in Article 163, cannot require trade secrets or other confidential information to be divulged;

3. From the signature of the Treaty, and within the ensuing four months, Hungary will be entitled to submit for examination by the Allied and Associated Powers documents and proposals in order to expedite the work connected with reparation, and thus to shorten the investigation and to accelerate the decisions;

4. Proceedings will be taken against persons who have committed punishable offences in the liquidation of Hungarian property, and the Allied and Associated Powers will welcome any information or evidence which the Hungarian Government can furnish on this subject. Done in French, in English, and in Italian, of which the French text shall prevail in case of divergence, at Trianon, the fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

DECLARATION.

With a view to minimizing the losses arising from the sinking of ships and cargoes in the course of the war, and to facilitating the recovery of ships and cargoes which can be salved and the adjustment of the private claims arising with regard thereto, the Hungarian Government undertakes to supply all the information in its power which may be of assistance to the Governments of the Allied and Associated Powers, or to their nationals, with regard to vessels sunk or damaged by the Hungarian naval forces during the period of hostilities.

This declaration made in French, in English, and in Italian, of which the French text shall prevail in case of divergence, at Trianon, the fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty.

APPENDIX II.

TREATIES DUE TO THE NEGOTIATIONS OF THE PARIS PEACE
CONFERENCE, SIGNED BY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED
STATES, ON WHICH NO FURTHER ACTION WAS TAKEN.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

1919.

TREATY BETWEEN THE PRINCIPAL ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS
AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

Signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye September 10, 1919.1

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE BRITISH EMPIRE, FRANCE, ITALY, AND JAPAN, the Principal Allied and Associated Powers,

Whereas the union which formerly existed between the old Kingdom of Bohemia, the Markgraviate of Moravia and the Duchy of Silesia on the one hand and the other territories of the former

Ratifications have been deposited by the British Empire, Czechoslovakia, France, Italy, and Japan.

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