511.3B1/3

The Secretary General of the Commission to Negotiate Peace (Grew) to the Secretary of State

Sir: Referring to Department’s telegram No. 3059, September 8th, 1919, 6 p.m., and Mission’s reply thereto,48 I have the honor to inclose one copy each of the convention regarding Traffic in Arms and Munitions signed at St. Germain on September 10, 1919, and a protocol on the same subject, signed by representatives of the High [Page 180] Contracting Parties at St. Germain on September 10, 1919. The inclosed copies are proof sheets of the convention and protocol, which are being forwarded in advance of the final copies which will go forward in due course.49

I inclose also proof sheet of the convention on Traffic in Liquors, signed at St. Germain on September 10, 1919.50

I have [etc.]

J. C. Grew
  1. Reply not printed.
  2. Enclosure not printed; for final text of this convention and protocol, see infra.
  3. Enclosure not printed; for final text of this convention, see Treaties (S. Doc. 348, 67th Cong., 4th sess.), vol. iii, p. 3746. On the same date there was also signed a convention revising the general act of Berlin, Feb. 26, 1885, and the general act and declaration of Brussels, July 2, 1890, ibid., p. 3739.