760i.61/–: Telegram

The Commissioner at Riga (Gade) to the Secretary of State

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