ARTICLE 24. The High Contracting Parties agree that if any dispute whatever should arise between them relating to the application of the present Convention which cannot be settled by negotiation, this dispute shall be submitted to an arbitral tribunal in conformity with the provisions of the Covenant of the League of Nations. ARTICLE 25. All the provisions of former general international Conventions, relating to the matters dealt with in the present Convention, shall be considered as abrogated in so far as they are binding between the Powers which are Parties to the present Convention. ARTICLE 26. The present Convention shall be ratified as soon as possible. Each Power will address its ratification to the French Government, who will inform all the other signatory Powers. The ratifications will remain deposited in the archives of the French Government. The present Convention shall come into force for each Signatory Power from the date of the deposit of its ratification, and from that moment that Power will be bound in respect of other Powers which have already deposited their ratifications. On the coming into force of the present Convention, the French Government will transmit a certified copy to the Powers which under the Treaties of Peace have undertaken to accept and observe it, and are in consequence placed in the same position as the Contracting Parties. The names of these Powers will be notified to the States which accede. In faith whereof the above-named Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention. Done at Paris, the tenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, in a single copy which will remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the French Republic, and of which authentic copies will be sent to each of the Signatory Powers. (L. S.) FRANK L. POLK. (L. S.) HENRY WHITE. (L. S.) TASKER H. BLISS. Some of the signatures were affixed at Paris and some at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. 29479-S. Doc. 348, 67-481 At the moment of signing the Convention of even date relating to the trade in arms and ammunition, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries declare in the name of their respective Governments that they would regard it as contrary to the intention of the High Contracting Parties and to the spirit of this Convention that, pending the coming into force of the Convention, a Contracting Party should adopt any measure which is contrary to its provisions. Done at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in a single copy, the tenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen. Some of the signatures were affixed at Paris and some at Saint-Germain-en-Laye. 1919. CONVENTION FOR THE REGULATION OF AERIAL NAVIGATION. Signed at Paris October 13, 1919; in force for ratifying states on July 11, 1922, the 40th day after the signing of the procès-verbal of deposit of ratifications.1 (League of Nations, Treaty Series, XI, p. 173.) ARTICLES. Chapter I. General principles. 2. Freedom of innocent passage. 4. Aircraft to land after being 6. State register evidences na- 7. Complete ownership by na- 8. No dual registration. 9. Exchange of registration in- 10. Marks in international naviga tion. Chapter III. Certificates of airworthiness and competency. Chapter III-Continued. 11. Certificates for aircraft in international navigation. 12. Certificates and licenses for personnel. 13. Validity of certificates and licenses; recognition. 14. License for wireless apparatus; when carried. Chapter IV. Admission to air navigation above foreign territory. 15. Right to cross States by fixed routes; landing obligatory if required. 16. Right to reserve domestic traffic. 17. States not exercising this right may apply it respecting those that do. 18. Exemption from seizure during passage. 1 While the convention is dated October 13, 1919, the signature of the, convention, by its terms, was left open until April 12, 1920, and this time was subsequently prolonged until June 1, 1920. Between October 13, 1919, and June 1, 1920, the convention was signed on the part of the United States, the British Empire, France. Italy. Japan, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Siam, Czchoslovákia, and Uruguay. The convention has been ratified by the British Empire, France, Japan, Belgium, Bolivia, Greece, Portugal, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and Siam, and their instruments of ratification were deposited with the Government of the French Republic on June 1, 1922. The convention provides that it will come into force for each signatory power in respect of other powers which have ratified it 40 days from the date of the deposit of its ratification; so that the treaty went into effect, with respect to the countries which deposited their ratificaions as above, on July 11, 1922. It is also in effect with respect to Nicaragua, Peru, Liberia, and Persia, which have given their adherence to it. The convention was signed on the part of the United States on May 31, 1920, by Ambassador Wallace, under full powers issued to him by President Wilson. In signing the convention Mr. Wallace made the following declaration on behalf of the Gorernment of the United States: "The United States especially reserves, with regard to Article 3, the right to permit its private aircraft to fly over areas over which private aircraft of other contracting states may be forbidden to fly by the laws of the United States, any provision of said Article 3 to the contrary notwithstanding. The United States reserves complete freedom of action as to customs matters and does not consider itself bound by the provisions of Annex H or any articles of the Convention affecting the enforcement of its customs laws. "The United States reserves the right to enter into special treaties, conventions, and agreements regarding aerial navigation with the Dominion of Canada, and/or any country in the Western Hemisphere if such Dominion and/or country be not a party to this Convention." ARTICLES-Continued. Chapter V. Rules to be observed on departure, when under way and on landing. 19. Documents for international 20. Preservation of log books. 22. Assistance for landing. 24. Public aerodromes open to all contractants; single tariff. 25. Compliance with regulations. Chapter VI. Prohibited transport. 26. Carriage of explosives, arms, munitions of war forbidden. 27. Photographic apparatus may be prohibited or regulated. 28. Carriage of other objects mav be restricted. 29. Restrictions to apply equally to all. Chapter VII. State aircraft. 30. Definition. 31. Military aircraft. 32. Treatment of military aircraft. 33. Arrangements for police and customs aircraft crossing frontier. Footnote--Continued. Chapter VIII. International Commission for Air Navigation. of commission; 34. Institution 35. International measures to be 37. Procedure for disputes as to 39. Convention completed by Annexes (A) to (H). 40. British Dominions and India deemed to be conventional States; protectorates or mandated territories ass:milated for conventional purposes to protecting or mandatory States. 41. Adhesion of States not participating in war of 1914-1919. 42. Adhesion of States participating in war of 1914-1919 and not signatory. 43. Denunciation; ratification; entrance into force. On the same day he signed the convention, namely May 31, 1920, Ambassador Wallace signed also the additional protocol to the convention, dated May 1, 1920. In signing the protocol Mr. Wallace made the following interpretative reservation on behalf of the Government of the United States: "The United States signs the above Protocol with the understanding that its construction and enforcement shall in no way derogate from the entire freedom of the United States to negotiate with noncontracting States of the Western Hemisphere as regards the regulation and control of aerial navigation as set forth in the Third Reservation of the United States to the Convention." On September 10, 1920, the conference of ambassadors at Paris approved a recommendation made by the aerial commission that the reservations made by the United States be referred for study to the International Commission for Air Navigation, provided for by article 34 of the convention; and although this commission has been established and has held several meetings, it is not yet publicly known whether it has decided upon any recommendations to the Government of the United States regarding the acceptance of the reservations, other than may be inferred from the following: At its second session, held at London, the International Commission for Aerial Navigation, in virtue of the authority conferred upon it by article 34 of the convention, approved. on October 25, 1922. for submission to the Governments for their acceptance an amended article 5 of the convention, to be worded in its English text as follows: "No contracting State shall, except by a special and temporary authorization, permit the flight above its territory of an aircraft which does not possess the nationality of a contracting State, unless it has concluded a special convention with the State in which the aircraft is registered. The stipulations of such special convention must not infringe the rights of the contracting parties to the present Convention and must conform to the rules laid down by the said Convention and its annexes. Such special convention shall be communicated to the International Commission for Air Navigation which will bring it to the knowledge of the other contracting States." This proposed amendment, the submitted protocol provides, "will go into effect as soon as the States that are now contracting parties to the convention shall have effected the deposit of their ratifications." MAY 18, 1923. |