'Treaty of Peace with Turkey. Signed at Sévres, August 10, 1920. [With Maps.]' [‎54r] (87/112)

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SECTION IV.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Chapter I.
Hydraulic system.
Article 363.
In default of any provision to the contrary, when as the result of the fixing of a new
frontier the hydraulic system (canalisation, inundation, irrigation, drainage or similar
matters) in a State is dependent on works executed within the territory of another State,
or when use is made on the territory of a State, in virtue of pre-war usage, of water or
hydraulic power the source of which is on the territory of another State, an agreement
shall be made between the States concerned to safeguard the interests and rights acquired
by each of them. ^
hailing an agreement, the matter shall be regulated by an arbitrator appointed by
the Council of the League of Nations.
Chapter II.
'J'eleyraphs and Telephones.
Article 364.
1 in key undertakes on the request of any of the Allied Powers to grant facilities for
the erection and maintenance of trunk telegraph and telephone lines across her territories.
Such facilities shall comprise the grant to any telegraph or telephone company
nominated by any of the Allied Powers of the right:
(&) to erect a new line of poles and wires along any line of railway or other route in
Turkish territory ;
(/>) to have access at all times to such poles and wires or wires placed by agreement
on existing poles, and to take such steps as may be necessary to maintain
them in good working order ;
(e) to utilise the services of their own staff for the purpose of working such wires.
All questions relating to the establishment of such lines, especially as regards com-
. pensation to private individuals, shall be settled in the same conditions as are applied to
telegraph or telephone lines established by the Turkish Government itself.
Article 365.
Notwithstanding any contrary stipulations in existing treaties, Turkey undertakes to
grant freedom of transit for telegraphic correspondence and telephonic communications
coming from or going to any one of the Allied Powers, whether contiguous with her or
not, over such lines as may be most suitable for international transit and in accordance
with the tariffs in force. This correspondence and these communications shall be
subjected to no unnecessary delay or restriction ; they shall enjoy in Turkey national
treatment in regard to every kind of facility, and especially in regard to rapidity of trans
mission. No payment, facility or restriction shall depend directly or indirectly on the
nationality of the transmitter or the addressee.
Where in consequence of the provisions of the present Treaty lines previously entirely
on Turkish territory traverse the territory of more than one State, pending the revision
of telegraph rates by a new international telegraphic convention, the through charges
shall not l>e higher than they would have been if the whole of the territory traversed had
remained under Turkish sovereignty^ and the apportionment of the through charges
between the States traversed shall be dealt with by agreement between the administrations
concerned.
Chapter HI.
Submarine Cables.
Article 366.
Turkey agrees to transfer the landing rights at Constantinople for the Constanti-
nople-Constanza cable to any administration or company which may be designated by the
Allied Powers.
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