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Lamy expedition, and on October 18 — the very day that a memorial service was held in Paris for Lieut-Colonel Klobb — news came, by a strange coincidence, that both Voulet and Chanoine had been killed by their own followers.

M. Bretonnet's expedition, one of the four sent to explore the Lake Chad region, was massacred in August by the natives under Eabah in the vicinity of the Bagirmi. The Foureau- Lamy mission was reported to have reached Lake Chad in safety.

Anglo-French Agreement. — It was arranged between Great Britain and France that the fourth article of the Convention of June 14, 1898, should be completed by the following pro- visions, which should be considered as forming an integral part of it:—

1. Her Britannic Majesty's Government engages not to acquire either territory or political influence to the west of the line of frontier defined in the following paragraph, and the Government of the French Bepublic engages not to acquire either territory or political influence to the east of the same line.

2. The line of frontier shall start from the point where the boundary between the Congo Free State and French territory meets the water-parting between the water-shed of the Nile and that of the Congo and its affluents. It shall follow in principle that water parting up to its intersection with the 11th parallel of north latitude. From this point it shall be drawn as far as the 15th parallel in such manner as to separate in principle the kingdom of Wadai from what constituted in 1882 the province of Darfur ; but it shall in no case be so drawn as to pass to the west beyond the 21st degree of longitude east of Greenwich (18° 40' east of Paris), or to the east beyond the 23rd degree of longitude east of Greenwich (20° 4$ east of Paris).

3. It is understood in principle that to the north of the 15th parallel the French zone shall be limited to the north-east and east by a line which shall start from the point of intersection of the Tropic of Cancer with the 16th degree of longitude east of Greenwich (13° 4tQf east of Paris), shall run thence to the south- east until it meets the 24th degree of longitude east of Green- wich (21° 40' east of Paris), and shall then follow the 24th degree until it meets, to the north of the 15th parallel of latitude, the frontier of Darfur as it shall eventually be fixed.

4. The two Governments engage to app9int Commissioners who shall be charged to delimit on the spot a frontier line in accordance with the indications given in paragraph 2 of this declaration. The result of their work shall be submitted for the approbation of their respective Governments.

It is agreed that the provisions of Article IX. of the Conven- tion of June 14, 1898, shall apply equally to the territories situated to the south of the 14 20' parallel of north latitude,

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