November, 1909. 5 BRAZIL PERU. Arbitration Treaty for the settlement of international questions concluded at Rio de Janeiro. B. A. R., January, 1910. 5 FRANCE SWEDEN. Publication in J. O. of exchange of notes at Paris regarding the intention to renew the arbitration convention of July 9, 1904, for a further period of five years. R. Generale de Dr. Int. Public, 16:682; text in ditto, 12:151. 6 BRAZIL URUGUAY. Treaty signed modifying the frontiers along the Jaguarao River and Lake Merim to the advantage of Uruguay. Q. dipl., 13:635; B. A. R., January and February. 8 FRANCE-NORWAY. Publication in J. O. of exchange of notes at Paris regarding the intention to renew the arbitration convention of July 9, 1904, for a further period of five years. R. Generale de Dr. Int. Public, 16:682; text in ditto, 12:151. 9 GREAT BRITAIN-SWEDEN. Convention renewing for a further period of five years the Arbitration Convention of August 11, 1904, signed at London. Treaty ser., 1909, No. 31. GREAT BRITAIN-NORWAY. Convention renewing for a further period of five years the Arbitration Convention of August 11, 1904, signed at London. Treaty ser., 1909, No. 27. 9-22 GREECE-RUSSIA. Trademark declaration signed at Athens, giving to subjects of each in territories of the other, most-favorednation treatment in the matter of trademarks. Official Bulletin of Laws (in Russian and French), St. Petersburg, December 29, 1909-January 11, 1910. To apply only so long as the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of 1850 remains in force. FRANCE-SWITZERLAND. Exchange of ratifications at Paris of two treaties, signed at Paris, December 16, 1908, in regard to (1) a railroad between Martigny and Chamonix and (2) between Nyon and Divonne-les-Bains. Promulgation decree issued by President Fallières, November 23. J. O., November 26. 15 HAITI-UNITED STATES. Exchange of ratifications at Washington of Arbitration Convention signed at Washington, January 7, 1909. Ratification advised by Senate, February 13; ratified by the President, March 1, by Haiti, March 22. Proclaimed November 16. U. S. Treaty ser., No. 535. See Supplement to this Journal, p. 137. November, 1909. 15 INDIAN COUNCILS ACT, 1909. Date set on which the provisions of the Act shall come into operation. The new Provincial Councils will assemble early in January and the Imperial Council the same month. Cd., 4987; Times, November 16, December 6 and 21. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE for the repression of the use of saccharine, opened at Paris. Mém. dipl., November 21. 15 16 16 CAPE COLONY. The Cape to Cairo Railway reached the Congo frontier. Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review, January, 1910. 16 FRANCE-ETHIOPIA. President Fallières promulgated a law extending consular jurisdiction to French citizens and protégés in Ethiopia. R. Generale de Dr. Int. Public, 16:680; J. O., November 18. GREAT BRITAIN-PORTUGAL. Exchange of notes, renewing for further period of five years the arbitration agreement signed at Windsor, November 16, 1904. Treaty ser., 1909, No. 32; Mém. dipl., November 21; R. Generale de Dr. Int. Public, 16:682. ITALY SWITZERLAND. Exchange of notes at Rome renewing the Arbitration Convention of November 23, 1904, for a further period of five years. R. Generale de Dr. Int. Public, 16:683. 16-17 INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF EDITORS. The meeting of the executive committee was held at Paris. The next meeting of the committee will be held at Amsterdam in July, 1910, at which time and place the next (VIIth) Congress will be held. Le Droit D'Auteur, 23:28. 21 ITALY-NETHERLANDS. A general arbitration treaty was signed at Rome. Mém. dipl., November 28; Nederlandsche Staatcourant, December 31. 22 RUSSIA. An imperial ukase forbids the Finnish Senate from sending to future international congresses special delegates. Mém. dipl., November 28. 23-Dec. 7 GERMANY-GREAT BRITAIN. Exchange of notes extending the renewal of the Arbitration Agreement of July 12, 1904, for a further period of four years. See Treaty ser., No. 20, 1909. Treaty ser., No. 36, 1909. 27 TRANSANDINE RAILWAY TUNNEL. The Andes were pierced on this date though the tunnel is not expected to be ready for trains before May 25, 1910, the centenary of the revolution which gave both interested nations, Argentine Republic and Chile, independence. B. A. R., February, 1910. November, 1909. 29 BELGIUM-GERMANY-GREAT BRITAIN reach agreement on Eastern Congo Boundary, R. of R., January, 1910; Times, January 1 and 12. 29 CHILE-UNITED STATES, request King Edward to act as arbitrator in the Alsop claims. R. of R., January, 1910; Mém. dipl., November 28; American Polit. Science R., IV:42. December, 1909. BULGARIA-TURKEY. Agreement providing for the reciprocal trans- SOUTH AFRICA. Royal Proclamation declaring that on and after 3 FRANCE GREAT BRITAIN. Order in Council causing the additional extradition convention, signed at Paris, July 29 (q. v.) to apply to France from December 13; to Tunis after the same date; but to be suspended as to Canada during the continuance in force of the Canadian Act of 1906 regarding the extradition of fugitive criminals London Ga., December 3. 10 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE awarded by the Norwegian Storthing to Baron d'Estournelles de Constant, French, and M. Beernaert, Belgian. The Physics Prize went to William Marconi, Italian, and Ferdinand Braun, German; that in Chemistry to Wilhelm Ostwald, German; in Medicine to Theodor Kocher, Swiss; and in Literature to Selma Lagerlof, Swede. Times, December 11; World (New York) Almanac, 1910. 16 NICARAGUA. President Zelaya sends his resignation to Congress. R. of R., January, 1910; Times, December 27. 17 BELGIUM. King Leopold died, on the 44th anniversary of his reign. Leopold II. Africain, Mém. dipl., February 6. For memoir, see Times, December 17. ८. December, 1909. 19 INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURE at Rome. The General Assembly closed. Mém. dipl., December 26. 23 FRANCE-SWITZERLAND. Council of State ratified the Convention on the Approaches to the Simplon. Times, December 24; Mém. dipl., December 26. Q. dipl., 13:705. 23 BELGIUM. Coronation of King Albert at Brussels. Times, December 24. 25-Jan. 3 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION of the American Republics was held at San José, Costa Rica. B. A. R., February, 1910. 26-31 NINTH ZIONIST CONGRESS held at Hamburg. Mém. dipl., January 2; Times, January 1 and 8. 28 FRANCE-VENEZUELA. France having insisted upon the arbitration_ of claims of French citizens expelled by Castro, Venezuela termi- nates her diplomatic mission to France. R. of R., February, 1910. COLOMBIA FRANCE. Decree signed by President Fallières promulgating the arbitration convention, signed at Bogota, December 16, 1908. Ratifications were exchanged at Bogota, October 6, 1909. J. O., January 6; Mém. dipl., January 9. January, 1910. 1 INTERNATIONAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HYGIENE. By this date Australia, Bulgaria, Persia, and Sweden have adhered to the arrangement signed at Rome, December 9, 1907. See J. O., October 21, December 25, November 3 and August 31, respectively. November 17, 1908. Treaty ser., No. 1, 1910, for Bulgarian adhesion. See 1 POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS went into effect: (1) For exchange of postal parcels between Mexico on the one hand and Nicaragua and Costa Rica on the other; (2) For direct exchange of money orders on the basis of the Rome arrangement, between Japan and Greece and Japan and Peru; (3) For exchange of money orders between Great Britain and Greece; (4) For exchange of telegraph money orders between Great Britain and Portugal; (5) The British post office made special agreement with the Western Union Telegraph Company for the exchange of telegraph money orders up to $200 between Great Britain and the United States and Canada. L'Union Postale, 35:32. January, 1910. 2 CHINA-PORTUGAL. The Chinese Government refused to submit. 5 ARGENTINE REPUBLIC-URUGUAY. Protocol signed at Montevideo 5 UNITED STATES. Secretary Knox announces that he has addressed a note to the governments signatory to the last Hague Conference, proposing that the International Prize Court established by the Second Hague Conference be transformed into an International Court of Justice. R. dipl., January 16; The Foundations of International Justice, Davis, in Independent, March 10; R. of R., February 1910; Mém. dipl., January 9; Advocate of Peace, January and February. 6 CRETE. The Porte addressed an identical note to the four protecting Powers protesting against the Cretan Government's decision. to require officials to take the oath to the King of the Hellenes. and to have the Courts recognize and apply the Greek code, where possible, and declaring the action to be directed not only against Ottoman sovereignty but also against the Powers. Times, January 10. 6 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE at Brusels between England, Germany, and Belgium, re delimitation of boundaries of their African colonies. Postponed some weeks on account of death of King Leopold. Mém. dipl., December 26; Times, December 25. 11 BRAZIL PERU. Peruvian Congress sanctions the boundary treaty of September 8, 1909, q. v. R. of R., February, 1910. 11 FRANCE GREAT BRITAIN. Declaration signed at Paris, abrogating the agreement of November 8, 1899, respecting the exchange of press telegrams. Treaty ser., No. 3, 1910. 17 MOROCCO. The German Foreign Office issued a White Book regarding the interests of German Mining Claims in Morocco, explaining the Government's attitude towards the Mannesmann claims. Times, January 18, 19, 20; Q. dipl., 13:569; Mém. dipl., January 23, 30; R. dipl., January 23. сгов |