Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-12
DAILY KENNEBEC altMJKNAI.TUEsDAY FEBRUARY r. 1918

Ing railway tarlHS. ECoHoiiio Aeid'ioaS
between Bulgaria and Turkey and Tx
raine are to be settled according to
| the most favored nation definition I'M
! til definite commercial treaties are con-
Guided.
IF the period provided for in the
first paragraph of section two should
not occur before June 80. 1919. each of
the two contracting parties is free from
June 80, 1919, to give six months no
tice to terminate the prescriptions con-
| tanned in the above mentioned sec
ton.
Il (A)-The Ukrainian People Re-
public will make no claim to preferen-
tial treatment which Germany grants
, Austria Hungary, or another country
bound to her by a customs alliance
which directly borders on Germany or
indirectly through another country
bound to her or Austria Hungary by
a customs alliance or which Germany
grants to her own colonies. foreign
possessions and protectorates or to
countries bound to her by a customs
alliance. Germany will make no claim
to preferential treatment which the
Ukrainian peoples republic may grant
to another country bound to her by a
customs alliance which directly borders
on Ukraine or, indirectly, through an
other country bound to her by GUS
toms alliance, or to the colonies, foreign
possessions and protectorateS OF one OF
the countries bound to her by a GUS
toms alliance
"B)-In economic intercourse between
the treaty customs territory of both
states oi the Austro-Hungarian monarchy
on the one hand and the Ckranian peo-
pies republic on the other, the Ckranian
peoples republic will make no claim to
preferential treatment, which Austria
Hungary grants to Germany or another
country bound to her by a customs al
lance which directly borders on Aus
tria- Hungary, or indirectly through an
other country bound to her or Germany
by "a customs alliance, colonies, foreign
possessions and protectorates are in this
respect placed on similar footing. Aus
tria- Hungary will make no claim to pref
erential treatment which the Ukranlan
peoples republic grants to another coun-
try bound to her by customs alliance
which directly borders on Ukraine, or IN
directly borders through another coun-
try bound to her by a customs alliance
or to colonies, foreign possessions ana
protectorates of one of the countries
bound to her by customs alliance.
- (A)-So far as commodities which
originally came from Germany or Tx
raine are stored in neutral states, though
the obligation rests upon Germany ana
Ukraine that they shall not be exported
loo.
of the other contracting party, such re-
strictions regarding their disposal shall
be abolished 50 far as the contracting
parties are concerned. The two contract
ing parties, therefore. undertake imme-
diately to notify the governments of neu-
trail states of the above mentioned abo-
,ition of this restriction.
"(B)-,So far as commodities which
originally came from Austria Hungary
or Ukraine are stored in neutral states,
although the obligation rests upon Aus
tria- Hungary and Ukraine that they
shall neither directly nor indirectly be
exported to the territories of the other
contracting parties such restriction re-
speeding their disposal will be abolished
so far as the contracting parties are con-
tclllcNt. Dun IOIlti dAthio Pehi tieho eAiSAS
, fore, undertake Immediately to notify the
governments of neutral states OF the
above mentioned abolition of these re
StrictionS.
Article NIII-Restoration OF public and
private legal relations, the exchange OF
prisoners of war and nterned civilians.
The question of amnesty and the question
of the treatment of merchantmen in en-
envy hands will be regulated in separate
treaties with the Ukranian peoples re-
public, to form essential part of the
present peace treaty. which so far as
practicable will take effect Immediately
Herewith
Article IX-For the Interpretation or
this treaty the German and Ukranian
texts are authoritative in regard to rela-
tons between Germany and Ukraine. the
German, Hungarian and Ukranian texys
for relations between Austria Hungary
and Ukraine, the Bulgarian and Ukraine
texts for relations between Bulgaria ana
Ukraine, the Turkish and Ukranan texts
for relations between Turkey and Uk-
raine.
The concluding part of the treaty pro-
vides
Inc present peace treaty will be rat
flied. Ratified documents shall be ex-
changed as soon as possible. So far as
there arc no provisions to the contra
~, the peace treaty shall come into
force on ratification"
The supplementary treaties provided
for il Article VIII also We're signed.
They cover the following points
Restoration of consular relations.
restoration of state treaties.
Restoration Of civil law.
Indemnification for civil damages
caused by laws Of war or by acts con-
trary to international law.
Exchange of war prisoners and in
termed civilians.
Care of burial grounds of those fall
en- in enemy territory.
Provision for the return to their
homes of persons affected by the
treaty
| Treatment of merchant vessels in en-
envy 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.