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allotted to it, coupled in particular with the right of preferentially 

 developing in that sphere its financial and economic policies. 



(Manchester Guardian, December 12, 1917.) 



NOTE. The same stipulations are contained in the undated 

 memorandum quoted above under the heading " Constantinople and th 

 Straits." 



Asterahad 

 TEHERAN 



IA*N SP1 



VIII. CHINA. 



Treaty between Russia and Japan, signed by the Russian Foreign 



Minister, M. Sazonoff, and the Japanese Ambassador at 



Petrograd, July 3, 1916. 



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The Russian Imperial Government and the Japanese Imperial 

 Government have, with a view to the greater consolidation of 

 their close friendship, established between them by the secret 

 agreements, of July 30, 1907, July 4, 1910, and July 8, 1912, 

 agreed to supplement the above-mentioned secret agreements by 

 the following articles : 



ARTICLE 1. The two high contracting parties acknowledge 



