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

FINANCIAL AGREEMENT WITH GEBMANY. 195
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dues for certain economic concessions
to be granted to Germans.
The securities are to be settled in
detail by a special agreement in
such a form that the estimated
income from them exceeds the
yearly sum required for interest
and sinking-fund by at ^ast 20
per cent.
§4.
With regard to the balance of
1,000,000,000 Marks, in so far as
its payment is not in agreement
with Germany, taken over by the
Ukraine and Finland in their financial
agreement with Russia, a
special agreement shall be concluded.
ARTICLE 4.
Property of Germans situated
in Russia which before 1 July,
1918, was appropriated to the use
of the State or .of a Commune, or
otherwise withdrawn from the
owner's power of disposal, shall
be handed back to him on request,
subject to the return of the compensation
received by him out of
the sum mentioned in Article 2,
and with due regard to possible
improvements or damage, if the
property has not remained still
in the possession of the St.te, or
of the Commune, or if an appropriation
or other withdrawal of
similar property has not L
effected m regard to inhabitants
of the country or subjects of a
third Power. The request for a
return must be made within a
year from the period when it can
be claimed.
Strtifel 5.
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ARTICLE 5.
The following provisions of the
Supplementary Treaty of the
Peace Treaty remain unaffected:
Those of Article 8, in. so far as
they do not relate to the Russian