Coll 30/18(1) 'Persian Gulf: Bahrein, Customs dues on goods in transit; attitude of Ibn Saud' [‎557r] (1118/1162)

i nut at is mutcLiidis, to the right of access of Georg
(including Lazistan) to the Black Sea by the port
ia, Azerbaijan,
of Batum.
[Persia],
and Armenia
Article 28. The provisions of Articles 24 to 26, giving to Turkey the right of
access to the Mediterranean and ^Egean Seas by the port of Smyrna, and special
* lles at , at P ort ’ s ) ia ^ be applicable, mutatis mutandis, to the right of access of
Aimema, including l.azistan, to the Black Sea by the port of Trebizond.
Aitide 29. On the demand of Bulgaria to the Council of the League of Nations
a [ 1 ^ternational Commission shall be formed consisting of one representative of each
of the following Powers: Great Britain, France, Italy, Greece and Bulgaria. This
Commission will be charged with assuring, so far as Dedeagatch and access thereto
is concerned, the execution of the regime prescribed in Articles 8 to 18 and to ^6
of the present Part. Any differences relating to this regime shall be dealt with
in the first place by the above Commission, which will take its decisions by simple
majoiity. In the event of any interested State desiring to appeal against such
decision, such appeal shall be before the competent authority of the League o^
Nations, pending whose decision the decision of the Commission shall be carried out.
Section III.—Railways.
Chapter 1 .—Clauses relating to International Transport.
Article 80. Subject to the rights of concessionaire companies, goods coming from
the territories of the Allied and Associated Powers, and going to Turkey and vice versa.
or in transit through Turkey from or to the territories of the Allied and Associated
Powers, shall enjoy on the Turkish railways as regards charges to be collected (rebates
and drawbacks being taken into account), facilities, and all other matters, the most
favourable treatment applied to goods of the same kind carried on any Turkish lines,
either in internal traffic, or for export, import or in transit, under similar conditions of
transport, for example, as regards length of route.
International tariffs established in accordance with the rates referred to in the
preceding paragraph and involving through way-bills shall be established when one of
the Allied and Associated Powers shall require it from Turkey.
Article 31. From the coming into force of the present Treaty Turkey agrees, under
the reserves indicated in the second paragraph of the present Article, to subscribe to
the conventions and arrangements signed at Berne on the 14th October, 1890, the
20th September, 1893, the 16th July, 1895, the Kith June, 1898, and the 19th
September, 1906, regarding the transportation of goods by rail.
If within live years from the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty a
new convention for the transportation of passengers, luggage, and goods by iail shall
have been concluded to replace the Berne Convention ol the l-fth October. 1890, and
the subsequent additions referred to above, this new convention and the supplementary
provisions for international transport by rail which may be based on it shall bind
Turkey, even if she shall have refused to take part m the preparation of the con v enlion
or to subscribe to it. Until a new convention shall have been concluded, luikc\ shall
conform to the provisions of the Berne Convention and the subsequent additions
referred to above, and to the current supplementary provisions.
Article 32. Subject to the rights of concessionaire companies, Turkey shall be
bound to co-operate in the establishment of through-ticket services (for passengers
and their luggage) which shall be required by any of the Allied and Associated 1 owers
to ensure their communication by rail with each other and with all other countries )y
transit across the territories of Turkey ; in particular lurkey shall, for this purpose,
accept trains and carriages coming from the territories of the Alhed and Associated
Powers and shall forward them with a speed at least equal to that of her best long
distance trains on the same lines. The rates applicable to such through services
shall not in any case be higher than the rates collected on lurkish internal services
for the same distance, under the same conditions of speed and comfort.
The tariffs applicable under the same conditions of speed and comfort to the
transportation of emigrants going to or coming from ports of the Allied and Associated
Powers and using the Turkish railways shall not be at a higher kilometric rate than
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