This means a reversion to the boundary defined under Russian arbitration at Petrograd in January 1913except outside the fortress of Silistria, where strategic reasons demand its rectification.

His efforts at negotiation were fruitless; for his instructions positively forbade him to yield the navigation of the Mississippi, or to allow the rectification of the boundary lines as claimed by the United States; [Footnote: Gardoqui MSS., Instructions, July 25 and October 2, 1784.

Aelianus Montaltus attributes so much to them, [3406]"that he holds the rectification of them alone to be sufficient to the cure of melancholy in most patients."

The proper steps to obtain the rectification of the boundary were taken, and it was rectified.

In this cure, as in the rest, is especially required the rectification of those six non-natural things above all, as good diet, which Montanus, consil.

BISMARCK: "Touching 'rectification,' then, Germany sticks to her position.