"The foreign Governments who signed or benefit from the agree ments of 1901 cun themselves only use their premises within the Quarter or dispose of them within the units fixed by these servitudes ay well as visi-vis of the Chinese Government as vis-a-vis of the! Powers who were their ce-signatories it, 1901. Indeed between these cosentative of the Russian Government with whom they will first as-ure themselves of maintenance of the arrangements which constitute the conventional status of the Diplomatic Quarter. Precedents show that this object is eats strained and the signatories Protocol think that their relations with their new colleague will be rendered easier if they are injsugurated by an understanding about the conditions of their good neighbourship. discussions are therefore' not within the competency of the Chinese Government but the signs tories to the Protocol recognize that in order to start them they must apply for the kind intermediation of Your Excellency.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.