Nord, société anonyme), of Copenhagen, represented by its Manager in China, Mr. I. Berner, the two parties having full powers to that effect.

ARTICLE I.-The Administration will place at the exclusive disposal of the Company, free of all payment, a special wire of its line between Taku and Maimai-chen or Kiakhta, with intermediate stations at Tientsin and Peking.

If, according to the Administration's and the Company's judgment, the amount of traffic should require it, the Administration is bound to place at the disposal of the Company, on the conditions provided in the present Arrangement for the above-mentioned wire, one more wire of the same line.

The wires should be of galvanized iron, and in conformity with the conditions laid down in the service regulations of the International Telegraph Convention.

The Company will if necessary have the right to establish at Udde, or another station intermediate between Peking and Kiakhta, an automatic transformer (ie., translation automatique), and to install its overseer there.

The Administration undertakes to maintain in good order, and in case of interruption to repair without delay, the wire placed at the disposal of the Company.

If the repairs should not be effected owing to any negligence or default of the Administration, the Company has the right to make representations to the Administration.

If these representations should not result favorably within a reasonable time, the Company would be entitled to effect the necessary repairs itself at the cost of the Administration.

In case of interruption of the wire placed at the disposal of the Company, while the Administration's wires on the same poles remain in good order, the Administration will, if possible, allow the Company to make use of its wires until the wire placed at the disposal of the Company shall have been repaired.

On the other hand, in case of interruption of the Administration's wires, while the wire placed at the disposal of the Company remains in good order, the latter undertakes to transmit by its wire all such messages as may be handed to it by the Administration.

The Company shall have no direct dealings with the public; but if any other company or foreign administration should receive that privilege, it would also be granted to the Great Northern Telegraph Company.

ARTICLE II.-The Administration is obliged to furnish to the Company, free of charge, at its stations in Tientsin, Peking, Mai-mai-chen (or Kiakhta) and Taku (if the line is also operated from that point), two rooms devoted to the exclusive use of the Company, separate from those containing the Administration's instruments, and will pay all the expenses in connection with the working of the wire placed at the disposal of the Company by the Administration. The Company, on its part, will pay the European staff employed at the aforenamed

stations.

The Chinese employed for the working of the wire placed at the disposal of the Company will be engaged and paid by the Company, and placed under

the control of the agents of the Company at the respective stations; the Administration will reimburse the Company for these expenses.

The Administration will reimburse the Company for its expenses, under Articles I and II, at the end of each European calendar month.

ARTICLE III.-The Administration will hand over to the Company at the aforenamed stations all international telegrams destined to be transmitted by way of Kiakhta or by the Taku-Shanghai cable.

The Administration will also hand over to the Company, in all cities in China (including Hongkong) where there may be cables, all international telegrams destined to be transmitted by the cables and by way of Kiakhta.

The Company will have the right to send by the land-lines as service telegrams, free of charge, messages in connection with its business.

ARTICLE IV. The wire placed at the disposal of the Company shall nevertheless be considered as belonging to the Administration, and this stipulation cannot be abrogated by any other Convention which may be entered into by the Administration with any cable company or administration whatsoever.

ARTICLE V.-The Company has the right to install its controllers at the Chinese control stations along the wire placed at its disposal. The controllers of no other Administration or Company are to be admitted.

ARTICLE VI.-Should it be desired by the Russian Telegraph Administration, the working of the wire placed at the disposal of the Company may be connected with that of the Russian telegraphic system directly,—that is, without the intermediation of the Chinese Administration in the transmission of telegrams by the above-named wire to the Russian system and vice versa. In that case, the accounts resulting from the exchange of all telegrams transmitted over the above-mentioned wire by way of Kiakhta will be drawn up and settled directly between the Russian Telegraph Administration and the Company; but the Chinese Administration will have the right to install its controllers, of Chinese or Danish nationality, at the control offices of the Company along the abovementioned wire within Chinese territory. The controllers of no other administration or company are to be admitted.

ARTICLE VII.-The total revenue of the Administration derived from terminal exchange, over the wire placed at the disposal of the Company, of all telegrams between China and Russia, is to be shared in accordance with the Joint Purse Arrangement of May 1/13, 1897.†

The total revenue of the Administration derived from the terminal exchange, over the same wire, of all telegrams between China (excepting Hongkong) and Europe (excepting Russia) and countries beyond Europe is to be shared in accordance with the Joint Purse Agreement of June 29/July 11, 1896.‡

The total revenue of the Administration derived from the exchange of terminal telegrams from Russia transiting China, whatever be the route followed (including the wire above mentioned), and the total revenue of the Administration derived from the exchange of all other telegraphic traffic (including telegrams to and from Hongkong) transiting China, whatever be the route followed (includ

† No. 1897/3, ante.

No. 1896/3, ante.

ing the wire above mentioned), is to be shared in accordance with the two Arrangements cited above.

ARTICLE VIII.—The new line from Shanghai to Chefoo, Taku, Peking and Kiakhta, being intended to serve as an alternative route to that of Vladivostok, the total charges will so far as possible be equalized by those two routes.

ARTICLE IX. The present Arrangement will remain in force until December 31, 1925, but the Administration has the right to extend it to December 31st, 1930, in which case the Administration should give notice, at least two years in advance, to the Minister of Russia and Denmark at Peking, and to the Company.

It is understood that if the Arrangement between the Administration and the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Ltd., dated October 22nd, 1902, and annexed hereto, should be extended, the present Arrangement would likewise, with the consent of the Government of Russia, be extended to the same date.

ARTICLE X.-In all that is not contemplated by the present Arrangement, the provisions remain in force of: (1) the International Telegraph Convention and the Service Regulations pertaining thereto, and (2) the Russo-Chinese Telegraph Convention concluded August 13/25, 1892, and the Supplementary Declarations pertaining thereto.

ARTICLE XI.-Notwithstanding the provisions of Articles III and V, the Administration may place at the disposal of the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Ltd.,-but of no other company or administration-a special wire of its line between Peking and Taku for the transmission of international telegrams directed by the senders for transmission by the telegraph system of that Company, and admit its controllers as provided in the above-mentioned Arrangement concluded between that Company and the Administration.

ARTICLE XII.-The present Arrangement is to be ratified by the Wai-wu Pu and by the Minister of Russia and of Denmark at Peking.

In faith of which the undersigned, duly authorized to that effect, have signed the present Arrangement.

Done at Shanghai in the Chinese, French and English languages. Triplicate copies, duly compared and found to agree, have been signed in each of these three languages, the 22nd day of the month of October, 1902, corresponding to the 21st day of the 9th moon of the 28th year of the Reign of Kuang Hsü. For the Imperial Telegraph Administration of China: The Manager of the Head Office in Shanghai,

The Assistant Manager of the Head Office in Shanghai,
CHOW WEN-PENG.

(Sgd.)

§ For the text of Supplementary Declarations, see No. 1902/11, post.

Note.

The text of an Agreement between the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and the Chinese Telegraph Administration, of the same date, concerning the Taku-Peking Line, is given in Recueil, p. 646, as follows:

Agreement between Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and Chinese Telegraph
Administration regarding Taku-Peking Line.—October 22, 1902.

"Whereas, by an Agreement dated the 26 October 1900 and made between the Administration, of the one part, and the Great Northern Telegraph Company Limited, of Copenhagen, (hereinafter called 'The Great Northern Company'), of the other part, the Administration agreed to tend to the Great Northern Company a wire on the Administration's line between Ta-ku and Mai-ma-tchin or Kiachta, and to hand over to the Great Northern Company at the stations at Tien-tsin and Peking and Mai-ma-tchin or Kiachta all international telegrams intended for transmission via Kiachta or via the Ta-ku-Shanghai cable;

"and whereas, the Administration and the Great Northern Company subsequently agreed to make certain modifications in the said Agreement, it has been replaced by another Agreement (hereinafter referred to as Agreement III) made between the said parties on the twenty-second October 1902, which will be submitted for confirmation by the Wai-wu-pu simultaneously with this Agreement;

as

"and whereas it has been arranged for the Administration to place at the disposal of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Limited, a wire on their line between Peking and Ta-ku for transmission of traffic to and from Peking and Tien-tsin, directed via the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company's system, together with office accommodation, on the same terms and conditions the wire and office accommodation granted to the Great Northern Company, the following stipulations have been agreed on between the Administration and the Company, and, under date below given, signed by the Administration, represented by the manager and the assistant manager of its head office at Shang-hai, jointly, viz: Mr. Chu-pau-fay and Mr. Chow-wen-peng, and by the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Limited, represented by Mr. William Bullard both parties duly furnished with full and special powers for this purpose.

"Article I.-The Administration will, as from the confirmation of this Agreement, place at the Company's disposal, free of all payment, a special wire of the Administration's landline between Ta-ku and Peking with an intermediate station at Tien-tsin. If, according to the Company's and the Administration's judgment the amount of traffic should render it necessary, the Administration undertakes to place one more wire at the disposal of the Company, on the said line, on the same conditions as stipulated for the above mentioned wire by the present Agreement. These wires should be of galvanized iron, fulfilling the conditions laid down in the service regulations of the International Telegraph Convention.

"The Administration undertakes to maintan in good working order, and to repair immediately in case of interruption, the wire or wires placed at the disposal of the Company by the Administration.

"If the repairs should not be effected owing to any negligence or default of the Administration, the Company will make representations to the Administration.

"If these should prove of no avail within a reasonable time, the Company shall be entitled to effect the repairs themselves; and charge the Administration the actual cost.

Should the wire or wires placed at the disposal of the Company by the Administration be interrupted whilst the Administration's wires on the same poles are in working order, the Administration will, if possible, give the Company the use of such wires until the wire or wires placed at the disposal of the Company by the Administration shall have been repaired.

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Should the Administration's wires be interrupted whilst the wire or wires placed at the disposal of the Company by the Administration be in working order, the Company will transmit, by this wire or wires all traffic handed to them by the Administration.

"The Company shall have no direct dealings with the public. If however such privilege_be_granted to any other foreign company or administration, it shall also be granted to the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Limited.

"Article II.-The Administration undertakes to furnish the Company with two rooms for office accommodation in each of their stations at Tien-tsin and Peking, which rooms shall be for the exclusive use of the Company, and separate from the Administration's instrument room, and to pay all expenses in connection with the working of the wire or wires placed at the disposal of the Company by the Administration.

"The Company shall appoint and pay the European staff employed at the aforenamed stations.

The Chinese clerks employed for the working of the wire or wires placed at the

disposal of the Company by the Administration shall be selected and paid by the Company and shall be under the complete control of the Company's controllers at the respective stations, the Administration reimbursing the Company their expenses in this con

nection.

"All payments due to the Company under this Article I, shall be made by the Administration at the end of each European calendar month.

Article III.-The Administration will hand to the Company at the aforenamed stations all British international telegrams which may be directed by the sender via Eastern Extension, as well as other international telegrams so directed.

"The Administration shall likewise hand over to the Company in all towns in China where there may be cables, (Hong-kong included) all international telegrams which are directed by the sender to be transmitted by the Company's system.

"The Company shall have the right to send as service telegrams free of charge over the line messages in connection with the Company's business.

"Article IV.-The wire or wires placed at the disposal of the Company by the Administration shall be considered as the Administration's wire or wires, and this stipulation cannot be abrogated by any other Convention which may be entered into by the Administration with any submarine cable company or administration whatsoever.

"Article V.-The Administration's total revenue of all traffic (except Russian terminal traffic but including traffic to and from Hong-kong) transiting China, whichever be the route followed, including the above mentioned wire or wires, shall be carried to the joint purse account of the Agreement dated eleventh of July eighteen hundred and ninety six, and shall be divided accordingly.

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Article VI.-The Agreement shall continue in force until thirty first of December nineteen hundred and twenty five, the Administration having the option of continuing the same unaltered until thirty first of December nineteen hundred and thirty by giving the British Minister at Peking at least two years previous notice, provided always that if the Agreement made between the Administration and the Great Northern Telegraph Company, Limited, of Copenhagen, dated the twenty-second October, 1902, and to which this Agreement is annexed, be continued this Agreement is likewise to be continued to the same date.

'Article VII.-The present Agreement shall be confirmed at Peking by the British and Chinese Governments within six months of this date of signature.

"In witness whereof the undersigned, duly authorized to this effect, have signed the present Agreement.

"Done at Shang-hai in the Chinese language and in the English language. Three expeditions duly compared and found to be in agreement have been signed in both languages on the twenty second day of the month of October nineten hundred and two, corresponding with the twenty first day of the ninth moon of the twenty eighth year of the reign of Kwang-hsu.

For the Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration-the manager of its head office at Shang-hai: "(Signed) CHU-PAU-FAY.

"The assistant manager of its head office at Shang-hai:

(Signed) CHOW-WEN-PENG. "For the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Limited: (Signed) WILLIAM BULLARD."

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In connection with these agreements, see also that of October 26, 1900 (No. 1900/6, ante).