Coll 34/7 'Slavery: Slave Traffic and Gun-running: Right of search by H. M. ships in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf' [‎271r] (541/576)

^Translation. J
CONVENTION FOR THE CONTROL OF THE
^ TRADE IN ARMS AND AMMUNITION, AND
PROTOCOL, SIGNED AT SAINT-GERMAIN-
EN-LAYE* SEPTEMBER 10, 1919.
The United States of America, Belgium, Bolivia, the British
Empire, China, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti,
the Hedjaz, Italy, Japan, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Poland, Por
tugal, Koumania, the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, Siam and Czecho
slovakia ;
Whereas the long war now ended, in which most nations have
successively become involved, has led to the accumulation in various
parts of the world of considerable quantities of arms and munitions
of war, the dispersal of which would constitute a danger to peace and
public order;
Whereas in certain parts of the world it is necessary to exercise
special supervision over the trade in, and the possession of, arms and
ammunition;
Whereas the existing treaties and conventions, and particularly
the Brussels Act of July 2, 1890. regulating the traffic in arms and
ammunition in certain regions, no longer meet present conditions,
which require more elaborate provisions applicable to a wider area
m Africa and the establishment of a corresponding regime in certain
territories in Asia;
Whereas a special supervision of the maritime zone adjacent to
certain countries is necessary to ensure the efficacy of the measures
adopted by the various Governments both as regards the importation
of arms and ammunition into those countries and the export of such
arms and ammunition from their own territory;
And with the reservation that, after a period of seven years, the
present Convention shall be subject to revision in the light of the
experience gained, if the Council of the League of Nations, acting if
need he by a majority, so recommends;
Have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:
The President of the United States of America:
The Honourable Frank Lyon Polk, Under-Secretary of State;
The Honourable Henry White, formerly Ambassador Extra
ordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States at Rome
and Paris; , T t -x j
General Tasker H. Bliss, Military Representative of the United
States on the Supreme War Council;
*
Some of t,hp signatures were affixed in Paris and some at
Wt. . F.O.P, 5000 11/19 (1440).
Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
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