Republican farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1810-1920, 1918-02-15
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 AT
fixed Early Saturday Morning.

ties to consuls is to be reserved tor a
special agreement
ARTICLE 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 well as indemnif1cation
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 6. The respective prison
ers of war will be permitted to re-
turn home as far as they do not de-
sire, with the approval OF the state
concerned, to remain in its 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 s. 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-
eously herewith.
ARTICLE 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-
! lations between Bulgaria and Ukraine;
the Turkish and Ukrainian texts fol-
relations between Turkey and
Ukraine"
The concluding part of the treaty
provides:
''The present peace treaty will be
ratified. Ratified documents shall bt
exchanged as soon as possible. Sc
far as there are no provisions to the
contrary, the peace treaty shall come
into force on ratification"
The supplementary treaties provid
ed for in article also were signed
They cover the following points:
Restoration Of consular relations.
1 Of ITO 10
Restoration of civil law.
naturalization for civil damage
caused by laws of war or by act
contrary to international law.
Exchange of war prisoners and in
J termed civilians.
Care of burial grounds of thos
fallen in enemy territory.
Provision for the return to thei
homes of persons affected by tn
| treaty.
, Treatment of merchant vessels i
} enemy hands.
The Brest-Litovsk dispatch says tn
t text of the supplementary agreement
| must be withheld for the present t
avoid over crowding the TELEGRAPH
l wires.
, London, Feb. 1.-THE peace treat
between the Ukraine and the Contra
powers provides that the rattle
documents shall be exchanged i
7 Vienna as soon as possible, an Elk
= change Telegraph dispatch from Co
penhagen says.
I Article stipulates that there sha
= be mutual exchanges of surplus agri
e cultural and industrial products c
: Importance before July 81, partl
! through the government concerne
: and partly by means of free sale, tn
Q details to be arranged by specis
: commission. Until a final agreemer
d has been reached, and in any case fc
f at least six months after the conclu
IS sion of world peace, economic rele
: tions between Germany and til
: Ukraine shall be based on the Russc
d German agreements of 1894 and 1870
o Trade must not be hampered by e.
IS port prohibitions. Transmission
y goods ahall be permitted. Railpoa
traffic shall be resumed as soon {