39. Lieut.-Colonel Sir DALRYMPLE WHITEasked the Secretary of State for 2635 Foreign Affairs whether the present Soviet Government of Russia has continued the agreement embodied in the International Convention between His Majesty's Government, the United States of America, the Imperial Government of Japan, and the late Imperial Government of Russia prohibiting the killing, taking, and hunting of seals and sea otters within the waters covered by the Seal Fisheries (North Pacific) Act, 1895.
§ Sir A. CHAMBERLAINYes, Sir. As regards the waters covered by the Convention referred to, these are described in Article 1 as "the waters of the North Pacific Ocean, north of the 30th parallel of north latitude, and including the seas of Behring, Kamchatka, Okhotsk and Japan."