and immunities of every kind which are or shall be granted to Consular Officers of the most favoured nation.

X. Armenia undertakes to make no treaty, convention or arrangement and to take no other action which will prevent her from joining in any general convention for the equitable treatment of the commerce of other States that may be concluded under the auspices of the League of Nations within five years from the coming into force of the present Treaty.

Armenia also undertakes to extend to all the Allied Powers any favours or privileges in Customs matters which she may grant during the same period of five years to any State with which since August 1914, the Allied Powers have been at war, or to any State which in virtue of Article 222* of the Treaty of Peace with Austria has special Customs arrangements with such States.

XI. Pending the conclusion of the general convention referred to above, Armenia undertakes to treat on the same footing as national vessels or vessels of the most favoured nation the vessels of all the Allied Powers who accord similar treatment to Armenian vessels.

As an exception to this provision the right of any Allied Power to confine her maritime coasting trade to national vessels is expressly reserved.

XII. Pending the conclusion under the auspices of the League of Nations of a general convention to secure and maintain freedom of communications and of transit, Armenia undertakes to accord freedom of transit to persons, goods, vessels, carriages, waggons and mails in transit to or from any Allied State over Armenian territory, and to treat them at least as favourably as the persons, goods, vessels. carriages, waggons, and mails respectively of Armenian or of any other more favoured nationality, origin, importation or ownership, as regards facilities, charges, restrictions and all other matters.

All charges imposed in Armenia on such traffic in transit shall be reasonable, having regard to the conditions of the traffic. Goods in transit shall be exempt from all customs or other duties.

Tariffs for transit traffic across Armenia and tariffs between Armenia and any Allied Power involving through tickets or waybills shall be established at the request of the Allied Power concerned.

Freedom of transit will extend to postal, telegraphic and telephonic services.

Provided that no Allied Power can claim the benefit of these provisions on behalf of any part of its territory in

which reciprocal treatment is not accorded in respect of the same subject-matter.

If within a period of five years from the coming into force of the present Treaty no general convention as aforesaid shall have been concluded under the auspices of the League of Nations, Armenia shall be at liberty at any time thereafter to give twelve months' notice to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations to terminate the obligations of the present Article.

XIII. All rights and privileges accorded by the foregoing Articles to the Allied Powers shall be accorded equally to all States, Members of the League of Nations.

The present Treaty, in French, in English and in Italian, of which in case of divergence the French text shall prevail, shall be ratified. It shall come into force at the same time as the Treaty of Peace with Turkey.

The deposit of ratifications shall be made at Paris.

Powers of which the seat of the Government is outside Europe will be entitled merely to inform the Government of the French Republic through their diplomatic representative at Paris that their ratification has been given; in that case they must transmit the instrument of ratification as soon as possible.

A procès-verbal of the deposit of ratifications will be drawn up.

The French Government will transmit to all the signatory Powers a certified copy of the procès-verbal of the deposit of ratifications.

In faith whereof the above-named Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty.

Done at Sèvres, the 10th day of August, 1920, in a' single copy which will remain deposited in the archives of the French Republic, and of which authenticated copies will be transmitted to each of the signatory Powers.

RATIFICATIONS of the Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Austria.-Signed at SaintGermain-en-Laye, September 10, 1919.*

RATIFICATIONS of the Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Bulgaria.-Signed at Neuillysur-Seine, November 27, 1919. §

RATIFICATIONS of the Treaty ("Rights of Minorities," &c.) between Great Britain, &c., and Czecho-Slovakia.— Signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, September 10, 1919. ||

TREATY between the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan, as the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, and Denmark, with regard to Slesvig.-Paris, July 5, 1920.*

[British Ratifications deposited at Paris,
December 15, 1920.+]

THE British Empire, France, Italy and Japan, signatories. with the United States of America, as the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, of the Treaty of Peace of Versailles, and Denmark;

Whereas by Article 109‡ of the Treaty of Peace concluded at Versailles on the 28th June, 1919, it was provided that the frontier between Germany and Denmark should be fixed in conformity with the wishes of the population,

And whereas by the said Treaty provision was made for holding a plebiscite of the population concerned, and it was provided that a frontier line should be fixed by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers according to a line based on the result of the voting and proposed by the International Plebiscite Commission, and taking into account the particular geographical and economic conditions of the localities in question,

And whereas by Article 110 of the said Treaty Germany renounced definitely in favour of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers all rights of sovereignty over the territories of Slesvig to the north of the line so fixed,

And whereas the said plebiscite has been held, and the Principal Allied and Associated Powers having in consequence fixed the frontier between Germany and Denmark and notified the same to those Powers on the 15th June, 1920, desire to transfer immediately to Denmark the sovereignty over the said territories, without prejudice to the further stipulations by which they reserve the right to regulate, in agreement with Germany and Denmark, the questions arising out of the said transfer, as provided under the second paragraph of Article 114 of the Treaty of Versailles,

For this purpose the High Contracting Parties have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries the following, reserving the right of substituting others to sign the same Treaty:

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great * Signed also in the French language.

The French, Italian and Danish Ratifications were also deposited at Paris on December 15, 1920. The Japanese Ambassador at Paris signed the Protocol of Deposition after previously notifying the Government of the French Republic that Japan had also ratified the Treaty. The Japanese Ratifications were formally deposited on April 29, 1921.

Vol. CXII, page 67.

Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India: the Right Honourable Edward George Villiers, Earl of Derby, K.G., P.C., K.C.V.O., C.B., Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty at Paris; and

For the Dominion of Canada: The Honourable Sir George Halsey Perley, K.C.M.G., High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom;

For the Commonwealth of Australia: The Right Honourable Andrew Fisher, High Commissioner for Australia in the United Kingdom:

For the Dominion of New Zealand: The Honourable Sir Thomas Mackenzie, K.C.M.G., High Commissioner for New Zealand in the United Kingdom;

For the Union of South Africa: Mr. Reginald Andrew Blankenberg, O.B.E., Acting High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa in the United Kingdom;

For India : The Right Honourable Edward George Villiers, Earl of Derby, K.G., P.C., K.C.V.O., C.B., Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty at Paris;

The President of the French Republic: M. Jules Cambon, Ambassador of France; M. Georges-Maurice Paléologue, Ambassador of France, General Secretary of the Foreign Office;

His Majesty the King of Italy: Count Lelio Bonin Longare, Senator of the Kingdom, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of Italy at Paris;

His Majesty the Emperor of Japan: Viscount Chinda, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of His Maje the Emperor of Japan at London;

His Majesty the King of Denmark and Iceland: Mr. Herman Anker Bernhoft, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King of Denmark and Iceland at Paris;

ART. I. The Principal Allied and Associated Powers hereby transfer to Denmark, who accepts the transfer, free and quit of all charges and obligations, subject to the provisions of the present Treaty, all rights of sovereignty which they hold, under the third paragraph of Article 110 of the Treaty of Peace with Germany signed at Versailles on the 28th June, 1919, over the territories, islands and islets of Slesvig situated to the north of the frontier line hereafter described. This transfer will date from the 15th June, 1920, the day on which the fixing of the frontier was officially notified to Germany and Denmark