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SINO-FOREIGN TREATIES

Article I.-For the purpose of attaining absolute equality of treatment in Customs matters and in supplementing the arrangements between China and Germany of the 20th of May 1921, the two High Contracting Parties agree that in all Customs and related matters either of the High Contracting Parties shall not, within the territories of the other Party, be subject to any discri- minatory treatment as compared with the treatment accorded to any other country.

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The nationals of each of the High Contracting Parties shall under no circumstances be compelled to pay within the territories of the other Party higher or other duties, internal charges or taxes whatsoever upon the importa- tion or exportation of goods than those paid by nationals of the country or by nationals of any other country.

The provision in the exchange of notes annexed to the Sino-German agree- ment of May 20, 1921, according to which German import goods shall pay duties in accordance with the General Tariff Regulations prior to the general application of the Automous Tariff Regulations, shall be hereby annulled.

Article II. The two High Contracting Parties will enter as soon as pos- sible into negotiations for the purpose of concluding a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation based on the principle of perfect parity and equality of treat-

ment.

Article III. The present treaty has been drawn up in Chinese, German and English; in case of a difference of interpretation the English text shall pre- vail.

Article IV. The present treaty shall be ratified as soon as possible and shall become valid on the day on which the two Governments shall have noti- fied each other that the ratifications have been effected.

Done in duplicate at Nanking on the seventeenth day of the Eighth month of the seventeenth year of the Republic of China, corresponding to the seven- teenth day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight.

(Signed) CHENGTING T. WANG. (Signed) H. VON BORCH,

THE ANTI-WAR TREATY (KELLOGG PACT).

Excellency:

1.-UNITED STATES, INVITATION TO CHINA.

Legation of the United States of America Peking, August 27, 1928.

I have the honour to inform you that the Governments of Germany, the United States of America, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, The Irish Free State, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Czecho-Slovakia have this day signed in Paris a treaty binding them to renounce war as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another and to seek only by pacific means the settlement of or solution of all disputes which may arise among them.

This treaty, as Your Excellency is aware, is the outcome of negotiations which commenced on June 20, 1927, when M. Briand, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, submitted to my Government a draft of a pact of perpetual friendship between France and the United States. In the course of the subsequent negotiations this idea was extended so as to include as original signatories of the anti-war treaty not only France and the United