SIGNATURE of the procès-verbal of the Deposit of Ratifications of the International Convention of October 13, 1919,(1) and of the Additional Protocol of May 1, 1920, (2) relative to Air Navigation.-Paris, June 1, 1922.(3)

RATIFICATIONS, &c., of the Protocol amending Article 5 of the International Convention of October 13, 1919, (1) relative to Air Navigation.-London, October 27, 1922.(2)

RATIFICATIONS, &c., of the Protocol amending Article 34 of the International Convention of October 13, 1919, (1) relative to Air Navigation.-London, June 30, 1923.(2)

RATIFICATIONS, &c., of the International Protocol on Arbitration Clauses.-Geneva, September 24, 1923.(1)

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION and Statute on the International Régime of Maritime Ports and Protocol of Signature.-Geneva, December 9, 1923.(1)

[Ratifications deposited on behalf of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, August 29, 1924, and on behalf of New Zealand (including Western Samoa) and India, April 1, 1925.]

THE British Empire (with New Zealand and India), Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, Spain, Esthonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Nor

(1) Treaty Series, No. 24 (1925)" (Cmd. 2419). Signed also in the French language.

way, the Netherlands, Salvador, Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Uruguay;

Desirous of ensuring in the fullest measure possible the freedom of communications mentioned in Article 23 (e) of the Covenant by guaranteeing in the maritime ports situated under their sovereignty or authority and for purposes of international trade equality of treatment between the ships of all the Contracting States, their cargoes and passengers;

Considering that the best method of achieving their present purpose is by means of a general Convention to which the greatest possible number of States can later accede;

And whereas the conference which met at Genoa on the 10th April, 1922, requested, in a resolution which was transmitted to the competent organisations of the League of Nations with the approval of the Council and the Assembly of the League, that the international Conventions relating to the régime of communications provided for in the Treaties of Peace should be concluded and put into operation as soon as possible, and whereas Article 379 of the Treaty of Versailles and the corresponding Articles of the other Treaties provide for the preparation of a general Convention on the international régime of ports;

Having accepted the invitation of the League of Nations to take part in a conference which met at Geneva on the 15th November, 1923;

Desirous of bringing into force the provisions of the Statute relating to the international régime of ports adopted thereat, and of concluding a general Convention for this purpose, the High Contracting Parties have appointed as their plenipotentiaries :

The President of the German Reich: M. Gottfried Aschmann, Consul-General at Geneva;

His Majesty the King of the Belgians: M. Xavier Neujean, Minister of Railways, Mercantile Marine, Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones of Belgium, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

The President of the Republic of the United States of Brazil: Commandant-Major E. Leitão de Carvalho, Staff Officer, Professor at the Staff College of Rio de Janeiro, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit; and M. Eliseu da Fonseca Montarroyos, member of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India: Sir Hubert Llewellyn Smith, G.C.B., Chief Economic Adviser of the British Government,

delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

For the Dominion of New Zealand: the Hon. Sir James Allen, K.C.B., High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom;

For India: the Right Hon. Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, K.G., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., I.S.O., Privy Councillor, former Viceroy, former Ambassador;

His Majesty the King of the Bulgarians: M. D. Mikoff, Chargé d'Affaires at Berne;

The President of the Republic of Chile: M. Francisco Rivas Vicuña, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Federal Council, to the President of the Czechoslovak Republic, to the President of the Austrian Federal Republic and to His Serene Highness the Governor of Hungary, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

His Majesty the King of Denmark: M. P. A. HolckColding, Director of Section at the Ministry of Public Works, member of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit ;

His Majesty the King of Spain: M. Guillermo Brockmann y Abarzuza, Inspector-General of Roads, Canals and Ports, member of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

The President of the Esthonian Republic: M. Charles Robert Pusta, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the President of the French Republic, member of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

His Majesty the King of the Hellenes: M. A. Politis, Technical Representative of the Hellenic Government in Paris, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit; and M. Demetre G. Phocas, Captain in the Hellenic Navy, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

His Serene Highness the Governor of Hungary: M. Emile de Walter, Ministerial Counsellor at the Royal Hungarian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

His Majesty the King of Italy: M. Paolo Bignami, former Under-Secretary of State, former member of the Chamber of Deputies, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

His Majesty the Emperor of Japan: Mr. S. Okuyama,

Counsellor of Embassy, Assistant Head of the Japanese League of Nations Office in Paris, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

The President of the Republic of Lithuania: M. C. Dobkevicius, Counsellor at the Lithuanian Legation in Paris, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit ;

His Majesty the King of Norway: M. Gabriel Smith, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands: Jonkheer W. J. M. van Eysinga, Professor at the University of Leyden, member of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

The President of the Republic of Salvador: M. J. G. Guerrero, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the President of the French Republic and to His Majesty the King of Italy, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

His Majesty the King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: M. B. Voukovitch, Director of the State Railways, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

His Majesty the King of Siam: M. Phya Sanpakitch Preecha, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Spain and to His Majesty the King of Italy, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

His Majesty the King of Sweden: Baron Alströmer, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Federal Council;

The Swiss Federal Council: Dr. Robert Herold, Director of the Railway Division of the Federal Department of Posts and Railways, member of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit, delegate at the Second General Conference on Communications and Transit;

The President of the Czechoslovak Republic: M. J. Dvoráček, Minister Plenipotentiary and Head of the Economic Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

The President of the Republic of Uruguay: M. Benjamin Fernández y Medina, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Spain, chairman of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit;

Who, after communicating their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows:

ART. 1. The Contracting States declare that they accept the Statute on the International Régime of Maritime Ports,