Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918: A Monthly Magazine of the New York TimesVarious
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Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times
Various
World War, 1914-1918
The army of occupation's right to requisition is restricted to
wheat, peas, beans, fodder, wool, cattle, and meat from the products
of 1918, and, further, to timber, oil and oil products, always
observing proper regard for an orderly plan of procuring these
commodities, as well as satisfying the home needs of Rumania.
From the ratification of the treaty onward the army of occupation
shall be maintained at the expense of Rumania. A separate agreement
will be made with regard to the details of the transfer of the civil
administration, as well as with regard to the withdrawal of the
regulations of the occupation administration. Money spent by the
allied powers in the occupied territories on public works, including
industrial undertakings, shall be made good on their transfer. Until
the evacuation these undertakings shall remain under the military
administration.
Clause 6.--_Regulations regarding navigation on the Danube._
Article XXIV. Rumania shall conclude a new Danube Navigation act
with Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey, regulating the
legal position on the Danube from the point where it becomes
navigable, with due regard for the prescriptions subsequently set
forth under Sections A to D, and on conditions that the
prescriptions under Section B shall apply equally for all parties to
the Danube act. Negotiations regarding the new Danube Navigation act
shall begin at Munich as soon as possible after the ratification of
the treaty.
The sections follow: (A) Under the name Danube Mouth Commission, the
European Danube Commission shall, under conditions subsequently set
forth, be maintained as a permanent institution, empowered with the
privileges and obligations hitherto appertaining to it for the river
from Braila downward, inclusive of this port. The conditions
referred to provide, among other things, that the commission shall
henceforth only comprise representatives of States situated on the
Danube or the European coasts of the Black Sea. The commission's
authority extends from Braila downward to the whole of the arms and
mouth of the Danube and adjoining parts of the Black Sea.
(B.) Rumania guarantees to the ships of the other contracting
parties free navigation on the Rumanian Danube, including the
harbors. Rumania shall levy no toll on ships or rafts of the
contracting parties and their cargoes merely for the navigation of
the river. Neither shall Rumania, in the future, levy on the river
any tolls, save those permitted by the new Danube Navigation act.
Section C provides for the abolition after the ratification of the
treaty of the Rumanian ad valorem duty of 1-1/2 per cent. on imports
and exports.
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