SECTION 15.—MISCELLANEOUS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 193, 10 May 1919, Page 7

SECTION 15.—MISCELLANEOUS

Germany agrees to recognise in full the validity of the Treaties of Peace and the additional Conventions to be concluded by the Allied and Associated Powers with the Powers allied with Germany; to agree to the decisions to be taken as to territories of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey.; and to iecognise the new States in the frontiers to be fixed for them. The work of religious missions maintained by German societies in territory transferred to or belonging to Allied or Associated Powers is to be continued under trustees appointed by those Powers. In a clause Germany undertakes not to put forward any pecuniary claim against any Allied Powers which have signed the present Treaty, based on events previous to the coming into force of the Treaty. Germany accepts' all decrees, etc., as to German ships and goods, made by any Allied Prize Court, and the Allies reserve the right to examine all decisions of the German Prize Courts. . The prosent Treaty, of which the French and English texts are both authentic, shall be ratified, arid tlio deposit of the ratification made in Paris as soon as possible. Various diplomatic provisions as to ratification follow. The Treaty is to enter into' force in all respects for each Power on date of its ratification.