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by which the fortress of Luxembourg was to be dismantled, and, 

 the neutrality of Luxembourg guaranteed by the Signatories to the 

 Treaty. 



TURKEY AND GREECE. 



In 1867, the relations between Turkey and Greece were much 

 disturbed on account of the insurrection in Crete. At the 

 suggestion of the King of Prussia, a Conference of the Great 

 Powers was convened in Paris, and the result was, that certain 

 resolutions were agreed upon, which were to be submitted to 

 Greece for her acceptance. Greece accepted the recommendations, 

 of the mediating Powers, the insurrection subsided, and peace 

 between Turkey and Greece was secured. 



CONFERENCE AT BERLIN. 



In 1885, a Conference of the Plenipotentiaries of the European 

 Powers assembled at Berlin, to regulate the conditions most 

 favourable to the development of trade and civilisation in certain 

 regions of Africa, and to assure to all nations the advantages of 

 free navigation of the two chief rivers of Africa flowing into the 

 Atlantic Ocean, and of furthering the moral and material well-being 

 of the native populations. 



The Conference met at the invitation of the Imperial Govern- 

 ment of Germany, in agreement with the Government of the 

 French Republic, and by the Xllth Article of the Treaty, which 

 was signed at Berlin, 26th February, 1885, and ratified 19th April, 

 1886, friendly mediation was recommended as follows : — 



" In any serious disagreement originating on the subject of, or in the limits of 

 the territories mentioned in Article I., and placed under the free trade 

 system, shall arise between any of the Signatory Powers of the present 

 Act, and of the Powers which may become parties to it ; those Powers, 

 bind themselves before appealing to arms, to have recourse to the 

 mediation of one or more of the Friendly Powers." 



GERMANY, UNITED STATES, AND SAMOA. 



On 29th April, 1889, a Conference assembled at Berlin to secure 

 the adoption of measures which should lead to the establishment 

 of a firm and stable Government in Samoa, and the maintenance 

 of tranquilUty over the group of Islands. The Governments of 

 Germany, the United States of America, and Great Britain, were 

 represented by the following Plenipotentiaries : for Germany, Count 

 Herbert Bismarck, Baron de Holstein, and Dr. Kraul; for the 

 United States, Mr. John A. Karson, Mr. William W. Phelps, and 



