File No. 763.72119/1591

The Consul General at Moscow ( Summers ) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

337. Following is text Russo-Rumanian treaty dated March 9:

TREATY BETWEEN RUMANIA AND RUSSIA

Article 1

Rumania agrees to evacuate Bessarabia during the course of two months. She will evacuate immediately the strategic point of Zhebriany (the position is situated at the lower end of the bay near the mouth of the Danube). All positions evacuated by the Rumanians will be immediately occupied by Russian troops. By the end of two months there will remain in Bessarabia only one detachment of 10,000 men to guard the depots and railway lines.

Article 2

And [at] the signing of the treaty Bessarabian guard passes into the hands of the local, city and country militia. The Rumanian military commander gives up the right of arrest and all judiciary and administrative functions generally and these will pertain exclusively to the elected local authorities.

Article 3

Rumanian subjects arrested in Russia will be exchanged for the Russian revolutionary officers and soldiers arrested in Rumania.

Article 4

Rumania agrees not to take any hostile military or other action against the Russian Republican Federation of Councils of Workmen and Peasants and will not attempt to support those made by other states.

Article 5

Russia agrees to put at the disposition of Rumania the excess grain in Bessarabia after the needs of the local population and the Russian troops have been satisfied. On the other hand Rumania has the right to purchase from the rest of Russia the products necessary to sustain the Rumanian population now located in Bessarabia (fish, fats, sugar, grain, etc.).

Article 6

Russia returns to Rumania the food distribution points constructed by the Allies and destined for the alimentation of the Rumanian population.

Article 7

In case the Rumanian Army is forced to abandon Rumanian territory it will find refuge and sustenance on Russian soil.

Article 8

In case of equal sections against enemies states and their allies contact will establish itself between the high Russian command of the Russian armies, the Councils and the Rumanians.

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Article 9

For the solution of eventual conflicts between Rumania and the Russian Federation of Councils of Workmen and Peasants there is formed an international commission at Odessa, Kiev, Moscow, Petrograd, Jassy and Galatz of representatives of Russia, Rumania, England, France and the United States.

Article 10

By reason of the aforesaid agreement the Rumanian Consul General at Moscow has proposed to the Commissary of Foreign Affairs the revival of official relations and the restitution to Rumania of the distributing depots in Russia. The Commissary has agreed to the first point and has proposed to make the international commission look to the treaty for the realization of all the points of the treaty.

The courier with official text not yet arrived but am assured foregoing is correct and that there are a few unimportant additions which will be transmitted as soon as possible.

Summers