NAVIGATION AGREEMENT CONCERNING MARITIME SIGNALS AND AGREEMENT CoxCERNING MANNED LIGHTSHIPS NOT ON THEIR STATIONS Netherlands According to a circular letter dated September 29, 1931, from the League of Nations, the Netherland Government has withdrawn the reservation of ratification subject to which it had signed the agreement concerning maritime signals adopted at the International Conference on the Unification of Buoyage and Lighting of Coasts at Lisbon, October 23, 1930. The agreement having been finally accepted by France on July 13, 1931, by Portugal on October 23, 1930, by Rumania on June 1, 1931, and by Russia on April 27, 1931, will enter into force 90 days after August 24, 1931, the date of the final acceptance of the Netherlands, in accordance with the provisions of article 5. At the time of communicating the final acceptance of the agreement to the Secretary-General of the League, the Netherland Government made the following declaration : * As regards the hurricane signal referred to in chapter I of the Regulations relating to Certain Categories of Maritime Signals, the Netherlands Government entertains certain apprehensions as to the practical possibility of employing this signal. However, seeing that no hurricane signal is at present in use in the Netherlands, Her Majesty's Government has felt able to adopt chapter I, while reserving the right to raise the question of this signal and to request a modification of the Regulations on this point, as soon as the necessity of using such a signal may arise in the Netherlands, or as soon as another system of hurricane signals is adopted by the International Meteorological Organization. The Netherland Government also informed the Secretary-General of the League that, in accordance with article 9, paragraph 2, of the agreement concerning maritime signals, and in accordance with article 8, paragraph 2, of the agreement concerning manned lightships not on their stations, it desires that these agreements shall apply to the Netherland Indies, which had been excluded by a declaration made at the time of signing the agreements." Latvia INTERNATIONAL LOAD LINE CONVENTION By a despatch dated October 27, 1931, the American Legation at Riga reported that the Valdibas Vestnesis, No. 239, of October Official translation of the League of Nations. 5 See League of Nations document C.634.M.253.1930.VIII. 23, 1931, published a law passed by the Saeima on July 17, 1931, approving the international load line convention, together with the final protocol and final act, signed at London on July 5, 1930. According to the information of the Department of State, two countries, the United States and Denmark, have deposited their ratifications of the convention. By virtue of the provisions of article 24 of the convention it will enter into force on July 1, 1932, between the governments which have deposited their ratifications by that date, provided that at least five ratifications have been deposited. POSTAL The following information was obtained from the Post Office Department under date of November 3, 1931. POSTAL MONEY ORDER AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES The postal authorities have notified the United States Post Office Department of the suspension of the issue of money orders payable in the United States due to the recent departure from the gold standard of several leading countries of the world. These partial suspensions are believed to be only temporary. Continuation of previous agreement. 'See Bulletin No. 24, September, 1931, p. 22. POSTAL MONEY ORDER AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES-Continued Mexico (Pan American form). Apr. 3, 1922 May 6, 1922 June 15, 1922 5, 1928 Oct. 1, 1928 Jan. 1, 1924 July 2, 1877 July 1, 1905 Oct. 1, 1885 Jan. 2, 1923 Oct. 15, 1923 July 1, 1930 Aug. 9, 1927 Oct. Aug. 1, 1904 Western Australia.. Feb. 12, 1913 The postal authorities have notified the United States Post Office Department of the suspension of the issue of money orders payable in the United States due to the recent departure from the gold standard of several leading countries of the world. These partial suspensions are believed to be only temporary. MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND EGYPT FOR THE ARBITRATION OF THE CLAIM OF GEORGE J. SALEM 1 The International Arbitral Tribunal before which the claim of George J. Salem against the Government of Egypt is to be arbitrated met in Vienna on November 20, 1931. The claim grows out of the refusal of the Egyptian Government to recognize the capitulatory (extraterritorial) rights of Salem, a naturalized American citizen, to exemption from criminal prosecution in Egypt and out of the detention by Egyptian authorities of important documents of title to real estate as well as an alleged denial of justice in the Mixed Courts of Egypt in the refusal of those courts properly to adjudicate Salem's claim against the Government of Egypt which was, in the first instance, taken to the Mixed Courts for trial. The Arbitral Tribunal is composed of three members, one chosen by the United States, one by Egypt and a third, who will preside, by agreement between the two Governments. The American Arbitrator is the Honorable Fred K. Nielsen. The Egyptian Arbitrator is Abdul Hamid Bedoui Pasha, King's Counsel and Legal Adviser to the Egyptian Foreign Office. The neutral arbitrator is Dr. Walter Simons, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Germany, 'former Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, and who, for a short period of time, was acting President of Germany during the interval between the death of President Ebert and the inauguration of President von Hindenburg. 1See Bulletin No. 16, January, 1931, p. 11. 90162-31- -3 13 TEXTS OF CONVENTIONS BERNE CONVENTION OF SEPTEMBER 9, 1886, FOR THE PROTECTION OF LITERARY AND ARTISTIC WORKS, REVISED AT BERLIN, NOVEMBER 13, 1908, AND AT ROME, JUNE 2, 1928 [Translation 1] The President of the German Reich; the Federal President of the Republic of Austria; His Majesty the King of the Belgians; the President of the United States of Brazil; His Majesty the King of the Bulgarians; His Majesty the King of Denmark; His Majesty the King of Spain; the President of the Republic of Estonia; the President of the Republic of Finland; the President of the French Republic; His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; the President of the Hellenic Republic; His Most Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan; Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg; His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco; His Most Serene Highness the Prince of Monaco; His Majesty the King of Norway; Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; the President of the Polish Republic in the name of Poland and of the Free City of Danzig; the President of the Portuguese Republic; His Majesty the King of Rumania; His Majesty the King of Sweden; the Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation; the States of Syria and the Great Lebanon; the President of the Czechoslovak Republic; His Highness the Bey of Tunis, Equally animated by the desire to protect in as efficacious and uniform a manner as possible the rights of authors as to their literary and artistic works, Have resolved to revise and complete the act signed at Berlin on November 13, 1908. They have, consequently, named as their plenipotentiaries: The President of the German Reich: 1 His Excellency Dr. Baron Constantin von Neurath, Ambassador Mr. Georg Klauer, Ministerial Counselor in the Ministry of Made in the Department of State. |