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International Ice Patrol Conducted by the United States Coast Guard Gives Warning to All of Iceberg Danger nternational Conference of 1929 Agrees on All Measures to Increase Safety HAT the seas do not separate the nations of the world but rather tie them together was demonstrated by the success of the International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea in which every nation represented, agreed on every measure adopted to further secure life and property afloat. The conference met at London and the first meeting was held on April 16. The final meeting was held May 31, at the foreign office when the convention representing the re- sults of the labor of the delegates, and which had been unanimously approved, was signed by dele- gates representing Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, and Irish Free State, Italy, India, Netherlands, Japan, Nor- way, Spain, Sweden, Union of Socialists Soviet Republics, United Kingdom and the United States of America. Specific terms of the convention in detail are not available at the time this is written but it can be said that never before in history has so much good been accomplished for the ad- vance of shipping. The highest practical stand- in bonds of mutual respect and good will- ards were set for the design, construction and operation of ships not only so that each individual ship might have a maximum degree of safety but also so that each ship sailing the seas would be in a position to render efficient aid to any other ship within reach that might be in dis- tress. At the final session on May 31, Vice Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, K.C.B., president of the conference, presented an interesting summary of the results, on which the following remarks are based. The first International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea convened in London in 19138 and completed its work in January 1914. The con- vention incorporating the rules and regulations agreed upon at that time was unanimously adopted and signed by representatives of Ger- many, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, United States, France, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Russia and Sweden. Some, but not all of the powers whose representatives signed this convention, ratified it and owing to the war it was not brought into force fully by any country. Parts of it were put in operation by individual MARINE REVIEW—July, 1929 17