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 INTERNATIONAL RADIO CONVENTION. NOVEMBER 25,1927. ARTICLE 11 Priority for di8tress calls Stations participating in the mobile Service shall be obliged to give absolute pnority to distress calls, regardless of their origin, to answer such calls, and to take such action with regard thereto as may be required. ARTICLE 12 Charges Charges applicable to radiotelegrams and the various cases in which these are allowed radio franking privileges shall be established in accordance with the provisions of the RegulationS annexed to the present Convention. ARTICLE 13 RegUlations. Oonferences §1. The provisions of the present Convention are completed by: (1) General Regulations which have the same force and be- come effective at the same time as the Convention. (2) Supplementary Regulations which bind only the Govern- ments which have signed them. §2. The provisions of the preRent Convention and of the Regula- tions annexed thereto shall be revised by conferences of Plenipoten- tiaries of the contracting Governments, each conferel1ce fixing the place and the time of the following meeting. §3. Before any deliberation each Conference shall establish Rules of Procedure setting forth the conditions under which debate shall be organized and carried on. ARTICLE 14 Special arrangements The contracting Governments reserve for themselves and for pri- vate enterprises duly authorized by them the right to make special arrangements on matters of service which do not interest the Gov- ernments ~enerally. These arrangements, however, must be in con- formity WIth the Convention and the Regulations annexed thereto so far as concerns the interference which their execution might pro- duce with the services of other countries. ARTICLE 15 S1J,8penswn of the service Each ~overnment reserves the right to suspend international radio commumcation service for an indefinite period, if deemed necessary either generally or onlY' for certain connections and/or for certain kinds of radio commumcation, provided that it shall immediately so advise each of the other contracting Governments through the inter- mediary of the International Bureau of the Telegraph Union. ARTICLE 16 2841 Priority of distreos caBs. Chargeo. RegulatloIlJ. Conferences. Special arrangements. Suspension or the aervioe. International Bureau International BUI'e8o. §1. The International Bureau of the Telegraph Union shall be PO«, p. 2882 . charged with collecting, coordinating, and publishing information of

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