Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
RUSSIA QUITS WAR,
ORDERING SOLDIERS
TO LEAVE FRONTIERS
tContinued PROM rage Ii

hiretschei, Sarnaki, Selnik, Wysekelito-
wsk Kamietslitowsk, Prushany and to
Wydozowskyesee This will be fixed
In detail by a fixed commission, accord
ing to ethnographical conditions and
with a regard to the desires of the popu-
lation. Should the Ukranian peoples re-
public yet have common frontiers with
another of the powers of the quadruple
alliance special agreements will be made
thereon.
Article III The evacuation of &C.
cupied territories will begin immediate
ly after the ratification of the present
treaty. The manner of carrying out
the evacuation and transfer of the
evacuated territories will be determin-
ed by the plenipotentiaries of the in
terested parties.
Article Nv. The diplomatic and con-
sular relations between the contracting
parties will be entered upon immediate
ly after the ratification of the peace
treaty. The widest possible admittance
Of the respective parties to consuls is
to be reserved for a special agreement.
No Tndemnities
Article v. The contracting parties
mutually renounce the reimbursement
of their war costs-that is to say, the
state expenditure for, carrying on the
war, as we'll as naturalization for
damages, that is to say those damages
suffered by them and their subjects in
the war, as through military measures
including all acquisitions made in the
enemy's countries.
ARTICLE vi. The respective prisoners
of war will be permitted to return home
as far as they do not desire, with the
approval of the state concerned, to re-
main in its territories or proceed to an
other country. The regulations of the
questions connected herewith will fol-
low by means of separate treaties pro-
vided for it in article VIII.
Article VII. The contracting par
ties undertake mutually and without
delay to enter into economic relations
and organize an exchange for goods on
the basis of the following prescrip-
tions:
There shall be mutual exchange of
surplus agricultural and Industrial prod
ucts of Importance before July 81, part
ly through the governments concerned
and partly by means of free SALE the de-
tails to be arranged by a special com
mission. Until final agreement has
been reached, and in any case for at
least six months after the conclusion
of world peace, economic relations be-
tween Germany and the Ukraine shall Re
based on the RUSSO German agreements
of 1894 end 1904. Trade. must not be
hampered by export prohibitions. Trans
mission of goods shall be permitted.
Railway traffic shall be resumed as soon
as possible.
Article VIII. Restoration of public
and private legal relations, the ex-
change of prisoners of war and intern
ed civilians, the question of amesty and
the question Of the treatment of mer-
chantmen in enemy hands will be regu.
lated in separate localities with the
Ukrainian peoples republic, to form an
essential part with the Present peace
treaty, which so far as practicable,
will take effect simultaneously there
with.
Article TX. The agreements made
in the peace treaty form an indivisible
whole.
win BE Ratified
Article X For the Interpretation of
this treaty the German and the Ul<rain-
ian texts are authoritative in regard to
relations between Germany and Ukraine,
the German, Hungarian and Ukrainians
texts for relations between Austria-Hun-
gary and Ukraine. the Bulgarian and
Ukrainian texts for relations between
Bulgaria and Ukraine, the Turkish and
Ukrainian texts for relations between
Turkey and Ukraine"
The concluding part of she treaty
provides:
1.-THE present peace treaty will be rati-
fled. Ratified documents shall be ex-
changed as soon as possible"
Other Points Covered
So far as there are no provisions to
the contrary the peace treaty shall
come into force on ratification.
The supplementary treaties provided
for in article VIII also were signed.
They cover the following points:
Restoration of consular regulations.
Restoration of state treaties.
Restoration of civil law.
Naturalization for civil damages
caused by laws of war or by acts con-
trary to international law.
Exchange of war prisoners and intern
ed citizens. Care of burial grounds of
those fallen 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 that
the text of the supplementary agree
ments must be withheld for the pres
ent to avoid overcrowding the tele-
graph wires.