ARTICLE 11. ized. The provisions of the present Convention are supplemented by Regulations authorRegulations, which shall have the same force and go into effect at the Post, p. 1718. same time as the Convention. subsequent confer The provisions of the present Convention and of the Regulations Modifications by relating thereto may at any time be modified by the High Contract- ences. ing Parties by common consent. Conferences of plenipotentiaries having power to modify the Convention and the Regulations, shall take place from time to time; each conference shall fix the time and place of the next meeting. ARTICLE 12. Such conferences shall be composed of delegates of the Governments of the contracting countries. Conferences. Representation. Colonies, possessions, In the deliberations each country shall have but one vote. If a Government adheres to the Convention for its colonies, posses- or protectorates. sions or protectorates, subsequent conferences may decide that such colonies, possessions or protectorates, or a part thereof, shall be considered as forming a country as regards the application of the preceding paragraph. But the number of votes at the disposal of one Government, including its colonies, possessions or protectorates, shall in no case exceed six. The following shall be considered as forming a single country for Classification. the application of the present Article; German East Africa German Southwest Africa Hawaii and the other American possessions in Polynesia Porto Rico and the American possessions in the Antilles The Belgian Congo The Spanish Colony of the Gulf of Guinea French East Africa French Equatorial Africa Indo-China Madagascar Tunis The Union of South Africa The Australian Federation Canada British India New Zealand Eritrea Italian Somaliland Chosen, Formosa, Japanese Sakhalin and the leased territory of Kwantung. The Dutch Indies The Colony of Curacao Portuguese West Africa Portuguese East Africa and the Portuguese possessions in Asia Bokhara Khiva Western Siberia (littoral of the Arctic Ocean) Eastern Siberia (littoral of the Pacific Ocean). 96497°-VOL 38-PT 2-31 Application to other Installations. ARTICLE 13. The International Bureau of the Telegraph Union shall be charged with collecting, coordinating and publishing information of every kind relating to radiotelegraphy, examining the applications for changes in the Convention or Regulations, promulgating the amendments adopted, and generally performing all administrative work referred to it in the interest of international radiotelegraphy. The expense of such institution shall be borne by all the contracting countries. ARTICLE 14. Each of the High Contracting Parties reserves to itself the right of fixing the terms on which it will receive radiograms proceeding from or intended for any station, whether on shipboard or coastal, which is not subject to the provisions of the present Convention. If a radiogram is received the ordinary rates shall be applicable to it. Any radiogram proceeding from a station on shipboard and received by a coastal station of a contracting country, or accepted in transit by the administration of a contracting country, shall be forwarded. Any radiogram intended for a vessel shall also be forwarded if the administration of the contracting country has accepted it originally or in transit from a non-contracting country, the coastal station reserving the right to refuse transmission to a station on shipboard subject to a non-contracting country. ARTICLE 15. The provisions of Articles 8 and 9 of this Convention are also Ante, pp. 1707, 1708. applicable to radio installation other than those referred to in Article 1. Adherence of other Governments. Effect. Colonies, etc. Post, p. 1711. International tele graph provisions ap- putes. ARTICLE 16. Governments which are not parties to the present Convention shall be permitted to adhere to it upon their request. Such adherence shall be communicated through diplomatic channels to the contracting Government in whose territory the last conference shall have been held, and by the latter to the remaining Governments. The adherence shall carry with it to the fullest extent acceptance of all the clauses of this Convention and admission to all the advantages stipulated therein. The adherence to the Convention by the Government of a country having colonies, possessions or protectorates shall not carry with it the adherence of its colonies, possessions or protectorates unless a declaration to that effect is made by such Government. Such colonies, possessions and protectorates, as a whole or each of them, separately, may form the subject of a separate adherence or a separate denunciation within the provisions of the present Article and of Article 22. ARTICLE 17. The provisions of Articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 17 of the International Telegraph Convention of St. Petersburg of July 10-22, 1875, shall be applicable to international radiotelegraphy. ARTICLE 18. Arbitration of dis- In case of disagreement between two or more contracting Governments regarding the interpretation or execution of the present Convention or of the Regulations referred to in Article 11, the question in dispute may, by mutual agreement, be submitted to arbitration. In such case each of the Governments concerned shall choose another The decision of the arbiters shall be arrived at by the absolute majority of votes. In case of a division of votes, the arbiters shall choose, for the purpose of settling the disagreement, another contracting Government which is likewise a stranger to the question at issue. In case of failure to agree on a choice, each arbiter shall propose a disinterested contracting Government and lots shall be drawn between the Governments proposed. The drawing of the lots shall fall to the Government within whose territory the international bureau provided for in Article 13 shall be located. ARTICLE 19. The High Contracting Parties bind themselves to take, or propose to their respective legislatures, the necessary measures for insuring the execution of the present Convention. ARTICLE 20. The High Contracting Parties shall communicate to one another any laws already framed, or which may be framed, in their respec-. tive countries relative to the object of the present Convention. ARTICLE 21. Ante, p. 1710. Legislation to be proposed. Vol. 37, p. 302. Communication of laws enacted. installations. Ante, p. 1707. The High Contracting Parties shall preserve their entire liberty Liberty as to other as regards radio installations other than provided for in Article I, especially naval and military installations, and stations used for communications between fixed points. All such installations and stations shall be subject only to the obligations provided for in Articles 8 and 9 of the present Convention. Maritime service sta However, when such installations and stations are used for pub- tions. lic maritime service they shall conform, in the execution of such service, to the provisions of the Regulations as regards the mode of transmission and rates. Land and ship serv. On the other hand, if coastal stations are used for general public ice. service with ships at sea and also for communication between fixed points, such stations shall not be subject, in the execution of the last named service, to the provisions of the Convention except for Ante, p. 1708. the observance of Articles 8 and 9 of this Convention. Nevertheless, fixed stations used for correspondence between land Fixed land service. and land shall not refuse the exchange of radiograms with another fixed station on account of the system adopted by such station; the liberty of each country shall, however, be complete as regards the organization of the service for correspondence between fixed points and the nature of the correspondence to be effected by the stations reserved for such service. ARTICLE 22. The present Convention shall go into effect on the 1st day of Effect. July, 1913, and shall remain in force for an indefinite period or until the expiration of one year from the day when it shall be de nounced by any of the contracting parties. Such denunciation shall effect only the Government in whose Denunciation. name it shall have been made. As regards the other Contracting Powers, the Convention shall remain in force. Exchange of ratifications. Deposit of original Convention. Signatures. ARTICLE 23. The present Convention shall be ratified and the ratifications exchanged at London with the least possible delay. In case one or several of the High Contracting Parties shall not ratify the Convention, it shall nevertheless be valid as to the Parties which shall have ratified it. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed one copy of the Convention, which shall be deposited in the archives of the British Government, and a copy of which shall be transmitted to each Party. Done at London, July 5, 1912. For Germany and the German Protectorates: B. KOEHLER O. WACHENFELD Dr. KARL STRECKER GOETSCH Dr. EMIL KRAUSS For the United States and the possessions of the United States: |