enter into a Convention to that end, and have accordingly appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:

Robert Lansing,

The President of the United States: Secretary of State of the United States; and

His Majesty the King of the Hellenes: Mr. Georges Roussos, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Greece to the United States,

Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, found to be in proper form, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles :

ART. I. All male citizens of the United States in Greece and all male citizens of Greece in the United States shall, unless before the time limited by this Convention they enlist or enrol in the forces of their own country or return to the United States or Greece respectively for the purpose of military service, be subject to military service and entitled to exemption or discharge therefrom under the laws and regulations from time to time in force of the country in which they are: provided that in respect to citizens of the United States in Greece the ages for military service shall be the ages specified in the laws of the United States prescribing compulsory military service, and in respect to citizens of Greece in the United States the ages for military service shall be for the time being twenty to forty-four years, both inclusive.

II. Citizens of the United States and citizens of Greece within the age limits aforesaid who desire to enter the military service of their own country must enlist or enrol or must leave Greece or the United States, as the case may be, for the purpose of military service in their own country before the expiration of sixty days after the date of the exchange of ratifications of this Convention, if liable to military service in the country in which they are at the said date; or if not so liable, then before the expiration of thirty days after the time when liability shall accrue; or as to those holding certificates of exemption under Article III of this Convention, before the expiration of thirty days after the date on which any such certificate becomes inoperative unless sooner renewed; or as to those who apply for certificates of exemption under Article III and whose applications are refused, then before the expiration of thirty days after the date of such refusal, unless the application be sooner granted.

III. The Government of the United States and the Government of Greece may through their respective diplomatic representatives issue certificates of exemption from military service to citizens of the United States in Greece and citizens of Greece in the United States

respectively, upon application or otherwise, within sixty days from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this Convention, or within thirty days from the date when such citizens become liable to military service in accordance with Article I, provided that the applications be made or the certificates be granted prior to their entry into the military service of either country.

Such certificates may be special or general, temporary or conditional, and may be modified, renewed, or revoked in the discretion of the Government granting them. Persons holding such certificates shall, so long as the certificates are in force, not be liable to military service in the country in which they are.

IV. The Government of the United States and the Government of Greece will respectively, so far as possible, facilitate the return of citizens of Greece and citizens of the United States who may desire to return to their own country for military service, but shall not be responsible for providing transport or the cost of transport for such persons.

V. No citizen of either country who, under the provisions of this Convention, enters the military service of the other shall, by reason of such service, be considered after this Convention shall have expired or after his discharge to have lost his nationality or to be under any allegiance to His Majesty the King of the Hellenes or to the United States, as the case may be.

VI. The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States and by His Majesty the King of the Hellenes, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington or at Athens as soon as possible. It shall come into operation on the date on which the ratifications are exchanged, and shall remain in force until the expiration of sixty days after either of the Contracting Parties shall have given notice of termination to the other; whereupon any citizen of either country incorporated into the military service of the other under this Convention shall be as soon as possible discharged therefrom.

In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and have affixed thereto their seals.

Done in duplicate at Washington the 30th/17th day of August in the year of our Lord 1918.

TREATY of Commerce between Honduras and Salvador.--Tegucigalpa, February 28, 1918.

[Ratifications exchanged at Tegucigalpa, April 27, 1918.]

(Translation.)

THE Governments of Honduras and Salvador, desirous of strengthening the bonds of fraternity which exist between the two Republics, and being convinced that, in order to fulfil this aspiration, it is expedient to promote the development of commerce, facilitate the interchange of their products, and establish more intimate and positive relations to their mutual benefit, based on the economic interests of both Republics, have resolved to conclude a Treaty of Commerce, and to this end have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:

The President of the Republic of Honduras: Dr. Don Mariano Vasquez, the actual Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and

The President of the Republic of Salvador: His Excellency Señor Dr. Atilio Peccorini, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim of this Republic in Honduras;

Who, having communicated to one another their respective full powers found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles:

ART. I. There shall be absolute freedom of commerce between the Republics of Honduras and Salvador for all natural products and for all articles manufactured from raw materials produced in the one or other Republic. Articles of Government monopoly, or that shall be monopolised hereafter by the respective Governments, shall be excluded from this stipulation.

II. In virtue of this freedom of commerce, which has been agreed upon, the products referred to in the preceding article shall be free of taxes and import or export duties of every kind either in favour of the revenues or municipalities or public or private corporations or any other bodies, as also from any other tax either for transit or for any other object. Coffee, hides of all kinds and cigarettes only shall be excepted.

III. As a result of the present Treaty, and notwithstanding the temporary prohibition which actually exists between the two Republics with regard to the free exportation of metallic currency between the one and the other Republic, the export of coin shall be permitted without any formality for value of the sales of the products to which this Treaty refers.

IV. In order that the freedom from duties conceded to the articles above mentioned may be rendered effective, the party interested should present a certificate of authenticity of the origin of the product, to be granted by the Mayor or by the political authority of the place whence it proceeds, duly legalised by the Consul or by the Diplomatic Agent of the country for which it is destined, or in the absence of both of them, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country of origin.

V. A certificate granted by the Mayor of the place of origin of the products shall suffice for the free introduction of the goods to towns on the frontier or ports on the Gulf of Fonseca, between one and the other republic, for articles the value of which does not exceed 200 pesos silver for each entry; but if it concerns horses, mules or cattle, ordinary boots or shoes, textiles of silk or cotton manufactured in either republic, textiles made from native plants, the legalisation referred to in the preceding article will always be necessary for each entry whatever the value of the said products.

VI. The Governments of the two republics shall not permit the establishment of a distillery or place of sale of "aguardiente" at a distance less than 3 leagues from the uninhabited frontier nor in valleys or communities where there is no authority.

VII. The Governments of Honduras and Salvador shall construct the roads that may be necessary on their frontiers in order to facilitate traffic, and they shall agree together upon the construction on the frontier of bridges over rivers or ravines which obstruct communication between the two republics.

VIII. The two High Contracting Parties, recognising the desirability of rendering uniform the customs tariffs existing in both countries, shall do all that is in their power in order that the differences may gradually disappear, without causing a great disequilibrium in their respective national revenues, and for the purpose each shall appoint one or more delegates in order that they may together study the customs tariffs and their differences and the best means of causing them to disappear; and in their reports they shall urge their Governments to propose the necessary reforms to their Legislative Assemblies, in accordance with the present article.

IX. In the same manner the Governments shall endeavour mutually to reduce as far as possible taxes on the slaughter of cattle, in order to favour consumers, and in the meantime the existing taxes shall remain in force.

X. Free trade, as established by the present Treaty,

applies solely to the trade carried on over the respective land frontiers, or through ports on the Gulf of Fonseca.

XI. The High Contracting Parties declare that the spirit which animates the conclusion of the present Treaty is one of a close association of the Central American States, in accordance with the political constitutions which place them in the light of disintegrated sections of the same nationalities, actually governed by the special principles of Central American Public Law. It is therefore necessary, in the event of any Commercial Treaty which has been concluded with other nations proving to be an obstacle to the existence of the present Treaty, by reason of stipulations contained in those treaties giving latitude to demands of those countries for equal treatment, they shall at once proceed to denounce them, in order to avoid difficulties or the injury which might arise to the one or the other republic by any claim of this nature. So long as discussions last, relative to a claim which a third country might make in the sense indicated, the present Treaty shall remain in force in all its effects, but it shall cease from the moment that Honduras or Salvador shall be obliged to grant the same commercial favours to any one of those third countries.

XII. This Treaty shall be ratified by the respective Congresses, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in this city or in that of San Salvador as soon as possible. Its duration shall be for six years, to date from the day of the exchange of the said ratifications, and shall continue to have effect for an equal period each time that, the term having expired, no one of the High Contracting Parties shall have notified to the other, three months in advance, its desire to terminate it.

In witness whereof the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty in duplicate and placed thereto their respective seals in the city of Tegucigalpa on the 28th day of the month of February, 1918.

(L.S.) MARIANO VASQUEZ. (L.S.) ATILIO PECCORINI.