Proceedings of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Conference: the peace ...

1. RUSSIA—CENTRAL POWERS.
ARMISTICE, CONCLUDED AT BREST-LITOVSK, 15 DECEMBER,
1917.
[Oerman text as published in the Deutscher
Reichsanzeiger, 18 Dec, 1917.]
[Translation.]
I.
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(1. S'ttnuar 1918 ruff. 3eiO t)on ber
The armistice begins on 17
December, 1917, at noon (4 December,
1917, at fourteen o'clock,
Russian time) and extends until
14 January, 1918, noon (1 January,
1918, foiu-teen o'clock,
Russian time). The contracting
parties have the right on the
twenty-first day of the armistice
to give a seven days' notice of
termination ; such not being done,
the armistice automatically remains
in force until one of the
contracting parties gives such
seven days' notice.
11.
The armistice applies to all
land and air fighting forces of the
said Powers on the land front
between the Black Sea and the
Baltic Sea. In the Russo-Turkish
theaters of war in Asia the armistice
goes into effect at the same
time.
The contracting parties obligate
themselves, dirring the period
of the armistice, neither to augment
the number of detachments
of troops stationed on the said
fronts and on the islands of Moon
Sound—this applies also to their
organization and status—nor to
attempt any regroupings in preparation
for an offensive.
Further, the contracting parties
obligate themselves not to undertake
any transfers of troops until
14 January, 1918 (1 January,