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the adherence of a Power shall be deposited at Washington and the treaty shall immediately upon its deposit become effective as between the Power thus adhering and the other Powers parties hereto.

"It shall be the duty of the Government of the United States to furnish each Government named in the preamble and every Government subsequently adhering to this treaty with a certified copy of the treaty and of every instrument of ratification or adherence. It shall also be the duty of the Government of the United States telegraphically to notify such Governments immediately upon the deposit with it of each instrument of ratification cr adherence.

"In faith whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed this treaty in the French and English languages, both texts having equal force, and hereunto affixed their seals.

"Done at Paris the 27th day of August in the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight."

The provisions regarding ratification and adherence are, as Your Ex- cellency will observe, found in the third and last Article. That Article pro- vides that the treaty shall take effect as soon as the ratifications of all the Powers named in the preamble shall have been deposited in Washington and that it shall be open to adherence by all the other Powers of the world, in- struments evidencing such adherence to be deposited in Washington also. Any Power desiring to participate in the treaty may thus exercise the right to adhere thereto and my Government will be happy to receive at any time appropriate notices of adherence from those Governments wishing to contribute to the success of this new movement for world peace by bringing their peoples within its beneficent scope. It will be noted, in this connect:on that, the treaty expressly provides that when it has once come into force it shall take effect immediately between an adhering Power and the other Parties thereto, and it is therefore lear that any Government adhering promptly will fully share in the benefits of the treaty at the very moment it comes into effect.

I shall shortly transmit for Your Excellency's convenient reference a printed pamphlet containing the text in translation of M. Briand's original proposal to my Government of June 20, 1927, and the complete record of the subsequent diplomatic correspondence on the subject of a multilateral treaty for the renunciation of war. I shall also transmit, as soon as received from my Government, a certified copy of the signed treaty.

I avail myself of this opportunity to extend to Your Excellency the renewed assurance of my highest consideration.

(Signed) MAHLON F. PERKINS,

Chargé d'Affaires.

2. CHINA'S ACCEPTANCE.

Excellency:

Nanking, Sept. 13, 1928..

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication dated August 27 in which the Government of the United States of America presents for my consideration and for the approval of my Government the text of a treaty that was signed on the same day in Paris by the Governments of Ger- many, the United States of America, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Szecho-Slovakia 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 or solution of all disputes which may arise among them.