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Show m OF NORTH SEA wTHEATT MADE Mm Prfim Is to Preserve Status Qno )hk of Relations Between the mi Countries Involved. 1 .Jjj JbERIjIN, April 24. The North Sea renty signed here yesterday was made r tublic today. It lakes Iho form of a H f pint declaration, as follows: UllW"Tho governments of Germany, Dcn-'jjjnarkf Dcn-'jjjnarkf Prance, Great Britain and The Netherlands and Sweden, influenced by the wish to strengthen the bonds of iflKcighborly friendship between their Ufetatcs and the treaty contributor' to-.vard to-.vard universal pcaco, concur in the poli--1 Iycy as to the lands bordering on the HNorth sea, aiming at preserving the Resisting territorial status quo. finff "Th5" declare, therefore, that they o finnl' resolved to maintain' and inu-ally inu-ally respect the oxisling territorial :jhts of their states in Iheso regions. ltIf any circumstances whatever ould aviso which in the opinion of one the above montioucd governments ould threaten tho existing territorial atus quo, the signatories of this claration will confer with each other ordor to arrive at an understanding, rough agreement among themselves. ou such measures as the' may regard useful in the interest of preserving o present status quo of their posses-jna. posses-jna. The present declaration will bo tifiod as soon as possible and the ratifications rati-fications will be handed into Berlin so i1ttfoon as possible, but not later than December De-cember 31." .Sf A memorandum attached to the ijfloclaration includes the possibility of flfnppealiiig to the declaration in any'caso fljjwhere a sLnto is exercising sovereign tflfripjhts over its own possessions. |