Treaty {British — Abj/mnian), 15.5,02. 295 ARTICLE VI.

In case of interruption to the Italian Massawa-Perim cable, or to the lines and cables between the Sudan and abroad, it is agreed that the lines or cables of each Government shall be at the service of the other.

In this case the service telegrams of one Government passing over the lines and cables of the other will pay only half the transit taxes above mentioned.

ARTICLE VII.

The authorities of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and of Erythraea will exchange mutually and free of cost, in English, Italian, or Arabic, political or military news which might interest each other.

ARTICLE VIII.

The half-yearly accounts above-mentioned shall be regulated on the 1st January and 1st July of each year.

ARTICLE IX.

The said Convention shall remain in force for the space of one year from the date of exchange of ratifications, but after this period it shall continue in force sine die until revised at the request of one of the two contracting parties who shall give at least six months notice of his wish for such revision.

ARTICLE X.

The Telegraphic Convention (Parsons-Samminiatelli) of the 25th 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.

(15.) TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND ETHIOPIA. (With Map.)

His Majesty Edward VII, by the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, and His Majesty Menelik II, by the Grace of God, King of Kings of Ethiopia, being animated with the desire to conform the friendly relations between the two Powers, and to settle the frontier between the Sudan and Ethiopia ; and His Majesty King Edward having appointed as his plenipotentiary Lieut. -Colonel John Lane Harrington, a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, His Majesty's Agent at the Court of His Majesty Menelik II, King of Kings of Ethiopia, whose full powers have been found in due and proper form, and His Majesty the Emperor Menelik, negotiating in his own name as King of Kings of Ethiopia, they have agreed upon and do conclude the following Articles which shall be binding on themselves, their heirs and successors.

ARTICLE I.

The frontier between the Sudan and Ethiopia agreed on between the two Governments shall be : — The line which is marked in red on the map annexed to this Treaty in duplicate, and traced from Khor Urn Hagar to Galabat, to the Blue Nile, Baro, Pibor, and Akobo rivers, to Helile, thence to the intersection of the 6° lat. north with the 35° long, east of Greenwich.

ARTICLE II.

The boundary as defined in Article I shall be delimited and marked on the ground by a Joint Boundary Commission which shall be nominated by the two High Contracting Parties, who shall notify the same to their subjects after delimitation.

ARTICLE III.

His Majesty the Emperor Menelik II, King of Kings of Ethiopia, engages unuself towards the Government of His Britannic Majesty not to construct or allow to be constructed any work across the Blue Nile, Lake Tsana, or the Sobat which would arrest the flow of their waters into the Nile, except in agreement with His Britannic Majesty's Government and the Government of the Sudan.