Article 110. Roumania and Turkey will come to an agreement as to an equitable arrangement for the working conditions of the ConstanzaConstantinople cable. Failing agreement, the matter shall be settled by arbitration. Article 111. Turkey renounces on her own behalf and on behalf of her nationals all rights, titles or privileges of whatsoever nature over the whole or part of such cables as no longer land on her territory. If the cables or portions thereof transferred under the preceding paragraph are privately owned, the Governments to which this property is transferred will have to indemnify the owners. Failing agreement respecting the amount of indemity, this amount will be fixed by arbitration. Article 112. Turkey will retain the rights of property which she may already possess over those cables of which at least one end remains in Turkish territory. The exercise of the landing rights of the said cables in non-Turkish territory and their working conditions shall be settled in a friendly manner by the States concerned. Failing agreement, the dispute will be settled by arbitration. Article 113. Each of the High Contracting Parties hereby accepts, in so far as it is concerned, the abolition of foreign post offices in Turkey. SECTION II. SANITARY QUESTIONS. Article 114. The Superior Council of Health of Constantinople is abolished. The Turkish Administration is entrusted with the sanitary organisation of the coasts and frontiers of Turkey. Article 115. A single sanitary tariff, the dues and conditions of which shall be fair, shall be applied to all ships without distinction between the Turkish flag and foreign flags, and to nationals of foreign Powers under the same conditions as to nationals of Turkey. Article 116. Turkey undertakes to respect entirely the right of the sanitary employees whose services have been terminated to compensation to be appropriated out of the funds of the former Superior Council of Health of Constantinople, and all other rights acquired by employees or former employees of the Council, or their representatives. All destination à donner au fonds de réserve de l'ex-Conseil Supérieur de Santé de Constantinople, à la liquidation définitive de l'ancienne administration sanitaire ainsi que toute autre question semblable ou connexe, seront réglées par une Commission ad hoc, qui sera composée d'un représentant de chacune des Puissances qui faisaient partie du Conseil Supérieur de Santé de Constantinople, à l'exception de l'Allemagne, de l'Autriche et de la Hongrie. En cas de désaccord entre les membres de cette Commission sur une question concernant soit la liquidation visée plus haut, soit l'affectation du reliquat des fonds restant après cette liquidation, toute Puissance représentée au sein de la Commission aura le droit d'en saisir le Conseil de la Société des Nations qui statuera en dernier ressort. Article 117. La Turquie et les Puissances intéressées à la surveillance des pèlerinages de Jérusalem et du Hedjaz et du chemin de fer du Hedjaz, prendront les mesures appropriées, conformément aux dispositions des Conventions sanitaires internationales. A l'effet d'assurer une complète uniformité d'exécution, ces Puissances et la Turquie constitueront une Commission de coordination sanitaire des pèlerinages, dans laquelle les services sanitaires de la Turquie et le Conseil sanitaire maritime et quarantenaire de l'Égypte seront représentés. Cette Commission devra obtenir le consentement préalable de l'État sur le territoire duquel elle se réunira. Article 118. Des rapports sur les travaux de la Commission de coordination des pèlerinages seront adressés au Comité d'hygiène de la Société des Nations et à l'Office international d'hygiène publique, ainsi qu'au Gouvernement de tout pays intéressé aux pèlerinages qui en ferait la demande. La Commission donnera son avis sur toute question qui lui sera posée par la Société des Nations, par l'Office international d'hygiène publique ou par les Gouvernements intéressés. PARTIE V. CLAUSES DIVERSES. 1. PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE. Article 119. Les Hautes Parties contractantes s'engagent à rapatrier immédiatement les prisonniers de guerre et internés civils qui seraient restés entre leurs mains. L'échange des prisonniers de guerre et internés civils détenus respectivement par la Grèce et la Turquie, fait l'objet de l'Accord particulier entre ces Puissances, signé à Lausanne le 30 janvier 1923. Article 120. Les prisonniers de guerre et internés civils qui sont passibles ou frappés de peines pour fautes contre la discipline, seront rapatriés questions relating to such rights, to the employment of the reserve funds of the former Superior Council of Health of Constantinople, or to the final liquidation of the former sanitary administration, as well as all other similar or cognate questions, shall be regulated by a Commission ad hoc which shall be composed of a representative of each of the Powers represented on the Superior Council of Health of Constantinople except Germany, Austria and Hungary. In the event of disagreement between the members of the said Commission on a question relating to the above-mentioned liquidation, or the employment of the funds remaining after that liquidation, every Power represented on the Commission shall have the right to bring the matter to the notice of the Council of the League of Nations, whose decision shall be final. Article 117. Turkey and those Powers which are interested in the supervision of the pilgrimages to Jerusalem and to the Hedjaz and the Hedjaz railway shall take such measures as are appropriate in accordance with the provisions of international sanitary conventions. With a view to ensuring complete uniformity in the execution of these measures, these Powers and Turkey shall constitute a Sanitary Co-ordination Commission for pilgrimages, on which the sanitary service of Turkey and the Maritime Sanitary and Quarantine Council of Egypt shall be represented. This Commission must obtain the previous consent of the State on whose territory it holds its meeting. Article 118. Reports on the work of the Pilgrimage Co-ordination Commission shall be addressed to the Health Committee of the League of Nations and to the International Office of Public Health, and also to the Government of each country which is interested in pilgrimages and makes a request therefor. The Commission will give its opinion on every question put to it by the League of Nations, by the International Office of Public Health, or by the interested Governments. PART Y. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 1. PRISONERS OF WAR. Article 119. The High Contracting Parties agree to repatriate at once the prisoners of war and interned civilians who are still in their hands. The exchange of prisoners of war and interned civilians detained by Greece and Turkey respectively forms the subject of a separate agreement between those Powers signed at Lausanne 30th January, 1923. Article 120. on the Prisoners of war and interned civilians awaiting disposal or undergoing sentence for offences against discipline shall be repatriated sans qu'il soit tenu compte de l'achèvements de leur peine ou de la procédure engagée contre eux. Ceux qui sont passibles ou frappés de peines pour des faits autres que des infractions disciplinaires, pourront être maintenus en détention. Article 121. Les Hautes Parties contractantes s'engagent à donner sur leurs territoires respectifs toutes facilités pour la recherche des disparus ou l'identification des prisonniers de guerre et internés civils qui ont manifesté le désir de ne pas être rapatriés. Article 122. Les Hautes Parties contractantes s'engagent à restituer, dès la mise en vigueur du présent Traité, tous les objects, monnaie, valeurs, documents ou effets personnels de toute nature appartenant ou ayant appartenu aux prisonniers de guerre et internés civils, et qui auraient été retenus. Article 123. Les Hautes Parties contractantes déclarent renoncer au remboursement réciproque des sommes dues pour l'entretien des prisonniers de guerre capturés par leurs armées. 2. SEPULTURES. Article 124. Sans préjudice des dispositions particulières qui font l'objet de l'Article 126 ci-après, les Hautes Parties contractantes feront respecter et entretenir, sur les territoires soumis à leur autorité, les cimetières, sépultures, ossuaires et monuments commémoratifs des soldats et marins de chacune d'elles tombés sur le champ de bataille ou morts des suites de leurs blessures, d'accidents ou de maladies, depuis le 29 octobre 1914, ainsi que ceux des prisonniers de guerre et des internés civils décédés en captivité depuis la même date. Les Hautes Parties contractantes s'entendront pour donner toutes facilités de remplir leur mission sur leurs territoires respectifs aux commissions que chacune d'elles pourra charger d'identifier, d'enregistrer, d'entretenir lesdits cimetières, ossuaires et sépultures, et d'élever des monuments convenables sur leurs emplacements. Ces commissions ne devront avoir aucun caractère militaire. Elles conviennent de se donner réciproquement, sous réserve des prescriptions de leur législation nationale et des nécessités de l'hygiène publique, toutes facilités pour satisfaire aux demandes de rapatriement des restes de leurs soldats et marins visés ci-dessus. Article 125. Les Hautes Parties contractantes s'engagent à se fournir réciproquement: 1° la liste complète des prisonniers de guerre et internés civils décédés en captivité, en y joignant tous renseignements utiles à leur identification: 2° toutes indications sur le nombre et l'emplacement des sépultures des morts enterrés sans avoir été identifiés. irrespective of the completion of their sentence or of the proceedings pending against them. Prisoners of war and interned civilians who are awaiting trial or undergoing sentence for offences other than those against discipline may be detained. Article 121. The High Contracting Parties agree to give every facility in their respective territories for the search for the missing and the identification of prisoners of war and interned civilians who have expressed their desire not to be repatriated. Article 122. The High Contracting Parties undertake to restore on the coming into force of the present Treaty all articles, money, securities, documents and personal effects of every description which have belonged to prisoners of war or interned civilians and which have been retained. Article 123. The High Contracting Parties waive reciprocally all repayments of sums due for the maintenance of prisoners of war captured by their armies. 2. GRAVES. Article 124. Without prejudice to the special provisions of Article 126 of the present Treaty, the High Contracting Parties will cause to be respected and maintained within the territories under their authority the cemeteries, graves, ossuaries and memorials of soldiers and sailors who fell in action or died from wounds, accident or disease since the 29th October, 1914, as well as of prisoners of war and interned civilians who died in captivity after that date. The High Contracting Parties will agree to accord in their respective territories all necessary facilities to such Commissions as each Contracting Power may appoint for the purpose of the identification, registration and maintenance of the said cemeteries, ossuaries and graves, and the erection of memorials on their sites. Such Commissions shall not have any military character. The High Contracting Parties reciprocally undertake, subject to the provisions of their national laws and the requirements of public health, to furnish each other every facility for giving effect to requests that the bodies of such soldiers and sailors may be transferred to their own country. Article 125. The High Contracting Parties further undertake to furnish each other : (1.) A complete list of prisoners of war and interned civilians who have died in captivity, together with all information tending towards their identification. (2.) All information as to the number and position of the graves of all those who have been buried without identification. |