Geneva, Sept 15.
At a meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations to-day, Signor de Michaelis announced Italy's intention for the Tariff Truce Convention, which provides for a continuation of the existing commercial treaties for one year, with the proviso that new barriers shall not be erected within that period unless they are unavoidable, in which event en opportunity is to be given for negotiation before enforcing new daties. a meeting of the Assembly of the League on September 13, Mr. William Graham, President of the British Board of Trade, announced that Great Britain would ratify on November 1, this year th Truce, and urged all parties to the convention to ratify it by November 1, since almost immediately thereafter the contracting parties. would meet in order to determine whether sufficient ratifications had Yen obtained. It would be stettable, he declared, if the number of ratifications were' insufficient to secure enforcement of the conven-
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