The sun., 1919-04-09

treaty whether they will have their ac-
cess TO the sea through Cavaila Dedea-
catch or through Salonica. The Greeks
undertake to give the Bulgarians, under
supervision of the Ave big Powers, full
liberty for teade communications in the
Aegean through the port selected.
The Greeks have undertaken to re-
spect religious rights, notably those Of
the Moslems. in territories which will be
acquired by Greece and also to accept
unoer the supervision Of the five Powers
the necessary safeguards for the interests
Of the clinical minorities.
Wlthin two years OF the signing OF the
treaty Bulgarian citizens over Is years
OF age domiciled In the territory will be
allowed to adopt Bulgarian or Greek ma
tionality. Those having adopted Bull
garian citizenship shall within a year
move to Bulsarla and shall be allowed
TO take with them all their personal
property of any kind.
Preparations for peace are In some re-
spects more advanced than the peace
itself and all sorts of arrangements have
been considered by the supreme economic
council with a view to meeting the curl
Gus economic transitional period which
will follow the signing Of the preliminary
peace with Germany.
Getting the Most From GERMANY.
The problem the Supreme Economic
Council has TO meet Ia delicate. They
have to hnd, an II were, a head point
at which Germany will be producing her
| utmost IN order to meet the allied claims
for PREPARATION and at the same time
prevent the injury of allied trade and
industry by too much activity In Ger
! many.
a blacklist Of articles Of export which
| are forbidden have been drawn up II
| includes coal. coke, paper, wax pulp
timber. dyestuff products. iron. steel
sugar, window glass, machine tools. ma
| chinery and electric machines and their
| parts. Naturally the prohibition already
In force on the export of gold, silver
and securities will be maintained.
Tho blacklist has been drawn UP mol
with a view to preventing Germany from
exporting the articles which form Il. but
with view to controlling those exports
and obtaining for allied industry prior
claims upon German resources of that
nature. Therefore Germany would be
allowed to export prohibited goods, al
ways. OF course, with the exception Of
| war material. provided that the allied
Governments be entitled to the purchase
Of those goods at reasonable prices.
II has been suggested that a commits.
sion representing the allied Governmsnts
should meet the Germans once month
and effect an agreement with regard tc
prices and requirements for the ensuing
month. It 10 considered that The allied
| requirements will not exceed more thar
| two-thirds Of the available supplies and
Germany will be allowed to export the
remaining third Of these commodities "a
neutral countries. Months obtained un.
| der this system OF trade will be credited
to Germany against the delivery of food,
stuffs
Lifting ban on Correspondence.
Measures tending to relax the allied
control of German correspondence alsc
have been considered, and II is under
stood the Allies are prepared to perm
the Germans to correspond freely II
plain language or In allied language!
with neutral traders
| Such correspondence must only refeI
to imports of food and must have M
reference to exports of gold or securi
les. Goods will be allowed to be i'm
ported freely into German Austria unde,
control OF an allied commission who's
duty will be to see to It that no supplied
reach Bolshevik Russia, Germany O.
Hungary. =
| The broad aspect Of shipping condi
tons has been under review and in al
probability tho pence treaty will includ,
clauses under which allied shipping will
be assured equal treatment with Ger
man shipping In every way. II is pos
slble that some action will he taker
also TO prevent German state subsidies
to national shipping through a form o.
| tariffs or otherwise. Restrictions on i'm
| migration traffic will be removed