XLI.

1. In the absence of special agreements between the parties concerned, the provisions of the present Regulations shall be applicable analogously to the exchange of wireless telegrams between two vessels at sea, subject to the following exceptions:

(a) To Article XIV. The shipboard rate falling to the transmitting ship shall be collected from the sender, and that falling to the receiving ship shall be collected from the addressee;

(b) To Article XVIII. The order of transmission shall be regulated in each case by mutual agreement between the corresponding stations;

(c) To Article XXXVI. The rates for the wireless telegrams in question shall not enter into the accounts provided for in that article, such charges falling to the wireless telegraph managements which have collected them.

2. Retransmission of wireless telegrams exchanged between vessels at sea shall be subject to special agreements between the parties concerned.

XLII.

The provisions of the International Telegraph Regulations shall be applicable analogously to wireless telegraph correspondence in so far as they are not contrary to the provisions of the present regulations.

In conformity with Article 11 of the Convention of Berlin, these Regulations shall go into effect on the first day of July, 1908.

In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed one copy of the present Regulations, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Imperial Government of Germany, and a copy of which shall be transmitted to each of the Parties. Done at Berlin, November 3, 1906.

W. KEDRINE.

A. REMMERT.

A. EULER.

A. EICHHOLZ.

VICTOR BILIBINE.

A. HAMILTON.

HERMAN RYDIN.

NAZIF BEY.

F. A. COSTANZO.

Wireless telegraph management of...

Descriptive list of wireless telegraph stations.

[Supplement to Article XXXVIII of the Regulations.]

EXTRACT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH CONVENTION, SIGNED AT ST. PETERSBURG, JULY 10-22, 1875.

The High Contracting Parties concede to all persons the right to correspond by means of the international telegraphs.

ARTICLE 2.

They bind themselves to take all the necessary measures for the purpose of insuring the secrecy of the correspondence and its safe transmission.

ARTICLE 3.

They declare, nevertheless, that they accept no responsibility as regards the international telegraph service.

ARTICLE 5.

Telegrams are classed in three categories:

1. State telegrams: those emanating from the Head of the Nation, the Ministers, the Commanders-in-Chief of the Army and Naval forces, and the Diplomatic or Consular Agents of the Contracting Governments, as well as the answers to such telegrams.

2. Service telegrams: those which emanate from the Managements of the Telegraph Service of the Contracting States and which relate either to the international telegraph service or to subjects of public interest determined jointly by such Managements.

3. Private telegrams.

In the transmission, the State telegrams shall have precedence over other telegrams.

ARTICLE 6.

State telegrams and service telegrams may be issued in secret language, in any communications.

Private telegrams may be exchanged in secret language between two States which admit of this mode of correspondence.

The States which do not admit of private telegrams in secret language upon the expedition or arrival of the same, shall allow

them to pass in transit, except in the case of suspension defined in article 8.

ARTICLE 7.

The High Contracting Parties reserve the right to stop the transmission of any private telegram which may appear dangerous to the safety of the State, or which may be contrary to the laws of the country, to public order or good morals.

ARTICLE 8.

Each Government also reserves the right to suspend the international telegraph service for an indefinite period, if deemed necessary by it, either generally, or only over certain lines and for certain classes of correspondence, of which such Government shall immediately notify all the other Contracting Governments.

ARTICLE 11.

Telegrams relating to the international telegraph service of the Contracting States shall be transmitted free of charge over the entire system of such States.

ARTICLE 12.

The High Contracting Parties shall render accounts to one another of the charges collected by each of them.

ARTICLE 17.

The High Contracting Parties reserve respectively the right to enter among themselves into special arrangements of any kind with regard to points of the service which do not interest the States generally.

1910.

ARRANGEMENT RELATIVE TO THE REPRESSION OF THE CIRCULATION OF OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS.

Signed at Paris May 4, 1910; ratification advised by the Senate January 13, 1911; ratified by the President February 4, 1911; ratification of the United States deposited with the Government of the French Republic March 15, 1911; proclaimed April 13, 1911.1

1 The proclamation of the President of April 13, 1911, states that the arrangement "has been duly ratified by the Governments of the United States, Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy, and Switzerland. and the ratifications of the said Governments were, as provided for by article 6 of the said arrangement, deposited by their respective plénipotentiaries with the Government of the French Republic on March 15, 1911."

Since the President's proclamation the arrangement has been ratified by the Governments of Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Netherlands, Portugal, and Russia.

Adhesions have been made by the Governments of Luxemburg. Norway, by the Government of Denmark on behalf of Iceland and the Danish West Indies, by the Government of Germany for all German colonies, and by the Government of Great Britain on behalf of Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Basutoland, Bechuanaland protectorate, Bermuda, British Guiana. British Honduras, Canada, Ceylon. East Africa protectorate, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Gibraltar, Gold Coast, Hongkong, India. Leeward Islands (Antigua, Dominica, Montserrat, St. Christopher and Nevis, Virgin Islands). Malay States, Malta. Mauritius, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Northern Nigeria. Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland protectorate, St. Helena, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somaliland protectorate. South Africa, Southern Nigeria, Southern Rhodesia, Straits Settlements, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Wei-hai Wei, Windward Islands (Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vincent), and Zanzibar, and by the Governments of Czecho-Slovakia and Poland.