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 TREATIES For Italy: GImLO DANEO. For Japan: M. ADATCI. Subject to the reservations formulated in the note relative to this treaty and appended to my letter dated August 25, 1925, to His Excellency Mr. Emile Vandervelde, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belgium. For Latvia: For Mexico: For Norway: For the Netherlands: For Peru: For Poland and the Free City of Danzig: SZEMBEK. ForPortugal: For Rumania: HENRY CATARGI. For the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: Dr. MILORAD STRAZNICKY. Dr. VERONA. For Sweden: For Uruguay: Protocol of signa- ture. Rights reserved. Establishment of re- sponsibility arising from personal fault, etc. Ante, p. 251. National coasting trade. Ante, p. 252. Protocol of Signature In proceeding to the signature of the international convention for the unification of certain rules relating to bills of lading, the under- signed plenipotentiaries have adopted the present protocol which will have the same validity as if the provisions thereof were inserted in the very text of the convention to which it refers. The high contracting parties may give effect to this convention either by giving it the force of law or by including in their national legislation in a form appropriate to that legislation, the rules adopted under this convention. They may reserve the right: 1. To prescribe that in the cases referred to in paragraph 2 (c) to (p) of Article 4, the holder of a bill of lading shall be entitled to estab- lish responsibility for loss or damage arising from the personal fault of the carrier or the fault of his servants which are not covered by paragraph (a); 2. To apply Article 6 insofar as the national coasting trade is con- cerned to all classes of goods without taking account of the restriction set out in the last paragraph of that article. 256

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