expenses of the persons appointed by it, together with one-half of the expenses incurred jointly.

Article 10. Being desirous of re-establishing the economic co-operation between their two countries, the Government of His Britannic Majesty and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics agree as follows:

The Government of the Union will, by way of exception to the decrees nationalising industrial businesses and land, negotiate with British nationals (including juridical persons) in respect of industrial businesses or concessions which have been nationalised or cancelled by it, in order to arrange for the grant of just compensation for such claims.

Furthermore a Commission shall be appointed to examine the validity and ascertain the amount of the claims.

Each of the contracting parties agrees to assist the Commission so far as possible with regard to supplying or collecting papers or information required for the proper accomplishment of its task.

If the members of the Commission are unable to agree on a joint report in respect of any particular property, they may present separate reports.

In cases where the Government of the Union concludes an agreement with an individual claimant, the Commission shall be informed of such agreement in order that the claim in question may be withdrawn from the competence of the Commission.

The Commission shall consist of six persons possessing the necessary qualifications for their task, three being appointed by the Government of His Britannic Majesty and three by the Government of the Union. The Commission shall settle its own procedure, which shall be approved by the two Governments. Each of the contracting parties shall defray the remuneration and pay the expenses of the persons appointed by it, together with one-half of the expenses incurred jointly. Article 11. A second Treaty will be entered into which will contain :1. The conditions accepted in accordance with article 6.

2. The amount and method of payment of compensation for claims under article 8.

3. An agreed settlement of property claims other than those directly settled by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Article 12. Upon the signature of the Treaty referred to in article 11 His Britannic Majesty's Government will recommend Parliament to enable them to guarantee the interest and sinking fund of a loan to be issued by the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The amount, terms and conditions of the said loan and the purposes to which it shall be applied shall be defined in the Treaty provided for in article 11, which will not come into force until the necessary parliamentary authority for the guarantee of the said loan has been given.

Article 13. The provisions of this chapter constitute a single and indivisible unit.

CHAPTER IV.-MISCELLANEOUS.

Article 14. On the coming into force of the Treaty referred to in article 11, article 10 of the Trade Agreement of the 16th March, 1921, will be abrogated, until which time it will be maintained in force, article 1 of the present Treaty notwithstanding.

Article 15. Documents and papers of every kind, which on the 1st November, 1917, belonged to individual subjects or citizens of either party, and are now withheld from the owners and are in the possession or under the control of the Government or a public institution of the other party, shall be returned to the owners, or to such representative as they may appoint, within two months from the date of a request to that effect.

Article 16. The contracting parties solemnly affirm their desire and intention to live in peace and amity with each other, scrupulously to respect the undoubted right of a State to order its own life within its own jurisdiction in its own way, to refrain and to restrain all persons and organisations under their direct or indirect control, including organisations in receipt of any financial assistance from them, from any act overt or covert liable in any way whatsoever to endanger the tranquillity or prosperity of any part of the territory of the British Empire or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or intended to embitter the relations of the British Empire or the Union with their neighbours or any other countries.

Article 17. The present Treaty is drawn up and signed in the English language. A translation shall be made into the Russian language as soon as possible and agreed between the parties. Both texts shall then be considered authentic for all purposes.

Article 18. The present Treaty shall be ratified and the ratifications shall be exchanged in London as soon as possible.

OBITUARY

OF

EMINENT PERSONS DECEASED IN 1924.

JANUARY.

2. The Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, who died in his 90th year, was a voluminous writer on many and varied subjects. After graduating in 1856, from Clare College, Cambridge, he took Holy Orders in 1864. He held his first curacy at Horbury, Yorks, where he composed the celebrated hymn, "Onward, Christian Soldiers." In 1867 he was appointed curate of Dalton, near Thirsk, and four years later became rector of East Mersea, Essex, a position he held for ten years. He then presented himself to the family living of Lew Trenchard in Devonshire where he remained until his death. His writings included fiction, works on ecclesiology, mythology, topography, hymns, and works of travel. Among his best-known books are: "Iceland: its Songs and Sagas; "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages;" "The Origin and Development of Religious Belief." His most popular novels were Mehalah," "John Herring," and "Broom Squire." He married in 1868, Grace, daughter of Mr. Joseph Taylor, of Horbury, Yorks, who had been a mill girl. His wife predeceased him in 1916.

Dr. Roger Alan Birdwood, late Medical Superintendent of Infectious Hospitals, London, was born in Bombay on October 14, 1851. He was one of the younger of the fourteen children of General Christopher Birdwood, Deputy Commissary-General of the Bombay Army and sometime Commander of the Poona Brigade. Birdwood was educated at the Dollar Academy, the Blackheath School for the Sons of Missionaries, and at King's College, London. Failing to enter the Indian Civil Service, he proceeded to Peterhouse, Cambridge, to study medicine. He took his M.D. from Guy's Hospital, worked for a short period under the Metropolitan Asylums Board and then served in the Zulu campaign. On returning to England he was appointed house surgeon at the Gravesend Infirmary, a post he relinquished in 1884 for that of medical superintendent of the hospital ships of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. 1892 he planned the North-Eastern Fever Hospital at Tottenham where he remained for five years and then transferred to the Park Fever Hospital at Hither Green, which institution he supervised for eighteen years, retiring in 1915.

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The Hon. Louis Philippe Brodeur, a distinguished French-Canadian statesman, was born August 21, 1862. From the College of St. Hyacinthe he went to Laval University where he took the degree of LL.D. before being called to the Bar. In 1891 he entered the Canadian Parliament as member for Rouville, became Deputy Speaker in 1896 and Speaker in 1900. After holding this office until 1904, he joined the Laurier Government as Minister of Inland Revenue, a portfolio he ex

changed for that of Marine and Fisheries. He was a member of the Imperial Conferences of 1907 and 1911, assisted Mr. Fielding in negotiating the trade arrangement with France in 1909, and associated with Sir Fredrick Borden at the Imperial Defence Conference in London in 1909. The first Naval Bill introduced in the Canadian Parliament was Brodeur's work and he was placed in charge of the Department of Naval Service when it was organised. He represented Canada at Washington on the North Atlantic Fisheries. A month before his death he was appointed Lieut.-Governor of Quebec. In 1887 he married Emma Brillon, daughter of J. R. Brillon, and had four sons and a daughter.

2 Colonel James Lethbridge Brooke Templer, who was 78 years old, was the son of John Templer, a master of the old Court of Exchequer. From Harrow he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, and then entered the Army. As a captain in the King's Royal Rifle Corps he became keenly interested in military aeronautics. Ballooning had now become a recognised military science and Templer took three balloons to the Sudan in 1885. He was present at the battle of Hasheen, was mentioned in despatches and received a clasp to the medal. In the South African War he was Director of Steam Road Transport. Under his administration of the balloon section the practice of filling balloons with hydrogen compressed in steel cylinders was introduced. In 1906 Colonel Templer retired from the post of Superintendent of the Balloon Factory. Colonel Templer married Florence Henrietta, third daughter of the late J. S. Gilliat, M.P., and a former Governor of the Bank of England.

3. Charles Paul Renouard, the well-known French engraver and designer, was born in 1844. He studied art under M. Pils, who decorated the ceiling of the Opéra. Later he wrote for the Journal d'Art and in 1881 he was engaged as war artist in the Tunisian campaign for L'Illustration. His sketches of the Dreyfus trial appeared in the Revue Illustrée. Most of his engravings have been acquired by the Bibliothèque Nationale, including his "Album de la Guerre."

M. Ernest Babelon, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, was born in 1854. After studying at the École des Chartes he entered the Medal Department of the Bibliothèque Nationale of which he became Conservator in 1892. His writings included "Descriptions Historiques et Chronologiques des Monnaies de la République Romaine;" "Le Cabinet des Antiquités à la Bibliothèque Nationale; "La Gravure en Pierres Fines; ""Camées et Intailles; ""Carthage" and "Les Origines de la Monnaie."

4. Sir John Tweedy, F.R.C.S., son of John Tweedy of Stockton-onTees, was born in 1849. He received his early education at Elmfield College, York, and his medical training at University College, London, qualifying as M. R. C.S. in 1872, and admitted a fellow four years later. Specialising in Ophthalmic Surgery he held various appointments as assistant surgeon and surgeon at the Royal London Ophthalmic, University College, and Great Northern Hospitals. In 1881, he was Professor of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery in University College and from 1888 to 1904 he was on the full staff of the Hospital associated with the College. Elected to the Council of the College of Surgeons in 1892, he became its president in 1903 at the early age of 54 and served for three years. He was also president of the Ophthalmalogical Society from 1903 to 1905, of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, 1907-17, of the Medico-Lega Society, 1909-12, and of the Medical Defence Union. He was likewise & trustee of the Hunterian Collection of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Master of the Barbers' Co., a member of the Council of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London. He was knighted in 1906 and received the Hon. LL.D. of Edinburgh in the same year. Mary, daughter of Richard Hilhouse, and had two sons and

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4. Alfred Grünfeld, the well-known pianist, was born in Prague in 1852 and studied at the local Conservatorium and then at Berlin. He wrote numerous compositions and an operetta. The celebrated cellist Heinrich Grünfeld was his younger brother.

5. Dr. H. J. Hamburger, who was professor of physiology in the University of Groningen, Holland, since 1901 was born in 1859. After graduating at Utrecht he was for some years assistant to Professor Denders at his alma mater. From 1888 to 1901 he occupied a chair at the Utrecht Royal Veterinary College. In 1913 he presided over the ninth International Physiological Congress held at Groningen; in 1922 he lectured at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and New York. Dr. Hamburger was an hon. LL.D. of St. Andrews and Aberdeen, both conferred on him when attending the 1912 meeting of the British Association at Dundee.

John Leyland, the naval expert and historian, who was 66 years of age, was the son of Mr. Francis A. Leyland, author of "The Bronte Family." Writing came naturally to him, and after some early work on topography he settled as literary reviewer of the Army and Navy Gazette, which he subsequently edited from 1904 to 1909. From 1910 to 1912 he edited the Navy, the journal of the Navy League. Devoting himself almost entirely to naval matters he was one of the earliest members of the Navy Records Society and an original member of the Society for Nautical Research. During the war he was attached to the Naval War Staff for propaganda duties. Since 1896 he contributed articles and prepared statistics for the "Naval Annual" and edited the volumes for 1901, 1915, and 1916. For several years he was also responsible for the revision of the navy sections in the "Statesman's Year-Book." In 1910 he wrote a series of articles on the naval dockyards establishments for the New York Herald. His literary output was considerable and included chapters on "The Literature of the Sea" and "Seafaring and Travel" for the Cambridge History of English Literature, two novels, a section on the naval officer for "The British Tar in Fact and Fiction." He edited two volumes of the "Dispatches and Letters relating to the Blockades of Brest, 1803-15," a volume on "The Royal Navy," and a booklet on "The Achievement of the British Navy in the World War." Mr. Leyland married Fanny Julia, daughter of Mr. T. Duncan, and left two sons.

8. Arthur Clutton-Brock, critic and essayist, whose age was 55, was educated at Eton and New College, Oxford. From early youth he displayed a keen taste for art and letters, although he qualified for the Bar and practised intermittently for about ten years after leaving the university. He then abandoned the law and became one of the first regular contributors of The Times Literary Supplement, literary editor of the Speaker and art critic of the Tribune and Morning Post. In 1908 he joined the staff of The Times. Strongly influenced by Shelley and Morris he wrote critical works on both these poets. The war was the occasion of two small volumes, "Thoughts on the War." His more recent works were "Essays on Art" (1919), "Essays on Books" (1920), and Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (1922). His wife and three sons survived him.

9. Dr. Basil Lannenn Gildersleeve was born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1831. After graduating at Princeton he studied in various Universities in Germany and took his Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1853. In 1856 he became Professor of Greek in the University of Virginia, a post he held until 1876 when he migrated to Johns Hopkins University. Here he edited a number of Greek texts, including "Justin Martyr" (1877), "Pindar" (1885), and followed up with a "Syntax of Classic Greek.' 1880 his university began the publication of the American Journal of Philology and he became its first editor. Under his guidance the Journal became a valuable means of building up a school of research which will always remain his greatest monument.

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