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SINO-FOREIGN TREATIES

The present Convention with its annexes shall be ratified as soon as pos- sible and the exchange of ratifications shall take place in Paris. It shall he promulgated in Indo-China and shall come there into force at the same time as in the three Provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi and Kwangtung, two months after the exchange of ratifications.

Article XI. The present Convention has been drawn up in Chinese and French, both texts having been carefully compared and verified.

In faith whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention in duplicate and have affixed thereto their 'seals.

Done at Nanking this sixteenth day of the fifth month of the nineteenth year of the Republic of China, corresponding to the sixteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and thirty.

(L. S.) (Signed) CHENGTING T. WANG.

(L. S.) (Signed) D. DE MARTEL.

SINO-GREEK TREATY

Treaty of Amity Between the Republic of China and the Hellenic Republic

Authorized English Translation.

The Republic of China and the Hellenic Republic, animated by a desire to strengthen the bonds of amity by a Treaty which will facilitate the promotion of the economic and commercial relations of the two countries, and recognizing that the application of the principles of equality and respect for territorial sovereignty is the only method to preserve good understanding between peoples, have appointed for this purpose as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say:

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The Government of the Republic of China:

His Excellency Mr. Kao Lou, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister

Plenipotentiary of China at Paris;

The President of the Hellenic Republic:

His Excellency Mr. M. Politis, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister

Plenipotentiary of Greece at Paris;

Who, having exchanged their full powers, have agreed upon the following provisions:

Article I.-There shall be perpetual peace and everlasting amity between China and Greece as well as between their nationals.

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Article II. It is agreed that the two High Contracting Parties shall have the right mutually to appoint and send duly accredited diplomatic agents who shall reciprocally enjoy, in the countries of their residence, the privileges and immunities which may be accorded to similar agents of other nations, accord- ing to the law of nations. The two High Contracting Parties shall have the right to appoint Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls and Consular Agents, who shall reside in the principal cities of the two countries where the residence of such foreign agents is permitted and shall be treated with due consideration and regard.

The Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Consular Agents, prior to their assumption of office, shall obtain the customary exequatur issued by the Government of the country where they shall reside. The said Government may withdraw its exequatur upon showing good cause.

The two High Contracting Parties shall abstain from appointing merchants as Consuls-General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls or Consular Agents; honorary Con- suls excepted.