arbitration, indicated by His Britannic Majesty's Government, has been accepted by the Government of Costa Rica, after previous consultation with the Constitutional Congress: Have therefore determined to conclude a treaty of arbitration, and have appointed for that purpose the following plenipotentiaries, that is to say: His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, Andrew Percy Bennett, Esquire, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the Republic of Costa Rica; and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Señor Licentiate Alejandro Alvarado Quirós, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles: ART. 1. A single Arbitrator, appointed by mutual agreement, taking into consideration existing Agreements, the principles of public and international law, and in view of the |