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American Journal of International Law

VOLUME 11

1917

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

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OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

CONTENTS OF VOLUME ELEVEN

NUMBER 1, JANUARY, 1917

BRAZIL-UNITED STATES. Treaty for advancement of peace, July 24, 1914.....

CENTRAL AMERICAN COURT OF JUSTICE. Note regarding protest of Nicaragua

against decision involving treaty with United States granting canal rights,

November 9, 1916.....

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF TRADE MARKS, August

20, 1910

SWEDEN-GREAT BRITAIN. Correspondence regarding the search and detention

of mails:

No.

Name

List of Papers

Date

Subject

PAGE

1

3

13

1 To Count Wrangel Dec. 15, 1915 Fifty-eight bags of parcels mail are be-

2 Count Wrangel...

18,

27,

30,

ing removed from the Swedish steam-

ship Stockholm for examination....

Swedish Government formally protest
against seizure of parcels mail on the
steamships Hellig Olaf and Stockholm,
and as a reprisal parcels mail to or
from England in transit through
Sweden will be detained...

Swedish Government protest against:

(1) Seizure of postal parcels on steam-

ship Frederik VIII; (2) Seizure of
mail-bags on steamship Tubantia;
(3) Censoring of parcels sent from
Gothenburg to New York; (4) Seiz-
ure of letter mail on steamship Frisia.
Steamship Hellig Olaf. 109 bags con-
taining rubber have been found in
parcels mail.....

Jan. 1, 1916 Steamships Hellig Olaf and Stockholm.

Justifies the action of His Majesty's

Government and requests immediate

release of British mails detained in

Sweden....

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List of Papers - Continued

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. Final Act of the Havana

Meeting. January 27, 1917....

47

DENMARK-UNITED STATES. Convention providing for the cession of the West

Indies. August 4, 1916...

53

GREAT BRITAIN-UNITED STATES. Convention for the protection of migratory

birds. August 16, 1916....

UNITED STATES:

An act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico and for other purposes.

March 2, 1917. . . .

66

Proclamation of the military occupation of Santo Domingo by the United

States. November 29, 1916.....

94

An act to provide a temporary government for the West Indian Islands

acquired by the United States from Denmark. March 3, 1917......

96

NUMBER 3, JULY, 1917

BELGIUM. Memoire in regard to the deportation and forced labor of the Belgian

civil population ordered by the German Government..

CHINA-JAPAN. Documents regarding the Chengchia Tun Affair..

112