Roumania also undertakes to extend to all the Allied and Associated Powers any favors 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 and Associated Powers have been at war, or to any State which in virtue of Article 222 of the Treaty with Austria 1 has special Customs arrangements with such States. ARTICLE 14. Pending the conclusion of the general convention referred to above, Roumania undertakes to treat on the same footing as national vessels or vessels of the most favored nation the vessels of all the Allied and Associated Powers which accord similar treatment to Roumanian vessels. As an exception from this provision, the right of Roumania or of any other Allied or Associated Power to confine her maritime coasting trade to national vessels is expressly reserved. ARTICLE 15.. 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, Roumania undertakes to accord freedom of transit to persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and mails in transit to or from any Allied or Associated State over Roumanian territory, including territorial waters, and to treat them at least as favorably as the persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and mails respectively of Roumanian or of any other more favored nationality, origin, importation or ownership, as regards facilities, charges, restrictions and all other matters. All charges imposed in Roumania 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 across Roumania and tariffs between Roumania and any Allied or Associated Power involving through tickets or waybills shall be established at the request of the Allied or Associated Power concerned. Freedom of transit will extend to postal, telegraphic and telephonic services. Provided 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 this Treaty no general convention as aforesaid shall have been concluded under the auspices of the League of Nations, Roumania 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. ARTICLE 16. Pending the conclusion of a general convention on the international régime of waterways, Roumania undertakes to apply to such portions of the river system of the Pruth as may lie within, or form 1 See p. 3230. the boundary of, her territory, the régime set out in the first parsgraph of Article 332 and in Articles 333 to 338 of the Treaty of Peace with Germany. ARTICLE 17. All rights and privileges accorded by the foregoing Articles to the Allied and Associated 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 Austria. The deposit of ratifications shall be made at Paris. Powers of which the seat of the Government is outside Europe will be entitled to inform the Government of the French Republic through their diplomatic representative at Paris that their ratification Eas been given; in that case they must transmit the instrument of rat.fication as soon as possible. A procès-verbal of the deposit of ratifications will be drawn up. The French Government will transmit to all signatory Powers a certified copy of the procès-verbal of the deposit of ratifications. DONE at Paris, the ninth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, in a single copy which will remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the French Republic, and of which authenticated copies will be transmitted to each of the Signatory Powers. Plenipotentiaries who in consequence of their temporary absence from Paris have not signed the present Treaty may do so up to December 20, 1919. IN FAITH WHEREOF the hereinafter-named Plenipotentiaries, whose powers have been found in good and due form, have signed the present Treaty. (L.S.) FRANK L. POLK. SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE STATE. 1919. TREATY BETWEEN THE PRINCIPAL ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS AND THE SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE STATE. Signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye September 10, 1919.1 Chapter I. ARTICLES. 1. Establishes articles 2-8 as 3. Residents of territory as re- 5. Option of nationality not to 6. Serb-Croat-Slovene ity by birth. national Chapter I-Continued. 7. Equality of Serb-Croat-Slovene 8. Treatment of minorities. 10. Musulman usage protected. Chapter II. 12. Maintenance of treaties. merce. 14. Most-favored-nation treatment of shipping. 15. Communications and transit provisions. 16. Extension to League of Nations members; ratification. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE BRITISH EMPIRE, FRANCE, ITALY AND JAPAN The Principal Allied and Associated Powers, on the one hand; And THE SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE STATE, on the other hand; Whereas since the commencement of the year 1913 extensive territories have been added to the Kingdom of Serbia, and Whereas the Serb, Croat and Slovene peoples of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy have of their own free will determined to unite with Serbia in a permanent union for the purpose of forming a single sovereign independent State under the title of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and Whereas the Prince Regent of Serbia and the Serbian Government have agreed to this union, and in consequence the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes has been constituted and has assumed sovereignty over the territories inhabited by these peoples, and Whereas it is necessary to regulate certain matters of international concern arising out of the said additions of territory and of this union, and 1 Ratifications have been deposited by the British Empire, France, Italy, and Japan. The Serb-Croat-Slovene State acceded on December 5, 1919. Whereas it is desired to free Serbia from certain obligations which she undertook by the Treaty of Berlin of 1878 to certain Powers and to substitute for them obligations to the League of Nations, and Whereas the Serb-Croat-Slovene State of its own free will desires to give to the populations of all territories included within the State. of whatever race, language or religion they may be, full guarantees that they shall continue to be governed in accordance with the principles of liberty and justice; For this purpose the High Contracting Parties have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries: THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The Honourable Frank Lyon POLK, Under-Secretary of State: General Tasker H. BLISS, Military Representative of the United HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF The Right Honourable Arthur James BALFOUR, O.M., M.P., His The Right Honourable Andrew Bonar LAW, M.P., His Lord The Right Honourable Viscount MILNER, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., His The Right Honourable George Nicoll BARNES, M.P., Minister And for the DOMINION OF CANADA: The Honourable Sir Albert Edward KEMP, K.C.M.G., Minister of the Overseas Forces: for the COMMONWEALTH of AUSTRALIA: The Honourable George Foster PEARCE, Minister of Defence; for the UNION of SOUTH AFRICA: The Right Honourable Viscount MILNER, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.; 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 INDIA: The Right Honourable Baron SINHA, K.C., Under-Secretary of THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC: Mr. Georges CLEMENCEAU, President of the Council, Minister of Mr. Stephen PICHON, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Mr. Louis-Lucien KLOTZ, Minister of Finance; Mr. André TARDIEU, Commissary General for Franco-American Mr. Jules CAMBON, Ambassador of France; HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF ITALY: The Honourable Tommaso TITTONI, Senator of the Kingdom, The Honourable Vittorio SCIALOJA, Senator of the Kingdom; The Honourable Guglielmo MARCONI, Senator of the Kingdom; HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN:. Viscount CHINDA, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of H.M. the Emperor of Japan at London; Mr. K. MATSUI, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of H.M. the Emperor of Japan at Paris; Mr. H. IJUIN, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of H.M. the Emperor of Japan at Rome; HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE SERBS, THE CROATS, Mr. Nicholas P. PACHITCH, formerly President of the Council of Mr. Ante TRUMBIČ, Minister for Foreign Affairs: Mr. Ivan ZOLGER, Doctor of Law; Who, after having exchanged their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows: The Principal Allied and Associated Powers, taking into consideration the obligations contracted under the present Treaty by the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, declare that the Serb-Croat-Slovene State is definitely discharged from the obligations undertaken in Article 35 of the Treaty of Berlin of July 13, 1878. CHAPTER I. ARTICLE 1. The Serb-Croat-Slovene State undertakes that the stipulations contained in Articles 2 to 8 of this Chapter shall be recognised as fundamental laws, and that no law, regulation or official action shall conflict or interfere with these stipulations, nor shall any law, regulation or official action prevail over them. ARTICLE 2. The Serb-Croat-Slovene State undertakes to assure full and complete protection of life and liberty to all inhabitants of the Kingdom without distinction of birth, nationality, language, race or religion. All inhabitants of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes shall be entitled to the free exercise, whether public or private, of any creed, religion or belief, whose practices are not inconsistent with public order or public morals. ARTICLE 3. Subject to the special provisions of the Treaties mentioned below the Serb-Croat-Slovene State admits and declares to be Serb-CroatSlovene nationals ipso facto and without the requirement of any 29479-S. 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