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‘TREATY OF PEACE WITH TURKEY, AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS Signed at Lausanne on July 24, 1923, together with Agreements between Greece and Turkey signed on January 30, 1923, and Subsidiary Documents forming part of THE TURKISH PEACE SETTLEMENT.’ [48r] (100/260)
The record is made up of 1 volume (126 folios). It was created in 1923-1924. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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to the Council of the League of Nations with a view to deciding
whether it is necessary that the control mentioned
r n t the Diesent Article should be maintained. JNevertneiess, ii
remains understood that the stipulations of ^^^^Iways
in force for transit over the two sections of the Oriental Kail ways
between the Greco-Bulgarian frontier and Bosna-Keuy.
Article 108.
^ihieet to any special provisions concerning the transfer of ports-
and rd way Whether owned by the Turkish Government or private
companies situated in the territories detached from Turkey under the
present Treaty, and similarly subject to any agreements which have
been or may be, concluded between the Contracting Powers re at ^
to the cracessionnaires and the pensioning of the personnel, the
transfer of railways will take place under the following conditions.
(11 The works and installations of all the railroads shall be left
complete and in as good condition as possible;
(2) When a railway system possessing its own rolling-stock is
situated in its entirety in transferred territory, such stock
shall be left complete with the railway, in accordance with
the last inventory before the 30th October, 1918,
/q\ \ s regards lines, the administration of which will in virtue
(3) A 0 f g the present Treaty be divided, the distribution of the
rolling-stock shall be made by friendly agreement between
the administrations taking over the several sections thereof.
This agreement shall have regard to the amount ot the
material registered on those lines in the last inventory
before the 30th October, 1918, the length of the track
(sidings included) and the nature and amount ot the
traffic. Failing agreement, the points in dispute sha
settled by arbitration. The arbitral decision shall also if
necessary, specifv the locomotives, carriages and wagons to
be left on efch sectiou, the condition, of them acceptance
and such provisional arrangements as may be judge
necessary to ensure for a limited period the curren
maintenance in existing workshops of the transferred
(4) Stocks^of stores, fittings and plant shall be left under the
same conditions as the rolling-stock.
Article 109.
In default of any provisions to the contrary, when as the result of
the fixing of a new frontier the hydraulic system (canalisation
inundation, irrigation, drainage or similar matters) ^ a State ^
dependent on works executed within the territory of another btate,
or when use is made on the territory of a State, m virtue °fpre-wa
usa-e of water or hydraulic power, the source of which is on the
territory of another State, an agreement shall be made between
States concerned to safeguard the interests and rights acquired by
^ Mhl'g an agreement, the matter shall be regulated by arbitration.
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A printed copy of the Treaty of Peace with Turkey, commonly referred to as the Treaty of Lausanne. The treaty was signed on 24 July 1923 and formally ended the conflict between the Ottoman Empire and other nations (including Great Britain) that had begun at the onset of the First World War. The volume was printed and published by HM Stationery Office, London, 1923 (Treaty Series No. 16 (1923). Cmd. 1929). The treaty is printed in the French original and English translation.
The treaty is divided into seventeen sections (numbered I-XVII): I. Treaty of Peace; II. Straits Convention; III. Convention respecting the Thracian frontier; IV. Convention respecting conditions of Residence and Business and Jurisdiction; V. Commercial Convention; VI. Convention concerning the Exchange of Greek and Turkish Populations, signed at Lausanne January 30, 1923; VII. Agreement between Greece and Turkey respecting the reciprocal restitution of interned civilians and the exchange of prisoners of war, signed at Lausanne 23 January 1923; VIII. Declaration relating to the Amnesty; IX. Declaration relating to Muslim properties in Greece; X. Declaration relating to sanitary matters in Turkey; XI. Declaration relating to the administration of justice in Turkey; XII. Protocol relating to certain concessions granted in the Ottoman Empire; XIII. Protocol relating to the accession of Belgium and Portugal to certain provisions and instruments signed at Lausanne; XIV. Protocol relating to the evacuation of the Turkish territory occupied by the British, French and Italian forces; XV. Protocol relating to the Karagatch [Karaağaç] territory and the Islands of Imbros [Gökçeada] and Tenedos [Bozcaada]; XVI. Protocol relating to the Treaty concluded at Sèvres between the principal Allied Powers and Greece on August 10, 1920, concerning the protection of minorities in Greece, and the Treaty concluded on the same day between the same Powers relating to Thrace; XVII. Protocol relating to signature by the Serb-Croat-Slovene State.
The volume also includes copies of correspondence relating to the treaty, including letters exchanged between the High Commissioner to Constantinople, Sir Horace George Montagu Rumbold, who signed the Treaty of Lausanne on behalf of the British Government, and the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ismet Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. [Mustafa İsmet İnönü]. A map of those parts of southeastern Europe affected by the treaty is also enclosed in the volume (f 126).
The volume is accompanied by a loose folio (f 128), entitled ‘NOTE ON THE TREATY OF PEACE (TURKEY) BILL, 1924.’, originally presented by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to Parliament. The note was printed and published by HM Stationery Office, London, in 1924.
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- 1 volume (126 folios)
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The volume’s contents are listed at the front of the volume (ff 2-3), and refer to the volume’s original pagination system.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 128, these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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