Freedom of transit will extend to postal, telegraphic and telephonic services. It is agreed that no Allied or Associated 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, Poland 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 this Article. ARTICLE 18. Pending the conclusion of a general Convention on the International Régime of waterways, Poland undertakes to apply to the river system of the Vistula (including the Bug and the Narev) the régime applicable to International Waterways set out in Articles 382 to 337 of the Treaty of Peace with Germany. ARTICLE 19. Poland undertakes to adhere within twelve months of the coming into force of the present Treaty to the International Conventions specified in Annex I. Poland undertakes to adhere to any new convention, concluded with the approval of the Council of the League of Nations within five years of the coming into force of the present Treaty, to replace any of the International instruments specified in Annex I. The Polish Government undertakes within twelve months to notify the Secretary General of the League of Nations whether or not Poland desires to adhere to either or both of the International Conventions specified in Annex II. Until Poland has adhered to the two Conventions last specified in Annex I, she agrees, on condition of reciprocity, to protect by effective measures the industrial, literary and artistic property of nationals of the Allied and Associated States. In the case of any Allied or Associated State not adhering to the said Conventions Poland agrees to continue to afford such effective protection on the same conditions until the conclusion of a special bi-lateral treaty or agreement for that purpose with such Allied or Associated State. Pending her adhesion to the other Conventions specified in Annex I, Poland will secure to the nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers the advantages to which they would be entitled under the said Conventions. Poland further agrees, on condition of reciprocity, to recognise and protect all rights in any industrial, literary or artistic property belonging to the nationals of the Allied and Associated States in force, or which but for the war would have been in force, in any part of her territories before transfer to Poland. For such purpose she will accord the extensions of time agreed to in Articles 307 and 308 of the Treaty with Germany. ANNEX I. TELEGRAPHIC AND RADIO-TELEGRAPHIC CONVENTIONS. International Telegraphic Convention signed at St. Petersburg, July 10/22, 1875. Regulations and Tariffs drawn up by the International Telegraph Conference, signed at Lisbon, June 11, 1908. International Radio-Telegraph Convention, July 5, 1912. RAILWAY CONVENTIONS. Conventions and arrangements signed at Berne on October 14, 1890, September 20, 1893, July 16, 1895, June 16, 1898, and September 19, 1906, and the current supplementary provisions made under those Conventions. Agreement of May 15, 1886, regarding the sealing of railway trucks subject to customs inspection, and Protocol of May 18, 1907. Agreement of May 15, 1886, regarding the technical standardisation of railways, as modified on May 18, 1907. SANITARY CONVENTIONS. Convention of December 3, 1903. OTHER CONVENTIONS. Convention of September 26, 1906, for the suppression of night work for women. Convention of September 26, 1906, for the suppression of the use of white phosphorus in the manufacture of matches. Convention of May 18, 1904, and May 4, 1910, regarding the suppression of the White Slave Traffic. Convention of May 4, 1910, regarding the suppression of obscene publica tions. International Convention of Paris of March 20, 1883, as revised at Washington in 1911, for the protection of industrial property. International Convention of Berne of September 9, 1886, revised at Berlin on November 13, 1908, and completed by the Additional Protocol signed at Berne on March 20, 1914, for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Work. ANNEX II. Agreement of Madrid of April 14, 1891, for the Prevention of False Indications of origin on goods, revised at Washingtom in 1911, and Agreement of Madrid of 14 April, 1891, for the international registration of trade-marks, revised at Washington in 1911. ARTICLE 20. All rights and privileges accorded by the foregoing Articles to the Allied and Associated States shall be accorded equally to all States members of the League of Nations. (B 17223)Q Q 2 ARTICLE 21. Poland agrees to assume responsibility for such proportion of the Russian public debt and other Russian public liabilities of any kind as may be assigned to her under a special convention between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers on the one hand and Poland on the other, to be prepared by a Commission appointed by the above States. In the event of the Commission not arriving at an agreement the point at issue shall be referred for immediate arbitration to the League of Nations. THE PRESENT TREATY, of which the French and English texts are both authentic, shall be ratified. It shall come into force at the same time as the Treaty of Peace with Germany. 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. up. A procès-verbal of the deposit of ratifications will be drawn 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 Versailles, the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, 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. (L.S.) WOODROW WILSON. (L.S.) E. M. HOUSE. (L.S.) TASKER H. BLISS. (L.S.) D. LLOYD GEORGE. (L.S.) A. BONAR LAW. (L.S.) MILNER. (L.S.) ARTHUR JAMES BALfour. (L.S.) GEORGE N. BARNES. (L.S.) CHAS. J. DOHERTY. (L.S.) ARTHUR L. SIFTON. (L.S.) W. M. HUGHES. (L.S.) JOSEPH COOK. (L.S.) LOUIS BOTHA. (L.S.) J. C. SMUTS. REPLY OF THE ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS TO THE OBSERVATIONS OF THE GERMAN DELEGATION ON THE CONDITIONS OF PEACE.* LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE GERMAN DELEGATION COVERING THE REPLY OF THE ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS. PEACE CONFERENCE. THE PRESIDent. SIR, To His Excellency Count BROCKDorff-Rantzau, President of the German Delegation, Versailles. Paris, June 16th, 1919. The Allied and Associated Powers have given the most earnest consideration to the observations of the German Delegation on the Conditions of Peace. The reply protests against the peace both on the grounds that it conflict with the terms upon which the Armistice of November 11th, 1918, was signed, and that it is a peace of violence and not of justice. The protest of the German Delegation shows that they utterly fail to understand the position in which Germany stands to-day. They seem to think that Germany has only to "make sacrifices in order to attain peace," as if this were but the end of some mere struggle for territory and power. The Allied and Associated Powers therefore feel it necessary to begin their reply by a clear statement of the judgment passed upon the war by practically the whole of civilised mankind. *Treaty Series. No. 4 (1919).” |