§ SIR HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)To ask the Under-Secretary 751 of State for Foreign Affairs whether the ratifications by all the contracting States who were parties to the International Convention respecting the White Slave Traffic, signed at Paris on May 18th, 1904, have now been deposited; and whether, in view of the fact that the Convention will come into force throughout Europe on 18th July next, the text of the documents embodying its terms, as well as the Papers relating to the International Diplomatic Conference held at Paris in July, 1902, will now be laid upon the Table of the House.
(Answered by Earl Percy.) There still remain three States who have not, as yet, deposited their ratifications, but it is competent for them to do so before the 18th instant. After that date the Convention will be published in the Treaty Series, and a certain number of copies of the correspondence will be delivered to both Houses of Parliament, as was done in 1881, for the use of Members who may wish to refer to it.