In order to promote interchange of their products, the Allies
undertake to adopt measures for facilitating their mutual trade relations, both by the establishment of direct and rapid land and sea transport services at low rates, and by the extension and improvement of postal, telegraphic, and other communications. That is an excellent provision, and when translated into terms of practice will, we trust, as regards France, mean the immediate putting in hand of the Channel Tunnel, and also of a channel tunnel connecting Ireland and Great Britain. This latter might indeed be fairly regarded as the Russian side of the Entente. The railway extension of the Irish Tunnel would naturally end at Blacksod Bay, on the West of Ireland. But Blacksod Bay would be by no means a bad place from which to start for Russia's new open port on the White Sea—a port, remember, which will after this autumn be in direct railway communication with Petrograd. Mails sent that way ought not to be very much behind mails rid Berlin. Next, the Powers agree to assimilate the laws governing patents, trade-marks, Ate. The Agreement ends with a recital of the importance of carrying out the recommendations of the Conference as soon as possible, and therefore the repre- sentatives of the Allied Governments undertake to recommend to their respective Governments immediate action.
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