With a view to indicating precisely the conditions in which certain provisions of the Treaty of even date are to be carried out, it is agreed by the High Contracting Parties that:

(1) The list of persons to be handed over to the Allied and Associated Governments by Austria under the second paragraph of Article 173 shall be communicated to the Austrian Government within a month from the coming into force of the Treaty;

(2) The Reparation Commission referred to in Article 186 and paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 of Annex IV, and the special Section provided for in Article 179, cannot require trade secrets or other confidential information to be divulged.

(3) From the signature of the Treaty and within the ensuing four months Austria will be entitled to submit for examination by the Allied and Associated Powers documents and proposals in order to expedite the work connected with reparation, and thus to shorten the investigation and to accelerate the decisions:

(4) Proceedings will be taken against the persons who have committed punishable offences in the liquidation of Austrian property, and the Allied and Associated Powers will welcome any information. or evidence which the Austrian Government can furnish on this subject.

Done in French, in English and in Italian, of which the French text shall prevail in case of divergence, at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the tenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen. [Signed by the same Plenipotentiaries who signed the Treaty of Peace.]

DECLARATION.

With a view to minimising the losses arising from the sinking of ships and cargoes in the course of the war, and to facilitating the recovery of ships and cargoes which can be salved and the adjustment of the private claims arising with regard thereto, the Austrian Government undertakes to supply all the information in its power which may be of assistance to the Governments of the Allied and Associated Powers or to their nationals with regard to vessels sunk or damaged by the Austrian naval forces during the period of hostilities.

This Declaration made in French, in English and in Italian, of which the French text shall prevail in case of divergence, and signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the tenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

[Signed by the same Plenipotentiaries who signed the Treaty of Peace.]

SPECIAL DECLARATION.

The Austrian Government undertakes, in case of a request by the Governments of the United States, the British Empire, France and Italy, effectively to prohibit the import, export and transit of all articles between Austria and Hungary, and to maintain such prohibition up to the time of the formal acceptance by the Government of Hungary of the terms of peace proposed by the Allied and Associated Governments.

This Declaration made in French, in English and in Italian, of which the French text shall prevail in case of divergence, and signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the tenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

RENNER.

FRANK L. POLK.

HENRY WHITE.

TASKER H. BLISS.

ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR.
MILNER.

G. N. BARNES.

A. E. KEMP.

G. F. PEARCE.
MILNER.

THOS. MACKENZIE.
SINHA OF RAIPUR.

G. CLEMENCEAU.

S. PICHON.

L. L. KLOTZ.

ANDRÉ TARDIEU.

JULES CAMBON.

TOM. TITTONI. VITTORIO SCIALOJA. MAGGIORINO FERRARIS.

GUGLIELMO MARCONI.

S. CHINDA.

K. MATSUI.

H. IJUIN.

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS AND BULGARIA,

AND PROTOCOL.1

Signed at Neuilly-sur-Seine, November 27, 1919.

The United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy and Japan.

These Powers being described in the present Treaty as the Principal Allied and Associated Powers;

Belgium, China, Cuba, Greece, the Hedjaz, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, Siam and Czecho-Slovakia, These Powers constituting, with the Principal Powers mentioned above, the Allied and Associated Powers, of the one part;

And Bulgaria, of the other part;

Whereas on the request of the Royal Government of Bulgaria an Armistice was granted to Bulgaria on September 29, 1918, by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers in order that a Treaty of Peace might be concluded, and

Whereas the Allied and Associated Powers are equally desirous that the war in which certain among them were successively involved, directly or indirectly, against Bulgaria, and which originated in the declaration of war against Serbia on July 28, 1914, by AustriaHungary, and in the hostilities opened by Bulgaria against Serbia on October 11, 1915, and conducted by Germany in alliance with Austria-Hungary, with Turkey and with Bulgaria, should be replaced by a firm, just and durable Peace.

1 British Treaty Series, 1920, No. 5. It is impracticable to reproduce in this Supplement the map annexed to the treaty. This treaty not ratified by the United States of America at the date of publication herein.