Communications and transit > First report of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit

[Communicated to the Council
and the Members of the League.]
488. M. a04. iga3. VIII.
Geneva,
July 24th, 1923.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
FIRST REPORT
OF THE
ADVISORY AND TECHNICAL COMMITTEE FOR
COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSIT
ON
THE WORK OF THE ORGANISATION FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND
TRANSIT BETWEEN THE THIRD AND THE FOURTH ASSEMBLY,
PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE ASSEMBLY
During the first pan of the period between the Third and Fourth Assembly, with
which this Report deals, the Communications and Transit Organisation has been princi-
pally occupied in preparing ior the Second General Conference on Communications and
Iiansit, which is to be held, in accordance with the decisions of the last Assembly, in the
course of the present year, and has been fixed by the Council for November i5th next.
Accordingly, the substance of the Committee’s work on this subject has already been set
forth in the reports submitted to Governments in view of the forthcoming Conference.
The Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit has also
been called upon to settle a dispute between the German Government and the Governing
Commission of the Saar Basin Territory, under circumstances of which the last Assembly
was informed. J
The following meetings have been held during this period by the Organisation for
Communications and Transit :
Commission of Enquiry to investigate the difficulties which had arisen between the
Governing Commission of the Saar Basin Territory and the German Government
in connection with the application, in the Territory of the Saar Basin, of the
Berne Intel national Convention of October 14th, 1890. This Committee met
at Luxemburg on November 23rd and 24th, 1922.
Committee of Experts instructed to draw up the General Convention on the Inter¬
national Regime of Railways; this Committee sat from January 17th—27th and
from February 19th—24th, 1923.
Sub-Committee for hydro-electric questions, March 7th—10th, iq23
Sub-Committee for Transport by Rail, March 19th—24th, 1923/
Plenary Committee, April 23rd—3oth, 1923.
The other work already in course of preparation — the preliminaries of which have been
earned out by a meeting of the special Sub-Committee to consider the question of Opium
in f ree Ports, held on January 10th—12th, and by the mixed Sub-Committee of the
Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit and the Health Com¬
mittee, which met on the same date — will be included in the Agenda of the next session of
the Plenary Committee on August 29th, and will form the subject of a second report
S. d. N. 600 (F) -f- 650 (A) 8/23. Imp. Sadag