GERMAN TERMS TO RUSSIA.

Evening Star, Issue 16675, 6 March 1918, Page 3

GERMAN TERMS TO RUSSIA.

ENTIRELY NEW FRONTIER. BUFFER STATES BETWEEN AS AUSTRQ-GERMAN VASSALS. BALTIC PROVINCES ANNEXED. COMMISSION TO FIX OTHER CHANGES. COMPLETE DEMOBILISATION, BOTH ARMY AND NAVY. TRANSCAUCASUS EVACUATION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright Renter's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, March 4. Berlin has officially issued the' text of the peace treaty of Germany, AustriaHungary, Bulgaria, and Turkev on the one hand and Russia, on the other. Article 1 stipulates that the contracting parties shall live henceforth in peace and friendship. Article 2 requires that the contracting parties shall refrain from a.ll agitation and provocation against the" existing Government or State. and spare the populations ot the occupied regions. Article 5: The Tcgions Iving west of the line agreed upon by the contracting parties, formerly belonging to 'Russia, shall no longer be Russian territory. This line in the west is to be fixed bv'a. Russo-Ger-man Commission. The regions in question will have no obligation -whatever toward* Russia arising from their former relations. Russia shall refrain from all interference in the internal affairs of these territories, and allow .Austria and Germany to determine their future fate in a-ree"-ment with their populations. Article 4: Austria, and Germany shall undertake, when general peace is concluded and Russian demobilisation is fullv carned out,_ to evacuate the regions east of the line in Article 3. so far as Article o does not stipulate otherwise. Russia "will _ completely evacuate the Anatolian provinces as SO on as possible, and return these to Turkey. The districts of Erdsh*.n (.'_ Envan), Ratonm, and Knrs shall likewise be evacuated by Russia without delay. L,ussi a> will not interfere in the reorganisation ot constitutional and international conditions in these districts; but leave these to the populations thereof, in agreement Turkey neighborsn S Stotcs > particularly Article 5: Russia must not delay in demobilising completely, including the newlvlormed forces, -and must transfer her warships to Russian harbors, not leaving there until a general peace, or she must immediately disarm warships hostile to the Quadruplice winch will be treated as Russian In so far as they are within Russian control ; the removal of mines in the Raltic f« +l. '"nf 0 , fa £ sw ?" srian power extends, m the Black Sea; begin immediately comro? TCI ?l ship™ l -! in these waters." The Mixed Commission will fix further reguiav S t- <aS Te S™ ds merchant ships' routes ■which must be kept permanent and fre» of floating mines. Article 6: Russia must undertake immediately to conclude pence with the Ukraine, and recognise the peace treatv between the Ukraine and the Quadruplice ; evacuate TJkrainia immediately, and cease agitation or propaganda against the Government and public institutions in TJkJ* m % J*" 9 *™- m 'ist evacuate without deJay Esthonm and Livonia. The eastern frontier of Esthonia will follow the line of the Narova River. The eastern frontier , £?? Ja wll rnn tnro "2h Lakes Peipus and Pskov to the sonth-west corner of if e ,. •' tllence over Lake T.uban in the _ direction of Livenhof. on the river Dwma, Esthom'a. and Livonia will be occupied by a German police force nntn security is guaranteed and order restored Russia must guarantee to release all arrested Esthonians and Livonians.