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TREATY BETWEEN JAPAN AND RUSSIA

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The High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves the right to maintain guards to protect their respective railway lines in Manchuria. The number of such guards shall not exceed fifteen per kilomètre, and within that maximum number the Com- manders of the Japanese and Russian armies shall, by common accord, fix the number of such guards to be employed, as small as possible having in view the actual requirements.

The Commanders of the Japanese and Russian forces in Manchuria shall agree upon the details of the evacuation in conformity with the above principles, and shall take by common accord the measures necessary to carry out the evacuation as soon

possible and in any case not later than the period of eighteen months.

II. To Art. IX.-As soon as possible after the present Treaty comes into forcee

• Commission of Delimitation, composed of an equal number of members to be appointed respectively by the two High Contracting Parties, shall on the spot mark in a permanent manner the exact boundary between the Japanese and Russian possessions on the Island of Saghalien. The Commission shall be bound, so far as topographical considerations permit, to follow the fiftieth parallel of North latitude as the boundary line, and in case any deflections from that line at any points are found to be necessary, compensation will be made by correlative deflections at other points. It shall also be the duty of the said Commission to prepare a list and de- scription of the adjacent islands included in the cession, and finally the Commission shall prepare and sign maps showing the boundaries of the ceded territory The work of the Commission shall be subject to the approval of the High Contracting Parties. The foregoing additional Articles are to be considered as ratified with the ratification of the Treaty of Peace to which they are annexed.

Portsmouth, the 5th day, 9th month, 38th year of Meiji, corresponding to the 23rd August (5th September N.S.) 1905.

SERGE WITTE. ROSEN.

JUTARO KOMURA, K. TAKAHIRA.

AGREEMENT RELATING TO CHINA, 1907.

The Government of his Majesty the Emperor of Japan and the Government of his Majesty the Tsar of all the Russias, being desirous of strengthening the peaceful, friendly, and neighbourly relations now happily restored between Japan and Russia, and also of removing all possible future cause of misunderstanding in the relations of the two Powers, have entered into the following agreements:-

Art. I. Each of the High Contracting Parties agrees to respect the present territorial integrity of the other, as well as all the rights arising out of Treaties, Con- ventions, and Contracts now in force between them and China, copies of which have been exchanged between the Contracting Parties, so far as the said rights are not incompatible with the principle of equal opportunity enunciated in the Treaty signed at Portsmouth on September 5th, 1905, i.e., August 23rd in the Russian Calendar, and other special conventions concluded between Japan and Russia.

Art. II. The two High Contracting Parties agree to recognise the independence and the territorial integrity of the Chinese Empire, and the principle of equal op portunity for the commerce and industry of all nations in the said Empire, and they engage to uphold and defend the maintenance of the status quo and the respect of that principle by all the peaceful means possible to them.

In witness whereof, the undersigned, duly authorised by their respective Govern- ments, have signed this Agreement and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done at St. Petersburg, the 30th day of the seventh month of the 40th year of Meiji, corresponding to 17th of July, 1907 (Russian Calendar July 30th, 1907).

(L.S.) ICHIRO Motono. (L.S.) ISWOLSKY.

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