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 TREATIES For Portugal: For Rumania: HENRY CATARGI. For the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: Dr. MILORAD STRAZNICKY. Dr. VERONA. For Sweden: For Uruguay: Declarations by Great Britain. Reservations by Japan. I, the Undersigned, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at Brus- sels, on affixing my signature to the Protocol of Signature of the International Convention for the uqjfication of certain rules relating to Bills of Lading, on this 15th day of November 1924, hereby make the following declarations by direction of my Government: I declare that His Britannic Majesty's Government adopt the last reservation in the additional Protocol of the Bills of Lading Conven- tion. I further declare that my signature applies only to Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I reserve the right of each of the British Dominions, Colonies, Overseas Possessions and Protectorates, and of each of the territories over which His Britannic Majesty exercises a mandate to accede to this Convention under Article 13. GEORGE GRAHAME. His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at Brussels. Brussels, this 15th day of November 1924. IMPERIAL EMBASSY OF JAPAN Note annexed to the letter of His Excellency the Ambassador of Japan to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium, on August 85, 1925. At the moment of proceeding to the signature of the International Convention for the unification of certain rules relating to Bills of Lading, the undersigned, Plenipotentiary of Japan, makes the following reservations: a) To Article 4. Japan reserves to itself until further notice the acceptance of the provisions in (a) of paragraph 2 of Article 4. b) Japan is of the opinion that the Convention does not in any part apply to national coasting trade: consequently, there should be no occasion to make it the object of provisions in the Protocol. How- ever, if it be not so, Japan reserves to itself the right freely to regulate the national coasting trade by its own law. M. ADATCI. Brussels, August 25, 1925. 258

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