POSTAL UNIVERSAL POSTAL CONVENTION Germany. By despatch dated June 27, 1930, the American Ambassador at Berlin informed the Secretary of State that on June 13, 1930, the German Reichstag ratified the universal postal convention, signed at London, June 28, 1929. RADIO INTERNATIONAL RADIOTELEGRAPH CONVENTION On July 1, 1930, the British Ambassador at Washington, Sir Ronald Lindsay, informed the Secretary of State that Newfoundland and Southern Rhodesia had adhered to the international radiotelegraph convention, signed at Washington, November 25, 1927. STATISTICS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AND PROTOCOL RELATING TO ECONOMIC STATISTICS Egypt. On July 11, 1930, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations informed the Secretary of State that on June 27, 1930, Egypt deposited with the Secretariat of the League its instrument of ratification of the international convention and protocol concerning economic statistics, signed at Geneva, December 14, 1928. Switzerland. According to communiqué No. 4491, July 11, 1930, of the Information Section of the League of Nations, the Government of Switzerland on July 10, 1930, deposited with the SecretaryGeneral of the League its instrument of ratification of the international convention and protocol concerning economic statistics, signed at Geneva, December 24, 1928. MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS GENERAL CLAIMS COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO The Governments of the United States and Mexico have agreed that the next meeting of the General Claims Commission created under the general claims convention, signed at Washington, September 8, 1923, shall take place at Mexico City in August, 1930. The general claims convention provides for the settlement of claims by the citizens of each country against the other since the signing on July 4, 1868, of the claims convention between the two countries, except those claims for losses or damages growing out of the revolutionary disturbances in Mexico from November 20, 1910, to May 31, 1920, which form the basis of the special claims convention between the United States and Mexico, signed at Mexico City, September 10, 1923. ARBITRATION OF THE HARRAH CLAIM: UNITED STATES AND CUBA1 On October 1, 1929, a protocol was signed on behalf of the United States and Cuba for the arbitration of the claim of Charles J. Harrah, a citizen of the United States, on account of damages sustained by the claimant in connection with the destruction in 1917 of a narrow-gauge railroad which he was operating along Marianao Beach. The two arbitrators, Mr. Walter B. Howe, selected by the Government of the United States, and Dr. Luis Octavio Diviñó, selected by the Government of Cuba, agreed that there was liability on the part of the Government of Cuba, but were unable to agree upon the amount of indemnity to be paid. The protocol provided that in the event that the two national arbitrators should be unable to agree, the case should be submitted to a neutral arbitrator. In view of the fact, however, that the two national arbitrators had agreed upon the principle of liability, and in order to bring the matter to a speedy conclusion, the Government of Cuba offered to pay the Government of the United States in full settlement of the claim the sum of $350,000. The Government of the United States has accepted the offer. RECENT PUBLICATIONS During July the following documents, of direct interest in connection with Treaty Information, were published by the Department of State and may be secured from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Treaty Series, No. 814. Convention between the United States of America and Other American Republics: Duties and Rights of States in the Event of Civil Strife. Signed February 20, 1928; proclaimed June 6, 1930. 5 pages. 5¢. Treaty Series, No. 815. Convention between the United States of America and Other American Republics: Status of Aliens. Signed February 20, 1928; proclaimed June 6, 1930. 5 pages. 5¢. Treaty Series, No. 816. Treaty between the United States of America and Estonia: Arbitration. Signed August 27, 1929; proclaimed June 25, 1930. 3 pages. 5¢. Treaty Series, No. 817. Treaty between the United States of America and Estonia: Conciliation. Signed August 27, 1929; proclaimed June 25, 1930. 3 pages. 5¢. 19 |