the costs of maintenance and pay of its troops employed in the work, and of the explosives consumed in the blasting.

In regard to the defrayal of other costs entailed by the demolition, such as wages for civilian workmen, administrative expenditure, sundry expenditure for new material and organisation, &c., the Governments of the contracting States shall conclude a separate Agreement.

Each State shall defray one-third of the joint expenditure entailed by the work of the Commission, whilst the costs for the staff of the Control Commission shall be defrayed by the State concerned.

VIII. Foodstuffs for the Swedish and German labour contingents may be purchased in the Åland Islands only by agreement with the competent Finnish authorities and against compensation in other goods. Otherwise the labour contingents shall be supplied with foodstuffs from the home country.

The quartering of the Swedish and German labour contingents, as well as the settlement of compensation for damages to private property arising from the work of demolition, shall be arranged in consultation with the proper Finnish authorities.

IX. Each of the contracting States during the work of demolition shall have the free disposal of transport material and other military working material in its area of demolition. which may be of use in carrying out the work, as well as of barracks and other military buildings serviceable for quarter. ing.

X. This Agreement shall be drawn up in the Swedish, Finnish and German languages; in regard to interpretation of the Agreement, the German text shall be decisive. The Agreement shall be ratified and the ratification documents shall be deposited as soon as possible in the Swedish Foreign Office. Regarding the deposit of the ratifications, there shall be drawn up a Protocol, an attested copy of which shall be submitted through diplomatic channels to each of the contracting States.

In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Agreement and affixed thereunto their seals.

Done at Stockholm in three copies, the 30th December,

ANNEX A.

General Technical Instructions for the Demolition of the Military Establishments in Aland.

I.-General Regulations.

The procedure of the work shall be determined by the superintendent of the work, if necessary, in agreement with the authority or person to whom the material is supplied provided that buildings required for the quartering of the labour contingents shall not be removed without the consent of the Control Commission.

The material obtained in the demolition shall be transported, in consultation with the receiving authorities, to the nearest bridge, to the shore, or to the nearest road not subjected to demolition, where it shall be stored and delivered to the receiving authorities.

II. The Batteries.

The guns shall be dismounted from the holding-down bolts and taken to pieces in a manner suitable for transport. The parts shall be numbered under the foundry number of the guns. Small parts shall be packed in cases to be supplied by the receiving authorities.

The wooden gun platforms shall be broken up. Parapets, emplacements, munition magazines and traverses, rearward defences, signal lines, underground shelters, searchlight and fire direction platforms shall be destroyed by blasting or levelling in such wise that the batteries cannot be restored without much labour and loss of time. The following rules may serve as a guide for the execution of the blasting, provided that it is carried out with dynamite. Parapets. At least three bore holes on either side of the gun, with a depth of three-quarters of the height of the parapet. Charge, 0.5-1 kilog.

Gun Emplacements.-Two to five bore holes for each emplacement. Depth and charge to depend on the foundation under the platform. Charge on an average, 2-5 kilog.

Munition Magazines.-Two to three bore holes for each chamber. Depth, one-half to two-thirds of the covering. Charge, 0.5-1 kilog.

Traverses.-One drilled hole to every 4 metres, inclusive of the munition magazines. Depth, about three-quarters of the parapet. Charge, according to height, 1.5-2 kilog.

Rearward Defences with a height of 1 metre or more are to be blasted in the same manner as traverses.

The coverings of the underground shelters are to be thoroughly blasted, the walls in accordance with the rules for the traverses.

Fire direction and searchlight platforms are to be blasted in the same manner as the traverses.

The bore holes are to be located at an effective distance from the surface.

III-Barracks and Buildings.

The barracks are to be pulled down without unnecessary damage to the material in agreement with the receiving authority or person. Cellars, walls and stone basements are to be blasted.

IV.-Roads and Bridges.

The walls are to be destroyed by tearing up the metalled roadway and by blasting pits. so that the road or the part thereof to be

destroyed shall be rendered useless for its purpose. To this end mines of 1.5-2 kilog., with a depth of 1.2-1.5 metres shall be provided in such numbers that the road or the part thereof which is to be rendered unfit for passage shall be torn up to its entire breadth every 20-40 metres.

The superstructures of bridges shall be pulled down. Stone piers and piles under water shall be blasted or pulled down in a suitable

manner.

V.

Field defences, infantry trenches, machine gun posts, gun and signal shelters, also ammunition recesses and store shelters, shall be levelled, endeavour being made to restore the site to its condition prior to the erection of the fortifications. The wishes of the population are to be consulted as far as possible.

Wooden buildings are to be pulled down, care being taken to preserve the material as far as possible.

The wire of the barbed-wire entanglements shall be removed in suitable lengths and coiled.

Piles and framework of the chevaux de frise shall be piled up.

VI.-Wireless Material.

The masts shall be taken down with care. The material, wires, &c., shall be detached.

VII.-Telephone Wires.

Overhead wires and submarine cables shall be carefully coiled. The cables shall be detached from the land attachments and coiled up on cable drums to be supplied by the receiving authority.

Cables, as a general rule, must not be cut, except at splices and in case of difficulty in detaching them from the sea bottom.

ANNEX B.

Instructions for the Military Control Commission, which, pursuant to the agreement between the Governments of Sweden, Finland and Germany, is to supervise and control the demolition of fortifications and military establishments erected in Aland.

§ 1. The Commission shall consist of an officer from each of the interested States.

The Chairman shall be the senior by rank.

Each member shall be assisted by a staff the composition of which is to be determined by the Government of the respective country.

§ 2. The Commission shall meet for the first time at Mariehamn at the demand of the Finnish Government soon after the ratification of this Agreement by the three interested States, and shall draw up a plan for its further work.

§ 3. The Commission shall, moreover, meet on the summons of the Chairman at a place to be determined by the latter. The Chairman is under obligation to summon the Commission so soon as any of its members so demands. In calling the meeting, the Chairman must indicate the nature of the questions which have occasioned the summoning of the Commission.

§ 4. The functions of the Commission are as follows:-
(1.) To supervise the execution of the demolition work.

(2.) To keep itself informed regarding the progress of the work by calling for reports from the superintendents of the work.

(3.) In case the Commission finds that the work in a demolition area is not being carried out at such a speed that it is likely to be terminated within the prescribed time, to make representations to the superintendent of the work concerned.

(4.) During the course of the work and after the completion of certain sections, to ascertain whether the work has been executed according to instructions, and, if not, to issue regulations regarding the execution of any additional work that may be necessary.

(5.) After the completion of all the demolition work, to draw up a report on the execution thereof and to submit it to the Governments of the contracting States.

In other respects the Commission may not intervene in the direction and distribution of the work or in the internal concerns of the labour contingents.

§ 5. For a decision to be valid, all three members of the Control Commission shall be present, and at least two must be agreed as to the decision. Questions in regard to which a decision cannot be reached may be referred to the respective Governments, and, if necessary, be settled through diplomatic channels.

PROTOCOL between Finland, Germany and Sweden rectifying certain discrepancies in the texts of the Agreement respecting the Demolition of Fortifications, &c., on the Aland Islands, signed at Stockholm, December 30, 1918. Stockholm, March 28, 1919.

(Translation.*)

WHEREAS the Agreement signed at Stockholm on the 31st December, 1918, between Sweden, Finland and Germany regarding the demolition of the fortifications and other military establishments erected in Aland has been found to contain certain discrepancies between the Swedish, Finnish and German texts, the Undersigned, thereto duly empowered by their respective Governments, have agreed as follows:

ART. 1. The Finnish text of the above-mentioned Agreement shall be amended as shown in an Annex appended to this Protocol.

2. In Article II of the above-mentioned Agreement, in regard to the flying station at Eckerö, the words "sollen weggeschaft werden" in the first paragraph of the German text shall be replaced by the words sollen weggeschaft oder unbrauchbar gemacht werden."

Signed in the Finnish, German and Swedish languages.
Not reproduced, as the Amendment is shown on page 997.

3. This Protocol shall have effect as if its provisions had been incorporated in the above-mentioned Agreement. In witness whereof we, the Undersigned, have signed the present Protocol and affixed thereto our seals.

Done at Stockholm in three copies, the 28th March, 1919.

FRENCH NOTIFICATION of the Revival of certain bilateral Treaties, &c., between France and Germany.February 9, 1920.*

CONFORMÉMENT aux stipulations de l'article 289 du Traité de Versailles, le Gouvernement français a notifié au Gouvernement allemand, le 9 février 1920, les Conventions bilatérales suivantes qui sont remises en vigueur à la date de cette notification, dont il a été accusé réception le 22 février 1920:

I. MARQUES ET DESSINS DE FABRIQUE.

L'article 2 de la Convention additionnelle signée à Berlin le 12 octobre 1871, remettant en vigueur l'article 28 du Traité, conclu le 2 août 1862 entre la France et le Zollverein, relatif aux marques et dessins de fabrique. L'article 2 est le seul qui avait un caractère permanent et qui subsistait; les autres dispositions de la Convention du 12 octobre 1871 ne seraient d'ailleurs pas conformes aux stipulations du Traité de Paix de Versailles du 28 juin 1919.

II. CERTIFICATS DE JAUGE.

L'accord pour la reconnaissance mutuelle des certificats de jauge résultant des lettres de M. l'Ambassadeur d'Allemagne à Paris, en date des 30 décembre 1904 et 24 mars 1914 et des lettres du Ministre des Affaires Etrangères de la République française, en date des 18 avril 1905 et 9 juin 1914.

* Journal officiel," March 25, 1920.

Vol. LXII, page 88.

+ Vol. CXII, page 138.

§ Vol. LV, page 298.