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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 18, 1921.

No. 67. It is hereby notified that, in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Coroner's Abolition Ordinance, 1888, Ordinance No. 5 of 1888, His Excellency the Governor has directed that the duties formerly performed by the Coroner may be

per- formed by any person for the time being performing the duties of magistrate.

18th February, 1921.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 68.--The following extract from the London Gazette dated the 16th November, 1920, regarding the establishment of the Anglo-German Mixed Arbitral Tribunal together with the Rules of Procedure of the Tribunal is published for general informa- tion.

18th February, 1921.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

BOARD OF TRade,

GREAT GEORGE STREET,

LONDON, S.W. 1.

ANGLO-GERMAN MIXED ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL.

The following announcement is made by the Board of Trade :-

The Mixed Arbitral Tribunal to be established between the United Kingdom on the one hand and Germany on the other hand under Article 304 of the Treaty of Versailles has been constituted and is about to begin work in London. The President of the

Tribunal is Professor Eugène Borel, a Swiss jurist and Professor of Public and Inter- national Law in the University of Geneva. The British and German members are respectively Mr. R. E. L. Vaughan Williams, K.C., of Lincoln's Inn, and Dr. jur. Adolph Nicolaus Zacharias, Senatspräsident of the Hanseatic Oberlandesgericht.

A great part of the work of the Tribunal is to decide as to debts under Article 296 of the Treaty where a difference has arisen between an enemy debtor and an enemy creditor or between the British and German clearing offices. Under Article 297 the Tribunal can determine compensation to be borne by Germany in respect of damage or injury inflicted on the property, rights or interests of British Nationals in German territory as they existed on August 1, 1914, by the exceptional war measures measures of transfer mentioned in the Annex to that Article. The other matters within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal are set out in Articles 299, 300, 302, 304, 305 and 310 of the Treaty.

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The Procedure before the Tribunal is to some extent regulated by Sections III. to VII. of Part X. of the Treaty, but the Tribunal has settled further and more detailed rules dealing with the manner in which claims must be submitted. Printed copies of these Rules of Procedure, which have been issued in the Series of Statutory Rules and Orders (No. 2062), may be purchased, price threepence; through any bookseller, or may be obtained on application to the Secretariat of the Tribunal. They should be read in conjunction with the provisions of the Treaty of Peace Order, 1919 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1919, No. 1517, published by H. M. Stationery Office. Price 2d.)

The British Government has provided a Court for the meetings of the Tribunal, and an office for the Secretariat at 21, St. James's Square, London, S. W. 1. Mr. Harold Russell, Barrister-at-Law, has been appointed by the Foreign Office to act as British Secretary and the German Government is also appointing a Secretary, the two to act together as joint Secretaries of the Tribunal.