Permanent Court of International Justice Article 36 of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and the Sick of Armies in the Field (Treaty Series No. 847) and Convention Relating to the Treatment of Prisoners of War Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Dam- ages Caused by Aircraft to Third Parties on the Surface . Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to Assist- ance and Salvage of Aircraft or by Aircraft at Sea . . Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Consular Rights Between the United States and Estonia (Treaty Series No. 736) . . . Declaration on the Juridical Personality of Foreign Companies . Convention Concerning the Formation of an International Union for the Publication of Customs Tariffs (Treaty Series No. 384). International Convention Relating to the Simplification of Customs The AUG 15 39 Announcement This issue is the final number of the monthly Treaty Information bulletin. On July 1, 1939, the consolidation of the weekly pamphlet Press Releases and the monthly publication Treaty Information will take place, and information of the character heretofore contained in the two separate publications will be published weekly in The Department of State Bulletin. An index to the numbers of Treaty Information not contained in the Cumulative Index: Bulletins 1-69 inclusive, October 1929-June 1935, namely, for bulletins Nos. 70-117, will shortly be published, completing the index through the entire series. The index will be furnished to all the subscribers of Treaty Information. The Department of State Bulletin is for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for 10 cents a copy, or for $2.75 a year by subscription. PROMOTION OF PEACE ARBITRATION, CONCILIATION, AND JUDICIAL BILATERAL TREATIES OF CONCILIATION United States-Bolivia The International Commission provided for under the terms of the Treaty for the Advancement of Peace, between the United States and Bolivia, signed January 22, 1914 (Treaty Series No. 606; 38 Stat., pt. 2, 1868), is constituted at present as follows: American Commissioners: National: A. R. Talbot, of Nebraska Bolivian Commissioners: National: (vacant) Nonnational: (vacant) Joint Commissioner: Belgium Johannes Irgens, of Norway PERMANENT COURT OF ARBITRATION 1 According to a letter dated May 8, 1939, from the Secretary General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration the Belgian Government See Bulletin No. 116, May 1939, p. 87. has appointed as members of the Court Mr. M. Bourquin, professor in the University Institute of Advanced International Studies at Geneva and legal adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of Foreign Commerce of Belgium, and Mr. H. A. Rolin, professor in the Free University of Brussels, to replace Viscount P. Poullet and Baron R. Jacquemyns, deceased. Cuba According to a despatch from the American Embassy at Habana, dated May 23, 1939, the Cuban Government has appointed Dr. Orestes Ferrara y Marino as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, to replace Dr. Carlos Manuel de Cespedes y de Quesada, deceased. Greece According to a letter dated June 1, 1939, from the Secretary General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration the Greek Government has renewed the mandate of Mr. Georges Streit as a member of the Court. Egypt PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE According to a circular letter from the League of Nations dated June 7, 1939, the Egyptian Minister at Bern signed on behalf of his Government on May 30, 1939, the Protocol of Signature of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, signed December 16, 1920, and the Protocol Relating to the Accession of the United States of America to the Protocol of Signature of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, signed September 14, 1929. ARTICLE 36 OF THE STATUTE OF THE PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE Egypt The Egyptian Minister at Bern signed on May 30, 1939, the Optional Clause provided in the Protocol of Signature of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice and made a declaration which, in the translation of the League of Nations, reads as follows: "On behalf of the Royal Egyptian Government and subject to ratification, I accept as compulsory ipso facto and without special agreement, in relation to any other Member of the League of Nations or to any State accepting the same obligation, that is to say on condition of reciprocity, the jurisdiction of the Court, in con |