مجموعة ٧/٥ "أفغانستان: شراء الأسلحة إلخ من مصادر أجنبية: ألمانيا" [و‎‎٢‎٠‎٥] (١٠٣٥/٤٠٩)

their own wives and children, may have with them not more than
thirty-five persons, and a Consul-General and Consuls, besides their
own wives and children, not more than twenty persons. If it
becomes necessary to employ in addition subjects of the Govern
ment of the country to which they are accredited, Ministers can
employ not more than ten persons and Consul-General and Consuls
not more than five persons.
*( 7 .) Ihe Ministers, Consul-General and Consuls of the two
High Contracting Parties shall be at liberty to communicate freely
with their own Government and with other official representatives
of their Government in other countries by post, by telegraph and
by wireless telegraphy in cypher or en clair, and to receive and
despatch sealed bags by courier or post, subject to a limitation in
the case of Ministers of f> lb. per week, and in the case of a Consul-
General and Consuls of 4 lb. per week, which shall be exempt from
postal charges and examination, and the safe transmission of which
shall, in the case of bags sent by post, be guaranteed by the Postal
Departments of the two Governments.
(/c.) Each of the tw r o Governments shall exempt from the
payment of Customs or other duties all articles imported within its
boundaries in reasonable quantities for the personal use of the
Minister of the other Government or of his familv. provided that
a certificate is furnished by the Minister at the time of importation
that the articles are intended for such personal use.
Appendix.
h Letter from British Representative In Sardar-i-Ala, the Afghan
Foreign Minister.
(After compliments.)
Wrm reference to the provisions contained in Article fi of the
treaty concluded between the Government of Afghanistan and the
British Government regarding the importation of arms and munitions
into Afghanistan through India. I have the honour to inform and
assure you that, although the British Government has in that article
reserved to itself the right exercised by every nation to stop the
transportation to a neighbouring country of arms and munitions, in
the event of its not being assured of the friendly intentions of that
country, the British Government has no desire to make trifling inci
dents an excuse for the stoppage of such arms and munitions. It
would only be in the event of the Government of Afghanistan showing
plainly by its attitude that it had determined on an unfriendly and
provocative course of policy towards Great Britain contrary to the
neighbourly treaty above mentioned that the latter State would
exercise the right of stoppage. There is every ground for hope that
such a contingency will never arise, in view of the friendly relations
which are expected to spring from the treaty which has'now been
concluded.
(Usual ending.)