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

23. ROUMANIA—RUSSIA.
TREATY BETWEEN ROUMANIA AND RUSSIA, SIGNED 9
MARCH, 1918.
[Enf/Ush text as transmitted to the Department of State by the American Consul at ^fr^ycow,]
Article 1.
Roumania agrees to evacuate Bessarabia during the course of two
months. She will evacuate immediately the strategic point of
Jebrtavzy, the position is situated at the lower end of the bay near
the mouth of the Danube. AU positions evacuated by the Roumanians
wUl be immediately occupied by Russian troops. By the
end of two months there will remain in Bessarabia only one detachment
of ten thousand men to guard the depots and railway lines.
Article 2.
At the signing of the treaty Bessarabian guard passes into the
hands of the local, city, and country militia. The Roumanian military
commander gives up the right of arrest and aU judiciary and
administrative functions generally, and these wall pertain exclusively
to the elected local authorities.
Article 3.
Roumanian subjects arrested in Russia will be exchanged for the
Russian revolutionary officers and soldiers arrested in Roumania.
Article 4.
Roumania agrees not to take any hostile military or other action
against the Russian Republican Federation of Councils of Workmen
and Peasants and wdl not attempt to support those made by other
States.
Article 5.
Russia agrees to put at the disposition of Roumania the excess
grain in Bessarabia after the needs of the local population and the
Russian troops have been satisfied. On the other hand Roumania
has the right to purchase from the rest of Russia the products neces-
•sary to sustain the Roumanian population now located in Bessarabia
(fish,
fats, sugar, grain, etc.).
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