The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-02-04

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from governments and nationals of
all foreign countries, whether parties
to the present treaty or not.
Article a
1.-THE contracting powers agree not
to support any agreements by their
respective nationals with each other
designed to create spheres of influence
or to provide for the enjoyment of
mutually excessive opportunities in
designated parts of Chinese territory.
Article
"China agrees that throughout the
whole of the railways in China, she
will not exercise or give rights of
any kind, and particularly there shall
be no discrimination whatever, direct
or indirect, in respect of charges or
Of facilities on the ground of the ma
tionality of passengers or the coun-
tries from which or to which they
were proceeding. or the origin or the
ownership of goods or the country
from which or to which they are con-
signed. or the nationality or owner
ship of the ship or other means of
conveying such passengers or goods
before or after their transport on the
Chinese railways.
THE contracting powers, other
than China, assume a corresponding
obligation in respect of any aforesaid
railways over which they or their ma
.ionals are in position to exercise
and control in virtue Of any conces-
sion special agreement or otherwise.
Article 6
China agree fully to respect China's
rights as a neutral in time of war to
which China is not party; and China
declares that when she is a neutral
she will observe the obligations of
neutrality.
Article
THE contracting power e. ea that,
whenever a situation arises which in
the opinion of any enc of them, in
wolves the application of the stipula-
tiOns of the present treaty, and rem
ders desirable discussion of such ap-
plicatiOn, there shall be full and frank
communication between the contract
ing powers concerned.
Article 8
Powers not signatOry to the pres
ent treaty, which have government
recognized by the senatory powers
and which have treaty relations with
China, shall be invited to adhere to
the present treaty To this end the
government of the United States will
make the necessary communication to
non-signatOry powers and will inform
the contracting powers of the replies
received. Adherence by any power
shall become effective on receipt of no
tice thereof by the government of
the United States.
Article 9
THE present treaty shall be rati-
fed by the contracting powers in ac-
cordance with their respective consti-
tutional methods and shall take effect
on the date of the deposit of all their
Publications which shall take place at
Washington as soon as possible. The
government of the United States will
transmit to the other contracting DOW
ers certified copy of the process
(verbaD of the deposit of notifications.
THE present treaty of which the
English and French texts are both
authentic, shall remain deposited in
the archives of the government of the
United States and duly certified
copies thereof shall be transmitted by
that government to the other con-
tracing powers.
I'm faith whereof, the above named
plenipotentiaries have signed the
present treaty
Done at the city of Washington,
the sixth day of February one thou
sand nine hundred and twenty-five"
the fourth day of February one thou
Is this released 9Th Or 4th