September, 1907. the United States by treaty confer on Japanese residents in California the right to attend the public schools, American Law Register, 55:73; Japanese immigration-an exposition of its real status, Seattle, 1907; Viallate: Américains, Japonais et Californiens, R. bleue, April 16, 1907; Tardieu: Le Japon et les Etats-Unis, R. des deux mondes, 43:326; Japan and Canada, Spectator, January 25, 1908. 7 GREAT BRITAIN. Royal commission issued to five commissioners "to enquire into the relations now existing for financial and administrative purposes between the Supreme Government and the various Provincial Governments in India, and between the Provincial Governments and the authorities subordinate to them, and to report whether, by measures of decentralization or otherwise, those relations can be simplified and improved, and the system of Government better adapted both to meet the requirements and promote the welfare of the different provinces, and, without impairing its strength and unity, to bring the executive power into closer touch with local conditions." London Ga., September 10; Cd., 3710; Pirion: L'Inde contemporaine et le mouvement national, Paris; Zumbro: India-A nation in the making, R. of R., 36:432; Times, September 13, October 22; Skrine: India's Awakening, No. Am. R., 185:711; The Riots in Calcutta, Spectator, October 14; Signs of the times in India, Edinburgh R., 206:265; Imp. and Asiatic Quart. R., 24:428; National R., 50:493; Ameer Ali: Some racial characteristics of northern India and Bengal, Nineteenth Century, 62:699; Ilbert: The government of India (2d edition, Clarendon Press, 1907); Fuller: The claims of sentiment upon Indian policy, Nineteenth Century, 62:987; The strong hand in India, North China Herald, 85:330; Karkaria: Thoughts on the present unrest in India, Calcutta R., 124:463; Future problems in Bengal, Times, September 24. 8 THIRD INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM CONGRESS, at Bucharest. Next congress at Lemberg in 1910. R. dipl., September 22. 8 FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF FREE THINKERS opened at Prague. Proceedings, Mem. dipl., September 15. Next Congress at Brussels, 1911. Organized at Brussels in 1880. September, 1907. 9 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PEACE. Sixteenth congress opened at Munich. Times, September 12; Mem. dipl., September 15. Adjourned September 14. Next Congress at Stockholm in 1909. Proceedings and resolutions in Advocate of Peace, October. 9 GREAT BRITAIN. Proclamation ordaining that on and after Sep.tember 26, 1907, the title of the Colony of New Zealand be the Dominion of New Zealand. London Ga., September 10, 1907. 12 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON GOUTTES DE LAIT, opened at Brussels; first Congress in Paris, 1905. Mem. dipl., September 15. 13 INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AERONAUTS. Conference opened at Brussels. Next Conference at London, 1908. Times, September 14. Organized at Berlin, October 15, 1906. 16 BOLIVIA BRAZIL. Brazilian decree approving protocol signed at Rio de Janeiro containing instructions concerning the reconnaissance of the river Verde and its headwaters. February 5, 1907, there were signed at Rio de Janeiro protocols for verification of the Rio Verde and respecting arbitral tribunal provided by the treaty signed at Petropolis, November 17, 1903 (For. rel., 1904), to adjudicate claims arising from administrative acts and events. in the territories exchanged, tribunal to begin work within one year of date of protocol. Mem.... rel. ext., 1907 (La Paz). 16 BRAZIL. Decree approving universal postal convention signed at Rome, May 26, 1906. 16 INTERNATIONAL MINERS' CONGRESS, at Salzburg. The next congress will meet at Paris in 1908. Times, September 17-21. 17 THIRD INTERNATIONAL DAIRY CONGRESS opens at Scheveningen. The second congress was held at Paris, 1905. Cd., 3689. 17 COSTA RICA-GUATEMALA HONDURAS-NICARAGUA-SALVADOR. Protocol signed at Washington, arranging for a conference for the purpose of agreeing upon a general treaty of arbitration and friendship. Text: Boletín oficial de la secretaría de las relaciones exteriores (Mexico), October, 1907, and B. A. R., October and December. See November 14, 1907. 17 BELGIUM-GREAT BRITAIN. Convention signed at London; ratifications exchanged at London, October 5, 1907; in force October 15, 1907. Postal money orders. Monit., October 11; Treaty ser., 1907, No. 36; B. Usuel, September 17. September, 1907. 18 ARGENTINE REPUBLIC-ITALY. General treaty of arbitration signed at The Hague. Times, September 19. The parties will submit to arbitration all disputes that cannot be settled by diplomatic means, except those touching constitutional arrangements in force in differences for settlement of which the judiciary is competent. The right to submit a dispute to arbitration arises only after the national jurisdiction shall have pronounced definitely on the subject. Shall be submitted: differences concerning the interpretation or application of conventions, or of a principle of international law. Whether a dispute is such a difference will be submitted to arbitration. Disputes regarding the nationality of an individual are expressly withdrawn. In each case a special compromis will be signed determining the constitution and procedure of the tribunal and the object of the suit; otherwise the arrangements established by The Hague convention of 1899 shall rule. 18 FRANCE-LIBERIA. Arrangement signed at Paris, to fix definitively the limits of French West Africa. Provisional sketch of new boundary in Geographical J., 31:105. The Franco-Liberian Delimitation Commission begins work this dry season. 19 BELGIUM-NETHERLANDS. Postal convention signed at The Hague. Ratifications exchanged at The Hague September 27, 1907. Monit., September 29, 1907. Supersedes convention signed June 23, 1892, and the supplementary convention signed November 25, 1898. B. Usuel, September 19; Staatsb., 1907, No. 259. effect October 1, 1907. Takes 19 CANADA-FRANCE. Treaty of commerce signed at Paris; superseding treaty signed February 6, 1893. Times, September 20; Q. dipl., 24:470; text, Cd., 3823. In force for ten years from exchange of ratifications and until one year from denouncement. Applies to "France, Algeria, the French colonies and possessions, and the territories of the protectorate of Indo-China," and may subsequently, by agreement, be extended to Tunis. Natural and manufactured products of Canadian origin (schedule A) shall enjoy French minimum tariffs and the lowest customs rates applicable now or in future to like products of other countries. Schedule B of articles of French and French colonial produce are allowed the Canadian intermediate tariff and the lowest duties September, 1907. applicable, now or hereafter, to like products of other foreign countries. Schedule C sets forth a special tariff for certain French products, among which are wines, champagnes, books, medicinal preparations, embroideries and silk manufactures. The enjoyment of these advantages is conditional upon the direct conveyance of the goods without transshipment from French to Canadian ports and vice versa. Certificates of origin may be demanded. Most favored nation treatment in everything relating to pursuit of trade and industry. Neither party shall impose upon the products of the other a higher excise or internal duty than is charged upon native products. Also similar treatment in the protection of patents, trademarks, etc. Times, November 29, December 2; Q. dipl., 24:856. 20 CHINA. Decree of Empress Dowager acknowledging that a constitution is necessary, and declaring that as the two houses of parliament cannot at once be inaugurated, it will be necessary first to establish an Assembly of Ministers to confer on State matters and to prepare the foundations of constitutional government. Prince P'u Lun and the Grand Secretary Sun Chia-nai are appointed to preside over the said Assembly and they are commanded to confer with the Grand Council on details and modes of procedure. Having settled upon these, details are to be presented to the Throne for imperial sanction. North China Herald, 85:734. 20 AUSTRIA-UNITED STATES. Proclamation of the President of the United States that the first of the conditions specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891 (Stat. at L., 26:1106), is fulfilled in respect to the subjects of Austria. The said copyright act therefore applies to subjects of Austria. The condition referred to is that a foreign state shall permit citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as its own citizens. Stat. at L., vol. 35. February 26, 1907, Austria passed a law extending to the works of foreign authors in the absence of treaties, under condition of reciprocity, the provisions of the law of December 26, 1895. Dr. d'auteur, February, March, April, and June, 1907. Order of Austrian minister of justice, dated December 9, 1907, took effect December 14, 1907. See Dr. d'auteur, January, 1908, on legal effect of the difference in dates of the two proclamations. September, 1907. 21 INTERNATIONAL EARTHQUAKE CONFERENCE at The Hague. Adjourned September 25. The first conference held since the complete organization of the International Seismological Association. The first conference of this kind, held at Strasburg in 1901, led to the decision to work for the establishment of an association of states to be officially represented at future conferences. A first meeting of such official representatives was held at Strasburg in 1903, and led to the organization of the association on definite lines by the acccptance of a series of regulations, a full reprint of which is in Petermann's Mitteilungen for 1903, p. 201. The central bureau has since been inaugurated at Strasburg. Geographical J., 28:81. 21 BELGIUM-LUXEMBURG. Act signed at Luxemburg additional to the postal convention signed March 6, 1879. Monit., September 29; B. Usuel, September 21. 22 ELEVENTH INTERNATIONAL PRESS CONGRESS opened at Bordeaux. Adjourned September 24. Proceedings, Mem. dipl., September 29. Next Congress at London, 1909. 23 DENMARK-NORWAY-SWEDEN. Convention of delegates at Copenhagen, ten from each of the interparliamentary groups of the three Scandinavian parliaments. Purpose, to effect a Scandinavian interparliamentary union. Mem. dipl., October 6. 23 FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF HYGIENE AND DEMOGRAPHY opened at Berlin. Mem. dipl., 45:611. Adjourned September 29. Times, September 24. Report of Cuban delegate is an appendix to B. oficial del departemento de estado, December. 23 GREAT BRITAIN-RUSSIA. Ratifications exchanged at St. Petersburg of treaty signed at St. Petersburg, August 31, 1907, respecting Persia, Afghanistan and Thibet. See August 31, 1907. Vambery: The Anglo-Russian Convention, Nineteenth Century, 62:895; Fraser: The position in the Persian Gulf, National R., 50:624; de Noirmont: La convention anglo-russe, Q. dipl., 24:596; Rouire: La fin d'une rivalté seculaire-La dernière convention anglo-russe, R. des deux mondes, 48:107; Yate: The Anglo-Russian convention, Imp. Asiatic Quart. R., 25:1; Views on the Anglo-Russian agreement, Fortnightly R., 82:725; Spectator, October 26; The Anglo-Russian convention. North China Herald, 85:329, 355; text, Cd., 3760; R. di dr. int., 2:401; Sykes: |