The Archive · 1927

THE ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION

Ratification by Britain, India and Dominions Geneva, June 20.

Britain, on behalf of herself, India and the Dominions, excepting Canada and the Irish Free State, has to the League of Nations lat ratification of the Anti-Convention signed at September 25, 1926. The Convention is now automatically enforced in the British Empire.

Bulgaria and Denmark are the only others that have hitherto ratified the Convention—Reuter, Geneva, June 20.—The Secretary-General of the League of Nations has invited Mr. Koo Kung-chen, editor of the "Shih Pao," to be a member of the press experts' conference at Geneva on August 24, Mr. Koo, who has been touring Europe, lias accepted the invitation, He made a good impression on League circles—Revter.

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