760i.61/–: Telegram
The Commissioner at Riga (Gade) to the Secretary of State
Riga, February
3, 1920—4 p.m.
[Received February 4—5 a.m.]
[Received February 4—5 a.m.]
87. Principal points in Esthonia-Russian peace treaty are the following:
- 1,
- Recognition of Esthonian independence;
- 2,
- Various paragraphs all guaranteeing against any future attacks through Esthonia of White Russian forces;
- 3,
- Return of all prisoners civil and military;
- 4,
- Settlement of boundaries;
- 5,
- All previous Russian public property in Esthonia to belong to the latter without compensation;
- 6,
- Russia to return all properties removed from Esthonia and still traceable;
- 7,
- Resumption of diplomatic and consular relations to be determined by a later agreement;
- 8,
- Commercial treaty to be negotiated immediately on the
following conditions:
- (a)
- Conditions of most favored nation respectively for the citizens of both countries:
- (b)
- Customs duties or transit taxes:
- (c)
- Freight charges on transit goods not to exceed those on similar goods of local production;
- 9,
- Russia to have free harbor space in Reval and electric power from Narva Falls;
- 10,
- Esthonia receives concessions for the construction Esthonia-Moscow railroad;
- 11,
- Esthonia receives Russia forest concession for 1,000,000 dessiatines.
Gade