International conference for the unification of laws on bills of exchange, promissory notes, and cheques . . . Convention for the protection of industrial property. Arrangement concerning the international registration of trade- marks-Arrangement concerning the suppression of false indi- Arrangement concerning the international registration of industrial Great Britain PROMOTION OF PEACE ARMAMENT REDUCTION LONDON NAVAL TREATY OF 1930 By a note dated October 9, 1933, the British Ambassador at Washington informed the Secretary of State of the laying down of the keel of H.M.S. Snapper. The particulars of the vessel, furnished in accordance with the provisions of article 10 of the London naval treaty, are as follows: Classification: Submarine Date of laying keel: September 18, 1933 24 feet Standard displacement: 670 tons (681 metric tons) 10 feet 6 inches By a note dated October 9, 1933, the British Ambassador at Washington informed the Secretary of State of the completion of H.M.S. Seahorse. In accordance with the provisions of article 10 of the London naval treaty, the particulars are given as follows: Japan Classification: Submarine Date of laying keel: September 14, 1931 Standard displacement: 640 tons (650 metric tons) Length at water line: 182 feet Extreme beam at or below water line: 24 feet Mean draft at standard displacement: Caliber of largest gun: 3 inches Date of completion: October 2, 1933 10 feet 6 inches The Japanese Ambassador at Washington informed the Secretary of State by a note dated September 28, 1933, of the laying down of the keel of a submarine, No. B-33, of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The particulars are given as follows: Date of laying keel: August 8, 1933 Classification: Submarine Standard displacement: 700 tons (711 metric tons) Length at water line: 73 meters Extreme beam: 6.70 meters Mean draft at standard displacement: 3.25 meters Caliber of largest gun: 7.6 centimeters United States The Acting Secretary of the Navy, by a letter dated October 10, 1933, informed the Secretary of State, in accordance with the terms of article 10 of the London naval treaty, of the laying down of the keel of the U.S.S. Alywin. The particulars of the vessel, which have been furnished to the governments signatory to the treaty, are as follows: Classification: Destroyer Date of laying keel: September 23, 1933 Standard displacement (estimated): 1,500 tons (1,524 metric tons) Length at water line: 334 feet Extreme beam at or below water line: 34 feet 3 inches CONFERENCE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF AMERICAN STATES The American Delegation to the Seventh International Conference of American States, which will convene at Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 3, 1933, is composed as follows: Delegates: The Honorable Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, Chairman of The Honorable Alexander W. Weddell, Ambassador to The Honorable J. Reuben Clark, Jr., former Ambassador to The Honorable J. Butler Wright, Minister to Uruguay The Honorable Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky Mr. Hugh S. Cumming, Jr. Secretary General: Mr. James Clement Dunn, Chief, Division of Protocol and Adviser: Mr. Ernest H. Gruening, of New York Counselors: Mr. R. Henry Norweb, Counselor of Embassy at Santiago, Mr. Walter C. Thurston, Counselor of Embassy at Rio de Mr. Benjamin Muse, First Secretary of Embassy at Monte- Technical Advisers: Mr. Wallace McClure, Assistant Chief, Treaty Division, Mr. Alexander V. Dye, Commercial Attaché at Buenos Mr. James C. Corliss, Department of Commerce Miss Anna A. O'Neill, Assistant to the Solicitor, Department of State Press Officer: Mr. Ulric Bell, of Kentucky Secretariat: Secretary: Mr. Warren H. Kelchner, Department of State Mr. Hayward Gibbes Hill, Vice Consul Mr. Hartley Edward Howe, of Massachusetts MUTUAL GUARANTEES 1 CONVENTION DEFINING AGGRESSION 1 Afghanistan-Poland-Russia The American Legation at Riga reported by despatches dated September 27, 1933, that news items appearing in the Moscow Pravda, of September 16 and 17, 1933, and the Moscow Izvestiya of September 16, 1933, stated that Poland, Afghanistan, and Russia, respectively, had ratified the convention defining aggression, signed at London July 3, 1933. TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, NONAGGRESSION, AND NEUTRALITY BETWEEN ITALY AND RUSSIA The American Embassy at Rome transmitted to the Department of State by a despatch dated September 7, 1933, a copy of the pact of friendship, nonaggression, and neutrality between Italy and Russia, signed at Rome September 2, 1933. By article 1 of the agreement the high contracting parties agree never to resort, either singly or jointly with one or more third powers, to war or to any aggression on land, on sea, or in the air against the other party, and to respect the inviolability of the territories under its Sovereignty. Article 2 provides for the maintenance of neutrality by each of the high contracting parties in case either is attacked by one or more powers, and for the immediate denunciation of the treaty in the case of aggression by one of the parties thereto. 1 See Bulletin No. 47, August 1933, p. 4. |