NUMBER 1896/3: JULY 11, 1896 59 of the twenty second year of the Emperor Kuang Hsu, being the twenty third day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety six Western Calendar. For the H ongkong and Banking Corporation, ( Sgd.) E. G. HILLIER, Agent. For the Deutsch-Asiatische , (Sgd.) FRANZ URBIG. Schedule of interest and sinkillg fund payments.

Date. Interest. Sinking fund. Total.

1896. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. August 20 ...... 133,333 6 8 27,825 6 8 161,158 13 4 September 5 ...... 133,333 6 8 27,825 6 8 161,158 13 4 September 20 ...... 133,333 6 8 27,825 6 8 161,158 13 4 a 483,476 October 20 ...... 66,666 13 4 13,912 13 4 80,579 6 8 November 20 ...... 66,666 13 4 13,912 13 4 80,579 6 8 December 20 ...... 66,666 13 4 13,912 13 4 80,579 6 8

a Less interest at 5 per cent on £6,000,000 calculated from first April to the first day of the month of its issue, \Vestcrn Calendar. The same payment of eighty thousand five hundred and seventy nine pounds six shillings and eight pence shall be repeated on the twentieth day of each month of the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven \V estern Calendar and of each succeeding year until the twentieth day of March one thousand nine hundred and thirty two inclusive that being the last payment when the loan will be extinguished. ( Sgd.) E. G. HILLIER. (Sgd.) FRANZ URBIG.

NUMBER 1896/3.

DENMARK (Great Northern Telegraph Company), GREAT BRITAIN (Eastern Extension, Australasia and Telegraph Company, Ltd.) AND CHINA. Convention regulating the relations between the Chinese Telegraph Administra­ tion and the companies.*-July 11, 1896. THE Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration, hereinafter called the Ad­ ministration, on the one part, and the Great Northern Telegraph Company of *Text as printed in H ertslet, p. 1140. Printed also in R-ecueil, p. 183. In connection with this convention see the following telegraph conventions: With Great Northern, May 60 CHINA TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS Copenhagen, and the Eastern Extension, Australasia, and China Telegraph Company (Limited), hereinafter called the Companies, on the other part, being desirous of facilitating international telegraphic communication, have decided to conclude a Convention, with a view to regulate the relations between the Ad­ ministration and the Companies. Consequently, the following stipulations have been agreed on, and, under date below given, signed by the Administration represented by its Director-General Sheng Hsuen Huai, and by the Companies represented by their respective managers in China, viz., Mr. J. Henningsen and Mr. W. Judd, all three duly furnished with full and special powers for this purpose. ARTICLE I.-1. . The total charge per word fixed in francs in the annexed Table stipulated in Article XI of the present Convention for telegrams ex­ changed terminally between China, on the one side, and Europe (Russia excepted), America, and, when transiting Europe, all other countries beyond Europe on the other side, is to be the same by the routes of the Companies via India (Madras), and via Russia in Asia, as by the routes of the Administration via Russia in Asia. 2. This equalisation of total charges shall be effected by the necessary regu­ lation of the Administration's terminal charge via Russia in Asia, and of the Companies' cable charges respectively between China and India (Madras), and between China and Russia in Asia. 3. For the same telegrams as described under Section I in this Article via other routes, present and future, across the land frontiers of China the Adminis­ tration undertakes, when concluding, renewing, or revising Telegraph Conven­ tions, to fix their proportion of the total charges in such manner that the total charges collected for the said telegrams via such routes at the time of the con­ cluding, renewing, or revising of such Conventions shall in no case be lower than the total charges collected for the same telegrams when exchanged by the normal routes above described under Section 1 of this Article. The Companies on. their side undertake a corresponding obligation for the same telegrams via all routes, present or future, established beyond the termini of their systems in India and in Russia in Asia. 4. The stipulations under Sections 1, 2, and 3 of this Article shall apply equally to telegrams exchanged terminally between the British Colony of , on the one side, and Europe (Russia excepted), America, and, transit­ ing Europe, all other countries beyond Europe on the other side. 5. With regard to the telegrams specified under Sections 1, 3, and 4 of this Article transmitted by other routes, present or future, than those specified under Sections 1. and 3 of this Article, the Administration and the Companies recipro­ cally undertake to do all in their power to protect the joint interests established by the present Convention, and to carry to the Joint Purse stipulated in Article II of the present Convention all revenues accruing to the Administration or to the Companies from the said traffic coming under Sections 1 and 3 of this Article,

13, 1897 (No. 1897/3, post); with Great Northern and Eastern Extension, October 26, 1900 (No. 1900/6, post); with Great Northern, and with Eastern Extension, October 22, 1902. See also the agreement of the British Government with the Eastern Extension, April 23, 1901 (No. 1901/1, post). See also Note to this document, post, p. 67.