that article requires that the use of the emblem or name should be
penalised by British law at the latest five years and six months from
the date of the British ratification, which was deposited on April 16,
1907--_i.e._, not later than October 16, 1912. This requirement is not
satisfied by the Bill, which, even if passed in the present Session,
would preserve intact till 1915 the rights of proprietors of
trade-marks, while somewhat harshly rendering forthwith illegal the user
of the emblem or name by all other persons.

On the drafting of the "Second Peace Conference Conventions Bill," I
will only remark that neither in the preamble nor elsewhere is any
information vouchsafed as to the Conventions, out of thirteen drafted at
The Hague, which are within the purview of the Bill. The reader is left
to puzzle out for himself, supposing him to have the necessary materials
at hand, that certain clauses of the Bill relate respectively to certain
articles which must be looked for in the Conventions numbered I., V.,
X., XII., and XIII.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. E. HOLLAND.
The Athenæum, July 7 (1911).

NOTES
- 1: This Bill, originally introduced in the House of Commons on June 23
1910, to enable the Government to ratify Hague Convention No xii.
of 1907 and the Declaration of London of 1909, was passed by that
House on December 7, 1911, but rejected on the 12th of the same
month, by 145 to 53 votes, in the House of Lords. Cf. _infra_,
pp. 191-196.
- 2: Cf. _infra_, p. 98. The Bill became an Act, 1 & 2 Geo. 5,