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

74 THE UKEAINE PEACE.
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culty to which reference has
ah-eady been made, to the end
that the new State has not yet
succeeded to the property of the
Russian imperial realm, that, on
the contrary, all movable national
values have been carried to St.
Petersbui'g by the Government
of Great Russia.
If in spite of all this it was
found possible to recognize and
accept the principle of compensation
for civilian damages, this
must be attributed to the sense
of right and fairness by which
the interested delegations were
equally animated. It seemed impossible
that the wrong could
have been left unatoned which
had been caused by hateful special
laws to the peaceful private
individuals, through unlawful
measures on the part of the authorities
or through acts of violence
on the part of the population
without any necessity of war.
It goes without saying that the
Germans who had suffered
war
damages in the Ukraine could as
little expect to receive absolute
compensation, as this is the case
for the Germans in their homeland.
Article 13, therefore, restricts
the claim for compensation
to those damages which private
individuals have sustained
in consequence of war laws by
reason of temporary or permanent
subtraction of copyright,
industrial patents, concessions,
privileges, and similar claims (see
Article 9), or as a result of the
supervision, safe-guarding, administration,
or alienation of objects
of property (see Article 11),
arid puts such damages on a par
with those which, during the war,
and without the war areas have
been caused by the national authorities
and by the population
of the other party through acts of
violence against the body, health,
or property of the individual and
contrary to international law. In