Joint Brandenburg/Austria/Italia News type stuff

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Announcement from Paris October 1st 1919:

This is a joint announcement from the Empire of Italia and the Brandenburg Empire Foreign Offices in Paris.
The Empire's of Italia and Brandenburg has been in constant negotiations with the Kingdom of New Zion.  To that end the Kingdom of New Zion has insisted on fighting on perhaps to buy their New Swiss masters time to escape which they have now done.   This has caused needless bloodshed and displacement among the civilian population of New Zion.
Because New Zion in the past has shown no desire or willingness to abide by the short treaties and gentleman like agreements that have been used to outline their relations with their neighbors in the past the Empire of Brandenburg and the Empire of Italia have worked to create a document that we hope will bring a lasting peace to war torn East Africa.  The treaty is long and complex but it needs be to spell out in clear and concise terms the rules under which New Zion will continue to exist as a State with the protection and cooperation of her neighbors.

To that end the Empire of Brandenburg and Italia release a working outline of the proposed treaty which New Zion has rejected completely.

Disregard dates in the treaty, they'll change I'm sure. Also this things long, so please don't post in this thread I want to keep it together.

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PART I. FRONTIERS OF ZION.
ARTICLE 1.

The frontiers of Zion shall be fixed as follows:

1. With Italy:
From (Fill in blanks once we have it decided)

2. With Brandenburg;
From (Fill in blanks once we have it decided)

3. With France:
From (Fill in blanks once we have it decided)

4. With Grand Columbia
From (Fill in blanks once we have it decided)

5. With Egypt
From (Fill in blanks once we have it decided)


ARTICLE 2.
Boundary Commissions, whose composition is or will be fixed in the present Treaty or in any other Treaty between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and the, or any, interested States, will have to trace these frontiers on the ground.

They shall have the power, not only of fixing those portions which are defined as "a line to be fixed on the ground," but also, where a request to that effect is made by one of the States concerned, and the Commission is satisfied that it is desirable to do so, of revising portions defined by administrative boundaries; this shall not, however, apply in the case of international frontiers existing in June, 1919, where the task of the Commission will confine itself to the re-establishment of signposts and boundary marks. They shall endeavor in both cases to follow as nearly as possible the descriptions given in the Treaties, taking into account as far as possible administrative boundaries and local economic interests.

The decisions of the Commissions will be taken by a majority, and shall be binding on the parties concerned.

The expenses of the Boundary Commissions will be borne in equal shares by the two States concerned.

ARTICLE 3.
In so far as frontiers defined by a waterway are concerned, the phrases "course" or "channel" used in the descriptions of the present Treaty signify, as regards non-navigable rivers, the median line of the waterway or of its principal branch, and as regards navigable rivers, the median line of the principal channel of navigation. It will rest with the Boundary Commissions provided for by the present Treaty to specify whether the frontier line shall follow any changes of the course or channel which may take place, or whether it shall be definitely fixed by the position of the course or channel at the time when the present Treaty comes into force.

ARTICLE 4.
The various States interested undertake to furnish to the Commissions all documents necessary for their tasks, especially authentic copies of agreements fixing existing or old frontiers, all large scale maps in existence, geodetic data, surveys completed but unpublished, and information concerning the changes of frontier watercourses.

They also undertake to instruct the local authorities to communicate to the Commissions all documents, especially plans, cadastral and land books, and to furnish on demand all details regarding property, existing economic conditions, and other necessary information.

ARTICLE 5.
The various States interested undertake to give every assistance to the Boundary Commissions, whether directly or through local authorities, in everything that concerns transport, accommodation, labor, material (signposts, boundary pillars) necessary for the accomplishment of their mission.

ARTICLE 6.
The various States interested undertake to safeguard the trigonometrical points, signals, posts or frontier marks erected by the Commission.

ARTICLE 7.
The pillars will be placed so as to be inter-visible; they will be numbered, and their position and their number will be noted on a cartographic document.

ARTICLE 8.
The protocols defining the boundary and the maps and documents attached thereto will be made out in triplicate, of which two copies will be forwarded to the Governments of the limitrophe States and the third to the Government of the French Republic, which will deliver authentic copies
to the Powers who sign the present Treaty.

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PART II.
POLITICAL CLAUSES FOR AFRICA
SECTION I.
ITALY.

ARTICLE 9.
Zion renounces so far as she is concerned in favor of the Kingdom of Italy all rights and title over the territories of the former Zionist Monarchy situated outside the frontiers of Zion as laid down in Article 1, Part I (Frontiers of Zion) and recognized by the present Treaty, or by any Treaties concluded for the purpose of completing the present settlement, as forming part of the Kingdom of Italy.

ARTICLE 10.
Zion shall restore to Italy within a period of three months all the wagons belonging to the Italian railways which before the outbreak of war had passed into Zion and are now in Zion.

ARTICLE 11.
Persons having their usual residence in the territories of the former Zionist Monarchy transferred to Italy who, during the war, have been outside the territories of the former Zionist Monarchy or have been imprisoned, interned or evacuated, shall enjoy the full benefit of Part VII (Economic Clauses) of the present Treaty.

ARTICLE 12.
Judgments rendered since June 1, 1919, by the courts in the territory transferred to Italy, in civil and commercial cases between the inhabitants of such territory and other nationals of the former Kingdom of Zion, shall not be carried into effect until after endorsement by the corresponding new court in such territory.

All decisions rendered for political crimes or offenses since June 1, 1919, by the judicial authorities of the former Zionist Monarchy against Italian nationals, or against persons who acquire Italian nationality in accordance with this Treaty of Peace, shall be annulled.

SECTION II .
BRANDENBURG.

ARTICLE 13.
Zion renounces so far as she is concerned in favor of the German Kingdom of Brandenburg all rights and title over the territories of the former Zionist Monarchy situated outside the frontiers of Zion as laid down in Article 1, Part I (Frontiers of Zion) and recognized by the present Treaty, or by any Treaties concluded for the purpose of completing the present settlement, as forming part of the German Kingdom of Brandenburg.

ARTICLE 14.
Zion shall restore to Brandenburg within a period of three months all the wagons belonging to the Brandenburgian railways which before the outbreak of war had passed into Zion and are now in Zion.

ARTICLE 15.
Persons having their usual residence in the territories of the former Zionist Monarchy transferred to Brandenburg who, during the war, have been outside the territories of the former Zionist Monarchy or have been imprisoned, interned or evacuated, shall enjoy the full benefit of the provisions of Part VII (Economic Clauses) of the present Treaty.

ARTICLE 16.
Judgments rendered since June 1, 1919, by the courts in the territory transferred to Brandenburg, in civil and commercial cases between the inhabitants of such territory and other nationals of the former Kingdom of Zion, shall not be carried into effect until after endorsement by the corresponding new court in such territory.

All decisions rendered for political crimes or offenses since June 1, 1919, by the judicial authorities of the former Zionist Monarchy against Brandenburgian nationals, or against persons who acquire Brandenburg nationality in accordance with this Treaty of Peace, shall be annulled.

SECTION III.
PROTECTION OF MINORITIES.

ARTICLE 17.
Zion undertakes that the stipulations contained in this Section shall be recognized as fundamental laws, and that no law, regulation or official action shall connect or interfere with these stipulations, nor shall any law, regulation or official action prevail over them.

ARTICLE 18.
Zion undertakes to assure full and complete protection of life and liberty to all inhabitants of Zion without distinction of birth, nationality, language, race or religion.

All inhabitants of Zion 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 19.
Zion admits and declares to be Zionist nationals ipso facto and without the requirement of any formality all persons possessing at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty rights of citizenship (pertinenza) within Zionist territory who are not nationals of any other State.

ARTICLE 20.
All persons born in Zionist territory who are not born nationals of another State shall ipso facto become Zionist nationals.

ARTICLE 21.
All Zionist nationals shall be equal before the law and shall enjoy the same civil and political rights without distinction as to race, language or religion.

Difference of religion, creed or confession shall not prejudice any Zionist national in matters relating to the enjoyment of civil or political rights, as for instance admission to public employments, functions and honors, or the exercise of professions and industries.

No restriction shall be imposed on the free use by any Zionist national of any language in private intercourse, in commerce, in religion, in the press or in publications of any kind, or at public meetings.

Notwithstanding any establishment by the Zionist Government of an official language, adequate facilities shall be given to Zionist nationals of non-Hebrew speech for the use of their language, either orally or in writing before the Courts.

Zionist nationals who belong to racial, religious, or linguistic minorities shall enjoy the same treatment and security in law and in fact as the other Zionist nationals. In particular they shall have an equal right to establish, manage, and control at their own expense charitable, religious, and social institutions, schools and other educational establishments, with the right to use their own language and to exercise their religion freely therein.

ARTICLE 22.
Zion will provide in the public educational system in towns and districts in which a considerable proportion of Zionist nationals of other than Hebrew speech are resident adequate facilities for ensuring that in the primary schools the instruction shall be given to the children of such Zionist nationals through the medium of their own language. This provision shall not prevent the Zionist Government from making the teaching of the Hebrew language obligatory in the said schools.

In towns and districts where there is a considerable proportion of Zionist nationals belonging to racial, religious, or linguistic minorities, these minorities shall be assured an equitable share in the enjoyment and application of sums which may be provided out of public funds under the State, municipal or other budgets, for educational, religious, or charitable purposes.

SECTION IV.
CLAUSES RELATING TO NATIONALITY.

ARTICLE 23.
Every person possessing rights of citizenship (pertinenza) in territory which formed part of the territories of the former Zionist Monarchy shall obtain ipso facto to the exclusion of Zionist nationality the nationality of the State exercising sovereignty over such territory.

ARTICLE 24.
Persons over 18 years of age losing their Zionist nationality and obtaining ipso facto a new nationality under Article 26 shall be entitled within a period of one year from the coming into force of the present Treaty to opt for the nationality of the State in which they possessed rights of citizenship before acquiring such rights in the territory-transferred.

Option by a husband will cover his wife and option by parents will cover their children under 18 years of age.

Persons who have exercised the above right to opt must within the succeeding twelve months transfer their place of residence to the State for which they have opted.

They will be entitled to retain their immovable personal property in the territory of the other State where they had their place of residence before exercising their right to opt.

They may carry with them their movable personal property of every description. No export or import duties may be imposed upon them in connection with the removal of such personal property.

ARTICLE 25.
Persons possessing rights of citizenship in territory forming part of the former Zionist Monarchy, and differing in race and language from the majority of the population of such territory, shall within six months from the coming into force of the present Treaty severally be entitled to opt for Austria-Hungary, Zion, Italy,  or Brandenburg, if the majority of the population of the State selected is of the same race and language as the person exercising the right to opt. The provisions of Article 24 as to the exercise of the right of option shall apply to the right of option given by this Article.

ARTICLE 26.
For the purposes of the provisions of this Section, the status of a married woman will be governed by that of her husband, and the status of children under 18 years of age by that of their parents.

SECTION V.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.

ARTICLE 27.
The independence of Zion is inalienable otherwise than with the consent of the Kingdoms of Italy, Brandenburg, and Austria-Hungary. Consequently, Zion undertakes in the absence of the consent of the said Kingdoms to abstain from any act which might directly or indirectly or by any means whatever compromise her independence, particularly by participation in the affairs of another Power.

ARTICLE 28.
Zion hereby recognizes and accepts the frontiers of Italy, Brandenburg, Egypt, and Grand Colombia as these frontiers may be determined by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.

Zion undertakes to recognize the full force of the Treaties of Peace and additional conventions which have been or may be concluded by the Allied and Associated Powers with the Powers who fought on the side of the former Zionist Monarchy, and to recognize whatever dispositions have been or may be made concerning the territories of these other Powers, and to recognize the new States within their frontiers as there laid down.

ARTICLE 29.
Zion renounces, so far as she is concerned, in favor of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers all rights and title over the territories which previously belonged to the former Zionist Monarchy and which, being situated outside the new frontiers of Zion as described in Article 1, Part I (Frontiers of Zion), have not at present been otherwise disposed of.

Zion undertakes to accept the settlement made by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers in regard to these territories, particularly in so far as concerns the nationality of the inhabitants.

ARTICLE 30.
No inhabitant of the territories of the former Zionist Monarchy shall be disturbed or molested on account either of his political attitude between May 28, 1919, and the definitive settlement of the sovereignty over these territories, or of the determination of his nationality effected by the present Treaty.

ARTICLE 31.
Zion will hand over without delay to the Allied and Associated Governments concerned archives, registers, plans, title-deeds and documents of every kind belonging to the civil, military, financial, judicial or other forms of administration in the ceded territories. If any one of these documents, archives, registers, title-deeds or plans is missing, it shall be restored by Zion upon the demand of the Allied or Associated Government concerned.

In case the archives, registers, plans, title-deeds or documents referred to in the preceding paragraph, exclusive of those of a military character, concern equally the administrations in Zion, and cannot therefore be handed over without inconvenience to such administrations, Zion undertakes, subject to reciprocity, to give access thereto to the Allied and Associated Governments concerned.

ARTICLE 32.
Separate conventions between Zion and each of the States to which territory of the former Kingdom of Zion is transferred, and each of the States arising from the dismemberment of the former Zionist Monarchy, will provide for the interests of the inhabitants, especially in connection with their civil rights, their commerce and the exercise of their professions.

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PART III.
ZIONITE INTERESTS OUTSIDE AFRICA.

ARTICLE 33.
In territory outside her frontiers as fixed by the present Treaty Zion renounces, so far as she is concerned, all rights, titles and privileges in or over territory outside Africa which belonged to the former Zionist Monarchy, or to its allies, and all rights, titles and privileges whatever their origin which it held as against the Allied and Associated Powers.

Zion undertakes immediately to recognize and to conform to the measures which may be taken now or in the future by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, in agreement where necessary with third Powers, in order to carry the above stipulation into effect.

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PART IV.
MILITARY, NAVAL, AND AIR CLAUSES.

In order to render possible the initiation of a general limitation of the armaments of all nations, Zion undertakes strictly to observe the military, naval, and air clauses which follow.

SECTION I.
MILITARY CLAUSES.

CHAPTER I.
GENERAL.

ARTICLE 34.
Within three months of the coming into force of the present Treaty, the military forces of Zion shall be demobilized to the extent prescribed hereinafter.

ARTICLE 35.
Universal compulsory military service shall be abolished in Zion. The Zionist Army shall in future only be constituted and recruited by means of voluntary enlistment.

CHAPTER II.
EFFECTIVES AND CADRES OF THE ZIONITE ARMY.

ARTICLE 36.
The total number of military forces in the Zionist Army shall not exceed 35,000 men, including officers and depot troops.

Subject to the following limitations, the formations composing the Zionist Army shall be fixed in accordance with the wishes of Zion:

(1) The effectiveness of units must be fixed between the maximum and minimum figures shown in Table No. IV annexed to this Section.

(2) The proportion of officers, including the personnel of staffs and special services, shall not exceed one-twentieth of the total effectiveness with the colors, and that of non-commissioned officers shall not exceed one-fifteenth of the total effectiveness with the colors

(3) The number of machine guns, guns. and howitzers shall not exceed per thousand men of the total effectiveness with the colors those fixed in Table V annexed to this Section.

The Zionist Army shall be devoted exclusively to the maintenance of order within the territory of Zion, and to the control of her frontiers.

ARTICLE 37.
The maximum strength of the staffs and of all formations which Zion may be permitted to raise are given in the tables annexed to this Section; these figures need not be exactly followed, but must not be exceeded.

All other organizations for the command of troops or for preparation for war are forbidden.

ARTICLE 38.
All measures of mobilization, or appertaining to mobilization are forbidden.

In no case must formations, administrative services, or staffs include supplementary cadres.

The carrying out of any preparatory measures with a view to requisitioning animals or other means of military transport is forbidden.

ARTICLE 39.
The number of gendarmes, customs officers, foresters, members of the local or municipal police or other like officials may not exceed the number of men employed in a similar capacity in 1918 within the boundaries of Zion as fixed by the present Treaty. The Principal Allied and Associated Powers may, however, increase this number should the Commission of Control referred to in Article , after examination on the spot, consider it to be insufficient

The number of these officials shall not be increased in the future except as may be necessary to maintain the same proportion between the number of officials and the total population in the localities or municipalities which employ them.

These officials, as well as officials employed in the railway service, must not be assembled for the purpose of taking part in any military exercises.

ARTICLE 40.
Every formation of troops not included in the tables annexed to this Section is forbidden. Such other formations as may exist in excess of the 35,000 effectives authorized shall be suppressed within the period laid down by Article 34.

CHAPTER III.
RECRUITING AND MILITARY TRAINING.

ARTICLE 41.
All officers must be regulars (officers de carrière). Officers now serving who are retained in the army must undertake the obligation to serve in it up to the age of 40 years at least. Officers now serving who do not join the new army will be released from all military obligations; they must not take part in any military exercises, whether theoretical or practical.

Officers newly appointed must undertake to serve on the active list for 20 consecutive years at least.

The number of officers discharged for any reason before the expiration of their term of service must not exceed in any year one-twentieth of the total of officers provided for in Article 39. If this proportion is unavoidably exceeded, the resulting shortage must not be made good by fresh appointments.

ARTICLE 42.
The period of enlistment for non-commissioned officers and privates must be for a total period of not less than 12 consecutive years, including at least 6 years with the colors

The proportion of men discharged before the expiration of the period of their enlistment for reasons of health or as a result of disciplinary measures or for any other reasons must not in any year exceed one-twentieth of the total strength fixed by Article 39. If this proportion is unavoidably exceeded, the resulting shortage must not be made good by fresh enlistments

CHAPTER IV.
SCHOOLS, EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS, MILITARY CLUBS AND SOCIETIES.

ARTICLE 43.
The number of students admitted to attend the courses in military schools shall be strictly in proportion to the vacancies to be filled in the cadres of officers. The students and the cadres shall be included in the effectives fixed by Article 36.

Consequently all military schools not required for this purpose shall be abolished.

ARTICLE 44.
Educational establishments, as well as all sporting and other clubs, must not occupy themselves with any military matters.

CHAPTER V.
ARMAMENT, MUNITIONS, AND MATERIAL.
SECTION I.

ARTICLE 45.
On the expiration of three months from the coming into force of the present Treaty, the armament of the Zionist Army shall not exceed the figures fixed per thousand men in Table No. V annexed to this Section.

Any excess in relation to effectives shall only be used for such replacements as may eventually be necessary.

ARTICLE 46.
The stock of munitions at the disposal of the Zionist Army shall not exceed the amounts fixed in Table No. V annexed to this Section.

Within three months from the coming into force of the present Treaty the Zionist Government shall deposit any existing surplus of armament and munitions in such places as shall be notified to it by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.

No other stock, depot or reserve of munitions shall be formed.

ARTICLE 47.
The manufacture of arms, munitions and war material shall only be carried on in one single factory, which shall be controlled by and belong to the State, and whose output shall be strictly limited to the manufacture of such arms, munitions and war material as is necessary for the military forces and armaments referred to in Articles 36, 39, 45 and 46. The Principal Allied and Associated Powers may, however, authorize such manufacture, for such a period as they may think fit, in one or more other factories to be approved by the Commission of Control referred to in Article.

The manufacture of sporting weapons is not forbidden, provided that sporting weapons manufactured in Zion taking ball cartridge are not of the same calibre as that of military weapons used in any European army.

Within three months from the coming into force of the present Treaty, all other establishments for the manufacture, preparation, storage or design of arms, munitions or any other war material shall be closed down or converted to purely commercial uses.

Within the same length of time, all arsenals shall also be closed down, except those to be used as depots for the authorized stocks of munitions, and their staffs discharged.

ARTICLE 48.
The plant of any establishments or arsenals in excess of the amount required for the manufacture authorized shall be rendered useless or converted to purely commercial purposes in accordance with the decisions of the Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control referred to in Article .

ARTICLE 49.
Within three months from the coming into force of the present Treaty all arms, munitions and war material, including any kind of anti-aircraft material, of whatever origin, existing in Zion in excess of the quantity authorized shall be handed over to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.

Delivery shall take place at such points in Zionist territory as may be appointed by the said Powers, who shall also decide on the disposal of such material.

ARTICLE 50.
The importation into Zion of arms, munitions, and war material of all kinds is strictly forbidden.

The manufacture for foreign countries and the exportation of arms, munitions and war material shall also be forbidden.

ARTICLE 51.
The use of flame throwers, asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all similar liquids, materials or devices being prohibited, their manufacture and importation are strictly forbidden in Zion.

Material specially intended for the manufacture, storage or use of the said products or devices is equally forbidden.

The manufacture and importation into Zion of armoured cars, tanks, or any similar machines suitable for use in war are equally forbidden.

TABLE NO. I.
COMPOSITION AND MAXIMUM EFFECTIVES OF AN INFANTRY DIVISION.

TABLE NO. II.
COMPOSITION AND MAXIMUM EFFECTIVES FOR A CAVALRY DIVISION.

TABLE NO. III.
COMPOSITION AND MAXIMUM EFFECTIVES FOR A MIXED BRIGADE.

TABLE NO. IV.
MINIMUM EFFECTlVES OF UNITS WHATEVER ORGANISATION IS ADOPTED IN THE ARMY.

TABLE NO. V.
MAXIMUM AUTHORISED ARMAMENTS AND MUNITION SUPPLIES.

SECTION II.
NAVAL CLAUSES.

ARTICLE 52.
From the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty all Zionist warships, submarines included, are declared to be finally surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.

ARTICLE 53.
All warships, including submarines, now under construction in Zionist ports, or in ports which previously belonged to the Zionist Monarchy, shall be broken up.

The work of breaking up these vessels will be commenced as soon as possible after the coming into force of the present Treaty.

ARTICLE 54.
Articles, machinery, and material arising from the breaking up of Zionist warships of all kinds, whether surface vessels or submarines, may not be used except for purely industrial or commercial purposes.

They may not be sold or disposed of to foreign countries.

ARTICLE 55.
The construction or acquisition of any submarine, even for commercial purposes, shall be forbidden in Zion.

ARTICLE 56.
All arms, ammunition, and other naval war material, including mines and torpedoes, which belonged to Zion at the date of the signature of the Armistice of October XX, 1919, are declared to be finally surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.

ARTICLE 57.
Zion is held responsible for the delivery (Articles 52 and 56), the demolition (Article 53), as well as the use (Article 54) of the objects mentioned in the preceding Articles only so far as these remain in her own territory.

ARTICLE 58.
During the three months following the coming into force of the present Treaty, the Zionist high-power wireless telegraphy station at New Jerusalem shall not be used for the transmission of messages concerning naval, military or political questions of interest to Zion, or any State which has been allied to Zion in the war, without the assent of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. This station may be used for commercial purposes, but only under the supervision of the said Powers, who will decide the wave-length to be used.

During the same period Zion shall not build any more high-power wireless telegraphy stations in her own territory or that of New Switzerland, Orange, Oman, Ottoman Empire, or Bharat.

SECTION III.
AIR CLAUSES.

ARTICLE 59.
The armed forces of Zion must not include any military or naval air forces. No dirigible shall be kept.

ARTICLE 60.
Within two months from the coming into force of the present Treaty, the personnel of the air forces on the rolls of the Zionist land and sea forces shall be demobilized

ARTICLE 61.
Until the complete evacuation of Zionist territory by the Allied and Associated troops the aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy in Zion freedom of passage through the air, freedom of transit and of landing.

ARTICLE 62.
During the six months following the coming into force of the present Treaty, the manufacture, importation, and exportation of aircraft, parts of aircraft, engines for aircraft, and parts of engines for aircraft shall be forbidden in all Zionist territory.

ARTICLE 63.
On the coming into force of the present Treaty, all military and naval aeronautical material must be delivered by Zion and at her expense to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.

Delivery must be effected at such places as the Governments of the said Powers may select, and must be completed within three months.

In particular, this material will include all items under the following heads which are or have been in use or were designed for warlike purposes:

Complete airplanes and seaplanes, as well as those being manufactured, repaired or assembled.

Dirigibles able to take the air, being manufactured, repaired or assembled.

Plants for the manufacture of hydrogen.

Dirigible sheds and shelters of every kind for aircraft.

Pending their delivery, dirigibles will, at the expense of Zion, be maintained inflated with hydrogen; the plant for the manufacture of hydrogen, as well as the sheds for dirigibles, may at the discretion of the said Powers, be left to Zion until the time when the dirigibles are handed over.

Engines for aircraft.

Nacelles and fuselages.

Armament (guns, machine guns, light machine guns, bomb dropping apparatus, torpedo apparatus, synchronization apparatus, aiming apparatus).

Munitions (cartridges, shells, bombs loaded or unloaded, stocks of explosives or of material for their manufacture).

Instruments for use on aircraft.

Wireless apparatus and photographic or cinematographic apparatus for use on aircraft.

Component parts of any of the items under the preceding heads.

The material referred to above shall not be removed without special permission from the said Governments.

SECTION IV.
INTER-ALLIED COMMISSIONS OF CONTROL.

ARTICLE 64.
All the Military, Naval and Air Clauses contained in the present Treaty for the execution of which a time limit is prescribed shall be executed by Zion under the control of Inter-Allied Commissions specially appointed for this purpose by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.

The above-mentioned Commissions will represent the Principal Allied and Associated Powers in dealing with the Zionist Government in all matters concerning the execution of the Military, Naval, and Air Clauses. They will communicate to the Zionist authorities the decisions which the Principal Allied and Associated Powers have reserved the right to take or which the execution of the said Clauses may necessitate.

ARTICLE 65.
The Inter-Allied Commissions of Control may establish their organizations at New Jerusalem and shall be entitled, as often as they think desirable, to proceed to any point whatever in Zionist territory, or to send a sub-commission, or to authorize one or more of their members to go, to any such point

ARTICLE 66.
The Zionist Government must furnish to the Inter-Allied Commissions of Control all such information and documents as the latter may deem necessary to ensure the execution of their mission, and all means (both in personnel and in material) which the above-mentioned Commissions may need to ensure the complete execution of the Military, Naval or Air Clauses.

The Zionist Government must attach a qualified representative to each Inter-Allied Commission of Control with the duty of receiving from the latter any communications which it may have to address to the Zionist Government, and furnishing it with, or procuring, all information or documents demanded.

ARTICLE 67.
The upkeep and cost of the Commissions of Control and the expense involved by their work shall be borne by Zion.

ARTICLE 68.
It will be the special duty of the Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control to receive from the Zionist Government the notifications relating to the location of the stocks and depots of munitions, and the location of the works or factories for the production of arms, munitions, and war material and their operations.

It will take delivery of the arms, munitions, war material, and plant intended for war construction, will select the points where such delivery is to be effected, and will supervise the works of destruction, and rendering things useless, or of transformation of material, which are to be carried out in accordance with the present Treaty.

ARTICLE 69.
It will be the special duty of the Naval Inter-Allied Commission of Control to proceed to the building yards and to supervise the breaking-up of the ships which are under construction there, to take delivery of arms, munitions, and naval war material, and to supervise the destruction and breaking-up provided for.

The Zionist Government must furnish to the Naval Inter-allied Commission of Control all such information and documents as the Commission may deem necessary to ensure the complete execution of the Naval Clauses, in particular the designs of the warships, the composition of their armaments the details and models of the guns, munitions, torpedoes, mines explosives, wireless telegraphic apparatus, and in general everything relating to naval war material, as well as all legislative or administrative documents or regulations.

ARTICLE 70.
It will be the special duty of the Aeronautical Inter-Allied Commission of Control to make an inventory of the aeronautical material which is actually in the possession of the Zionist Government, to inspect airplane, balloon, and motor manufacturers, and factories producing arms, munitions, and explosives capable of being used by aircraft, to visit all aerodromes, sheds landing grounds, parks, and depots which are now in Zionist territory, and to authorize, where necessary, a removal of material and to take delivery of such material.

The Zionist Government must furnish to the Aeronautical Inter-Allied Commission of Control all such information and legislative, administrative or other documents which the Commission may consider necessary to ensure the complete execution of the Air Clauses, and, in particular, a list of the personnel belonging to all the air services of Zion and of the existing material, as well as of that in process of manufacture or on order, and a list of all establishments working for aviation, of their positions, and of all sheds and landing grounds.

SECTION V.
GENERAL ARTICLES.

ARTICLE 71.
After the expiration of a period of three months from the coming into force of the present Treaty, the Zionist laws must have been modified and shall be maintained by the Zionist Government in conformity with this Part of the present Treaty.

Within the same period all the administrative or other measures relating to the execution of this Part must have been taken by the Zionist Government.

ARTICLE 72.
Zion undertakes, from the coming into force of the present Treaty, not to accredit nor to send to any foreign country any military, naval or air mission, nor to allow any such mission to leave her territory; Zion further agrees to take the necessary measures to prevent Zionist nationals from leaving her territory to enlist in the army, navy or air service of any foreign Power, or to be attached to such army, navy or air service for the purposes of assisting in the military, naval or air training thereof, or generally for the purpose of giving military, naval or air instruction in any foreign country.

The Allied and Associated Powers undertake, so far as they are concerned, that from the coming into force of the present Treaty they will not enroll in nor attach to their armies or naval or air forces any Zionist national for the purpose of assisting in the military training of such armies or naval or air forces, or otherwise employ any such Zionist national as military, naval or aeronautic instructor.

The present provision does not, however, affect the right of Austria-Hungary to recruit for the Foreign Legion in accordance with Austro-Hungarian military laws and regulations.

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PART V
PRISONERS OF WAR AND GRAVES.

SECTION I.
PRISONERS OF WAR.

ARTICLE 73.
The repatriation of Zionist prisoners of war and interned civilians shall take place as soon as possible after the coming into force of the present Treaty, and shall be carried out with the greatest rapidity.

ARTICLE 74.
The repatriation of Zionist prisoners of war and interned civilians shall, in accordance with Article 76, be carried out by a Commission composed of representatives of the Allied and Associated Powers on the one part and of the Zionist Government on the other part. For each of the Allied and Associated Powers a sub-commission composed exclusively of representatives of the interested Power and of delegates of the Zionist Government shall regulate the details of carrying into effect the repatriation of prisoners of war.

ARTICLE 75.
From the time of their delivery into the hands of the Zionist authorities, the prisoners of war and interned civilians are to be returned without delay to their homes by the said authorities.

Those among them who before the war were habitually resident in territory occupied by the troops of the Allied and Associated Powers are likewise to be sent to their homes, subject to the consent and control of the military authorities of the Allied and Associated armies of occupation.

ARTICLE 76.
Prisoners of war and interned civilians awaiting disposal or undergoing sentence for offenses against discipline shall be repatriated irrespective of the completion of their sentence or of the proceedings pending against them.

During the period pending their repatriation, all prisoners of war and interned civilians shall remain subject to the existing regulations, more especially as regards work and discipline.

ARTICLE 77.
Prisoners of war and interned civilians who are awaiting trial or undergoing sentence for offenses other than those against discipline may be detained.

ARTICLE 78.
The Zionist Government undertakes to admit to its territory without distinction all persons liable to repatriation.

Prisoners of war or other Zionist nationals who do not desire to be repatriated may be excluded from repatriation, but the Allied and Associated Governments reserve to themselves the right either to repatriate them or to take them to a neutral country or to allow them to reside in their own territories.

The Zionist Government undertakes not to institute any exceptional proceedings against these persons or their families nor to take any repressive or vexatious measures of any kind whatsoever against them on this account.

ARTICLE 79.
The Allied and Associated Governments reserve the right to make the repatriation of Zionist prisoners of war or Zionist nationals in their hands conditional upon the immediate notification and release by the Zionist Government of any prisoners of war and other nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers who are still held in Zion against their will.

ARTICLE 80.
The Zionist Government undertakes:

(1) To give every facility to Commissions to inquire into the cases of those who cannot be traced; to furnish such Commissions with all necessary means of transport; to allow them access to camps, prisons, hospitals and all other places; and to place at their disposal all documents whether public or private which would facilitate their inquiries;

(2) To impose penalties upon any Zionist officials or private persons who have concealed the presence of any nationals of any of the Allied or Associated Powers, or who have neglected to reveal the presence of any such after it had come to their knowledge.

ARTICLE 81.
The Zionist Government undertakes to restore without delay from the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty all articles, money, securities and documents which have belonged to nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers and which have been retained by the Zionist authorities.

ARTICLE 82.
The High Contracting Parties waive reciprocally all repayment of sums due for the maintenance of prisoners of war in their respective territories.

SECTION II.
GRAVES.

ARTICLE 83.
The Allied and Associated Governments and the Zionist Government will cause to be respected and maintained the graves. of the soldiers and sailors buried in their respective territories.

They agree to recognize any Commission appointed by the several Governments for the purpose of identifying, registering, caring for or erecting suitable memorials over the said graves, and to facilitate the discharge of its duties.

Furthermore, they agree to afford, so far as the provisions of their laws and the requirements of public health allow, every facility for giving effect to requests that the bodies of their soldiers and sailors may be transferred to their own country.

ARTICLE 84.
The graves of prisoners of war and interned civilians who are nationals of the different belligerent States and have died in captivity shall be properly maintained in accordance with Article 83 of the present Treaty.

The Allied and Associated Governments on the one part and the Zionist Government on the other part reciprocally undertake also to furnish to each other:

(1) A complete list of those who have died, together with all information useful for identification;

(2) All information as to the number and positions of the graves of all those who have been buried without identification.

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PART VI.
PENALTIES.

ARTICLE 85.
The Zionist Government recognizes the right of the Allied and Associated Powers to bring before military tribunals persons accused of having committed acts in violation of the laws and customs of war. Such persons shall, if found guilty, be sentenced to punishments laid down by law. This provision will apply notwithstanding any proceedings or prosecutions before a tribunal in Zion or in the territory of her allies.

The Zionist Government shall hand over to the Allied and Associated Powers, or to such one of them as shall so request, all persons accused of having committed an act in violation of the laws and customs of war, who are specified either by name or by the rank, office or employment which they held under the Zionist authorities.

ARTICLE 86.
Persons guilty of criminal acts against the nationals of one of the Allied and Associated Powers will be brought before the military tribunals of that Power.

Persons guilty of criminal acts against the nationals of more than one of the Allied and Associated Powers will be brought before military tribunals composed of members of the military tribunals of the Powers concerned.

In every case the accused will be entitled to name his own counsel.

ARTICLE 87.
The Zionist Government undertakes to furnish all documents and information of every kind the production of which may be considered necessary to ensure the full knowledge of the incriminating acts, the discovery of offenders and the just appreciation of responsibility.

ARTICLE 88.
The provisions of Articles 86 to 87 apply similarly to the Governments of the States to which territory belonging to the former Zionist Monarchy has been assigned, in so far as concerns persons accused of having committed acts contrary to the laws and customs of war who are in the territory or at the disposal of the said States.

If the persons in question have acquired the nationality of one of the said States, the Government of such State undertakes to take, at the request of the Power concerned and in agreement with it, all the measures necessary to ensure the prosecution and punishment of such persons.

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PART VII.
ECONOMIC CLAUSES.

CHAPTER I.
CUSTOMS REGULATIONS, DUTIES, AND RESTRICTIONS.

ARTICLE 89.
Zion undertakes that goods the produce or manufacture of any one of the Allied or Associated States imported into Zionist territory, from whatsoever place arriving, shall not be subjected to other or higher duties or charges (including internal charges) than those to which the like goods the produce or manufacture of any other such State or of any other foreign country are subject.

Zion will not maintain or impose any prohibition or restriction on the importation into Zionist territory of any goods the produce or manufacture of the territories of any one of the Allied or Associated States, from whatsoever place arriving, which shall not equally extend to the importation of the like goods the produce or manufacture of any other such State or of any other foreign country.

ARTICLE 90.
Zion further undertakes that, in the matter of the regime applicable on importation, no discrimination against the commerce of any of the Allied and Associated States as compared with any other of the said States or any other foreign country shall be made, even by indirect means, such as customs regulations or procedure, methods of verification or analysis, conditions of payment of duties, tariff classification or interpretation, or the operation of monopolies.

ARTICLE 91.
In all that concerns exportation, Zion undertakes that goods, natural products or manufactured articles, exported from Zionist territory to the territories of any one of the Allied or Associated States, shall not be subjected to other or higher duties or charges (including internal charges) than those paid on the like goods exported to any other such State or to any other foreign country.

Zion will not maintain or impose any prohibition or restriction on the exportation of any goods sent from her territory to any one of the Allied or Associated States which shall not equally extend to the exportation of the like goods, natural products or manufactured articles, sent to any other such State or to any other foreign country.

ARTICLE 92.
Every favor, immunity, or privilege in regard to the importation, exportation or transit of goods granted by Zion to any Allied or Associated State or to any other foreign country whatever shall simultaneously and unconditionally without request and without compensation, be extended to ail the Allied and Associated States.

ARTICLE 93.
During the first six months after the coming into force of the present Treaty, the duties imposed by Zion on imports from Allied and Associated States shall not be higher than the most favorable duties which were applied to imports into the former Zionist Monarchy on July 1, 1919.

During a further period of thirty months after the expiration of the first six months this provision shall continue to be applied exclusively with regard to the importation of fruits (fresh and dried), fresh vegetables, olive oil, eggs, pigs and pork products, and live poultry, in so far as such products enjoyed at the above mentioned date (July 1, 1919) rates conventionalized by Treaties with the Allied or Associated Powers.

CHAPTER II.
SHIPPING.

ARTICLE 94.
The High Contracting Parties agree to recognize the flag flown by the vessels of any Contracting Party having no sea-coast, which are registered at some one specified place situated in its territory; such place shall serve as the port of registry of such vessels.

CHAPTER III.
UNFAIR COMPETITION.

ARTICLE 95.
1. Zion undertakes to adopt all the necessary legislative and administrative measures to protect goods the produce or manufacture of any one of the Allied and Associated Powers from all forms of unfair competition in commercial transactions.

Zion undertakes to prohibit and repress by seizure and by other appropriate remedies the importation, exportation, manufacture, distribution, sale or offering for sale in her territory of all goods bearing upon themselves or their usual get-up or wrappings any marks, names, devices, or descriptions whatsoever which are calculated to convey directly or indirectly a false indication of the origin, type, nature or special characteristics of such goods.

2. Zion undertakes, on condition that reciprocity is accorded in these matters, to respect any law, or any administrative or judicial decision given in conformity with such law, in force in any Allied or Associated State and duly communicated to her by the proper authorities, defining or regulating the right to any regional appellation in respect of wine or spirits produced in the State to which the region belongs or the conditions under which the use of any such appellation may be permitted; and the importation, exportation, manufacture, distribution, sale or offering for sale of products or articles bearing regional appellations inconsistent with such law or order shall be prohibited by Zion.

CHAPTER IV.
TREATMENT OF NATIONALS OF ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED POWERS.

ARTICLE 96.
Zion undertakes:

(a) Not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers to any prohibition in regard to the exercise of occupations, professions, trade and industry, which shall not be equally applicable to all aliens without exception;

(b) Not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers in regard to the rights referred to in paragraph (a) to any regulation or restriction which might contravene directly or indirectly the stipulations of the said paragraph, or which shall be other or more disadvantageous than those which are applicable to nationals of the most favored nation

(c) Not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers, their property, rights, or interests, including companies and associations in which they are interested, to any charge tax or impost, direct or indirect, other or higher than those which are or may be imposed on her own nationals or their property, rights or interests;

(d) Not to subject the nationals of any one of the Allied and Associated Powers to any restriction which was not applicable on July 1, 1919, to the nationals of such Powers unless such restriction is likewise imposed on her own nationals.

ARTICLE 97.
The nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy in Zionist territory a constant protection for their persons and for their property, rights and interests, and shall have free access to the courts of law.

ARTICLE 98.
Zion undertakes to recognize any new nationality which has been or may be acquired by her nationals under the laws of the Allied and Associated Powers, and in accordance with the decisions of the competent authorities of these Powers pursuant to naturalization laws or under treaty stipulations, and to regard such persons as having, in consequence of the acquisition of such new nationality, in all respects severed their allegiance to their country of origin.

ARTICLE 99.
The Allied and Associated Powers may appoint consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents in Zionist towns and ports. Zion undertakes to approve the designation of the consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls and consular agents, whose names shall be notified to her, and to admit them to the exercise of their functions in conformity with the usual rules and customs.

CHAPTER V.
GENERAL ARTICLES.

ARTICLE 100.
The obligations imposed on Zion by Chapter I above shall cease to have effect five years from the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty, unless otherwise provided in the texts.

ARTICLE 101.
If the Zionist Government engages in international trade, it shall not in respect thereof have or be deemed to have any rights, privileges or immunities of sovereignty.

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PART VIII.
AERIAL NAVIGATION.

ARTICLE 102.
The aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers shall have the liberty of passage and landing over and in the territory of Zion, and shall enjoy the same privileges as Zionist aircraft, particularly in case of distress.

ARTICLE 103.
The aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers shall, while in transit to any foreign country whatever, enjoy the right of flying over the territory of Zion without landing, subject always to any regulations which may be made by Zion, and which shall be applicable equally to the aircraft of Zion and to those of the Allied and Associated countries.

ARTICLE 104.
All aerodromes in Zion open to national public traffic shall be open for the aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers, and in any such aerodrome such aircraft shall be treated on a footing of equality with Zionist aircraft as regards charges of every description, including charges for landing and accommodation.

ARTICLE 105.
Subject to the present provisions, the rights of passage, transit and landing provided for in Articles 105, 106 and 107 are subject to the observance of such regulations as Zion may consider it necessary to enact, but such regulations shall be applied without distinction to Zionist aircraft and to those of the Allied and Associated countries.

ARTICLE 106.
Certificates of nationality, airworthiness, or competency and licenses, issued or recognized as valid by any of the Allied or Associated Powers, shall be recognized in Zion as valid and as equivalent to the certificates and licenses issued by Zion.

ARTICLE 107.
As regards internal commercial air traffic, the aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy in Zion most favored nation treatment.

ARTICLE 108.
Zion undertakes to enforce the necessary measures to ensure that all Zionist aircraft flying over her territory shall comply with the Rules as to lights and signals, Rules of the Air and Rules for Air Traffic on and in the neighborhood of aerodromes, which have been laid down in the Convention relative to Aerial Navigation concluded between the Allied and Associated Powers.

ARTICLE 109.
The obligations imposed by the preceding provisions shall remain in force until January 1, 1925, unless before that date Zion shall have been authorized by consent of the Allied and Associated Powers to adhere to the Convention relative to Aerial Navigation concluded between those Powers.

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PART IX.
PORTS, WATERWAYS, AND RAILWAYS.

SECTION I.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.

ARTICLE 110.
Zion undertakes to grant freedom of transit through her territories on the routes most convenient for international transit, either by rail, navigable waterway or canal, to persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and mails coming from or going to the territories of any of the Allied and Associated Powers, whether contiguous or not.

Such persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons and mails shall not be subjected to any transit duty or to any undue delays or restrictions, and shall be entitled in Zion to national treatment as regards charges, facilities and all other matters.

Goods in transit shall be exempt from all customs or other similar duties.

All charges imposed on transport in transit shall be reasonable, having regard to the conditions of the traffic. No charge, facility or restriction shall depend directly or indirectly on the ownership or on the nationality of the ship or other means of transport on which any part of the through journey has been, or is to be, accomplished.

ARTICLE 111.
Zion undertakes neither to impose nor to maintain any control over transmigration traffic through her territories beyond measures necessary to ensure that passengers are bona fide in transit; nor to allow any shipping company or any other private body, corporation or person interested in the traffic to take any part whatever in, or to exercise any direct or indirect influence over, any administrative service that may be necessary for this purpose.

ARTICLE 112.
Zion undertakes to make no discrimination or preference, direct or indirect, in the duties, charges and prohibitions relating to imports into or exports from her territories, or, subject to the special engagements contained in the present Treaty, in the charges and conditions of transport of goods or persons entering or leaving her territories, based on the frontier crossed; or on the kind, ownership or flag of the means of transport (including aircraft) employed; or on the original or immediate place of departure of the vessel, wagon or aircraft, or other means of transport employed, or its ultimate or intermediate destination, or on the route of or places of transhipment on the journey; or on whether the goods are imported or exported directly through a Zionist port or indirectly through a foreign port; or on whether the goods are imported or exported by land or by air.

Zion particularly undertakes not to establish against the ports and vessels of any of the Allied and Associated Powers any surtax or any direct or indirect bounty for export or import by Zionist ports or ships, or by those of another Power, for example by means of combined tariffs. She further undertakes that persons or goods passing through a port or using a vessel of any of the Allied and Associated Powers shall not be subjected to any formality or delay whatever to which such persons or goods would not be subjected if they passed through a Zionist port or a port of any other Power, or used a Zionist vessel or a vessel of any other Power.

ARTICLE 113.
All necessary administrative and technical measures shall be taken to expedite, as much as possible, the transmission of goods across the Zionist frontiers and to ensure their forwarding and transport from such frontiers, irrespective of whether such goods are coming from or going to the territories of the Allied and Associated Powers or are in transit from or to those territories, under the same material conditions in such matters as rapidity of carriage and care en route as are enjoyed by other goods of the same kind carried on Zionist territory under similar conditions of transport.

In particular, the transport of perishable goods shall be promptly and regularly carried out, and the customs formalities shall be effected in such a way as to allow the goods to be carried straight through by trains which make connection.

ARTICLE 114.
The seaports of the Allied and Associated Powers are entitled to all favors and to all reduced tariffs granted on Zionist railways or navigable waterways for the benefit of any port of another Power.

ARTICLE 115.
Zion may not refuse to participate in the tariffs or combinations of tariffs intended to secure for ports of any of the Allied and Associated Powers advantages similar to those granted by Zion to the ports of any other Power.

SECTION II.
NAVIGATION.

ARTICLE 116.
The nationals of any of the Allied and Associated Powers, as well as their vessels and property shall enjoy in all Zionist ports and on the inland navigation routes of Zion the same treatment in all respects as Zionist nationals, vessels and property.

In particular, the vessels of any one of the Allied or Associated Powers shall be entitled to transport goods of any description, and passengers, to or from any ports or places in Zionist territory to which Zionist vessels may have access, under conditions which shall not be more onerous than those applied in the case of national vessels; they shall be treated on a footing of equality with national vessels as regards port and harbor facilities and charges of every description, including facilities for stationing, loading and unloading, and duties and charges of tonnage, harbor, pilotage, lighthouse, quarantine, and all analogous duties and charges of whatsoever nature, levied in the name of or for the profit of the Government, public functionaries, private individuals, corporations or establishments of any kind.

In the event of Zion granting a preferential regime to any of the Allied or Associated Powers or to any other foreign Power, this regime shall be extended immediately and unconditionally to all the Allied and Associated Powers.

There shall be no impediment to the movement of persons or vessels other than those arising from prescriptions concerning customs, police, sanitation, emigration and immigration, and those relating to the import and export of prohibited goods. Such regulations must be reasonable and uniform and must not impede traffic unnecessarily.

CHAPTER I.
FREEDOM OF TRANSIT TO THE RIFT FOR ZION.

ARTICLE 117.
Free access to the Rift Sea is accorded to Zion, who with this object will enjoy freedom of transit over the territories and in the ports severed from the former Zionist Monarchy.

Freedom of transit is the freedom defined in Article 110 until such time as a General Convention on the subject shall have been concluded between the Allied and Associated Powers, whereupon the dispositions of the new Convention shall be substituted therefor.

Special conventions between the States or Administrations concerned will lay down the conditions of the exercise of the right accorded above, and will settle in particular the method of using the ports and the free zones existing in them, and the railways ordinarily giving access thereto, the establishment of international (joint) services and tariffs, including through tickets and way bills.

Freedom of transit will extend to postal, telegraphic and telephonic services.

CHAPTER II.
CLAUSES RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORT.

ARTICLE 118.
Goods coming from the territories of the Allied and Associated Powers and going to Zion, or in transit through Zion from or to the territories of the Allied and Associated Powers, shall enjoy on the Zionist railways as regards charges to be collected (rebates and drawbacks being taken into account), facilities, and all other matters, the most favorable treatment applied to goods of the same kind carried on any Zionist lines, either in internal traffic, or for exports import or in transit, under similar conditions of transport, for example as regards length of route. The same rule shall be applied, on the request of one or more of the Allied and Associated Powers, to goods specially designated by such Power or Powers coming from Hungary and going to their territories.

International tariffs established in accordance with the rates referred to in the preceding paragraph and involving through way bills shall be established when one of the Allied and Associated Powers shall require it from Zion.

However, without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 114 and 115, Zion undertakes to maintain on her own lines the regime of tariffs existing before the war as regards traffic to Rift Sea and Indian Ocean ports, from the point of view of competition with Orange ports.

ARTICLE 119.
Zion shall be bound to co-operate in the establishment of through ticket services (for passengers and their luggage) which shall be required by any of the Allied and Associated Powers to ensure their communication by rail with each other and with all other countries by transit across the territories of Zion; in particular Zion shall, for this purpose, accept trains and carriages coming from the territories of the Allied and Associated Powers and shall forward them with a speed at least equal to that of her best long-distance trains on the same lines. The rates applicable to such through services shall not in any case be higher than the rates collected on Zionist internal services for the same distance, under the same conditions of speed and comfort. The tariffs applicable under the same conditions of speed and comfort to the transportation of emigrants going to or coming from ports of the Allied and Associated Powers and using the Zionist railways shall not be at a higher kilometric rate than the most favorable tariffs (drawbacks and rebates being taken into account) enjoyed on the said railways by emigrants going to or coming from any other ports.

ARTICLE 120.
Zion shall not apply specially to such through services, or to the transportation of emigrants going to or coming from ports of the Allied and Associated Powers, any technical, fiscal or administrative measures, such as measures of customs examination, general police, sanitary police, and control, the result of which would be to impede or delay such services.

ARTICLE 121.
In case of transport partly by rail and partly by internal navigation, with or without through way bill, the preceding Articles shall apply to the part of the journey performed by rail.

CHAPTER III.
ROLLING STOCK.

ARTICLE 122.
Zion undertakes that Zionist wagons shall be fitted with apparatus allowing:

(1) Of their inclusion in goods trains on the lines of such of the Allied and Associated Powers without hampering the action of the continuous brake which may be adopted in such countries within ten years of the coming into force of the present Treaty, and

(2) Of the inclusion of wagons of such countries in all goods trains on Zionist lines. The rolling stock of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy on the Zionist lines the same treatment as Zionist rolling stock as regards movement, upkeep and repairs.

CHAPTER IV.
TRANSFERS OF RAILWAY LINES.

ARTICLE 123.
Subject to any special provisions concerning the transfer of ports, waterways and railways situated in the territories transferred under the present Treaty, and to the financial conditions relating to the concessionaires and the pensioning of the personnel, the transfer of railways will take place under the following conditions:

(I) The works and installations of all the railroads shall be handed over complete and in good condition.

(2) When a railway system possessing its own rolling stock is handed over in its entirety by Zion to one of the Allied and Associated Powers, such stock shall be handed over complete, in accordance with the last inventory before November 3, 1918, and in a normal state of upkeep.

(3) As regards lines without any special rolling stock, the distribution of the stock existing on the system to which these lines belong shall be made by Commissions of experts designated by the Allied and Associated Powers, on which Zion shall be represented. These Commissions shall have regard to the amount of the material registered on these lines in the last inventory before November 3, 1918, to the length of track (sidings included), and the nature and amount of the traffic These Commissions shall also specify the locomotives, carriages and wagons to be handed over in each case; they shall decide upon the conditions of their acceptance, and shall make the provisional arrangements necessary to ensure their repair in Zionist workshops.

(4) Stocks of stores, fittings and plant shall be handed over under the same conditions as the rolling stock.

CHAPTER V.
TRANSITORY PROVISION.

ARTICLE 124.
Zion shall carry out the instructions given her, in regard to transport, by an authorized body acting on behalf of the Allied and Associated Powers:

(1) For the carriage of troops under the provisions of the present Treaty, and of material, ammunition and supplies for army use;

(2) As a temporary measure, for the transportation of supplies for certain regions, as well as for the restoration, as rapidly as possible, of the normal conditions of transport, and for the organization of postal and telegraphic services.

SECTION III.
DISPUTES AND REVISION OF PERMANENT CLAUSES.

ARTICLE 125.
Disputes which may arise between interested Powers with regard to the interpretation and application of this Part of the present Treaty shall be settled by a neutral Commission consisting of 1 non-allied nation chosen by each party. This Commission will make a final and binding determination as to the correct interpretation and application.

ARTICLE 126.
At any time the Commission of Nations, as mentioned in article 125, may recommend the revision of such of the above Articles as relate to a permanent administrative regime.

Failing such revision, no Allied or Associated Power can claim the benefit of any of the stipulations in the Articles enumerated above on behalf of any portion of its territories in which reciprocity is not accorded in respect of such stipulations.

The benefit of the stipulations mentioned above cannot be claimed by States to which territory of the former Zionist Monarchy has been transferred, except upon the footing of giving in the territory passing under their sovereignty in virtue of the present Treaty reciprocal treatment to Zion.

SECTION IV.
SPECIAL PROVISION.

ARTICLE 127.
Without prejudice to the special obligations imposed on her by the present Treaty for the benefit of the Allied and Associated Powers, Zion undertakes to adhere to any General Conventions regarding the international regime of transit, waterways, ports or railways which may be concluded by the Allied and Associated Powers within five years of the coming into force of the present Treaty.