APPENDIX No. V

TABLES SHOWING THE CASES DECIDED AND THE RATIFICATION OF CONVENTIONS

Reprinted by courtesy of the World Peace Foundation

CASES DECIDED BY THE PERMANENT COURT

(Under Arts. 20-57 (1899) and 41-85 (1907) of the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes)

8 Germany, France and Great Perpetual leases in Japan. Britain . Japan.

GRAM, Renault, Motono.

14 France v. Italy.

Seizure of the Tavignano and
cannon shots fired at the
Tunisian mahones Kamouna
and Gaulois.

Litigants

Same as 12.

1912

1913

1918

agreed to

settle the

affairs di

rectly

1 Includes opening session and session at which decision was given. July 14-21, 1909. To regulate questions of procedure.

? President's name in capitals. 3 Special arbitral tribunal. • Excluding visits to other places,
Not member of the court. 7 Constituted under the summary procedure provided by Chapter IV.
COMPLEMENTARY NOTES

Case 16.-In 1911 the Portuguese Republic passed a law separating the state and church and abolishing diplomatic relations with the Holy See. In 1912 the state
voted to take over all church properties, many of which were owned or controlled by Roman Catholic religious orders. Foreign governments objected to the treatment of
properties owned by the religious of their nationalities established in Portugal. As a consequence, the arbitral tribunal is, by the compromise, "charged with passing upon the
claims relative to the properties of French, British and Spanish nationals expropriated by the government of the Portuguese Republic after the proclamation of the Republic."
Case 17.-France vs. Peru regarding claims of creditors. On May 1, 1910, France and Peru agreed by protocol that fr. 25,000,000 would be deducted from a loan to
be placed by Peru on the official Paris Bourse to pay certain French creditors. On October 8, 1912, the French minister to Peru complained that the said creditors were not
included in a list of creditors submitted to the Congress. Peru replied that the protocol recognized the French creditors conditionally only and that, as its conditions were not
realized, Peru was not under obligation. A compromise was signed at Lima on February 2, 1914.

Case 18. -On January 28, 1915, the German armed cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich sank on the high seas the American steel sailing vessel William P. Frye, Seattle to Queens-
town, Falmouth or Plymouth, with a cargo of wheat owned by the American charterer. The United States presented to Germany a claim for $228,059.54 for damages suffered.
The German Government admitted liability under the Prussian-American treaties of 1785 (Art. 12), 1799 (Art. 13), and 1828 (Art. 12), but insisted on prize court proceedings.
The United States held further that indemnity was due by reason of violation of the treaty provisions; Germany held that the payment was "a duty or policy founded on the
existing treaty stipulations." Payment of the indemnity is to be made without prejudice to the question of treaty interpretation.

Parties

MATTERS REFERRED TO COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY
(Under Arts. 9-14 (1899) and 9-36 (1907) of the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes)

Subject

1 Date of
convention

Sessions
began

Report
delivered

mouna and Gaulois, Jan.

1 The convention of reference. The North Sea incident convention was officially called a declaration.

RATIFICATION OF 1899 CONVENTIONS

(Based on Foreign Relations of the United States, 1905, 691)

LIST OF THE NAMES OF THE POWERS IN REGARD TO WHICH THE CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS

SIGNED ON JULY 29, 1899, WERE OBLIGATORY

A.-POWERS WHICH HAVE RATIFIED

(The dates mentioned indicate the day on which the several acts of ratification were deposited)

Under reservation in respect to Articles 16, 17 and 19 of the proposal laid before the Committee of Inquiry, entered in the minutes of the third committee of July 20, 1899. 4 Under the reservation mentioned in the minutes of the third committee of July 20, 1899. Nicaragua ratified Declarations IV, 2 and 3, on Oct. 11, 1907. No. 1 expired in 1904.