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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 9, 1930.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department.
No. 287.The List of Unofficial Justices of the Peace for 1930 which appeared in Government Notification No. 266 of 2nd May, 1930, should be amended by the addition of the following name :
9th May, 1930.
JOHN JOHNSTONE PATERSON.
W. T. SOUTHORN,
Colonial Secretary.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 288. With reference to Government Notification No. 249 of 1st May, 1925, regarding the Treaty of Peace with Turkey and certain conventions, protocols and declarations signed at Lausanne on the 24th July, 1923, it is hereby notified that the Commercial Convention lapsed on 5th August, 1929. Pending the ratification of a new Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Turkey a Modus Vivendi has been established to take effect as from 6th August, 1929. Notice of the extension of this Modus Vivendi to the territory under this administration was given to the Turkish Government by His Majesty's Representative in Turkey on 31st December, 1929, and acknowledged on 25th January, 1930, with an intimation that effect had been given to it in Turkey as from 13th January, 1930.
9th May, 1930.
W. T. SOUTHORN,
Colonial Secretary,
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT
No. 289. It is hereby notified for general information that a despatch has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies announcing the resumption of full diplomatic relations with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and that by Notes exchanged on the occasion of the resumption of such diplomatic relations, the pledge regarding propaganda contained in Article 16 of the General Treaty between Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, signed at London on the 8th of August, 1921, was confirmed.
The stipulations of Article 16 of the said General Treaty are accordingly binding on the Government of the Colony of Hong Kong.
The said Article 16 is as follows,-
The contracting parties solemnly affirm their desire and intention to live in peace and amity with each other, scrupulously to respect the undoubted right of a State to order its own life within its own jurisdiction in its own way, to refrain and to restrain all persons and organisations under their direct or indirect control, including organisations in receipt of any financial assistance from them, from any act overt or covert liable in any way whatsoever to endanger the tranquillity or prosperity of any part of the territory of the British Empire or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republies or intended to embitter the zelations of the British Empire or the Union with their neighbours or any other
countries.
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9th May, 1930:
W. T. SOUTHORN,
Colonial Secretary.