World's War Events $v Volume 3: Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.
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World's War Events $v Volume 3: Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.
World War, 1914-1918
States to which Austrian territory was transferred and States arising
from the dismemberment of Austria shall acquire all property within
their territories of the old or new Austrian Government, including that
of the former royal family. The value is to be assessed by the
Reparation Commission and credited to Austria on the reparation account.
[Sidenote: Property of historic interest.]
Property of predominant historic interest to the former kingdoms of
Poland, Bohemia, Croatia, Slavonia, Dalmatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, the
Republic of Ragusa, the Venetian Republic, or the episcopal
principalities of Trent and Bressanone may be transferred without
payment.
Austria renounces all rights as to all international, financial, or
commercial organizations in allied countries, Germany, Hungary,
Bulgaria, Turkey, or the former Russian Empire. She agrees to
expropriate, on demand of the Reparation Commission, any rights of her
nationals in any public utility or concession in these territories, in
separated districts, and in mandatory territories, to transfer them to
the commission within six months, and to hold herself responsible for
indemnifying her nationals so dispossessed.
[Sidenote: Austria to renounce treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk.]
She also agrees to deliver within one month the gold deposited as
security for the Ottoman debt, renounce any benefits accruing from the
treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk, and transfer to the allied and
associated Governments all claims against her former Allies.
Any financial adjustments, such as those relating to banking and
insurance companies, savings banks, postal savings banks, land banks or
mortgage companies in the former monarchy, necessitated by the
dismemberment of the monarchy, and the resettlement of public debts and
currency, shall be regulated by agreements between the various
governments failing which the Reparation Commission shall appoint an
arbitrator or arbitrators, whose decision shall be final.
Austria shall not be responsible for pensions of nationals of the former
empire who have become nationals of other States.
[Sidenote: Committee of three jurists.]
As for special objects carried off by the House of Hapsburg and other
dynasties from Italy, Belgium, Poland, and Czecho-Slovakia, a committee
of three jurists appointed by the Reparation Commission is to examine
within a year the conditions under which the objects were removed and to
order restoration if the removal were illegal. The list of articles
includes among others:
[Sidenote: List of special articles to be restored.]
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