TREATY ON THE PREVENTION OF CONTROVERSIES (TREATY SERIES, No. 924) 5 Mexico With a letter of January 18, 1938, the Director General of the Pan American Union transmitted to the Secretary of State a certified copy of the instrument of ratification by Mexico of the treaty on the prevention of controversies, signed at Buenos Aires on December 23, 1936. The procès-verbal attesting the deposit of the instrument of ratification is dated December 23, 1937. NONINTERVENTION ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL RELATIVE TO NONINTERVENTION (TREATY SERIES, No. 923) Honduras The American Minister to Honduras informed the Secretary of State by a despatch dated January 4, 1938, that there was published in La Gaceta of December 31, 1937, an Executive order dated November 26, 1937, approving on behalf of Honduras the additional protocol relative to nonintervention, signed at Buenos Aires on December 23, 1936. Venezuela By a despatch dated January 14, 1938, the American Ambassador to Argentina reported that he had been informed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs under date of January 12, 1938, that the instrument of ratification by Venezuela of the additional protocol relative to nonintervention, signed at Buenos Aires on December 23, 1936, was deposited with the Ministry on December 22, 1937. RESTRICTION OF WAR CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS OF THE FIRST PEACE CONFERENCE, THE HAGUE, 1899, AND CONVENTIONS OF THE SECOND PEACE CONFERENCE, THE HAGUE, 1907 7 Austria By a note dated January 5, 1938, the Netherlands Minister at Washington informed the Secretary of State that under date of October 25, 1937, the Austrian Government notified the Government of the Netherlands, as the depositary of the conventions and declarations of the First and Second Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907, that Aus tria acknowledges being bound by all the conventions and declarations insofar as they were signed and ratified at the time in the name of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The records of the Department of State show that the following declarations and conventions of 1899 and 1907 were signed and ratified by the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Acts of 1899 I. Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes (Treaty Series, No. 392). II. Convention with respect to the laws and customs of war on land (Treaty Series, No. 403). III. Convention for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva convention of August 22, 1864 (Treaty Series, No. 396). IV. (1) Declaration prohibiting the launching of projectiles and explosives from balloons (Treaty Series, No. 393).8 IV. (2) Declaration concerning asphyxiating gases. Acts of 1907 I. Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes (Treaty Series, No. 536). II. Convention respecting the limitation of the employment of force for the recovery of contract debts (Treaty Series, No. 537). III. Convention relative to the opening of hostilities (Treaty Series, No. 538). IV. Convention respecting the laws and customs of war on land (Treaty Series, No. 539). V. Convention respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers and persons in case of war on land (Treaty Series, No. 540). VI. Convention relating to the status of enemy merchant ships at the outbreak of hostilities. VII. Convention relating to the conversion of merchant ships into warships. VIII. Convention relative to the laying of automatic submarine contact mines. (Treaty Series, No. 541). IX. Convention concerning bombardment by naval forces in time of war (Treaty Series, No. 542). X. Convention for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva convention (Treaty Series, No. 543). XI. Convention relative to certain restrictions with regard to the exercise of the right of capture in naval war (Treaty Series, No. 544). XIII. Convention concerning the rights and duties of neutral powers in naval war. (Treaty Series, No. 545). This declaration expired by limitation July 30, 1904. PROCÈS-VERBAL RELATING TO THE RULES OF SUBMARINE WARFARE SET FORTH IN PART IV OF THE LONDON NAVAL TREATY OF 19309 Guatemala The British Ambassador at Washington informed the Secretary of State by a note dated January 14, 1938, that the Guatemalan Government has signified that its adherence to the rules relating to the use of submarines against merchant vessels in time of war set out in part IV of the London naval treaty of 1930, which was notified to the British Government by note dated April 21, 1937, cannot be considered definitive until the decree approving the adherence has been submitted to the National Legislative Assembly for its approval. POLITICAL EXTRATERRITORIALITY CONVENTION REGARDING THE ABOLITION OF THE CAPITULATIONS IN The Netherlands EGYPT 1 The American Minister to the Netherlands transmitted to the Secretary of State with a despatch dated January 4, 1938, a copy of the law of December 16, 1937, by which the convention regarding the abolition of the capitulations in Egypt, signed May 8, 1937, was ratified. The ratification by the Netherlands was promulgated on December 28, 1937. 1 See Bulletin No. 98, November 1937, p. 7. 6 HUMANITARIAN EDUCATION CONVENTION FOR THE PROMOTION OF INTER-AMERICAN CULTURAL RELATIONS (TREATY SERIES, No. 928) 1 Dominican Republic 1 The Director General of the Pan American Union transmitted to the Secretary of State with a letter dated December 29, 1937, a certified copy of the instrument of ratification by the Dominican Republic, together with a certified copy of the procès-verbal of deposit, of the convention for the promotion of inter-American cultural relations, signed at Buenos Aires on December 23, 1936. The deposit took place on December 7, 1937. CONVENTION CONCERNING FACILITIES FOR EDUCATIONAL AND PUBLICITY FILMS 1 Dominican Republic With a letter dated December 29, 1937, the Director General of the Pan American Union transmitted to the Secretary of State a certified copy of the instrument of ratification by the Dominican Republic, together with a certified copy of the procès-verbal of deposit, of the convention concerning facilities for educational and publicity films, signed at Buenos Aires on December 23, 1936. The deposit took place on December 7, 1937. CONVENTION CONCERNING PEACEFUL ORIENTATION OF PUBLIC Dominican Republic INSTRUCTION 2 With a letter of December 29, 1937, the Director General of the Pan American Union transmitted to the Secretary of State a certified copy of the instrument of ratification by the Dominican Republic, together with a certified copy of the procès-verbal of deposit, of the convention concerning peaceful orientation of public instruction, signed at Buenos Aires on December 23, 1936. The deposit took place on December 7, 1937. 1 See Bulletin No. 98, November 1937, p. 16. See ibid., p. 17. |