PEACE WITH BULGARIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17330, 29 November 1919, Page 11

PEACE WITH BULGARIA.

ALLIES' TEfeMS ACCEPTED,

SIGNING OF THE TREATY,

CARRIED OUT ON THURSDAY.

By Telo E taiph--Preßs Association—Cecyrieht. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Nov. 27. The Bulgarian delegates have signed the Peace Treaty.

In its main outlines the Treaty of Peace with Bulgaria resemb es the ordinal drait treaty with Austria, a number of its parts be.n,; in fact identical with that document.

The frontier changes are not impressive in their magnitude, though Bulgaria loses her Thracian seaboard On the West her frontier with the Serb-Croat-Slovene State mainly follows the line of the old Bulgaro-Servian frontier, but small cessions, including the town and district of Strumnitzn, are to be made to the Serb-Croat-Slovene State. On the Southern frontier the now boundary follows a line from a point eight miles south-west of Bashmakli to Kilkik, jessing close to Ardabastin and Daridero, wh'ch remain Bulgarian. The fate of this territory is to be subsequently decided by the principal Allied and Assoc'ated Powers, who guarantee Bulgaria economic outlets to the /Epean Sea.

Bulgaria undertakes to recognise all Allied Treaties or agreements with States now existing or coming into existence in what was the Russian Empire, and she accepts the abrogation of the BrestLitovsk Treaty. Bulgaria recognises the British Protectorate over Egypt and the French Protectorate over Morocco.

The Bulgarian Army is fixed at a maximum strength of 20.000, including officers, while officials armed with rifles are not to exceed 10.000.

War material is to he strictly limited. and any surplus over the amount allowed is to be handed over to the Allies. All Bulgarian warships are to be surrendered or broken up and th armed forces of Bulgaria are to include no aircraft of any description. Inter-All-ed Commissions of Control are to he maintained with full powers at Sofia, their expenses being met by Bulgaria. The sum to be paid in reparation by Bulgaria is fixed at two and a-nuarter milliards of francs (nominally £90 000,000) to be paid in full in gold by 1958. Provisions are made for "the return to dreece, Roumania. and the Serb-Croat-Slovene Stite of all records, archives, etc., taken by Bulgaria. She is also to make Rood livestock and coal in quantities laid down or to be established.

In case Bulgaria fails to meet her obligations the Inter-Allied Commission is entitled to assume full control of Bulgarian revenue.