Netherlands, including Dutch East Indies, Surinam, and Curaçao. Oct. 29, 1928 New Zealand_ Norway. Portugal Siam__ 7, 1929 Feb. Oct. 29, 1928 July 25, 1929 Spain, including Spanish Colony of the Gulf of Guinea. Sweden.. Syro-Libanais Territories. Union of South Africa_. United States of America (with the exception of the supplementary regulations) Venezuela... --- July 1, 1929 Mar. 12, 1929 Jan. 31, 1929 Oct. 8, 1928 Sept. 10, 1929 Dominican Republic. According to a despatch from the American Minister at Santo Domingo, October 4, 1929, the Dominican Congress approved the foregoing convention, general regulations and supplementary regulations. INTERNATIONAL TECHNICAL CONSULTING COMMITTEE ON RADIO COMMUNICATIONS' The Department of State has received copies of reports which were adopted at the first meeting of the International Technical Consulting Committee on Radio Communications held at The Hague from September 18 to October 2, 1929. Reports were made on the following subjects: 1. The methods now technically available for maintaining the (a) The necessary separation in cycles or kilocycles be- in order that the stations to which these frequencies are assigned may not interfere with each other; 'See the bulletin for August 1929, p. 15. (b) The distance, likewise in cycles or kilocycles, to be observed between the frequency of one station belonging to a given service and the edge of the band assigned to that service, in order not to produce serious interference with the operation of stations belonging to the services to which adjoining bands of frequencies are assigned. 4. Study of the allocation of ultra-short waves to national services. It is expected that the report of the American delegation, including the report adopted by the Committee, will be published in due course by the Department of State. The following is the personnel of the American delegation: Delegates Maj. Gen. Charles McK. Saltzman, U. S. A., retired; former Maj. Gen. George S. Gibbs, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A. cations Technical assistants Dr. J. H. Dellinger, Chief of the Radio Laboratory, Bureau of Dr. C. B. Jolliffe, Bureau of Standards, Department of Com merce Commander T. A. M. Craven, U. S. N. Mr. Gerald C. Gross, Federal Radio Commission Technical adviser Mr. Kenneth B. Warner, Secretary, American Radio Relay Representatives of private companies American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Mr. Lloyd Espenschied, engineer of the company Mr. William Wilson, engineer, Bell Telephone Laboratories International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. Mr. H. H. Buttner, Assistant Vice President Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co. Mr. T. E. Nivison, General Superintendent, Marine Department Press Wireless, Inc. Mr. Louis G. Caldwell, General Counsel Radio Corporation of America Col. Samuel Reber, General Foreign Representative R. C. A. Communications, Inc. Mr. L. A. Briggs, Traffic Engineer Representatives of private companies-Continued Radio Marine Corporation of America Mr. Charles J. Pannill, Vice President and General Manager Robert Dollar Co. Mr. Ralph M. Neintz Mr. Edgar M. Wilson Mr. J. W. Swanson, Vice President, Southern Radio Corp. Tropical Radio Telegraph Co. Mr. William N. Beakes, Manager Universal Wireless Communication Co., Inc. Dr. John Nathansohn, General Representative STATISTICS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AND PROTOCOL RELATING TO ECONOMIC STATISTICS 8 Denmark. The permanent delegate of Denmark accredited to the League of Nations, deposited with the Secretariat of the League on September 9, 1929, the instrument of ratification by the King of Denmark of the international convention relating to economic statistics and protocol, signed at Geneva December 14, 1928. Irish Free State. On September 27, 1929, M. Sean Lester, representative of the Irish Free State to the League of Nations, signed. in the name of his Government, the international convention concerning economic statistics and the protocol, concluded at Geneva December 14, 1928. TELEGRAPH INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPHIC CONVENTION Brazil. In a despatch to the Secretary of State, dated October 3. 1929, the American Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at Rio de Janeiro reported that the modifications effected by the International Telegraphic Conference at Brussels of September 1928, in the body of the service regulations appended to the international telegraphic convention of St. Petersburg (revised at Paris in 1925), were approved and entered into effect in Brazil as of October 1, 1929, under the terms of decree No. 18.881 of August 23, 1929. See the bulletin for September 1929, p. 24. TRANSIT CONVENTION ON THE INTERNATIONAL RÉGIME OF RAILWAYS Estonia. On September 21, 1929, the Estonian delegate at the Tenth Assembly of the League of Nations deposited with the Secretariat the instrument of ratification of Estonia of the convention and statute on the international régime of railways and protocol of signature, signed at Geneva December 9, 1923. According to the information of the Department of State the parties to this convention are the British Empire (including Great Britain, India, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Southern Rhodesia, and a number of the British colonies and mandated territories, separately), Free City of Danzig, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Japan, Netherlands (not including overseas colonies), Norway, Poland, Rumania, Siam, Sweden, and Switzerland. Convention in force March 23, 1926. Text: League of Nations Treaty Series, Vol. 47, p. 55. INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC CONFERENCE ON TREATMENT OF FOREIGNERS On April 10, 1929, the Acting Secretary General of the League of Nations invited the Government of the United States to send a duly authorized delegation to a conference to be held at Geneva on November 5, 1929, for the purpose of concluding an international convention relative to the treatment of foreigners. It has since been decided to hold the conference at Paris. The President has designated George A. Gordon, First Secretary of Embassy at Paris, to attend the conference as a technical expert to cooperate in a consultative capacity. The draft convention which will be used as a basis for discussion at the conference is designed to eliminate for foreign individuals "certain of the disabilities and inequalities which still exist in respect to travel, residence, property rights and business activities; and to permit corporations organized under the laws of foreign states to exercise their corporate powers on a basis of equality with domestic corporations.' Ratifications of the convention, signed September 2, 1929, extending the duration of the General Claims Commission created under the convention of September 8, 1923, were exchanged on October 10, 1929, at Mexico City. On October 16, 1929, the President of the United States proclaimed the convention. Ratifications of the convention, signed on August 17, 1929, extending the Special Claims Commission provided for by the convention of September 10, 1923, were exchanged on October 29, 1929, by the Undersecretary of State and the Mexican Ambassador at Washington. On October 31, 1929, the President of the United States proclaimed the convention.2 UNITED STATES-CUBA: ARBITRATION1 On October 23, 1929, the names of the arbitrators for the settlement of a $700,000 claim by Charles J. Harrah, an American citizen, against the Cuban Government for alleged destruction of his twelvemile narrow-gauge railroad in that country, were announced. Mr. Walter B. Howe, of Washington, has been designated as American arbitrator. Mr. J. A. Metzger, Assistant Solicitor, Department of State, has been designated as counsel for the United States and will have associated with him Mr. John A. Beck, of Washington. The Cuban arbitrator will be Dr. Octavio Divino, former Secretary of Justice and Justice of the Supreme Court of Cuba. Dr. Enrique Hernandez Cartaya, former Secretary of the Treasury, will be Cuban counsel. 1 See the bulletin for September 1929, p. 25. 2 'In the bulletin for August 1929, Second Supplement, the reference to U. S. Treaty Series, No. 802, on p. 10, should read No. 801; and U. S. Treaty Series, No. 801, on p. 11, should read No. 802. 32 |