Agreement on May 15, 1886, regarding the sealing of railway trucks subject to custom inspections, and protocol of May 18, 1907. Agreement of May 15, 1886, regarding the technical standardization of railways, as modified on May 18, 1907. Sanitary Convention 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. Conventions 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 publications. International conventions of Paris of March 20, 1883, as revised at Washington in 1911, for the protection of industrial property. International convention 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 works. ANNEX II. Agreement of Madrid of April 14, 1891, for the prevention of false indications of origin on goods, revised at Washington in 1911, and agreement of Madrid, of April 14, 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. 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. 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. 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. In faith whereof the above-named plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty. Done at Versailles, 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. INTERNATIONAL CONCILIATION Published monthly by the American Association for International Conciliation. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL CONCILIATION SUB-STATION 84 (407 WEST 117TH STREET) NEW YORK CITY TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY 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, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL,CHINA, CUBA, ECUADOR, GREECE, GUATEMALA, HAITI, THE HEDJAZ, HONDURAS, LIBERIA, NICARAGUA, PANAMA, PERU, POLAND, PORTUGAL, ROUMANIA, THE SERB-CROATSLOVENE STATE, SIAM, CZECHO-SLOVAKIA and URUGUAY, These Powers constituting with the Principal Powers mentioned above the Allied and Associated Powers, of the one part; And GERMANY, of the other part; Bearing in mind that on the request of the Imperial German Government an Armistice was granted on November 11, 1918, to Germany by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers in order that a Treaty of Peace might be concluded with her, and The Allied and Associated Powers being equally desirous that the war in which they were successively involved directly or indirectly and which originated in the declaration of war by AustriaHungary on July 28, 1914, against Serbia, the declaration of war by Germany against Russia on August 1, 1914, and against France on August 3, 1914, and in the invasion of Belgium, should be replaced by a firm, just and durable Peace, For this purpose the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES represented as follows: |