liver certified copies to the other Powers signatory of the treaty of peace with Turkey. [L.S.] E. K. VENISELOS. [L.S.] DR. RIZA NOUR. PROTOCOL The undersigned Turkish plenipotentiaries, duly authorized to that effect, declare that, without waiting for the coming into force of the convention with Greece of even date, relating to the exchange of the Greek and Turkish populations, and by way to exception to Article 1 of that convention, the Turkish Government, on the signature of the treaty of peace, will release the able-bodied men referred to in Article 4 of the said convention, and will provide for their departure. Done at Lausanne, the 30th January, 1923. ISMET. DR. RIZA NOUR. VII. AGREEMENT BETWEEN GREECE AND TURKEY RESPECTING THE RECIPROCAL RESTITUTION OF INTERNED CIVILIANS AND THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS OF WAR Signed at Lausanne, January 30, 1923 The undersigned Turkish and Greek Plenipotentiaries, acting in accordance with their respective full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows, with a view to ensuring the reciprocal restitution of interned civilians at present detained in Greece and in Turkey, and for the exchange of prisoners of war. CHAPTER I. - INTERNED CIVILIANS Turkish hostages and civilian prisoners at present detained in Greece will be repatriated by the Greek Government. The latter will in principle cause persons emanating from Anatolia to be transported to Smyrna and those emanating from Thrace to Constantinople. The restitution of these persons, who shall be checked on their embarkation in Greece, shall in principle begin seven days after the signature of the present agreement. The restitution will be completed as follows: (a.) Within not more than two weeks, in so far as persons figuring on lists furnished by the Greek Government are concerned. (b.) With the least possible delay, in so far as persons who have to be sought and who figure on lists furnished by the Turkish Government are concerned. ARTICLE 2 Greek hostages and civilian prisoners, who may be detained by the Turks, shall be collected at Smyrna or Constantinople by the Turkish Government, in such a manner that their repatriation may take place immediately after that of the Turkish civilian hostages mentioned in paragraph (a) of Article 1, and in such a manner that the repatriation of persons who have to be sought may take place with the least possible delay. ARTICLE 3 The lists of persons to be repatriated, which have been furnished by the Turkish and Greek Governments respectively, shall be completed later. CHAPTER II. - PRISONERS OF WAR ARTICLE 4 As soon as possible after the date on which the Greek Government shall have restored to the Turkish Government the Turkish civilian hostages mentioned in paragraph (a) of Article 1, and within a period not exceeding fifteen days from that date, Greece shall restore to Turkey and shall transport to Smyrna simultaneously all the Turkish prisoners of war detained by her. Turkey shall thereupon restore to Greece an equivalent number of Greek prisoners of war, officer for officer, soldier for soldier. These prisoners of war will be collected by the Turkish Government at such time and in such places, that they may be repatriated on the return voyage of the Greek vessels which brought the Turkish prisoners of war. The remainder of the Greek prisoners of war shall be repatriated by the Turkish Government immediately after the signature of peace and within three weeks from the date of that signature. ARTICLE 5 With the object of allaying animosity, the Greek and Turkish Governments undertake respectively to extend the benefit of the amnesty to all prisoners of war and interned civilians detained by them, both those who are awaiting trial or undergoing sentence for crimes or offences against the ordinary law, and those who are awaiting trial or undergoing sentence for offences against discipline; the two governments agree to repatriate such persons without distinction and irrespective of the completion of their sentence, or of the proceedings pending against them. CHAPTER III.-COMMISSION FOR THE EXECUTION OF THIS AGREEMENT ARTICLE 6 An International Commission comprising three representatives of the Red Cross societies, nationals of states not having taken part in the war of 1914-18, and a representative of the Greek and Turkish Governments respectively, shall be entrusted with the task of directing the operations connected with the restitution of the hostages and civilian prisoners and the exchange of prisoners of war, under the conditions prescribed in Chapters I and II above. This Commission shall settle the methods by which these operations shall be effected, and shall supervise the execution thereof. The Commission shall be in particular entrusted with the duty of (a.) Receiving from the Greek and Turkish authorities at the ports of embarkation the hostages and prisoners to be repatriated, verifying their number and identity, effecting the surrender of those hostages and prisoners to the Turkish and Greek authorities at the points of disembarkment. (b.) Settling in accordance with the Greek and Turkish Governments the transport from the points of embarkation of the Turkish and Greek hostages and prisoners to be repatriated. The Greek Government shall furnish with this object the necessary means of maritime transport. (c.) Proceeding with the collaboration of the Greek and Turkish Governments and authorities with all researches and enquiries necessary to establish the fate of civilian hostages and of prisoners of war claimed by one or other government and not handed over. The governments concerned undertake to furnish with this object all assistance to the Commission and to grant it all facilities. ARTICLE 7 The expenses of the maintenance and of the work of the Commission shall be borne in equal parts by the Greek and Turkish governments. The present agreement will enter into force at once. Done in triplicate at Lausanne, the 30th day of January, 1923. [L.S.] E. K. VENISELOS. [L.S.] ISMET. [L.S.] DR. RIZA NOUR. [L.S.] VIII. DECLARATION OF AMNESTY The Powers signatory of the treaty of peace signed this day being equally desirous to cause the events which have troubled the peace in the East to be forgotten, The undersigned, acting in virtue of their full powers, have agreed to make the following declaration: I No person who inhabits or who has inhabited Turkey, and reciprocally no person who inhabits or who has inhabited Greece, shall be disturbed or molested in Turkey and reciprocally in Greece, under any pretext whatsoever, on account of any military or political action taken by him, or any assistance of any kind given by him to a foreign Power signatory of the treaty of peace signed this day, or to the nationals of such Power, between the 1st August, 1914, and the 20th November, 1922. II Similarly no inhabitant of the territories detached from Turkey under the said treaty of peace shall be disturbed or molested either on account of his political or military attitude against or in favor of Turkey during the period from the 1st August, 1914, to the 20th November, 1922, or of the determination of his nationality under the said treaty. III Full and complete amnesty shall be respectively granted by the Turkish Government and by the Greek Government for all crimes or offences committed during the same period which were evidently connected with the political events which have taken place during that period. IV Turkish nationals, and reciprocally nationals of the other Powers signatory of the treaty of peace signed this day who may have been arrested, prosecuted or sentenced by the authorities of the said Powers or by the Turkish authorities respectively, for reasons of a political or military nature previous to the 20th November, 1922, on territory which remains Turkish in accordance with the said treaty of peace, shall benefit from the amnesty, and, if they are detained, shall be handed over to the authorities of the states of which they are the nationals. This stipulation is similarly applicable to Turkish nationals arrested, prosecuted or sentenced by the authorities of the Powers who have occupied a portion of the above-mentioned territory even for a transgression of the ordinary law committed before that date, and even if they have been removed from Turkey, excepting those who have committed, against a person belonging to the armies of occupation, an assault which has entailed death or a grievous wound. V All sentences pronounced for the above reasons shall be annulled, and any proceedings already instituted shall be stayed. VI The Turkish Government, sharing the desire for general pacification with which all the Powers are animated, declare their intention not to contest the measures carried out under the auspices of the Allied Powers during the period between the 20th October, 1918, and the 20th November, 1922, with the object of re-establishing families scattered owing to the war and of replacing legitimate proprietors in possession of their goods. However, this intention does not exclude the possibility of any revision of the above-mentioned measures in the event of a request to that effect being made by the interested parties. Claims respecting persons and goods shall be examined by a commission composed of a delegate of the Red Crescent and a delegate of the Red Cross. In the event of a dispute, these delegates will choose an umpire; if they are unable to agree as to such choice the umpire will be appointed by the Council of the League of Nations. VII The British, French, and Italian Governments, acknowledging the importance of the measure of pacification which forms the subject of Article 5 of the agreement concluded on the 30th January, 1923, between the Greek Government and the Turkish Government relating to the return of interned civilians and to the exchange of prisoners of war, declare that they are prepared to adopt, subject to reciprocity on the part of the Turkish Government, the same measures for the benefit of such Turkish prisoners of war and interned civilians as may still be in their hands, with the exception of those who may have committed crimes and offences against the ordinary law since the 20th November, 1922. Done at Lausanne, the 24th July, 1923. It is understood that, in spite of the terms of paragraph 1 of the amnesty declaration, the Turkish Government reserves to itself the right to prohibit sojourn in and access to Turkey to 150 persons included in the category of persons referred to in the said paragraph. Consequently, the Turkish Government will be entitled to expel from its territory such of the persons in question as may be there at the present time and to prohibit such as are abroad from returning. The names of these persons shall be annexed to the amnesty proclamation which, on the coming into force of the treaty of peace signed this day, shall be promulgated by the said government in order to give effect, in so far as that government is concerned, to the above-mentioned declaration. It is further understood that, in the event of the Turkish Government deciding, as it has expressed the intention, that the said |