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 the present Treaty no general convention as aforesaid shall have been concluded under the auspices of the League of Nations, the Serb-Croat-Slovene State 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 16. 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 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 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the tenth day of September 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.) A. E. KEMP. (L.S.) THOS. MACKENZIE. (L.S.) JULES CAMBON. (L.S.) VITTORIO SCIALOJA. (L.S.) MAGGIORINO FERRARIS. (L.S.) GUGLIELMO MARCONI. (L.S.) S. CHINDA. (L.S.) K. MATsui. (L.S.) H. IJUIN. AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BELGIUM, THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CHINA, CUBA, FRANCE, GREECE, ITALY, JAPAN, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, POLAND, PORTUGAL, ROUMANIA, THE SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE STATE, SIAM AND THE CZECHO-SLOVAK STATE WITH REGARD TO THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COST OF LIBERATION OF THE TERRITORIES OF THE FORMER AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY. SIGNED AT SAINT-GERMAIN-EN-LAYE, SEPTEMBER 10, 1919.* The undersigned, duly authorised by their respective Governments, have agreed on the following provisions : ARTICLE 1. Poland, Roumania, the Serb-Croat-Slovene State and the Czecho-Slovak State, as States to which territory of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy is transferred or States arising from the dismemberment of that Monarchy, severally agree to pay, as a contribution towards the expenses of liberating the said territories, sums not exceeding in the aggregate the equivalent of 1,500,000,000 fr. gold, the gold franc being taken as of the weight and fineness of gold as enacted by law on January 1, 1914. ARTICLE 2. The amount of the contribution referred to in Article 1 shall be divided between the said States on the basis of the ratio between the average for the three financial years 1911, 1912 and 1913 of the revenues of the territories acquired by them from the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the revenues of the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina being excluded from this calculation. "Treaty Series. No. 14 (1919).” The revenues forming the basis for this calculation shall be those adopted by the Reparation Commission, in accordance with Article 203, Part IX (Financial Clauses) of the Treaty of Peace with Austria, as best calculated to represent the financial capacity of the respective territories. Nevertheless, in no case shall the sum paid by the Czecho-Slovak State exceed the sum of 750,000,000 fr. Should the contribution attributable to the Czecho-Slovak State exceed the sum of 750,000,000 fr., the difference between that sum and the sum of 750,000,000, fr. shall be in diminution of the aggregate sum of 1,500,000,000 fr. and shall not be attributable to the other States. ARTICLE 3. The amount due as above by each State for liberation, together with the value of the property and possessions of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy transferred to each of them, assessed in accordance with Article 207, Part IX (Financial Clauses) of the Treaty of Peace with Austria, shall be set off against the approved claims, if any, of these States for reparation. ARTICLE 4. If in the case of any of the above States the amount due for liberation and the value of property transferred is in excess of the approved reparation claims, that State shall, within three months of the notification to it by the Reparation Commission of the amount, if any, of its approved claims for reparation, issue bonds to the amount of this excess and shall deliver them to such person or body as the Governments of the United States of America, the British Empire, France and Italy may designate. The above bonds shall be to bearer, principal and interest being payable by the issuing State without deduction for any tax or charge imposed by it or under its authority. The bonds shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, beginning on January 1, 1926. They shall be repaid in twenty-five equal annual drawings, beginning on January 1, 1931. The issuing State, however, may, at its option, redeem all or part of the bonds issued by it at par and accrued interest at any time, provided ninety days' notice of its intention so to do is given to the Governments of the United States of America, the British Empire, France and Italy. ARTICLE 5. In the case of those States whose approved claims for reparation are in excess of the amount due for liberation and the value of property transferred, the amount chargeable to these States in accordance with Article 3 shall be reckoned as payments by way of reparation, and no further payments on account of repara tion shall be made to them until the other States to which reparation is due shall have received payments on account of a like proportion of their approved claims for reparation. Done in French, in English and in Italian, of which in case of divergence the French text shall prevail, at Saint-Germain-enLaye, the tenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen. (L.S.) FRANK L. POLK. (L.S.) HENRY WHITE. (L.S.) TASKER H. BLISS. (L.S.) HYMANS. (L.S.) J. VAN DEN HEUVEL. (L.S.) E. VANDERVELDE. (L.S.) ARTHUR JAMES BALfour. (L.S.) MILNER. (L.S.) GEO. N. BARNES. (L.S.) A. E. KEMP. (L.S.) G. F. PEARCE. (L.S.) MILNER. (L.S.) THOS. MACKENZIE. (L.S.) SINHA OF RAIPUR. (L.S.) J. R. LOUTSENGTSIANG. (L.S.) CHENGTING THOMAS WANG. (L.S.) ANTONIO S. DE BUSTAMENTE. (L.S.) G. CLEmenceau. (L.S.) S. PICHON. (L.S.) L. L. KLOTZ. (L.S.) ANDRÉ TARDIEU. (L.S.) JULES CAMBON. (L.S.) N. POLITIS. (L.S.) A. ROMANOS. (L.S.) TOM. TITTONI (L.S.) VITTORIO SCIALOJA. (L.S.) MAGGIORINO FERRARIS. (L.S.) GUGLIELMO MARCONI. (L.S.) S. CHINDA. (L.S.) K. MATSUI. (L.S.) SALVADOR CHAMORRO. (L.S.) TRAIDOS PRABANDHU. (L.S.) D. KAREL KRAMÁŘ. (L.S.) DR. EDUARD BENEŠ. |