§ 5. Sir WILLIAM BULLasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether there is any understanding between the four great Allied Powers regarding the time at which and the method in which all Far Eastern claims arising out of the War are to be put forward for international settlement, and, if so, can he indicate its nature?
§ Sir E. GREYAn agreement was signed in London on the 5th of September, 1914, between the British, French, and Russian Governments, and was published in the Press at the time, to the effect that the three Powers mutually engaged not to conclude peace separately during the present War. They also agreed that when terms of peace came to be discussed no one of the Allies will demand terms of peace without the previous agreement of each of the other Allies. Article II. of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance has the same effect, and therefore unites all four Powers for the purpose named in the question.