PEACE TREATY

Taranaki Daily News, 22 September 1919, Page 5

PEACE TREATY

, WITH BULGARIA. PSAEATIQN PAYMENTS £90,005,000 saaarmmoN of stolensivdck AND ARTICLES. ' 9t Ttltgr&pb.'—Press Aaso.—Copyright. lUeeived Sept. 21, 5.5 pjn. .ul Paris, Sept. 19. The presentation of the Bulgarian terns was a dull ceremony, There *** a swajfr# attendance of spectators. Tl# Bulgarian Premier, in a speech, fciid the Bulgarians were impelled by a sinister influence to enter tie insensate war, against the wishes of the Bulgarian ptople. AH the authbrs of the excesses jrould be ruthlessly punished. Received Sept. 21, 5£ p.m. Loidon, Sept. 19. Tkt official summary of the Bulgarian treaty is as follows: Th& frontier between Bulgaria and Soumania remains unchanged. Small portions of territory are ceded to Jugoslavia, of which the most important is tb» town and district of Strumnitza. The southern frontier follows a line frMB a poirtt eight mites south-West of RaMnakli to Kilkik, passing, close to !AlA|dtlhi and Dariders, which Remain Sidfulu. South-east a small piece of Turkish tertiary is introduced into Bulgaria, wMeh renounces in favor of the Allies at! iit Thrace, which has not yet been assigned to anybody. The Allies assure Bulgaria / that outlets to the Aegean Sea Will be fixed later.

Bulgaria recognises the British proteeOver Egypt. Th» military terms stipulate that the Bulgarian army be recruited on a voluntary Wsis, the strength not to exceed 2WWO. Wo new forts shall .be constructed, no* poison gas or liquid fire manufactured of imported, also there are to be no tanks or armored cars. The manufacture of munitions shall be confined to a single factory controlled by the State, the oUtptt being strictly limited to the needs flf the above force. All 'Bulgarian warships and submarines are to be surrendered. to the Allies or broken up. The wireless station at Sofia is to be under •Allied supervision. The armed forces must not include military or naval air forces-

While recognising that the resources of Bulgaria are insufficient to enable adequate reparation to be made, the •Allies agree to accept such reparation as ponfibl«, and have fixed the sum of two thousand two hundred and fifty tslUlafia of francs in gold (£90,000,000), which amount is to be discharged by a series of half-yearly payments, including interest at 5 per cent, on the capital sin* outstanding and provision for sinking food sufficient to extinguish the total amount on January 1, 1968. In case of defkult in the payments, the Allied com- . mission shall be entitled to control, collect, and disburse certain taxes and h#»e for the purpose of payment of the indemnity. Bulgaria undertakes to return, to ; OtSese, Kourßania, and Jugoslavia all records, archives, artistic and archaeological articles which were stolen during the War, also to deliver up live stock in restitution for the stolen animals, while fcy tfajr <Jf special compensation for the destruction of Serbian coal mines Bulgaria will deliver to Jugo-Slavia during the next fite years 50,000 tons of coal Aftffl&Hy from the State mines in PerUlk, provided the inter-Allied Commissi#! is Satisfied Stjch deliveries Will not . Interfere unduly with the economic life Of Bulgaria.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Siuter.

Ritceived Sept. 21, S.B p.m. Paris, Sept. 19. Th# Bulgarian delegates have been given twenty-five days in which to make i •hs«tvationß on the Peace Treaty.— jtat*.