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 INTERNATIONAL LOAD LINE CONVENTION. JULy 5, 1930. 2401 The BrUish Minister (Osborne) to the Secretary oj State (Stimson) No. 313 His Majesty's Minister presents his compliments to the Secretary of State and with reference to his note 581.61 B 1/224 of August 9th last relative to the International Load Line Convention, has the honour, under instructions from His 1Ylajesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to inform. him that Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, the Free City of Danzig, Spain, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, have expressed their willingness to accept the proposals of the Netherlands Govern- ment in connection with the French text of the Rules in Annex 1 to that Convention. Mr. Osborne is also instructed to inform Mr. Stimson that, since the errors found in the original text of the Convention and Rules were all of minor importance, and as the modifications in the French text recently pr~posed by the Netherlands Government represent merely the most practical way of simplifying the application of the Rules in Annex 1 to the Convention in those countries in which metric measures are in use, the competant authorities do not propose to arrange for the circulation of certified corrected copies of the Convention and Rules. In this connection, he is to add that the errors which were found to exist in the English text of the Convention and to which attention was called at the time of the circulation of certified copies, were corrected in the copy of the Convention which was scheduled to the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act of 1932. BRITISH EMBABBYj Washington, D.O., October 5th, i932. British Ambassador.