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The Full Text of the Angl0-Rus-
sim Agreement
London Globe, June IA.

The Full Text of the AnglO-Rus
sian Agreement.
London Globe, June IA.
The Berlin Congress having as
sembled there is no longer any
reason for our withholding the full
text of the agreement between tn,
Governments of England and Rus
sia, signed at the Foreign Office OF
the 30th of May, the principal head:
of which we published in an Sex
ira Special Edition" of that day.
The agreement comprises two
memorandums. The title of the
first memorandum is, s'Project of q
memorandum determining the
| points upon which an understanding
has been established between the
Governments of Russia and Great
Britain, and which will serve as a
mutual engagement for the Russian
and English plenipotentiaries at the
| Congress.
After preamble expressing the
| desire of the Russian and English
| Governments to establish an under
standing that may obviate the set
| tlement of the Eastern question by
the sword, the memorandum goes
on to state
TRANSLATION.
1. England discards the longitu-
dinal division of Bulgaria, but the
Representative of Russia reserves to
himself to point out the advantages
of it to Congress, promising, never
theleSS, not to insist upon it against
the definite opinion of England.
2. The arrangement of the bound
aries of Southern Bulgaria should
be modified in such manner as to
remove them from the Hgean Sea,
according to the southern delimita-
ton of the Bulgarian provinces,
proposed by the Conference of Con-
stantinOple. This does not concern
the question of the frontiers so much
as it refers to the exclusion of
the province from the littoral
of the A1gean Sea, that is to
say, to the west of Lagos. From
this point to the Coast of the Black
Sea the discussion of the frontier
will remain free.
3. The western frontiers of Bull
garia should be rectitied upon the
base of nationalities, so as to ex-
clude from that province the nom
bulgarian populations. The west
ern frontiers of Bulgaria ought not
to pass in principle a line traced
from close to NoVi-Bazar to Koursha
Balkan.
4. The Bulgaria replaced in the
limits which are mentioned in the
10, oh Hn
Vided into two provinces, namely:
The one to the north of the Bal
kans should be endowed with po-
litical autonomy, under the govern
ment of prince, and the other, to
the south of the Balkans, should re-
ceive a large measure of admins
trative self-government (autonOmie
administrative instance, like
that which exists in English colo
nies-With a Christian Governor
named with the acquiescence of Eu-
rope for five or ten years.
5. The Emperor of Russia attaches
a peculiar importance to the retreat
of the Turkish army from Southern
Bulgaria. His Majesty does not see
any security or guarantee for the
if the Ottoman troops are main
tanned there.
Lord Salisbury accepts the retreat
of the Turkish troops from Southern
Bulgaria but Russia will not OBJ
ject to what is enacted by the Con-
gress respecting the mode and the
cases where the Turkish troops
would be allowed to enter the South
ern province to resist an insurrec-
tion or invasion, whether in a state
of execution or in state of menace.
England, nevertheless, reserves to
herself to insist at the Congress on
the right of the Sultan to be able to
canton troops on the frontiers of
Southern Bulgaria.
The representative of Russia re-
serves to himself at the Congress
complete liberty in the discussion of |
this last proposition of Lord Sails
bury.
6. The British Government de-
mands that the superior officers
(chefs superieurs) of the militia in
Southern Bulgaria should be named !
by the Porte with the consent of
Europe.
Z. The promises concerning Ar
menia stipulated by the preliminary
treaty of San StefanO should not be
made exclusively to Russia, but to
England also.
s. The Government of her Brit !
anic Majesty taking, as well as the
Imperial Government, warm in
terest in the future organization of
the Greek provinces Of the Balkan |
Peninsula, the article 10 of the pre-
liminary treaty of San Stefano shall
be modified in such a manner that |
the other powers, and notably Eng
land, may have, like Russia, con-
voice in the future OrganiZa-
tion of Epirus, Thessaly and the
other Christian provinces resting
under the dominion of the Porte.
8. In so far as the war indemnity
is concerned His Majesty the EN-
peror has never had the intention of
converting it into territorial annex
atiOns, and he does not refuse to
give assurance in this respect.
1t is understood that the war in
demnity will not deprive the Eng
lish Government of their rights as
creditor, and it will in this respect
remain in the same state that it
stood before the war.
Without cOntesting the final de-
cision which Russia will take with
respect to the amount of the indem-
nifty, England reserves to herself
to point out to the Congress the seri-
Gus objections which she sees to it.
10. AS to the Valley of Alashker
and the town of Bayazid, that valley
being the great transit route for Per-
sia, and having an immense value
in the eyes Of the Turks, His Majes-
ty the Emperor consents to restore
to them, but he has demanded and
obtained in exchange the cession to
Persia of the little territory of Kho-
tour, which the commissioners of
the two mediatOry courts have found
Just to restore to the Sha.
IL. The Government of Her Brit
anic Majesty would have to express
its profound regret in the event of
Russia insisting difinitively upon
the retrocession of Bessarabia. AS,
however, it is sufficiently established
that the other signatories to the
treaty of Paris are not ready to sus-
tain nv arms the delimitatiOn of