(3) The protocol of revision of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice: Albania ARTICLE 36 OF THE STATUTE OF THE PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE M. Mehdi Frasheri, Minister for National Economy of Albania, delegate to the Assembly of the League of Nations, signed, September 17, 1930, on behalf of his Government, the optional clause recognizing the compulsory jurisdiction of the Permanent Court of International Justice, and made the following declaration : 5 On behalf of the Albanian Government and subject to ratification, I recognise as compulsory ipso facto and without special agreement in relation to any other member of the League of Nations or State accepting the same obligation-that is to say, on condition of reciprocity-the optional clause provided for by Article 36 of the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice, for a period of five years from the date of the deposit of the instrument of ratification, in any of the disputes enumerated in the said Article arising after the ratification of the present declaration with regard to situations or facts subsequent to this ratification, other than: (a) Disputes relating to the territorial status of Albania; 5) Disputes with regard to questions which, by international law, fall exclusively within the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of Albania; (c) Disputes relating directly or indirectly to the application of treaties or conventions accepted by the Kingdom of Albania and providing for another method of pacific settlement. MEHDI FRASHERI 'Official translation of the League of Nations. At the same time, M. Mehdi Frasheri deposited with the Secretariat the instrument of ratification of Albania of this declaration. Luxemburg On September 15, 1930, Mr. Joseph Bech, Minister for Foreign Affairs and President of the Grand-Ducal Government, delegate of Luxemburg to the Assembly of the League of Nations, signed the optional clause recognizing the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court of International Justice, effective as from September 15, 1930. The declaration of acceptance of the optional clause is as follows: The Government of the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg recognises as compulsory, ipso facto and without special agreement, in relation to any other State accepting the same obligation-that is to say, on condition of reciprocity-the jurisdiction of the Court in conformity with Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Statute, in any disputes arising after signature of the present declaration with regard to situations or facts subsequent to this signature, except in cases where the parties have agreed or shall agree to have recourse to another procedure or to another method of pacific settlement. The present declaration is made for a period of five years. Unless it is denounced six months before the expiration of that period, it shall be considered as renewed for a further period of five years and similarly thereafter. El Salvador The Republic of El Salvador deposited with the SecretaryGeneral of the League of Nations on August 29, 1930, the instrument of ratification of its acceptance of the optional clause. The ratification of El Salvador was given with certain reservations." ARMAMENT REDUCTION WASHINGTON NAVAL TREATY OF 1922 On August 30, 1930, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs sent a note to the American Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at Tokyo, in reply to his note of August 15, 1930, informing him that the Japanese Government has no objection to the proposed purchase by the Powell River Company, Limited, in British Columbia, of the hulk of the former U.S.S. cruiser Charlestown from the General Salvage Company of Seattle, Wash., to which it was sold by the United States Navy Department. ARMS TRAFFIC CONVENTION FOR THE SUPERVISION OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ARMS On August 29, 1930, the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs informed the American Ambassador at Paris that Denmark, Great Britain, and Sweden had ratified the convention for the supervision of international trade in arms, signed at Geneva, June 17, 1925, conditional on ratification by certain other states, as follows: Denmark. Great Britain__ Sweden... On ratification by Sweden and On ratification by Austria, Bel- According to the information of the Department of State, the following countries have ratified or definitely acceded to the convention for the supervision of the international trade in arms: PROTOCOL CONCERNING THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE IN WARFARE OF ASPHYXIATING, POISONOUS, OR OTHER GASES, AND OF BACTERIOLOGICAL METHODS OF WARFARE Irish Free State By a despatch dated September 10, 1930, the American Ambassador at Paris transmitted to the Secretary of State a certified copy of the notification of adherence of the Irish Free State, August 18, 1930, to the protocol signed at Geneva, June 17, 1925, concerning the use of asphyxiating, poisonous, or other gases, and of bacteriological methods of warfare. "Until the fulfillment of the condition specified in the instrument of ratification, the ratification may not be numbered among the fourteen ratifications required by the terms of Article 41 for the establishment of the procès verbal of the deposit of ratifications and the coming into force of the convention. The Irish Free State adhered to the protocol, subject to the reservations that it is bound by the protocol only toward those states which have signed and ratified the protocol or have acceded thereto, and that it will cease to be bound by the protocol toward any power at enmity with it whose armed forces, or the armed forces of whose allies, do not respect the protocol. CHANGES TO BE NOTED IN THE LIST OF TREATIES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE PROMOTION OF PEACE The following treaties included under the heading "Bipartite Treaties Signed but not in Force," page 40 of the First Supplement of the Bulletin of Treaty Information, June 30, 1929, should now be listed on page 31 with treaties in force: Luxemburg: Arbitration Treaty Signed at Luxemburg, April 6, 1929. Ratifications exchanged, September 2, 1930. Effective" on the date of the exchange of the ratifications" (Art. III). Text: USTS No. 825. Luxemburg: Conciliation Treaty Signed at Luxemburg, April 6, 1929. Ratifications exchanged, September 2, 1930. Effective " on the date of exchange of the ratifications" (Art. IV). Text: USTS No. 826. Germany HUMANITARIAN HEALTH INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION The American Ambassador at Paris transmitted to the Secretary of State on September 6, 1930, a certified copy of the procès verbal of deposit of the instrument of ratification of Germany, August 6, 1930, of the international sanitary convention, signed at Paris, June 21, 1926. OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE CIRCULATION OF AND TRAFFIC IN OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS Free City of Danzig The Chargé d'Affaires of France at Washington, Mr. Jules Henry, transmitted to the Secretary of State on September 11, 1930, a certified copy of the note dated July 30, 1930, by which the Embassy of Poland at Paris, in pursuance of the last paragraph of Article I, of the arrangement relative to the repression of the circulation of obscene publications, signed at Paris, May 4, 1910, informed the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the Polizeipraesidium would be charged with the duty of curbing the circulation of obscene publications within the territory of the Free City of Danzig. Irish Free State The permanent delegate of the Irish Free State accredited to the League of Nations deposited with the Secretariat on September 15, 1930, the instrument of ratification of the Irish Free State of the international convention for the suppression of the circulation of and traffic in obscene publications, signed at Geneva, September 12, 1923. Poland By a note dated July 30, 1930,1 the Embassy of Poland at Paris informed the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs that a special bureau 1See supra, Free City of Danzig. |