Belgian Congo 35 ] GERMAN INTERVENTION with decision. Belgium was informed that she remained responsible for her treaty obligations of November 8, 1884, until such time as Great Britain had taken over those obligations with the consent of Germany ; and the British Government was warned that the proposed lease, as the equivalent to an alteration of the frontier between German East Africa and the Free State, depended on Germany's good -will. The British Govern ment argued in vain that Germany's claim to inter vention was unjustifiable in international law ; the German Government, backed by opinion in Germany, persisted, and the British Cabinet felt itself obliged to give way , the offending article being shortly after wards withdrawn from the treaty. The rest of the Agreement remained untouched . It provided, inter alia, for the definition of the boundary between the Congo Free State and the British sphere to the north of the Zambezi, which, broadly speaking, constituted the frontier of the valuable mining district of Katanga and northern Rhodesia. From Lake Tanganyika this line runs in a south -westerly direction to Lake Mweru, thence following the Luapula to its issue from Lake Bangweulu ; thereafter it runs along the meridian of longitude to the watershed between the Congo and the Zambezi , which it follows to the frontier of Angola.

( 11 ) FURTHER FRONTIER AGREEMENTS WITH FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN Meanwhile, France viewed with considerable dis pleasure the northward advance of the Free State frontier. The conclusion of the Anglo -Congolese Agree ment of May 12, 1894, gave her the opportunity she desired ; and she protested against this convention as restricting her march towards the Nile. The French Government also idrew attention to the occupation by the Free State of Bangasso and other territories north D 2