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COPYRIGHT, 1921

BY THE

CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE

PRESS OF BYRON S. ADAMS
WASHINGTON, D. C.

NOTE

A Conference on the Limitation of Armament was called on August 11, 1921, by the Government of the United States, to meet in Washington on November 11, 1921, the third anniversary of the signing of the armistice between the victorious Allied and Associated Powers and Germany.

The representatives of the Powers originally invited to the Conference were the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan, for the consideration of the question of the limitation of armament, and China for the discussion of Pacific and Far Eastern Questions. Later, representatives of Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal, were invited to take part in the discussion of questions concerning the Pacific.

The tentative program agreed upon embraces the following subjects:

Limitation of Armament

1. Limitation of naval armament, under which shall be discussed:

(a) Basis of limitation.

(b) Extent.

(c) Fulfilment.

2. Rules for control of new agencies of warfare.

3. Limitation of land armament.

Pacific and Far Eastern Questions

1. Questions relating to China.

First: Principles to be applied.
Second: Application.

Subjects:

(a) Territorial integrity.

(b) Administrative integrity.

(c) Open door-equality of commercial and industrial opportunity.

(d) Concessions, monopolies or preferential economic privileges.

(e) Development of railways, including plans relating to Chinese Eastern

Railway.

(f) Preferential railroad rates.

(g) Status of existing commitments.

2. Siberia (similar headings).

3. Mandated islands (unless questions earlier settled).

Electrical communications in the Pacific.

Under the heading of "Status of Existing Commitments" it is expected that opportunity will be afforded to consider and to reach an understanding with respect to unsettled questions involving the nature and scope of commitments under which claims of rights may hereafter be asserted.

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In the belief that the dissemination of information regarding the status of armaments, the collection of official documents throwing light upon the situation in the Pacific, and the furnishing of accurate accounts of the issues involved in some of the more important problems confronting the Conference, would render a service to the public and perhaps even to the delegates to the Conference, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has undertaken the preparation and publication of a series of pamphlets of which the present pamphlet is one. The documents have been selected chiefly from John V. A. MacMurray's Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, published in two volumes by the Endowment earlier in the year.

The meeting of so many nations in conference, following upon the close of a great war, is in itself an event of no mean importance. The holding of a conference upon the limitation of armament in succession to the First Hague Peace Conference called to consider the burden of armaments and the means for its decrease, with the possibility of an agreement in conference upon some of the questions of international import in addition to armaments, is an indication that the world is returning to "normalcy" and turning to the experience of The Hague.

That the Conference may be successful in all the phases of its program should be the desire of men and women of good-will in all parts of the world. JAMES BROWN SCOTT, Director.

WASHINGTON, D. C.,

November 4, 1921.

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Documents mentioned in the list as not printed herein are included merely for reference.

DATE

August 1, 1894
August 26, 1894
March 30, 1895
April 17, 1895

May 10, 1895

October 18, 1895

November 8, 1895
December 22, 1895
May (?), 1896
August 28, 1896

1896

September 8, 1896

December 16, 1896

March 27, 1898

May 7, 1898

July 6, 1898

February 17, 1899
April 28, 1899

May 31, 1899

June 1, 1899

June 17, 1899

August 11, 1899

March 20, 1900

SPECIFICATIONS OF DOCUMENT

JAPAN-Declaration of War against China.
JAPAN & KOREA-Treaty of Alliance...
JAPAN & CHINA-Convention of Armistice
JAPAN & CHINA-Treaty of Peace (with
Separate Articles and Convention to pro-
long Armistice)
JAPAN-Proclamation in regard to Retroces-
sion of Liaotung Peninsula....
FRANCE, GERMANY, RUSSIA & JAPAN
-Exchange of Notes regarding Retroces-
sion of Fengtien Peninsula, and Naviga-
tion of Straits of Formosa..
JAPAN & CHINA-Convention for Retro-
cession of Fengtien Peninsula...
RUSSIA-Charter of Russo-Chinese Bank..
RUSSIA & CHINA-Treaty of Alliance....
RUSSIA & CHINA-Agreement regarding
Russo-Chinese Bank Association. (Not
printed herein; for text, see MACMURRAY,
vol. I, p. 78.)

RUSSIA & CHINA-Cassini Convention...
RUSSIA (Russo-Chinese Bank) & CHINA

-Contract for Construction and Opera-
tion of Chinese Eastern Railway..
RUSSIA-Statutes of Chinese Eastern Rail-
way Company

RUSSIA & CHINA-Convention for Lease
of the Liaotung Peninsula....
RUSSIA & CHINA-Additional Agreement

defining Boundaries of Leased and Neu-
tralized Territory in Liaotung Peninsula.
RUSSIA (Chinese Eastern Railway) &
CHINA-Agreement concerning South-
ern Branch of Chinese Eastern Railway.
RUSSIA-First Supplement to Charter of
Chinese Eastern Railway

GREAT BRITAIN & RUSSIA-Exchange
of Notes regarding Railway Interests in
China .

RUSSIA (Chinese Eastern Railway) &
CHINA (Kirin Province)-Agreement
regarding Jurisdiction over Chinese Sub-
jects in Railway Zone. (Not printed
herein; for text, see MACMURRAY, vol. 1,
p. 277.)
RUSSIA & CHINA-Note regarding Con-
struction of Railways Northward and
Northeastward from Peking...
RUSSIA-Reply of Russian Minister in re-
gard to Railways Northward and North-
eastward from Peking
RUSSIA-Imperial Order for Building
Dalny and Creating it a Free Port....
UNITED STATES & FRANCE, GER-
MANY, GREAT BRITAIN, ITALY,
JAPAN & RUSSIA-Declarations ac-
cepting the Commercial Policy of the
"Open Door" in China

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DATE

January 30, 1901

February (?), 1901 July 18, 1901

August 2, 1901
January 14, 1902

April 8, 1902
July 11, 1902

September 22, 1902

August 12, 1903

February 10, 1904
September 1, 1905
September 5, 1905
October 30, 1905

December 22, 1905
December 22, 1905

June 7, 1906

August 1, 1906

December 5, 1906

April 15, 1907

May 27, 1907

May 30, 1907

June 13, 1907

June 26, 1907

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CHINA-Agreement for Kirin-Chang-
chun Railway. (Not printed herein; for
text, see MACMURRAY, vol. 1, p. 629.)
RUSSIA & CHINA-Agreement for Rendi-

tion of Shanhaikwan-Hsinmintun-Ying-
kow Railway

RUSSIA-Imperial Order creating Imperial
Lieutenancy of Far East....
JAPAN-Declaration of War against Russia.
JAPAN & RUSSIA-Protocol of Armistice.
JAPAN & RUSSIA-Treaty of Peace......
JAPAN & RUSSIA-Protocol of Procedure

in withdrawing Troops, and transferring
Railways

JAPAN & CHINA-Treaty and Additional
Agreement relating to Manchuria.......
JAPAN & CHINA "Secret Protocols" to
Treaty of December 22, 1905, relating to
Manchuria (Summary only)

JAPAN-Imperial Order sanctioning the Or-
ganization of South Manchuria Railway
Company.

JAPAN-Government

Order concerning

South Manchuria Railway Company, with
Articles of Incorporation

JAPAN & CHINA-Agreement for Rendi-
tion of Yingkow

JAPAN & CHINA-Convention regarding
Hsinmin-Mukden and Kirin-Changchun
Railways..

JAPAN (South Manchuria Railway) & CHI-
NA-Agreement for handing over
China the Hsinmintun-Mukden Railway.
JAPAN & CHINA-Agreement regarding
Establishment of Maritime Customs
Office at Dairen, and for Inland Waters
Steam Navigation

JAPAN & RUSSIA—Provisional Convention
(with Additional Article and Protocol)
concerning Junction of Japanese and Rus-
sian Railways in Manchuria....
JAPAN & CHINA-Provisional Customs
Regulations for Leased Territory of
Kwantung. (Not printed herein; for
text, see MACMURRAY, vol. 1, p. 638.)

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