The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-11
TEXT OF TREATY
BETWEEN HUNS
AND UKRAINIANS
Dr. Won Kuehlmann and President of New Repub-
lies Delegation Felicitate Each Other on
Conclusion of Peace-Signatures Al
fixed Early Saturday Morning.

cupied territories will begin immedi-
ately after the ratification of the pres
ent treaty The manner of carrying
out the evacuation and transfer of the
evacuated territories will be deter
mined by the plenipotentiaries Of the
interested parties.
Article T. The diplomatic and
consular relations between the con-
tracing parties will be entered upon
Immediately after the ratification of
the peace treaty. The widest posi-.
BILE admittance of the respective par
ties to consuls is to be reserved for a
special agreement.
"ArticIe 5. The contracting parties
mutually renounce the reimburse
ment of their war costs-that is to
say, the state expenditure for carry
ing on war, as we'll as indemnifcation
for damages, that is to say those dam
ages suffered by them and their sub
jects in the war, as through military
measures including all acquisitions
made in the enemy's countries.
'Article g. The respective prison
ers of war will be permitted to re-
turn home as far as they do not de-
concerned, to remain in it's territor-
les or proceed to another country.
The regulation of the questions con-
nected herewith will follow by means
of separate treaties provided for it in
| Article &.
"Article 7. The contracting parties
undertake mutually and without delay
to enter economic relations and or
ganize an exchange for goods on the
basis of the following prescriptions:
| "Article 8. Restoration Of public
and private legal relations, the ex-
change of prisoners of war and in
termed civilians the question of am
nesty and the question of the treat
ment of merchantmen in enemy hands
will be regulated in separate treaties
with the Ukrainian peoples republic,
to form an essential part of the pres
ent peace treaty, which so far as
practicable will take effect simultan-
eous1y Herewith.
'tArticle The agreements made in
this peace treaty form an indivisible
whole.
article 10. For the Interpretation
Of this treaty the German and Ukrain-
ian texts are authoritive in regard to
relations between Germany and
Ukraine; the German, Hungarian and
Ukrainian texts for relations between
Austria-Hungary and Ukraine; the
Bulgarian and Ukrainian texts for re-
1ations between Bulgaria and Ukraine;
the Turkish and Ukrainian texts for
relations between Turkey and
Ukraine
The concluding part of the treaty
provides:
1.-THE present peace treaty will be
ratified. Ratified documents shall be
exchanged as soon as possible. So
far as there are no provisions to the
contrary, the peace treaty shall come
into force on ratification"
The supplementary treaties provid-
led for in article also were signed.
They cover the following points:
Restoration of consular relations.
Restoration of state treaties.
Restoration of civil law.
Naturalization for civil damages
caused by laws Of war or by acts
icontrary to International law.
Exchange of war prisoners and in
termed civilians.
Care of burial grounds of those
tallen IN enemy territory.
| Provision for the return to their
homes of persons affected by the
treaty.
Treatment of merchant vessels in
, enemy hands.
The Brest-Litovsk dispatch says the
text of the supplementary agreements
must be Withheld for the present to
Iavoid over crowding the telegraph
wires.
London, Feb. 1.-THE peace treaty
between the Ukraine and the Central
powers provides that the ratified
documents shall be exchanged in
Vienna as soon as possible, an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from Co
: penhagen says.
Article Z stipulates that there shall
} be mutual exchanges of surplus agri-
S cultural and industrial products of
Importance before July 81, partly
through the government cSncerned
s and partly by means of free sale, the
4 details to be arranged by a special
D commission. Until a final agreement
e has been reached, and in any case for
at least six months after the conclu-
= sion of world peace, economic rela-
e tons between Germany and the
s Ukraine shall be based on the Russo
e German agreements of 1894 and 1904.
n Trade must not be hampered by ex-
g port prohibitions. Transmission of
a goods shall be permitted. Railroad
traffic shall be resumed as soon as