PART V.
MILITARY, NAVAL
AND AIR CLAUSES.
In order
to render possible the
initiation of a general
limitation of the armaments of
all nations, Hungary undertakes
strictly to observe the
military, naval and air clauses
which follow.
SECTION I.
MILITARY CLAUSES.
CHAPTER I.
GENERAL.
ARTICLE 102.
Within three months of the
coming into force of the present
Treaty, the military forces of
Hungary shall be
demobilized to
the extent prescribed
hereinafter.
ARTICLE 103.
Universal compulsory military
service shall be abolished in
Hungary. The Hungarian Army
shall in future only be
constituted and recruited by
means of voluntary enlistment.
CHAPTER II..
EFFECTIVES AND CADRES OF THE
HUNGARIAN ARMY.
ARTICLE 104.
The total number of military
forces in the Hungarian Army
shall not exceed 35,000 men,
including officers and depot
troops.
Subject to the following
limitations, the formations
composing the Hungarian Army
shall be fixed in accordance
with the wishes of Hungary:
(1) The effectives 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 effectives with the
colors, and that of
non-commissioned officers shall
not exceed one-fifteenth of the
total effectives with the
colours.
(3) The number of machine guns,
guns and howitzers shall not
exceed per thousand men of the
total effectives with the
colours those fixed in Table V
annexed to this Section.
The Hungarian Army shall be
devoted exclusively to the
maintenance of order within the
territory of Hungary, and to the
control of her frontiers.
ARTICLE 105.
The maximum strength of the
staffs and of all formations
which Hungary 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 106.
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 107.
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 1913 within the boundaries of
Hungary 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 137, after
examination on the spot,
consider it to be insuffficient.
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 108.
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 102.
C HA PTER III.
RECRUITING AND MILITARY
TRAINING.
ARTICLE 1 09.
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 104. If this proportion
is unavoidably exceeded, the
resulting shortage must not be
made good by fresh appointments.
ARTICLE 110.
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 I04. 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 111;
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 104.
Consequently all military
schools not required for this
purpose shall be abolished.
ARTICLE 112.
Educational establishments,
other than those referred to in
Article III, as well as all
sporting and other clubs, must
not occupy themselves with any
military matters.
CHAPTER V.
ARIIAVENT, MUNITIONS AND
MATERIAL.
ARTICLE I I 3.
On the expiration of three
months from the coming into
force of the present Treaty, the
armament of the Hungarian 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 114.
The stock of munitions at the
disposal of the Hungarian 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 Hungarian 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 115.
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 104, 107, I13 and
114. The Principal Allied and
Associated Powers may, however,
authorise 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 137.
The manufacture of sporting
weapons is not forbidden,
provided that sporting weapons
manufactured in Hungary 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
authorised stocks of munitions,
and their staffs discharged.
ARTICLE I16.
The plant of any establishments
or arsenals in excess of the
amount required for the
manufacture authorised shall be
renddered useless or converted
to purely commercial purposes in
accordance with the decisions of
the Military Inter-Allied
Commission of Control referred
to in Article 137.
ARTICLE II7.
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
Hungary in excess of the
quantity authorised shall be
handed over to the Principal
Allied and Associated Powers.
Delivery shall take place at
such points in Hungarian
territory as may be appointed by
the said Powers, who shall also
decide on the disposal of such
material.
ARTICLE I18.
The importation into Hungary 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 I19.
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 Hungary.
Material specially intended for
the manufacture, storage or use
of the said products or devices
is equally forbidden.
The manufacture and importation
into Hungary 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 120.
From the date of the coming
into force of the present Treaty
all Austro-Hungarian warships,
submarines included, are
declared to be finally
surrendered to the Prindpal
Allied and Associated Powers.
All the monitors, torpedo boats
and armed vessels of the Danube
Flotilla will be surrendered to
the Principal Allied and
Associated Powers.
Hungary will, however, have the
right to maintain on the Danube
for the use of the river police
three patrol boats to be
selected by the Commission
referred to in Articie 138 of
the present Treaty. The
Principal Allied and Associated
Powers may increase this number
should the said Commission,
after examination on the spot,
consider it to be insufficient.
ARTICLE 121.
The Austro-Hungarian auxiliary
cruisers and fleet auxiliaries
enumerated below will be
disarmed and treated as merchant
ships
Bosnia. |
Gastein. |
Gablonz.
|
Helouan. |
Carolina. |
Graf Wurmbrand. |
Lussin.
|
Pelikan. |
Teodo.
|
Hercules. |
Nixe.
|
Pola. |
Gigante.
|
Najade. |
Africa.
|
Baron Bruck. |
Tirol.
|
Elizabet. |
Argentina.
|
Melcavich. |
Pluto.
|
Baron Call. |
President Wilson
(ex-Kaiser Franz
Joseph).
|
Gaea. |
Trieste.
|
Cyclop. |
Dalmat.
|
Vesta. |
Persia. |
Nymphe. |
Prince Hohenlohe.
|
Buffel. |
ARTICLE 122.
All warships, including
submarines, now under
construction in Hungarian ports,
or in ports which previously
belonged to the Austro-Hungarian
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.
The mine-layer tenders under
construction at Porto-re may,
however, be preserved if the
Naval Inter-Allied Commission of
Control and the Reparation
Commission consider that for
economic reasons their
employment for commercial
purposes is desirable. In that
event the vessels will be handed
over to the Reparation
Commission, which will assess
their value, and will credit
such value, in whole or in part,
to Hungary, or as the case may
require to Austria, on the
reparation account.
ARTICLE 123
Articles, machinery and material
arising from the breaking up of
Austro-Hungarian 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 124.
The construction or acquisition
of any submarine, even for
commercial purposes, shall be
forbidden in Hungary.
ARTICLE 125.
All arms, ammunition and other
naval war material, including
mines and topedoes, which
belonged to Austria-Hungary at
the date of the signature of the
Armistice of November 3, I9I8,
are declared to be finally
surrendered to the Principal
Allied and Associated Powers.
ARTICLE 126.
Hungary is held responsible for
the delivery (Articles 120 and
125), the disarmament (Article
121), the demolition (Article
122), as well as the disposal
(Article 121) and the use
(Article 123) of the objects
mentioned in the preceding
Articles only so far as these
remain in her own territory.
ARTICLE 127.
During the three months
following the coming into force
of the present Treaty, the
Hungarian high-power wireless
telegraphy station at Budapest
shall not be used for the
transmission of messages
concerning naval, military or
political questions of interest
to Hungary, or any State which
has been allied to
Austria-Hungary 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 Hungary
shall not build any more
high-power wireless telegraphy
stations in her own territory or
that of Austria, Germany,
Bulgaria or Turkey.
SECTION III .
AIR CLAUSES.
ARTICLE 128.
The armed forces of Hungary
must not include any military or
naval air forces. No dirigible
shall be kept.
ARTICLE 129.
Within two months from the
coming into force of the present
Treaty, the personnel of the air
forces on the rolls of the
Hungarian land and sea forces
shall be demobilised.
ARTICLE 130.
Until the complete evacuation of
Hungarian territory by the
Allied and Associated troops the
aircraft of the Allied and
Associated Powers shall enjoy in
Hungary freedom of passage
through the air, freedom of
transit and of landing.
ARTICLE 131.
During the six months lollowing
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 Hungarian
territory.
ARTICLE 132.
On the coming into force of the
present Treaty, all military and
naval aeronautical material must
be delivered by Hungary 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 aeroplanes and
seaplanes, as well as those
being manufactured, repaired or
assembled.
Dirigibles able to take the air,
being manufactured, repaired or
assembled.
Plant for the manufacture of
hydrogen.
Dirigible sheds and shelters of
every kind for aircraft.
Pending their delivery,
dirigibles will, at the expense
of Hungary, 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 Hungary until the
time when the dirigibles are
handed over.
Engines for aircraft.
Nacelles and fuselages.
Armament (guns, machine guns,
light machine guns, bombdropping
apparatus, torpedo apparatus,
synchronisation 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 cinematograph
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 133.
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 Hungary
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 Hungarian
Government in all matters
concerning the execution of the
hIilitary, Naval and Air
Clauses. They will communicate
to the Hungarian 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 134.
The Inter-Allied Commissions of
Control may establish their
organisations at Budapest and
shall be entitled, as often as
they think desirable, to proceed
to any point whatever in
Hungarian territory, or to send
a sub-commission, or to
authorise one or more of their
members to go, to any such point
ARTICLE 135.
The Hungarian 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 Hungarian 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 mav have
to address to the Hungarian
Government, and furnishing it
with, or procuring, all
information or documents
demanded.
ARTICLE 136.
The upkeep and cost of the
Commissions of Control and the
expense involved by their work
shall be borne by Hungary.
ARTICLE 137.
It will be the special duty of
the Military Inter-Allied
Commission of Control to receive
from the Hungarian 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 deEvery 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 138.
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 Hungarian Government must
furnish to the Naval InterAllied
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 139.
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 Hungarian
Government, to inspect aeroplane,
balloon and motor manufactories,
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
Hungarian territory, and to
authorise where necessary a
removal of material and to take
delivery of such material.
The Hungarian 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 Hungary 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 140.
After the expiration of a period
of three months from the coming
into force of the present
Treaty, the Hungarian laws must
have been modified and shall be
maintained by the Hungarian
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 Hungarian Government.
ARTICLE 141.
The following portions of the
Armistice of November 3, I918:
paragraphs 2 and 3 of Chapter I
(Military Clauses), paragraphs
2, 3, 6 of Chapter I of the
annexed Protocol (Military
Clauses), remain in force so far
as they are not inconsistent
with the above stipulations.
ARTICLE 142.
Hungary 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; Hungary
further agrees to take the
necessary measures to prevent
Hungarian 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 Hungarian
national for the purpose of
assisting in the military
training of such armies or naval
or air forces, or otherwise
employ any such Hungarian
national as military, naval or
aeronautic instructor.
The
present provision does not,
however, affect the right of
France to recruit for the
Foreign Legion in accordance
with French military laws and
regulations.
ARTICLE 143.
So long as the present Treaty
remains in force, Hungary
undertakes to submit to any
investigation which the Council
of the League of Nations, acting
if need be by a majority vote,
may consider necessary.
PART
VI
PRISONERS OF WAR AND GRAVES.
SECTION I.
PRISONERS OF WAR.
ARTICLE 144.
The repatriation of Hungarian
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 145.
The repatriation of Hungarian
prisoners of war and interned
civilians shall, in accordance
with Article 144, be carried out
by a Commission composed of
representatives of the Allied
and Associated Powers on the one
part and of the Hungarian
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 Hungarian
Government shall regulate the
details of carrying into effect
the repatriation of prisoners of
war.
ARTICLE 146.
From the time of their delivery
into the hands of the Hungarian
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 147.
The whole cost of repatriation
from the moment of starting
shall be borne by the Hungarian
Government, who shall also
provide means of transport and
working personnel as considered
necessary by the Commission
referred to in Article 145.
ARTICLE 148.
Prisoners of war and interned
civilians awaiting disposal or
undergoing sentence for offences
against discipline shall be
repatriated irrespective of the
completion of their sentence or
of the proceedings pending
against them.
This stipulation shall not apply
to prisoners of war and interned
civilians punished for offences
committed subsequent to January
1, 1920.
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 149.
Prisoners of war and interned
civilians who are awaiting trial
or undergoing sentence for
offences other than those
against discipline may be
detained.
ARTICLE 150.
The Hungarian Government
undertakes to admit to its
territory without distinction
all persons liable to
repatriation.
Prisoners of war or other
Hungarian 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 Hungarian 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 151.
The Allied and Associated
Governments reserve the right to
make the repatriation of
Hungarian prisoners of war or
Hungarian nationals in their
hands conditional upon the
immediate notification and
release by the Hungarian
Government of any prisoners of
war and other nationals of the
Allied and Associated Powers who
are still held in Hungary
against their will.
ARTICLE 152.
The Hungarian Government
undertakes:
(I) To give every facility to
Commissions to enquire 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 enquiries;
(2) To impose penalties upon any
Hungarian 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 153.
The Hungarian 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 Hungarian authorities.
ARTICLE 154.
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 155.
The Allied and Associated
Governments and the Hungarian
Government will cause to be
respected and maintained the
graves. of the soldiers and
sailors buried in their
respective territories.
They agree to recognise any
Commission appointed by the
sevelal 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 156.
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 155 of the present
Treaty.
The Allied and Associated
Governments on the one part and
the Hungarian Government on the
other part reciprocally
undertake also to furnish to
each other:
(I) 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.
PART
VII.
PENALTIES.
ARTICLE 157.
The Hungarian Government
recognises 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 Hungary or in the
territory of her allies.
The Hungarian Government shall
hand over to the Allied and
Associated Powers, or to such
one of them as shabl 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 Hungarian authorities.
ARTICLE 158.
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 159.
The Hungarian 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 160.
The provisions of Articles 157
to 159 apply similarly to the
Governments of the States to
which territory belonging to the
former Austro-Hungarian 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.
PART
VIII.
REPARATION.
SECTION I.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
ARTICLE 161.
The Allied and Associated
Governments affirm and Hungary
accepts the responsibility of
Hungary and her allies for
causing the loss and damage to
which the Allied and Associated
Governments and their nationals
have been subjected as a
consequence of the war imposed
upon them by the aggression of
Austria-Hungary and her allies.
ARTICLE 162.
The Allied and Associated
Governrnents recognise that the
resources of Hungary are not
adequate, after taking into
account the permanent
diminutions of such resources
which will result from other
provisions of the present
Treaty, to make complete
reparation for such loss and
damage.
The Allied and Associated
Governments, however, require,
and Hungary undertakes, that she
will make compensation as
hereinafter determined for
damage done to the civilian
population of the Allied and
Associated Powers and to their
property during the period of
the belligerency of each as an
Allied and Associated Power
against Hungary by the said
aggression by land, by sea and
from the air, and in general all
damage as defined in Annex I
hereto.
ARTICLE 163.
The amount of such damage for
which compensation is to be made
by Hungary shall be determined
by an Inter-Allied Commission to
be called the Reparation
Commission and constituted
in the form and with the powers
set forth in the present Treaty,
particularly in Annexes II-V
inclusive hereto. The Commission
is the same as that provided for
under Article 233 Of the Treaty
with Germany, subject to any
modifications resulting from the
present Treaty. The Commission
shall constitute a Section to
consider the special questions
raised by the application of the
present Treaty; this Section
shall have consultative power
only except in cases in which
the Commission shall delegate to
it such powers as may be deemed
convenient.
The Reparation Commission shall
consider the claims and give to
the Hungarian Government a just
opportunity to be heard.
The Commission shall
concurrently draw up a schedule
of payments prescribing the time
and manner for securing and
discharging by Hungary, within
thirty years dating from May 1,
1921, that part of the debt
which shall have been assigned
to her after the Commission has
decided whether Germany is in a
position to pay the balance of
the total amount of claims
presented against Germany and
her allies and approved by the
Commission. If, however, within
the period mentioned, Hungary
fails to discharge her
obligations, any balance
remaining unpaid may within the
discretion of the Commission, be
postponed for settlement in
subsequent years or may be
handled otherwise in such manner
as the Allied and Associated
Governments acting in accordance
with the procedure laid down in
this Part of the present Treaty
shall determine.
ARTICLE 164.
The Reparation Commission shall,
after May 1, 1921, from time to
time consider the resources and
capacity of Hungary, and, after
giving her representatives a
just opportunity to be heard
shall have discretion to extend
the date and to modify the form
of payments such as are to be
provided for in accordance with
Article 163, but not to cancel
any part except with the
specific authority of the
several Governments represented
on the Commission.
ARTICLE 165.
Hungary shall pay in the course
of the year 1920 and the first
four months of 1921, in such
instalments and in such manner
(whether in gold, commodities,
ships, securities or otherwise)
as the Reparation Commission may
lay down, a reasonable sum which
shall be determined by the
Commission. Out of this sum the
expenses of the armies of
occupation subsequent to the
Armistice of November 3, 1918,
provided for by Article 181,
shall first be met, and such
supplies of food and raw
materials as may be judged by
the Governments of the Principal
Allied and Associated Powers
essential to enable Hungary to
meet her obligations for
reparation may also, with the
approval of the said
Governments, be paid for out of
the above sum. The balance shall
be reckoned towards the
liquidation of the amount due
for reparation. Hungary shall
further deposit bonds as
prescribed in paragraphs 12 (C)
of Annex 11 hereto.
ARTICLE 166.
Hungary further agrees to the
direct application of her
economic resources to reparation
as specified in Annexes III, IV
and V relating respectively to
merchant shipping, to physical
restoration and to raw material;
provided always that the value
of the property transferred and
any services rendered by her
under these Annexes, assessed in
the manner therein prescribed,
shall be credited to her towards
the liquidation of her
obligations under the above
Articles.
ARTICLE 167.
The successive instalments,
including the above sum, paid
over by Hungary in satisfaction
of the above claims, will be
divided by the Allied and
Associated Governments in
proportions which have been
determined upon by them in
advance on a basis of general
equity and the rights of each.
For the purposes of this
division the value of the
credits referred to in Article
173 and in Annexes III, IV and V
shall be reckoned in the same
manner as cash payments made in
the same year.
ARTICLE 168.
In addition to the payments
mentioned above, Hungary shall
effect, in accordance with the
procedure laid down by the
Reparation Commission,
restitution in cash of cash
taken away, seized or
sequestrated, and also
restitution of animals, objects
of every nature and securities
taken away, seized or
sequestrated in the cases in
which it proves possible to
identify them on territory
belonging to, or during the
execution of the present Treaty
in the possession of, Hungary or
her allies.
ARTICLE 169.
The Hungarian Government
undertakes to make forthwith the
restitution contemplated in
Article 168 and to make the
payments and deliveries
contemplated in Articles 163,
164, 165 and 166.
ARTICLE 170.
The Hungarian Government
recognises the Commission
provided for by Article 163 as
the same may be constituted by
the Allied and Associated
Governments in accordance with
Annex II and agrees irrevocably
to the possession and exercise
by such Commission of the power
and authority given to it under
the present Treaty.
The Hungarian Government will
supply to the Commission all the
information which the Commission
may require relative to the
financial situation and
operations and to the property,
productive capacity and stocks,
and current production of raw
materials and manufactured
articles of Hungary and her
nationals, and, further, any
information relative to the
military operations of the war
of I914-1919 which, in the
judgment of the Commission, may
be necessary.
The Hungarian Government shall
accord to the members of the
Commission and its authorised
agents the same rights and
immunities as are enjoyed in
Hungary by duly accredited
diplomatic agents of friendly
Powers.
Hungary further agrees to
provide for the salaries and the
expenses of the Commission and
of such staff as it may employ.
ARTICLE 171.
Hungary undertakes to pass,
issue and maintain in force any
legislation, orders and decrees
that may be necessary to give
complete effect to these
provisions.
ARTICLE 172.
The provisions in this Part of
the present Treaty shall not
affect in any respect the
provisions of Sections III and
IV of Part X (Economic Clause)
of the present Treaty.
ARTICLE 173.
The following shall be reckoned
as credits to Hungary in respect
f her reparation obligations:
(a) Any fina] balance in favour
of Hungary under Sections III
and IV of Part X (Economic
Clauses) of the present Treaty;
(b) Amounts due to Hungary in
respect of transfers provided
for in Part IX (Financial
Clauses) and in Part XII (Ports,
Waterways and Railways);
(c) All amounts which, in the
judgment of the Reparation
Commission, should be credited
to Hungary on account of any
other transfers under the
present Treaty of property,
rights, concessions or other
interests.
In no case, however, shall
credit be given for property
restored in accordance with
Article 168.
ARTICLE 174.
The transfer of the Hungarian
submarine cables, in the absence
of any special provision in the
present Treaty, is regulated by
Annex VI hereto.
ANNEX
I.
Compensation may be claimed from
Hungary in accordance with
Article 162 above in respect of
the tota damage under the
following categories:
(I) Damage to injured persons
and to surviving dependants by
personal injury to or death of
civilians caused by acts of war,
including bombardment or other
attacks on land, on sea or from
the air, and of the direct
consequences thereof and of all
operations of war by the two
groups of belligerents wherever
arising.
(2) Damage caused by Hungary or
her allies to civilian victims
of acts of cruelty, violence or
maltreatment (including injuries
to life or health as a
consequence of imprisonment,
deportation, internment or
evacuation, of exposure at sea,
or of being forced to labour)
wherever arising, and to the
surviving dependants of such
victims.
(3) Damage caused by Hungary or
her allies in their own
territory or in occupied or
invaded territory to civilian
victims of all acts injurious to
health or capacity to work or to
honour, as well as to the
surviving dependants of such
victims.
(4) Damage caused by any kind of
maltreatment of prisoners of
war.
(5) As damage caused to the
peoples of the Allied and
Assodated Powers, all pensions
or compensations in the way of
pensions to naval and military
victims of war, including
members of the air force,
whether mutilated, wounded, sick
or invalided, and to the
dependants of such victims, the
amount due to the Allied and
Associated Governments being
calculated for each of them as
being the capitalised cost of
such pensions and cornpensations
at the date of the coming into
force of the present Treaty on
the basis of the scales in force
in France on May 1, 1919.
(6) The cost of assistance by
the Governments of the Allied
and Associated Powers to
prisoners of war, to their
families and dependants.
(7) Allowances by the
Governments of the Allied and
Associated Powers to the
families and dependants of
mobilised persons or persons
serving with the forces, the
amount due to them for each
calendar year in which
hostilities occurred being
calculated for each Government
on the basis of the average
scale for such payments in force
in France during that year.
(8) Damage caused to civilians
by being forced by Hungary or
her allies to labour without
just remuneration.
(9) Damage in respect of all
property, wherever situated,
belonging to any of the Allied
or Associated States or their
nationals, with the exception of
naval or military works or
materials, which has been
carried off, seized, injured or
destroyed by the acts of Hungary
or her allies on land, on sea or
from the air, or damage directly
in consequence of hostilities or
of any operations of war
(I0) Damage in the form of
levies, fines and other similar
exactions imposed by Hungary or
her allies upon the civilian
population.
ANNEX
II.
1. The Commission referred to in
Article 163 shall be called the
"Reparation Commission" and is
hereafter referred to as "the
Commission."
2. The Delegates to this
Commission shall be appointed by
the United States of America,
Great Britain, France, Italy,
Japan, Belgium, Greece, Poland,
Roumania, the Serb-Croat-Slovene
State and Czecho-Slovakia. The
United States of America, Great
Britain, France, Italy, Japan
and Belgium shall each appoint a
Delegate. The other five Powers
shall appoint a Delegate to
represent them all under the
conditions indicated in the
second sub-paragraph of
paragraph 3 hereafter. At the
time when each Delegate is
appointed there shall also be
appointed an Assistant Delegate,
who will take his place in case
of illness or necessary absence,
but at other times will only
have the right to be present at
the proceedings without taking
any part therein.
On no occasion shall Delegates
of more than five of the above
Powers have the right to take
part in the proceedings of the
Commission and to record their
votes. The Delegates of the
United States, Great Britain,
France and Italy shall have this
right on all occasions. The
Delegate of Belgium shall have
this right on all occasions
other than those referred to
below The Delegate of Japan will
have this right when questions
relating to damage at sea are
under consideration. The
Delegate representing the five
remaining Powers mentioned above
shall have this right when
questions relating to Austria,
Hungary or Bulgaria are under
consideration.
Each of the Governments
represented on the Commission
shall have the right to withdraw
after giving twelve months'
notice to the Commission and
confirming it six months after
the date of the original
notification.
3. Such of the Allied and
Associated Powers as may be
interested shall have the right
to name a Delegate to be present
and act as assessor only while
their respective claims and
interests are under examination
or discussion, but without the
right to vote.
The Section to be established by
the Commission under Article 163
shall include representatives of
the following Powers: the United
States of America, Great
Britain, France, Italy, Greece,
Poland, Roumania, the
Serb-Croat-Slovene State and
Czecho-Slovakia. This
composition of the Section shall
in no way prejudge the
admissibility of any claims. In
voting the representatives of
the United States of America,
Great Britain, France and Italy
shall each have two votes.
The representatives of the five
remaining Powers mentioned above
shall appoint a Delegate to
represent them all, who shall
sit on the Reparation Commission
in the circumstances described
in paragraph 2 of the present
Annex. This Delegate, who shall
be appointed for one year, shall
be chosen successively from the
nationals of each of the said
five Powers.
4. In the case of death,
resignation or recall of any
Delegate, Assistant Delegate or
Assessor, a successor to him
shall be nominated as soon as
possible.
5. The Commission shall have its
principal permanent bureau in
Paris, and shall hold its first
meeting in Paris as soon as
practicable after the coming
into force of the present
Treaty, and thereafter will meet
in such place or places and at
such time as may be deemed
convenient and as may be
necessary for the most
expeditious discharge of its
duties.
6. At its first meeting the
Commission shall elect from
among the Delegates referred to
above a Chairman and a
Vice-Chairman, who shall hold
office for a year and shall be
eligible for re-election. If a
vacancy in the chairmanship or
Vice-Chairmanship should occur
during the annual period, the
Commission shall proceed to a
new election for the remainder
of the said period.
The Commission is authorised to
appoint all necessary officers,
agents and employees who may be
required for the execution of
its functions, and to fix their
remuneration; to constitute
Sections or Committees, whose
members need not necessarily be
members of the Commission, and
to take all executive steps
necessary for the purpose of
discharging its duties; and to
delegate authority and
discretion to officers, agents,
Sections and Committees.
8. All the proceedings of the
Commission shall be private
unless on particular occasions
the Commission shall otherwise
determine for special reasons.
9. The Commission shall be
required, if the Hungarian
Government so desire, to hear
within a period which it will
fix from time to time evidence
and arguments on the part of
Hungary on any questions
connected with her capacity to
pay.
10. The Comrnission shall
consider the claims and give to
the Hungarian Government a just
opportunity to be heard, but not
to take any part whatever in the
decisions of the Commission. The
Commission shall afford a
similar opportunity to the
allies of Hungary when it shall
consider that their interests
are in question.
11. The Commission shall not be
bound by any particular code or
rules of law or by any
particular rule of evidence or
of procedure, but shall be
guided by justice, equity and
good faith. Its decisions must
follow the same principles and
rules in all cases where they
are applicable. It will
establish rules relating to
methods of proof of claims. It
may act on any trustworthy modes
of computation.
12. The Commission shall have
all the powers conferred upon it
and shall exercise all the
functions assigned to it by the
present Treaty.
The Commission shall, in
general, have wide latitude as
to its control and handling of
the whole reparation problem as
dealt with in this Part, and
shall have authority to
interpret its provisions.
Subject to the provisions of the
present Treaty, the Commission
is constituted by the several
Allied and Associated
Governments referred to in
paragraphs 2 and 3 above as the
exclusive agency of the said
Governments respectively for
receiving, selling, holding and
distributing the reparation
payments to be made by Hungary
under this Part of the present
Treaty. The Commission must
comply with the following
conditions and provisions:
(a) Whatever part of the full
amount of the proved claims is
not paid in gold or in ships,
securities, commodities or
otherwise, Hungary shall be
required, under such conditions
as the Commission may determine,
to cover by way of guarantee by
an equivalent issue of bonds,
obligations or otherwise, in
order to constitute an
acknowledgment of the said part
of the debt.
(b) In periodically estimating
Hungary's capacity to pay, the
Commission shall examine the
Hungarian system of taxation,
first, to the end that the sums
for reparation which Hungary is
required to pay shall become a
charge upon all her revenues
prior to that for the service or
discharge of any domestic loan,
and, secondly, so as to satisfy
itself that in general the
Hungarian scheme of taxation is
fully as heavy proportionately
as that of any of the Powers
represented on the Commission.
The Reparation Commission shall
receive instructions to take
account of: (1) the actual
economic and financial position
of Hungarian territory as
delimited by the present Treaty,
and (2) the diminution of its
resources and of its capacity
for payment resulting from the
clauses of the present Treaty.
As long as the position of
Hungary is not modified the
Commission shall take account of
these considerations in fixing
the final amount of the
obligations to be imposed on
Hungary, the payments by which
these are to be discharged, and
any postponement of payment of
interest which may be asked for
by Hungary.
(c) The Commission shall, as
provided in Article 165, take
from Hungary, by way of security
for and acknowledgment of her
debt, gold bearer bonds free of
all taxes or charges of every
description established or to be
established by the Hungarian
Government or by any authorities
subject to it. These bonds will
be delivered at any time that
may be judged expedient by the
Commission, and in three
portions, of which the
respective amounts will be also
fixed by the Commission (the
crowns gold being payable in
conformity with Article 197,
Part IX [Financial Clauses] of
the present Treaty):
(I ) A first issue in bearer
bonds payable not later than May
1, 1921, without interest. There
shall be specially applied to
the amortisation of these bonds
the payments which Hungary is
pledged to make in conformity
with Article 165, after
deduction of the sums used for
the reimbursement of the
expenses of the armies of
occupation and other payments
for foodstuffs and raw
materials. Such bonds as may not
have been redeemed by May 1,
1921, shall then be exchanged
for new bonds of the same type
as those provided for below
(paragraph 12, (c) 2).
(2) A second issue in bearer
bonds bearing interest at 254
per cent. between 1921 and 1926,
and thereafter at 5 per cent.
with an additional 1 per cent.
for amortisation beginning in
1926 on the whole amount of the
issue.
(3) An undertaking in writing to
issue, when, but not until, the
Commission is satisfied that
Hungary can meet the interest
and sinking fund obligations, a
further instalment of bearer
bonds bearing interest at 5 per
cent., the time and mode of
payment of principal and
interest to be determined by the
Commission.
The dates for the payment of
interest, the manner of
employing the amortisation fund
and all other questions relating
to the issue, management and
regulation of the bond issue
shall be determined by the
Commission from time to time.
Further issues by way of
acknowledgment and security may
be required as the Commission
subsequently determines from
time to time.
In case the Reparation
Commission should proceed to fix
definitely and no longer
provisionally the sum of the
common charges to be borne by
Hungary as a result of the
claims of the Allied and
Associated Powers, the
Commission shall immediately
annul all bonds which may have
been issued in excess of this
sum.
(d) In the event of bonds,
obligations or other evidence of
indebtedness issued by Hungary
by way of security for or
acknowledgment of her reparation
debt being disposed of outright,
not by way of pledge, to persons
other than the several
Governments in whose favour
Hungary's original indebtedness
was created, an amount ol such
reparation indebtedness shall be
deemed to be extinguished
corresponding to the nominal
value of the bonds, etc., so
disposed of outright, and the
obligation of Hungary in respect
of such bonds shall be confined
to her liabilities to the
holders of the bonds, as
expressed upon their face.
(e) The damage for repairing,
reconstructing and rebuilding
property situated in the invaded
and devastated districts,
including re-installation of
furniture, machinery and other
equipment, will be calculated
according to the cost at the
date when the work is done.
(f) Decisions of the Commission
relating to the total or partial
cancellation of the capital or
interest of any of the verified
debt of Hungary must be
accompanied by a statement of
its reasons.
13. As to voting, the Commission
will observe the following
rules:
When a
decision of the Commission is
taken, the votes of all the
Delegates entitled to vote, or,
in the absence of any of them,
of their assistant Delegates,
shall be recorded. Abstention
from voting is to be treated as
a vote against the proposal
under discussion. Assessors
shall have no vote.
On the following questions
unanimity is necessary:
(a) Questions involving the
sovereignty of any of the Allied
and Associated Powers, or the
cancellation of the whole or any
part of the debt or obligations
of Hungary;
(b) Questions of determining the
amount and conditions of bonds
or other obligations to be
issued by the Hungarian
Government and of fixing the
time and manner for selling,
negotiating or distributing such
bonds;
(c) Any postponement, total or
partial, beyond the end of 1930,
of the payment of instalments
falling due between May 1, 1921,
and the end of 1926 inclusive;
(d) Any postponement, total or
partial, of any instalments
falling due after 1926 for a
period exceeding three years;
(e) Questions of applying in any
particular case a method of
measuring damages different from
that which has been previously
applied in a similar case;
(f) Questions of the
interpretation of the provisions
of this Part of the present
Treaty. All other questions
shall be decided by the vote of
the majority.
In the case of any difference of
opinion among the Delegates,
which cannot be solved by
reference to their Governments,
upon the question whether a
given case is one which requires
a unanimous vote for its
decision or not, such difference
shall be referred to the
immediate arbitration of some
impartial person to be agreed
upon by their Governments, whose
award the Allied and Associated
Governments agree to accept.
14. Decisions of the Commission,
in accordance with the powers
conferred upon it, shall
forthwith become binding and may
be put into immediate execution
without further proceedings.
15. The Commission shall issue
to each of the interested Powers
in such form as the Commission
shall fix
(I) A certificate stating that
it holds for the account of the
said Power bonds of the issues
mentioned above, the said
certificate on the demand of the
Power concerned being divisible
into a number of parts not
exceeding five;
(2) From time to time
certificates stating the goods
delivered by Hungary on account
of her reparation debt which it
holds for the account of the
said Power.
Such certificates shall be
registered and, upon notice to
the Commission, may be
transferred by endorsement.
When bonds are issued for sale
or negotiation, and when goods
are delivered by the Commission,
certificates to an equivalent
value must be withdrawn.
16. Interest shall be debited to
Hungary as from May 1, 1921, in
respect of her debt as
determined by the Commission,
after allowing for sums already
covered by cash payments or
their equivalent by bonds issued
to the Commission or under
Article 173.
The rate of interest shall be 5
per cent. unless the Commission
shall determine at some future
time that circumstances justify
a variation of this rate.
The Commission, in fixing on May
1, 1921, the total amount of the
debt of Hungary, may take
account of interest due on sums
arising out of reparation and of
material damage as from November
11, 1918, or any later date that
may be fixed by the Commission,
up to May 1, 1921.
17. In case of default by
Hungary in the performance of
any obligation under this Part
of the present Treaty, the
Commission will forthwith give
notice of such default to each
of the interested Powers and may
make such recommendations as to
the action to be taken in
consequence of such default as
it may think necessary.
18. The measures which the
Allied and Associated Powers
shall have the right to take, in
the case of voluntary default by
Hungary, and which Hungary
agrees not to regard as acts of
war, may include economic and
financial prohibitions and
reprisals, and in general such
other measures as the respective
Governments may determine to be
necessary in the circumstances.
19. Payments required to be made
in gold or its equivalent on
account of the proved claims of
the Allied and Associated Powers
may at any time be accepted by
the Commission in the form of
chattels, properties,
commodities, businesses, rights,
concessions within or without
Hungarian territory, ships,
bonds, shares or securities of
any kind or currencies of
Hungary or other States, the
value of such substitutes for
gold being fixed at a fair and
just amount by the Commission
itself.
20. The Commission in fixing or
accepting payment in specified
properties or rights shall have
due regard for any legal or
equitable interests of the
Allied and Associated Powers or
of neutral Powers or of their
nationals therein.
21. No member of the Commission
shall be responsible, except to
the Government appointing him,
for any action or omission as
such member. No one of the
Allied and Associated
Governments assumes any
responsibility in respect of any
other Government. 22. Subject to
the provisions of the present
Treaty this Annex may be amended
by the unanimous decision of the
Governments represented from
time to time upon the
Commission.
23. When all the amounts due
from Hungary and her allies
under the present Treaty or the
decisions of the Commission have
been discharged, and all sums
received, or their equivalents,
have been distributed to the
Powers interested, the
Commission shall be dissolved.
ANNEX
III.
1. Hungary recognises the right
of the Allied and Associated
Powers to the replacement ton
for ton (gross tonnage) and
class for class of all merchant
ships and fishing boats lost or
damaged owing to the war.
Nevertheless and in spite of the
fact that the tonnage of
Hungarian shipping at present in
existence is much less than that
lost by the Allied and
Associated Powers in consequence
of the aggression of
Austria-Hungary and her allies,
the right thus recognised will
be enforced on the Hungarian
ships and boats under the
following conditions:
The Hungarian Government on
behalf of themselves and so as
to bind all other persons
interested, cede to the Aliied
and Associated Governments the
property in all merchant ships
and fishing boats belonging to
nationals of the former Kingdom
of Hungary.
2. The Hungarian Governrnent
will, within two months of the
coming into force of the present
Treaty, deliver to the
Reparation Commission all the
ships and boats mentioned in
paragraph 1.
3. The ships and boats in
paragraph I include all ships
and boats which (a) fly or may
be entitled to fly the
Austro-Hungarian merchant flag
and are registered in a port of
the former Kingdom of Hungary,
or (b) are owned by any
national, company or corporation
of the former Kingdom of
Hungary, or by any company or
corporation belonging to a
country other than an Allied or
Associated country and under the
control or direction of
nationals of the former Kingdom
of Hungary, or (c) are now under
construction (I) in the former
Kingdom of Hungary, (2) in other
than Allied or Associated
countries for the account of any
national, company or corporation
of the former Kingdom of
Hungary.
4. For the purpose of providing
documents of title for the ships
and boats to be handed over as
above mentioned, the Hungarian
Government will:
(a) Deliver to the Reparation
Commission in respect of each
vessel a bill of sale or other
document of title evidencing the
transfer to the Commission of
the entire property in the
vessel, free from all
encumbrances, charges and liens
of all kinds, as the Commission
may require;
(b) Take
all measures that may be
indicated bythe Reparation
Commission for ensuring that the
ships themselves shall be placed
at its disposal.
5 Hungary undertakes to restore
in kind and in normal condition
of upkeep to the Allied and
Associated Powers within two
months of the coming into force
of the present Treaty in
accordance with procedure to be
laid down by the Reparation
Commission any boats and other
movable appliances belonging to
inland navigation which, since
July 28, 1914, have by any means
whatever come into her
possession or into the
possession of her nationals and
which can be identified.
With a view to make good the
loss in inland navigation
tonnage from whatever cause
arising which has been incurred
during the war by the Allied and
Associated Powers, and which
cannot be made good by means of
the restitution prescribed
above, Hungary agrees to cede to
the Reparation Commission a
portion of the Hungarian river
fleet up to the amount of the
loss mentioned above, provided
that such cession shall not
exceed 20 per cent. of the river
fleet as it existed on November
3, 1918.
The conditions of this cession
shall be settled by the
arbitrators referred to in
Article 284, Part XII (Ports,
Waterways and Railways) of the
present Treaty, who are charged
with the settlement of
difficulties relating to the
apportionment of river tonnage
resulting from the new
international régime applicable
to certain river systems or from
the territorial changes
affecting those systems.
6. Hungary agrees to take any
measures that may be indicated
to her by the Reparation
Commission for obtaining a full
title to the property in all
ships which have, during the
war, been transferred or are in
process of transfer to neutral
flags without the consent of the
Allied and Associated
Governments.
7. Hungary waives all claims of
any description against the
Allied and Associated
Governments and their nationals
in respect of the detention,
employment, loss or damage of
any Hungarian ships or boats.
8. Hungary renounces all claims
to vessels or cargoes sunk by or
in consequence of naval action
and subsequently salved in which
any of the Allied or Associated
Governments or their nationals
may have any interest either as
owners, charterers, insurers or
otherwise, notwithstanding any
decree of condemnation which may
have been made by a Prize Court
of the former Austro-Hungarian
Monarchy or of its allies.
ANNEX
IV.
1. The Allied and Associated
Powers require and Hungary
undertakes that in part
satisfaction of her obligations
expressed in this Part she will,
as hereinafter provided, devote
her economic resources directly
to the physical restoration of
the invaded areas of the Allied
and Associated Powers to the
extent that these Powers may
determine.
2. The Allied and Associated
Governments may file with the
Reparation Commission lists
showing:
(a) Animals, machinery,
rolling-stock, equipment, tools
and like articles of a
commercial character which have
been seized, consumed or
destroyed by Hungary, or
destroyed in direct consequence
of military operations, and
which such Governments, for the
purpose of meeting immediate and
urgent needs, desire to have
replaced by animals and articles
of the same nature which are in
being in Hungarian territory at
the date of the coming into
force of the present Treaty;
(b) Reconstruction materials
(such as stones, bricks,
refractory bricks, tiles, wood,
window glass, steel, lime,
cement), machinery, heating
apparatus, furniture and like
articles of a commercial
character, which the said
Governments desire to have
produced and manufactured in
Hungary and delivered to them to
permit of the restoration of the
invaded areas.
3. The lists relating to the
articles mentioned in paragraph
2 (a) above shall be filed
within three months after the
coming into force of the present
Treaty.
The
lists shall contain all such
details as are customary in
commercial contracts dealing
with the subject matter,
including specifications, dates
of delivery (but not extending
over more than four years) and
places of delivery, but not
prices or value which shall be
fixed as hereinafter provided by
the Commission.
Immediately upon the filing of
such lists with the Commission
the Commission shall consider
the amount and number of the
materials and animals mentioned
in the lists provided for above
which are to be required of
Hungary.
In reaching a decision on this
matter the Commission shall take
into account such domestic
requirements of Hungary as it
deems essential for the
maintenance of Hungarian social
and economic life, the prices
and dates at which similar
articles can be obtained in the
Allied and Associated countries
as compared with those to be
fixed for Hungarian articles,
and the general interest of the
Allied and Associated
Governments that the industrial
life of Hungary be not so
disorganised as to aflect
adversely the ability of Hungary
to perform the other acts of
reparation stipulated for.
Machinery, rolling stock,
equipment, tools and like
articles of a commercial
character in actual industrial
use are not, however to be
demanded of Hungary unless there
is no free stock of such
articles respectively which is
not in use and is available, and
then not in excess of 30 per
cent. of the quantity of such
articles in use in any one
establishment or undertaking.
The Commission shall give
representatives of the Hungarian
Government an opportunity and a
time to be heard as to their
capacity to furnish the said
materials, articles and animals
The decision of the Commission
shall thereupon and at the
earliest possible moment be
communicated to the Hungarian
Government and to the several
interested Allied and Associated
Governments.
The Hungarian Government
undertakes to deliver the
materials, articles and animals
as specified in the said
communication, and the
interested Allied and Associated
Governments severally agree to
accept the same, providing they
conform to the specification
given or are not, in the
judgment of the Commission,
unfit to be utilised in the work
of reparation.
The Commission shall determine
the value to be attached to the
materials, articles and animals
to be delivered in accordance
with the foregoing, and the
Allied or Associated Power
receiving the same agrees to be
charged with such value, and the
amount thereof shall be treated
as a payment by Hungary to be
divided in accordance with
Article 167 of the present
Treaty.
In cases where the right to
require physical restoration as
above provided is exercised, the
Commission shall ensure that the
amount to be credited against
the reparation obligation of
Hungary shall be fair value for
work done or material supplied
by Hungary, and that the claim
made by the interested Power in
respect of the damage so
repaired by physical restoration
shall be discharged to the
extent of the proportion which
the damage thus repaired bears
to the whole of the damage thus
claimed for.
6. In order to meet the
immediate needs of the countries
whose livestock has been seized,
consumed or destroyed, the
Allied and Associated Powers may
present to the Reparation
Commission immediately after the
coming into force of the present
Treaty lists of the livestock
which they desire to have
delivered to them within three
months from the coming into
force of the present Treaty, as
an immediate advance on account
of the animals referred to in
paragraph 2 above.
The Reparation Commission shall
decide in what numbers such
livestock shall be delivered
within the above period of three
months, and Hungary agrees to
make such deliveries in
accordance with the decisions of
the Commission.
The Commission will distribute
the livestock so delivered
between the Powers concerned,
taking into account the
immediate needs of each of these
Powers and the extent to which
these needs have been met by the
Treaties concluded between the
Allied and Associated Powers on
the one hand and Austria and
Hungary on the other hand.
The animals delivered shall be
of average health and condition.
If the animals so delivered
cannot be identified as animals
taken away or seized, the value
of such animals shall be
credited against the reparation
obligations of Hungary in
accordance with paragraph 5 of
this Annex.
ANNEX
V.
1. Hungary shall give, as
partial reparation, to the
Allied and Associated
Governments severally an option
during the five years following
the coming into force of the
present Treaty for the annual
delivery of the raw materials
hereinafter enumerated the
amounts delivered to bear the
same relation to their annuai
importations of these materials
before the war from
AustriaHungary as the resources
of Hungary as now delimited by
the present Treaty bear to the
resources before the war of the
former Austro-Hungarian
Monarchy:
Timber and timber manufactures;
Iron and iron alloys.
Hungary shall also give, as
partial reparation, to the
Allied and Associated Powers an
option for the annual delivery
during the five years following
the coming into force of the
present Treaty of a quantity of
steam coal from the Pecs mine
This quantity will be
periodically determined by the
Reparation Commission, which
will dispose of it for the
benefit of the
Serb-Croat-Slovene State in
conditions fixed by the
Commission.
The price paid for the products
referred to in the preceding
paragraph shall be the same as
the price paid by Hungarian
nationals under the same
conditions of shipment to the
Hungarian frontier and shall be
subject to any advantages which
may be accorded similar products
furnished to Hungarian
nationals.
3. The foregoing options shall
be exercised through the
intervention of the Reparation
Commission, which, subject to
the specific provisions hereof,
shall have power to determine
all questions relative to
procedure and qualities and
quantities of products and the
times and modes of delivery and
payment. In giving notice to the
Hungarian Government of the
foregoing options, the
Commission shall give at least
120 days notice of deliveries to
be made after July 1, 1920, and
at least 30 days notice of
deliveries to be made between
the coming into force of the
present Treaty and July 1, 1920.
If the Commission shall
determine that the full exercise
of the foregoing options would
interfere unduly with the
industrial requirements of
Hungary, the Commission is
authorised to postpone or to
cancel deliveries and in so
doing to settle all questions of
priority.
ANNEX
VI.
Hungary renounces on her own
behalf and on behalf of her
nationals in favour of Italy all
rights, titles or privileges of
whatever nature in any submarine
cables or portions of cables
connecting Italian territory,
including any territories which
may be assigned to Italy in
accordance with the present
Treaty.
Hungary also renounces on her
own behalf and on behalf of her
nationals in favour of the
Principal Allied and Associated
Powers all rights, titles and
privileges of whatever nature in
the submarine cables, or
portions thereof, connecting the
territories ceded by Hungary
under the terms of the present
Treaty to the various Allied and
Associated Powers.
The States concerned shall
provide for the upkeep of the
installations and the proper
working of the said cables.
As regards the cable from
Trieste to Corfu, the Italian
Government shall enjoy in its
reLations with the company
owning this cable the same
position as that held by the
Austro-Hungarian Government.
The value of the cables or
portions of cables referred to
in the first two paragraphs of
the present Annex, calculated on
the basis of the original cost,
less a suitable allowance for
depreciation, shall be credited
to Hungary in the reparation
account.
SECTION II.
SPECIAL PROVISIONS.
ARTICLE 175.
In carrying out the provisions
of Article 168, Hungary
undertakes to surrender to each
of the Allied and Associated
Powers respectively all records,
documents, objects of antiquity
and of art, and all scientific
and bibliographical material
taken away from the invaded
territories, whether they belong
to the State or to provincial,
communal, charitable or
ecclesiastical administrations
or other public or private
institutions.
ARTICLE 176.
Hungary shall in the same manner
restore objects of the same
nature as those referred to in
Article 175 which may have been
taken away since June 1, 1914,
from the ceded territories, with
the exception of objects bought
from private owners.
The Reparation Commission will
apply to these objects the
provisions of Article 191, Part
IX (Financial Clauses), of the
present Treaty, if these are
appropriate.
ARTICLE 177.
Hungary will give up to each of
the Allied and Associated
Governments respectively all the
records, documents and
historical material possessed by
public institutions which may
have a direct bearing on the
history of the ceded territories
and which have been removed
since January 1, 1868. This
last-mentioned period, as far as
concerns Italy, shall be
extended to the date of the
proclamation of the Kingdom
(1861).
With regard to all objects or
documents of an artistic,
archaeological, scientific or
historic character forming part
of collections which formerly
belonged to the Government or
the Crown of the
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and
are not otherwise provided for
in the present Treaty, Hungary
undertakes:
(a) To negotiate, when required,
with the States concerned for an
amicable arrangement whereby any
portion thereof or any objects
or documents belonging thereto
which ought to form part of the
intellectual patrimony of the
said States may be returned to
their country of origin on terms
of reciprocity, and
(b) For twenty years, unless a
special arrangement is
previously arrived at, not to
alienate or disperse any of the
said collections or to dispose
of any of the above objects, but
at all times to ensure their
safety and good condition and to
make them available, together
with inventories, catalogues and
administrative documents
relating to the said
collections, at all reasonable
times to students who are
nationals of any of the Allied
and Associated Powers.
Reciprocally, Hungary will be
entitled to apply to the said
States, particularly to Austria,
in order to negotiate, in the
conditions mentioned above, the
necessary arrangements for the
return to Hungary of the
collections, documents and
objects referred to above, to
which the guarantees referred to
in paragraph (b) will apply.
ARTICLE 178.
The new States arising out of
the former Austro-Hungarian
Monarchy and the States which
receive part of the territory of
that Monarchy undertake to give
up to the Hungarian Government
the records, documents and
material dating from a period
not exceeding twenty years which
have a direct bearing on the
history or administration of the
territory of Hungary and which
may be found in the territories
transferred.
ARTICLE 179.
Hungary acknowledges that she
remains bound, as regards Italy,
to execute in full the
obligations referred to in
Article 15 of the Treaty of
Zurich of November l0, 1859, in
Article 18 of the Treaty of
Vienna of October 3, 1866, and
in the Convention of Florence of
July 14, 1868, concluded between
Italy and Austria-Hungary, in so
far as the Articles referred to
have not in fact been executed
in their entirety, and in so far
as the documents and objects in
question are situated in the
territory of Hungary or her
allies.