Public correspondence is any radio work, official or private, handled on commercial wave lengths. When an abbreviation is followed by a mark of interrogation, it refers to the question indicated for that abbreviation. Stations. EXAMPLES Station A then increases the power of its transmitter and sends: The high contracting parties recognize that all persons have a right to correspond by international telegraph. ARTICLE II They engage to make all necessary provisions to insure the secrecy and quick despatch of such correspondence. ARTICLE INI Nevertheless they declare that they do not assume any responsibility in respect to the international telegraph service. * Translated from the convention, printed in French, in British and Poreign State Pajuts, Vol. 66, pp 19-08 ARTICLE V Telegrams are classified in three categories: 1. State telegrams: those which emanate from the head of the state, ministers, commanders-in-chief of land and naval forces, diplomatic or consular agents of the contracting governments, as well as the replies to such telegrams. 2. Service telegrams: those which emanate from the telegraphic departments of the contracting states, which relate either to the international telegraphic service, or matters of interest to the public service determined jointly by the said departments. 3. Private telegrams. State telegrams take precedence over other telegrams in transmission. ARTICLE VI State and service telegrams may be sent in secret code on all matters. Private telegrams may be exchanged in secret code between two states which permit this mode of correspondence. States which do not permit the sending or receiving of private telegrams in secret code must permit their transmission through their territory, except in case of the suspension defined in Article VIII. ARTICLE VII The high contracting parties reserve the right to stop the transmission of any private telegram which may appear to be dangerous to the security of the state or which may be contrary to the laws of the country, public order, or good morals. ARTICLE VIII Each government also reserves the right to suspend the international telegraphic service for any length of time, if it deems this necessary, either generally, or only on certain lines and for certain kinds of correspondence, on condition that each of the other contracting governments be notified immediately. ARTICLE IX Telegrams relating to the international telegraphic service of the contracting states are transmitted free over all the lines of the said states. ARTICLE XII The high contracting parties must render each other an account of the tolls collected by each of them. ARTICLE XVII The high contracting parties, respectively, reserve the right to make special arrangements of all kinds with any one of their number upon matters of the service which are not of interest to the states in general. TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF ITALY, AMENDING THE TREATY OF COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION CONCLUDED FEBRUARY 26, 1871, BETWEEN THE SAME HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES! Signed at Washington, February 25, 1913; ratifications exchanged July 3, 1913 The l’nited States of America and His Majesty the King of Italy, desiring to define more accurately the rights of their respective citizens in the territories of the other, have for that purpose determined to conclude a treaty amendatory of Article III of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of February 26, 1871, between the two countries and have named as their respective plenipotentiaries: The President of the United States of America: Philander C. Knox, Secretary of State of the l'nited States of America; His Majesty the King of Italy: The Marquis Cusani Confalonieri, Commander of the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus, Grand ('ordon of the Order of the Crown of Italy, etc., etc., His Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington: And the said plenipotentiaries having exhibited, each to the other, their full powers, found to be in good and due form, have concluded and signed the following articles: ARTICLE I It is agreed between the high contracting parties that the first paragraph of Article III of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of It'. # Treaty Series, No. 580. February 26, 1871, between the l'nited States and Italy shall be replaced by the following provision: The citizens of each of the high contracting parties shall receive in the states and territories of the other the most constant security and protection for their persons and property and for their rights, including that form of protection granted by any State or national law which establishes a civil responsibility for injuries or for death caused by negligence or fault and gives to relatives or heirs of the injured party a right of action, which right shall not be restricted on account of the nationality of said relatives or heirs; and shall enjoy in this respect the same rights and privileges as are or shall be granted to nationals, provided that they -ubmit themselves to the conditions imposed on the latter. ARTICLE II The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Majesty the King of Italy, in accordance with the constitutional forms of that kingdom, and shall go into operation upon the exchange of the ratifications thereof, which shall be effected at Washington as soon as practicable. In faith whereof the plenipotentiaries of the high contracting parties have signed the present treaty in duplicate in the English and Italian languages, and have affixed thereto their respective seals. Done at Washington this 25th day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen. (SEAL) PHILANDER C. Knox. (SEAL) (USANI. ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ON MEXICAN AFFAIRS August 27, 1913 GENTLEMEN OF THE CONGRESS: It is clearly my duty to lay before you, very fully and without reservation, the facts concerning our present relations with the Republic of Mexico. The deplorable posture of affairs in Mexico I need not describe, but I deem it my duty to speak very frankly of what this Government * Pamphlet printed by the Department of State at Washington. ences shall go into effect on the date fixed for the application of the provisions adopted by each one of such conferences. ARTICLE L. The provisions of the International Telegraph Regulations shall be applicable analogously to radio correspondence in so far as they are not contrary to the provisions of the present regulations. The following provisions of the Telegraph Regulations, in particular, shall be applicable to radio correspondence: Article XXVII, paragraphs 3 to 6, relating to the collection of charges; Articles XXVI and XLI relating to the indication of the route to be followed; Article LXXV, paragraph 1, LXXVIII, paragraphs 2 to 4, and LXXIX, paragraphs 2 and 4, relating to the preparation of accounts. However:- (1) The period of six months provided by paragraph 2 of Article LXXIX of the Telegraph Regulations for the verification of accounts shall be extended to nine months in the case of radiograms; (2) The provisions of Article XVI, paragraph 2, shall not be considered as authorizing gratuitous transmission, through radio stations, of service telegrams relating exclusively to the telegraph service, nor the free transmission over the telegraph lines of service telegrams relating exclusively to the radio service; (3) The provisions of Article LXXIX, paragraphs 3 and 5, shall not be applicable to radio accounts. As regards the application of the provisions of the Telegraph Regulations, coastal stations shall be considered as offices of transit except when the Radio Regulations expressly stipulate that such stations shall be considered as offices of origin or of destination. In conformity with Article 11 of the Convention of London, the present regulations shall go into effect on the first day of July, 1913. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed one copy of these regulations, which sball be deposited in the archives of the British Government, and a copy of which shall be transmitted to each of the parties. For Germany and the German Protectorates: B. KOEHLER |