With a note dated January 25, 1935, the Egyptian Minister at Washington transmitted to the Secretary of State, in accordance with the provisions of article 14 of the universal postal convention signed at Cairo on March 20, 1934, a list of the ratifications of and accessions to the convention and the arrangements which have been deposited with the Egyptian Government to date. The following table indicates the acts which have been ratified or adhered to by each government, with the date of deposit of the instrument of ratification or adherence: STATUS OF RATIFICATIONS OF AND ADHERENCES TO THE UNIVERSAL POSTAL CONVENTION OF 1934 AND SUBSIDIARY AGREEMENTS • Ratifications of the acts indicated were deposited by the countries here listed, except where the name of the country is followed by (†), indicating adherence. Acts are indicated as follows: A Universal postal convention and annexes. D=Arrangement concerning postal money orders. E=Arrangement concerning postal checking accounts. F-Arrangement concerning postal collection accounts. G=Arrangement concerning subscriptions to newspapers. • The Netherland ratification does not apply, in respect of Surinam and Curaçao, to the arrangement concerning checking accounts, nor, in respect of Netherland India, Surinam, and Curaçao, to the arrangement concerning subscriptions to newspapers. Bolivia UNIVERSAL POSTAL CONVENTION OF 1929 * The British Ambassador at Washington transmitted to the Secretary of State with a note dated January 17, 1935, a revised schedule of ratifications of, and accessions to, the universal postal conven See Bulletin No. 63, December 1934, p. 21. tion and subsidiary agreements signed at London June 28, 1929, which have been received by the British Government. The schedule shows that in addition to the ratifications hitherto reported in the Bulletin the notification of the ratification by Bolivia of the following agreements was received by the British Government on December 5, 1933: Universal postal convention; Agreement regulating transfers of postal cheque accounts; Agreement governing subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals through the post. The Ambassador's note explains the delay in informing the other parties to the convention of the Bolivian ratification by reason of the fact that it was found necessary in the first instance to make inquiries of the Bolivian Government respecting the precise scope of their ratification. POSTAL MONEY ORDER AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MALAYA An agreement for the exchange of postal money orders between the United States and Malaya was signed at Kuala Lumpur on October 26, 1934, and at Washington on December 11, 1934. It became effective on January 1, 1935, and supersedes the agreement which became effective on January 1, 1924, between the United States and the Straits Settlements. Paragraph 2 of article 1 of the agreement states: "In this Agreement the expression 'Malaya' means the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States of Perak, Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Pahang and any Malay State under British Protection which may subsequently form part of the Malayan Postal Union." AGREEMENT MODIFYING THE CONVENTION FOR THE EXCHANGE OF MONEY ORDERS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND SYRIA AND THE LEBANON' According to information received from the Post Office Department under date of January 11, 1935, the supplementary agreement to the convention of July 29, 1929, for the exchange of money orders between the postal administration of the United States and that of the countries of the Levant under French mandate, signed on October 8, 1934, entered into effect, by mutual agreement, on November 15, 1934. 'See Bulletin No. 61, October 1934, p. 17. STATISTICS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION RELATING TO ECONOMIC STATISTICS Chile By a circular letter dated January 8, 1935, the Secretary General of the League of Nations, in order to complete the notification previously made in regard to the accession by Chile to the convention relating to economic statistics, signed at Geneva December 14, 1928, informed the Secretary of State that the instrument of accession by Chile was deposited with the Secretariat on November 20, 1934. TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION CONVENTION 8 Estonia The American Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at Tallinn reported by a despatch dated January 9, 1935, that the ratification by Estonia of the international telecommunication convention signed at Madrid on December 9, 1932, was published in the Official Gazette, no. 106, December 19, 1934. The ratification is dated October 10, 1934, and includes also the regulations and protocols annexed to the convention. Papua-Norfolk Island-New Guinea-Nauru By a note dated January 7, 1935, the Spanish Ambassador at Washington informed the Secretary of State that the ratification by Australia of the international telecommunication convention signed at Madrid November 9, 1932, includes the territories of Papua and Norfolk Island, as well as the mandated territories of New Guinea and Nauru. CONVENTION, DECLARATION, AND FINAL PROTOCOL FOR THE PROTECTION OF SUBMARINE CABLES Poland The American Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at Paris transmitted to the Secretary of State with a despatch dated December 28, 1934, a certified copy of an extract from a letter dated June 26, 1934. from the Polish Ambassador in Paris to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, in which the French Government is notified of the adherence of Poland to the international convention for the protection of submarine cables and to the supplementary article signed at Paris on March 14, 1884, as well as to the declaration and final 8 See Bulletin No. 63, December 1934, p. 22. protocol signed December 1, 1886, and July 7, 1887, respectively. The French Foreign Office furnished the above-described certified copy to the Embassy with a note dated December 18, 1934, which reads in translation as follows: "The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has the honor to state that, by letter dated June 26, 1934, of which an extract is enclosed herewith, the Polish Ambassador in Paris notified the adherence of Poland to the International Convention for the Protection of Submarine Cables and to the Supplementary Article, signed in Paris on March 14, 1884, as well as to the Declaration signed in Paris on December 1, 1886, and March 23, 1887, and to the Final Protocol signed in Paris July 7, 1887. "The terms of paragraph 3 of the Final Protocol of July 7, 1887, charge the French Government with the examination of the legislative or regulatory stipulations that those countries, which did not take part in the Convention and which wish to adhere thereto, must respectively adopt in order to conform with article 12. The French Government, having proceded to this examination, has no observation to make on the subject." The countries in respect of which the convention is now in force as a result of ratification or adherence are the United States of America, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Free City of Danzig, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, El Salvador, Spain, Sweden, Tunis, Turkey, Union of South Africa, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Uruguay, and Yugoslavia. RECENT PUBLICATIONS During January, the following publications of direct interest in connection with Treaty Information were released by the Department of State and may be secured from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.: Agriculture and Foreign Trade Agreements: Address by the International Labor Organization: Membership of the United International Air Transportation: Convention and Additional 20 О |