294 Posts and Tdegrajihs {Sudan — Erythra-a), 26.11.01.

(13.)

POSTAL CONVENTION BETWEEN THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN AND ERYTHREA.

ARTICLE I.

From the date of the present Convention the Post Offices of the Anglo-Egjrptian territory of the Sudan and of Erj'thrs'a will carry out the service of ordinary and registered (raccomandate) correspondence and of money orders between the Sudan and Erythrsea, under the conditions, formalities and tariffs in force in the Universal Postal Union, except as hereinafter mentioned.

ARTICLE II.

The exchange of mails will take place weekly at Sabderat. Each Government will provide for the transport of the mails in its own territory.

ARTICLE III.

The Service of Money Orders between the Colony of Erythrsea and the Sudan is carried out in accordance with the forms and regidations in force for the Money Order Service between Erythrsea and Egypt.

ARTICLE IV.

This Convention is subject to revision every five years, dating from the exchange of ratifications, on the application of one of the contracting parties six months before the close of the quinquennial period.

ARTICLE V.

The Postal Convention (Parsons-Samininiatelli) of the 25th of December, 1897, is hereby cancelled. Done at Rome this twenty-sixth day of November, in the year one thousand nine hundred and one.

(Signed) MARTINI. (Signed) GLEICHEN, Kaimakam. Ratified at Cairo, 8th January, 1902.

(14.) TELEGRAPHIC CONVENTION BETWEEN THE ANGLO-EGYPTIAN SUDAN AND ERYTHRA.

ARTICLE I.

Telegrams between the Anglo-Egyptian territory of the Sudan and Erythra3a can be despatched from or to any telegraphic station in either country.

ARTICLE II.

The telegraph line of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is connected with that of Erythra)a at the station of Sabderat which is worked by Italian personnel. The cost of the working of this telegraphic station will be divided equally between the two Governments.

ARTICLE III.

The total charge for telegrams between the two countries shall be at the rate of one lire (forty-two millit'mes) for the first fifteen words or less, and five centesimi (two milliomes) per word after the first fifteen words.

The money received for such telegrams shall remain in the possession of the Administration from whose station the telegram is sent.

ARTICLE IV.

Telegrams from or to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan through Erythraja and Perim to (or from) places beyond Perim will pay over and above the nominal tariff, a transit tax (over Erythraean lines and cables) of forty centesimi (sixteen mUliemes) per word ; which sum will be credited to the Administration of Erjthraea in the half-yearly settlement of accounts.

ARTICLE V.

In like manner telegrams from (or to) the Erythraean Colony passing over Sudanese or Egyptian telegraph lines to (or from) places outside Egypt or the Sudan will pay, over and above the normal tariff, a transit tax of seventy-five centesimi (thirty milliemes) per word over the lines Kassala-Alexandria or Kassala-Suakin ; which sum will be credit<!d to the Administration of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the half-yearly settlement of accounts.