§ Mr. REMERasked the President of the Board of Trade what steps were taken to publish the Japanese Treaty of 1911; and whether commercial treaties are communicated to chambers of commerce and other business organisations immediately they have been ratified?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANThe Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1911 (which was signed on 3rd April and ratified on 5th May of that386W year) was published as a White Paper in April, and in the "Treaty Series" in June, 1911. A notice referring to the White Paper and setting out some of the salient provisions of the Treaty was also published in the issue of the "Board of Trade Journal" for 6th April, and a further notice of the Exchange of Ratifications in that for 11th May, 1911. Commercial treaties are not specially communicated to chambers of commerce and other business organisations after their ratification, but steps are always taken to give them the widest publicity.