MAPS.

(1) Territory leased at Wei-hai Wei and Kiao-chou by Great Britain and Gerinany. (2) Territory leased by Russia in the Liao-tung Peninsula, including Neutral Zone.

(3) Kuang-chou Wan and adjacent territory.

(4) Extension of Hong Kong territory around Kowloon.

(5) Boundaries of the legation quarter at Peking.

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No. 1.

GREAT BRITAIN.

CONVENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA, GIVING EFFECT TO ARTICLE III OF THE CONVENTION OF THE 24TH JULY, 1886, RELATIVE TO BURMAH AND THIBET. a

SIGNED AT LONDON, MARCH 1, 1894.b

RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT LONDON, August 23, 1894.

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being sincerely desirous of consolidating the relations of friendship and good neighborhood which happily exist between the two Empires, have resolved to conclude a Convention with the view of giving effect to Article III of the Convention relative to Burmah and Thibet, signed at Peking on the 24th July, 1886, and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries for this purpose, that is to say:

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, the Right Honourable the Earl of Rosebery, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;

And His Majesty the Emperor of China, Sieh Ta-Jên, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of China at the Court of St. James', and Vice-President of the Imperial Board of Censors;

Who, having mutually communicated to each other their respective full powers, found to be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following Articles:

ART. I. It is agreed that the frontier between the two Empires, from latitude 25° 35′ north, shall run as follows:

Delimitation of frontier, first section.

Commencing at the high conical peak situated approximately in that latitude and in longitude 98° 14' east of Greenwich and 18° 16' west of Peking, the line will follow, as far as possible, the crest of the hills running in a south-westerly direction through Kaolang Pum and the Warong Peak, and thence run nearly midway between the villages of Wanchon and Kaolang-leaving the former to Burmah and the latter to China-on to Sabu Pum.

a British and Foreign State Papers, Vol. LXXXVII, 1894–1895; pp. 1311–1319. This convention was amended by the agreement of February 4, 1897. See infra,

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