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

108 THE UKKAINE PEACE.
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facilitating both exportation from
and importation into Russia, according
to the needs of commerce.
At the same time the freight
rates for goods which in the
Russian railway tariff are classed
under the category of cereals, and
on flax and hemp, from the
stations of departure of the
Russian railways to the abovementioned
ports, shall be determined
and divided between the
Russian and German railways
over which the goods are transported,
according to the regulations
which are or shall be in
force for the Russian railways to
the ports of Libau and Riga.
The additional charges (incidental
fees) levied in excess of the
freight rates shall in like manner
be determined, and the amount
thereof be divided among the
interested lines, according to
Russian regulations, it being
understood that one frontier fee
only shall be levied, which shall
be divided equally between the
German and Russian railways
terminating at the frontier.
This obligation only concerns
the railways of the two countries;
but the two Governments will
exert their efforts to the end that
private railways may apply on
their lines the same principles for
the establishment of the rates and
the division of the freight. If,
notwithstanding, the private lines
concerned in traffic in one of the
indicated directions do not submit
to the rates and divisions
mentioned, these regulations shall
cease to be obligatory on the
State railways of the two contracting
Powers.
The existing provisions for regulating
competitive traffic between
Koenigsberg and Danzig remain
in force.