PROMOTION OF PEACE ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL GENERAL TREATY OF INTER-AMERICAN ARBITRATION AND PROTOCOL OF PROGRESSIVE ARBITRATION 1 Venezuela On September 1, 1932, the Venezuelan Minister at Washington deposited with the Department of State the instrument of ratification by Venezuela of the general treaty of inter-American arbitration and protocol of progressive arbitration, signed at Washington January 5, 1929, at the International Conference of Conciliation and Arbitration. Venezuela PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE The American Consul at Geneva reported by a telegram dated September 22, 1932, that the instrument of ratification by Venezuela of the protocol of accession of the United States to the protocol of signature of the Permanent Court of International Justice was deposited with the Secretariat of the League of Nations on September 14, 1932. ARMAMENT REDUCTION WASHINGTON NAVAL TREATY OF 1922 The British Embassy at Washington addressed the following note to the Secretary of State under date of September 9, 1932, in accordance with the terms of the Washington naval treaty of 1922: SIR: I have the honour, under instructions from His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to inform you that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have authorized the Governor of Hongkong to issue a license for certain armaments to be fitted at Hongkong in a war vessel belonging to the Canton Provisional Government. 1 See Bulletin No. 34, July, 1932, p. 2. 2. Since Article 16 of the Washington Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armament of the 6th February, 1922 requires notification to be made to the other contracting Powers of the construction of any war vessel for a non-contracting Power, the present notification is being made in accordance with the spirit of the Treaty although there is in this case no question of the construction of a war vessel but merely of fitting an existing vessel with certain armaments. 3. I am to add that the vessel in question was formerly the property of His Majesty's Government but was sold in 1920. I have [etc.] D. G. OSBORNE H.M. Minister, Japan LONDON NAVAL TREATY OF 1930 The Japanese Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at Washington informed the Secretary of State by notes dated September 12, 1932, of the completion of a destroyer and two submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The particulars of the vessels are given as follows: Ikazuchi Classification of vessel: Destroyer Date of laying keel: March 7, 1930 Standard displacement: 1,700 tons (1,727 metric tons) Mean draft at standard displacement: 2.97 meters No. A-5 Classification of vessel: Submarine Date of laying keel: October 30, 1929 Date of completion: July 31, 1932 Standard displacement: 1,955 tons (1,986 metric tons) Extreme beam: 9.22 meters Mean draft at standard displacement: 4.8 meters No. A-67 Classification of vessel: Submarine Date of laying keel: October 14, 1929 Date of completion: August 8, 1932 Standard displacement: 1,638 tons (1,664 metric tons) Extreme beam: 8.2 meters Mean draft at standard displacement: 4.83 meters MUTUAL GUARANTEES NONAGGRESSION PACT AND CONCILIATION CONVENTION BETWEEN ESTONIA AND RUSSIA The American Minister to Estonia reported by a despatch dated August 11, 1932, that the Estonian State Assembly passed, on July 29, 1932, a law ratifying the pact of nonaggression between Estonia and Russia, signed at Moscow May 4, 1932,2 and the conciliation convention signed June 16, 1932, at Moscow.3 A translation of a resolution dated August 5, 1932, as published in the Moscow Izvestiya, No. 218, August 8, 1932, reads as follows: RESOLUTION OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE U.S.S.R. CONCERNING THE RATIFICATION OF THE PACT ON NONAGGRESSION AND ON THE PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF CONFLICTS AND OF THE CONVENTION REGARDING CONCILIATORY PROCEDURE CONCLUDED BETWEEN THE U.S.S.R. AND ESTONIA The Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R. resolves: To ratify the pact on nonaggression and on the peaceful settlement of conflicts concluded between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Estonia on May 4, 1932, in Moscow, and the convention regarding conciliatory procedure between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Estonia on June 16, 1932, in Moscow. President of the Central Moscow, KREMLIN. August 5, 1932. M. KALININ RESTRICTION OF WAR PROTOCOL CONCERNING THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE IN WARFARE OF ASPHYXIATING, POISONOUS, OR OTHER GASES, AND OF BACTERIOLOGICAL METHODS OF WARFARE 1 Norway 4 The American Ambassador to France forwarded to the Secretary of State with a despatch dated September 15, 1932, a certified copy of the procès verbal of the instrument of ratification by Norway of the protocol concerning the prohibition of the use in warfare of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases, and of bacteriological methods of warfare, signed at Geneva June 17, 1925. The instrument of ratification was deposited with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of France on July 27, 1932. POLITICAL PAN AMERICAN CONVENTION ON DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS 1 Venezuela 1 With a note dated September 9, 1932, the Director General of the Pan American Union at Washington forwarded to the Secretary of State a certified copy of the procès verbal of the deposit of the instrument of ratification by Venezuela of the Pan American convention on diplomatic officers, adopted at the Sixth International Conference of American States held at Habana in February, 1928. The instrument of ratification was deposited in the archives of the Pan American Union on August 30, 1932. TREATY OF SEPTEMBER 3, 1932, BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND HAITI 2 On September 3, 1932, a treaty with two accompanying protocols was signed at Port-au-Prince between the United States and Haiti. Article I of the treaty states: "In view of the substantial accomplishment of the purposes of the treaty of September 16, 1915, the two Governments have agreed to terminate as soon as practicable and in an orderly manner the special situation created thereunder . . ." Protocol A provides for the Haitianization of the Garde and protocol B provides for the continuance of American financial supervision in Haiti. The treaty was rejected by the Haitian Legislature on September 15, 1932. 1 See Bulletin No. 32, May, 1932, p. 9. 2 3 For text, see Press Releases, Weekly Issue No. 154, Sept. 10, 1932, p. 150. See Treaty Series No. 623. 4 HUMANITARIAN OPIUM CONVENTION FOR LIMITING THE MANUFACTURE AND Regulating the DISTRIBUTION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS 1 Sudan 1 According to a letter dated September 8, 1932, from the League of Nations, the notification of the accession of the Sudan to the convention for limiting the manufacture and regulating the distribution of narcotic drugs, signed at Geneva July 13, 1931, was recorded at the Secretariat on August 25, 1932. Sweden According to a letter dated August 27, 1932, from the League of Nations, the instrument of ratification by Sweden of the convention for limiting the manufacture and regulating the distribution of narcotic drugs, signed at Geneva July 13, 1931, was deposited with the Secretariat on August 12, 1932. SAFETY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE SAFETY OF LIFE AT SEA 2 Free City of Danzig The American Consulate at the Free City of Danzig forwarded. to the Department with a report dated August 5, 1932, a copy and translation of law No. 106, published in the Official Gazette, No. 47, of the Senate of the Free City of Danzig, dated July 23, 1932, approving the adherence of the Free City to the Convention for the safety of life at sea, signed at London May 31, 1929. |