Article 65 provides that the convention shall come into force three months after the date on which the fifth ratification is deposited. Three countries had deposited their instruments of ratification with the British Foreign Office before October 1, 1932, and on that date eight additional ratifications were deposited. The countries in respect of which the convention came into force on January 1, 1933, are the following: Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany. Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway. Spain, and Sweden. Canada On August 3, 1931, an act was passed by the Canadian Parliament entitled "an Act respecting the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea signed in London on the thirty first day of May, 1929, and the International Convention respecting Load Lines signed in London on the fifth day of July, 1930." Section 15 of this act provided that it should come into operation upon a date to be fixed by proclamation of the Governor-in-Council published in the Canada Gazette. By a despatch dated December 5, 1932, the American Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at Ottawa forwarded to the Secretary of State a copy of the proclamation signed on November 18, 1932, and published in the Canada Gazette of November 26, 1932, which provides: Whereas it is expedient that the various sections of the said Act should come into force and have effect upon, from and after the dates specified as follows: (a) Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 15-As from the date of proclamation in The Canada Gazette. (b) Sections 10, 11 and 12, subsections (2), (3) and (4) of Section 13, and Section 14-As from the first day of January in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three. (c) Sections 5 and 9, and subsection (1) of Section 13-As from the first day of January in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. WOMEN AND CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF TRAFFIC IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN? Egypt The American Minister to Egypt reported by a despatch dated December 30, 1932, that the Journal Official, No. 114, of December 29, 6 Bill 96, 2d Sess., 17th Parliament, 21-22 George V, 1931. 7 See Bulletin No. 35, August, 1932, p. 11. 1 1932, publishes a decree regarding the adherence of Egypt to the agreement for the repression of the trade in white women, signed at Paris May 18, 1904, and the international convention and protocol relating to the suppression of the white slave trade, signed at Paris May 4, 1910. The adherences will become effective on April 11, 1933. ECONOMIC AVIATION INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL COMMITTEE OF AERIAL LEGAL EXPERTS 1 DRAFT CONVENTIONS ON PRIVATE AERIAL LAW ADOPTED AT THE SIXTH SESSION 1 The American Embassy at Paris has forwarded to the Department of State the French texts of draft conventions adopted by the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts at its sixth session, held in Paris in October, 1931. These draft conventions, translations of which will be found in the section of this bulletin headed "Texts of Treaties and Agreements," are as follows: Draft convention on mortgages, other real securities, and aerial privileges; Draft convention on the ownership of aircraft and the aeronautic register. The Department of State is informed that these two draft conventions will not be included in the agenda of the Third International Conference on Private Aerial Law, to be convened in Rome in May, 1933, but will be reserved for consideration at the Fourth International Conference on Private Aerial Law, the date of which has not yet been determined. There will be considered at the Third International Conference on Private Aerial Law the draft conventions relating to (1) precautionary attachment of aircraft and (2) liability for damages caused to third parties on the surface, both of which were adopted at the Seventh Plenary Session of the International Technical Committee of Aerial Legal Experts held in Stockholm in July, 1932. Costa Rica COMMERCIAL AVIATION CONVENTION 2 The American Minister to Costa Rica transmitted to the Secretary of State with a despatch dated January 9, 1933, a clipping from La Gaceta-Diario Oficial, No. 4, January 6, 1933, publishing the 1 See Bulletin No. 36, September, 1932, p. 6. 2 See Bulletin No. 37, October, 1932, p. 7. decree of ratification as signed by the President of Costa Rica on December 20, 1932, of the convention on commercial aviation, adopted at the Sixth International Conference of American States at Habana, February, 1928. The countries which have deposited ratifications of this convention are the United States of America, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. CONVENTION FOR THE UNIFICATION OF CERTAIN RULES RElating to INTERNATIONAL AERIAL TRANSPORTATION 3 The American Ambassador to Poland forwarded to the Secretary of State with a despatch dated December 24, 1932, a copy of the procès-verbal of the deposit of the instruments" of ratification of the convention for the unification of certain rules relating to international aerial transportation, and additional protocol, signed at Warsaw October 12, 1929. The translation of the procès-verbal follows: PROCÈS-VERBAL of the deposit of the instruments of ratification and the entry into force of the Convention for the unification of certain rules relative to international aerial transportation, and the additional protocol, signed in Warsaw, October 12, 1929. In execution of Article 37 of the Convention for the unification of international aerial transportation, signed in Warsaw, October 12, 1929, between: Germany, Austria, Belgium, the United States of Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Denmark and Iceland, Egypt, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Ireland and the British overseas Dominions, India, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Luxembourg, the United States of Mexico, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Rumania, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, the duly authorized representatives of France, Latvia, and Poland met today in the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw to deposit the documents of ratification of His Excellency, the President of the French Republic, His Excellency the President of the Latvian Republic, and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Poland, concerning the abovementioned Convention. These documents of ratification having been found, upon examination, exact and in accord with the original of the said Convention, have been confided to the Government of the Republic of Poland to be deposited with the present procès-verbal, in its archives. As there have been deposited in the archives of the Polish Government the documents of ratification of the Convention in question in the name of the Government: of the Kingdom of Spain, March 31, 1930 3 For text, see Supplement to Bulletin of Treaty Information, No. 7, September, 1929. and as, on the other hand, the above-cited Convention, according to its artide 37, will enter into force the ninetieth day after the deposit of the fifth document of ratification, the date of the entry into force of the said Convention for Brazil, Spain, France, Latvia, Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia is February 13, 1933; for the states which shall deposit their documents of ratification with the Polish Government after November 15, 1932, the Convention will enter into force the ninetieth day after the date of such deposit, which will be confirmed by individual procès-verbaux drawn up by the Polish Government, and of which certified identic copies will be transmitted to each of the High Contracting Parties. In testimony of which the undersigned have drawn up the present procèsverbal in a single copy, of which a certified identic copy will be sent to each of the High Contracting Parties. At its session of April 29, 1932, the Permanent Committee of the International Public Health Office adopted a draft international sanitary convention for air navigation. This draft contains some modifications of the one adopted by the Permanent Committee at its session of May 15, 1931. The draft adopted in 1931 resulted from a lengthy and detailed consideration of the matter by the Permanent Committee in consultation with the International Commission for Air Navigation, an organization functioning under article 34 of the International Convention for the Regulation of Aerial Navigation of October 13, 1919, and followed tentative approval, with certain exceptions and suggestions, by the Second Pan American Conference of Directors of Health held in Washington in April, 1931. The French Government communicated the 1931 draft to various governments for consideration, requesting to be informed whether they would be prepared to accept the draft without modification and without the formality of calling a special international conference for the purpose of taking action on the draft. The 1932 draft was adopted by the Permanent Committee of the International Public Health Office after certain governments and the International Commission for Air Navigation had made some suggestions with respect to the modifications of the 1931 draft. The proposed convention is designed to meet a situation resulting from the danger of the introduction of infectious communicable diseases, as the result of the world-wide rapid development of international air transportation and is intended to bring about the adoption. of uniform measures which will permit the safe entry without unnecessary delay or hazard of aircraft coming from infected districts. |