CHRONICLE OF INTERNATIONAL EVENTS WITH BEFERENCES Abbreviations: Ann. sc. pol., Annales des sciences politiques, Paris; Arch. dipl., Archives diplomatiques, Paris; B., boletín, bulletin, bollettino; B. A. R., Monthly bulletin of the International Bureau of American Republics, Washington; Doc. dipl., France: Documents diplomatiques; Dr., droit, diritto, derecho; For. rel., Foreign Relations of the United States; Ga., gazette, gaceta, gazzetta; Cd., Great Britain: Parliamentary Papers; Int., international, internacional, internazionale; J., journal; J. O., Journal Officiel, Paris; Mém. dipl., Mémorial diplomatique, Paris; Monit., Moniteur belge, Brussels; N. R. G., Nouveau recueil général de traités, Leipzig; Q. dipl., Questions diplomatiques et coloniales; R., review, revista, revue, rivista; Reichs-G., Reichs-Gesetzblatt, Berlin; Staatsb., Staatsblad, Gröningen; State Papers, British and Foreign State Papers, London; Stat. at L., United States Statutes at Large; Times, the Times (London); Treaty ser., Great Britain: Treaty Series. December, 1907. 5 CHILE-PERSIA. Ratifications exchanged at Washington of treaty of friendship and commerce signed at Washington, March 30, 1903. B. di legislazione e statistica doganale e commerciale (Rome), 25:129. March, 1908. 24 HONDURAS-MEXICO. Convention relative to parcels post signed at Mexico. La Gaceta, Tegucigalpa, June 20. 24 HONDURAS-MEXICO. Extradition treaty signed at Mexico. La Gaceta, June 17. 24 HONDURAS-MEXICO. Treaty signed at Mexico. Friendship, commerce and navigation. La Gaceta, Tegucigalpa, June 12. Ratified by Honduras May 28. April, 1908. 9 GREAT BRITAIN SPAIN. Agreement signed at Madrid amending Article 5 of the agreement of November 25, 1875, respecting the postal service between Gibraltar and Spain. Treaty ser., 1908, No. 16. April, 1908. 1 GENEVA RED CROSS CONVENTION of 1864 has by this date been ratified or adhered to by: Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Kongo, Korea, Luxemburg, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Panama, Paraguay, Roumania, Russia, Salvador, Servia, Siam, Spain, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela, Sweden, and Switzerland. Staatsb., 1908, No. 120. 13 GREAT BRITAIN-PANAMA. Parcel post agreement signed at Panama. Treaty ser., 1908, No. 15. 15 FRANCE SPAIN. Second additional protocol signed at Paris to arend articles 4 and 5 of the convention signed August 18, 1904, respecting trans-Pyrenean railways. Ga. de Madrid, June 23. 20 CHINA-GREAT BRITAIN. Treaty signed at Calcutta. Trade relations with Tibet. The arrangements are based generally on the regulations of 1893. The principle of extraterritoriality is introduced. Article V: "The Tibetan authorities, in obedience to the instructions of the Pekin Government, having a strong desire to reform the judicial system of Tibet and to bring it into accord with that of Western nations, Great Britain agrees to relinquish her rights of extra-territoriality in Tibet whenever such rights are relinquished in China, and when she is satisfied that the state of the Tibetan laws and the arrangements for their administration and other considerations warrant her in so doing." Times, June 9, 12; North China Herald, 87:757; Gazette of India, May 20; Mém. dipl., August 16. See April 27, 1906. 30 SPAIN. Royal decree putting into force provisional regulations for the application of the emigration law of December 21, 1907. Ga. de Madrid, May 6 and 11. May, 1908. 4 BELGIUM-ITALY. Declaration signed at Rome relative to reciprocal admission of medicinal products and pharmaceutical remedies. B. Usuel, 10:228; Monit., May 27. 4 GREAT BRITAIN-NORWAY, SWEDEN. Exchange of notes at Christiania and Stockholm relative to the agreement of July 12, 1881, May, 1908. for the mutual relief of distressed seamen. Treaty ser., 1908, No. 19. 5 DENMARK. New customs tariff signed. Goes into effect January 1, 1909, with the exception of the duties on alcoholic beverages and tobacco which went into effect May 6. The tariff has been reduced on the whole. Duties on raw materials and articles required in manufactures have been considerably reduced, and in a number of cases abolished. The duty on coal has been reduced from 24 cents to 8 cents per ton and is to be entirely removed in four years. Cd., 4267. 7 SALVADOR. Legislative decree sanctioning executive decree of April 13, 1908, establishing the basic principles on which should rest the treaties with foreign nations. Compilación de leyes, decretos y otras disposiciones dictados en el ramo de relaciones exteriores, 1908, San Salvador. 14 BRAZIL. Decree No. 6948 regulating the naturalization of aliens. B. A. R., August. 14 VENEZUELA. Decree requiring transshipment of all goods from and to Maracaibo and other ports in Western Venezuela at Puerto Cabello instead of at Willemstad, as formerly. Netherlands, in view of the effect of this decree on the trade of Curaçao, insists that it be revoked by November 1, 1908. 14 CHINA-JAPAN. Yalu forestry agreement signed at Peking. Text, North China Herald, 87:624. Regulations of the Chino-Japanese Timber Co., in accordance with Article X of the protocol annexed to the agreement respecting Manchuria. 22 BELGIUM-GREECE. Ratifications exchanged at Athens of declaration signed at Athens April 9, 1908. B. Usuel, 10:235; Monit, June 1, 2. Additional to the extradition treaty signed July 9, 1901. Extends list of extraditable offenses. 24 COLOMBIA ECUADOR. Boundary treaty signed at Bogotá. Approved by Colombia August 10. Diario oficial (Bogota), August 13. See June 5, 1907. Informe....Min. rel. ext (Quito) 1908. 25 COLOMBIA-JAPAN. Treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation. signed at Washington. Ratified by Colombia, August 18. Diario oficial, August 22. 26 SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PUBLISHERS, at Madrid. Adjourned May 30. Previous congresses were held in Leipzig, 1901; Milan, 1906. For proceedings, Dr. d'auteur, 21:69. May, 1908. 29 INTERNATIONAL POLAR CONGRESS convened at Brussels. The first congress was held at Brussels in 1906. For origin and history of the international association for study of the polar regions, see Congrès international pour l'étude des regions polaires tenu à Bruxelles du 7 au 11 septembre 1906, Bruxelles, 1906. 30 COLOMBIA-SPAIN. Convention signed at Madrid. Ratified by Colombia, August 13. Diario oficial, August 19. Foreign judg ments. 30 GREAT BRITAIN-ITALY. Agreement signed at Rome respecting commercial travellers' samples. Treaty ser., 1908, No. 20. To facilitate the clearance through their respective customs departments of samples of dutiable goods brought into the territories of one of them by commercial travellers of the other, to be used as models or patterns for the purpose of obtaining orders and not for sale. Great Britain has similar agreements with Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Egypt, France, Germany, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. 30 SAN MARINO. Adhesion to convention signed at Rome, June 7, 1905, for creation of an international institute of agriculture. Staatsb., 1908, No. 117. See January 29, 1908. June, 1908. 1 AUSTRIA-SWEDEN. Entrance into effect of reciprocal protection of copyrights. Swedish decree of May 29, 1908 in Svensk Forfattnings-Samling, No. 36, May 30; Austrian order in Reichsgesetzblatt, No. 101, May 26; Dr. d'auteur 21:82. 1 ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION CONGRESS opened at St. Petersburg. Times, June 2. Former congresses were held at (1) Brussels, 1885; (2) Vienna, 1886; (3) Frankfort, 1888; (4) Manchester, 1890; (5) Paris, 1892; (6) The Hague, 1894; (7) Brussels, 1898; (8) Paris, 1900; (9) Dusseldorf, 1902; (10) Milan, 1905. The first six were known as international congresses on inland navigation. The first international maritime congress was held at Paris 1889, the second at London 1893. The two bodies thereafter by fusion met as international navigation congresses. Catalogue of the publications concerning the navigation congresses, Brussels, 1904. 1 FIFTH INTERNATIONAL COTTON CONGRESS opened at Paris. Times, June, 1908. June 2, 5. First congress was held at Zurich. Adjourned June 3. Next congress in Italy. See May 27, 1907. 2 TURKEY. Financial and technical conventions respecting the building of the four sections of the Bagdad railway signed at Constantinople. The Baghdad railway, Spectator, June 27. 3 INTERNATIONAL COLONIAL INSTITUTE in annual session at Paris. CHINA-FRANCE. Chinese regulars attack French troops at Pha 4 FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AGAINST DUELLING opened at Budapest. Mem. dipl., June 14. 4 GREAT BRITAIN-UNITED STATES. Ratifications exchanged at Washington of treaty signed at Washington, April 11, 1908; ratification advised by the Senate, May 4, 1908; ratified by the President, May 11, 1908; ratified by Great Britain, May 16, 1908; proclaimed July 1, 1908. U. S. Treaty ser., No. 497; Geographical J., 33:309; Documents, ante, 2:306. Canadian international boundary. The treaty treats of the boundary in eight different sections. In six sections the work of survey and demarcation is intrusted to two expert geographers or surveyors, one for each contracting party; for the section between the intersection with the St. Lawrence and the mouth of Pigeon river, on the western shore of Lake Superior, the reestablishment of the boundary is left in the hands of the International Waterways Commission; as regards the boundary from the summit of the Rocky mountains to the Gulf of Georgia the work will be done by the commissioners already designated by concurrent action of the two governments in 1902 and 1903. In Passamaquoddy bay the commissioners appointed under the treaty of 1892 failed to agree in respect of a small part of the line on either side of Lubec Narrows channel, and the possibility of a similar disagreement is provided for. In this, as in other possible cases of dispute, the decision is to rest with an arbitrator. Stat. at L., vol. 35. 4 GREAT BRITAIN-UNITED STATES. Ratifications exchanged at Washington of arbitration convention signed at Washington April 4, 1908. Treaty ser., 1908, No. 21; Documents, 2:298; Stat. at L., vol. 35. |