Executive order, requisitioning Austrian vessel, May 11, 171 General order, divulging naval information, June 11, Regulations, cable censorship, June 6, 1918. Proclamation, taking over cables, November 2, 1918...... Order, operation of cables, November 20, 1918... Executive order creating exports council, June 22, 1917. Official statement, policy of War Trade Board, February Proclamation, exports prohibition, July 9, 1917... 193 Regulations, export of dunnage, September 9, 1918..... Recognition of international status-Continued. Demand for Austrian recognition of independence of Czecho-Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs, October 18, 1918..... Recognition of belligerency of Poles, November 2, 1918.. Note informing Germany of terms on which armistice may be concluded, November 5, 1918... DECLARATIONS OF WAR.1 Bulgaria against Roumania, September 1, 1916. (Naval War College, International Law Documents, 1917, p. 67.) (N. W. C., 1917, p. 162.) Costa Rica, against Germany, May 24, 1918. (N. W. C., 1917, p. 77.) Nicaragua against Germany, May 6, 1918. (N. W. C., 1917, p. 162.) RECOGNITION OF NEW STATES AND CHANGES OF GOVERNMENT. Austria: Abdication of Emperor Charles, November 13, 1918. (p. 14.) Bulgaria: Abdication of King Ferdinand, October 5, 1918. Abdication of King Boris, November 2, 1918. Czecho-Slovak Republic: Declaration of Autonomy, May 30, 1917. Declaration of Independence, Paris, October 18, 1918. Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia, October 26, 1918. Recognition by France, June 30, 1918. (p. 49.) Recognition by Italy, June 30, 1918. (p. 109.) Recognition by Great Britain, August 13, 1918. (p. 99.) Recognition by United States, September 3, 1918. (p. 209.) Recognition by Japan, September 9, 1918. Recognition by Cuba, November 5, 1918. Recognition by Austria, October 29, 1918. (p. 13.) Esthonia: Recognition by Great Britain, May 5, 1918. Law declaring national autonomy, July 19, 1917. (p. 47.) Recognition by Germany, January 7, 1918. 9 Recognition by Norway, January 10, 1918. Recognition by Denmark, January 10, 1918. Recognition by Switzerland, January 17, 1918. Additions to list in Naval War College, International Law Documents, 1917, p. 15. See list in Official U. S. Bulletin, Nov. 7, 1918, p. 3. Uruguay having assumed an attitude of partiality toward the United States and the Allies and having broken relations with Germany (N. W. C., 1917, p. 249), requested on Apr. 11, 1918, whether Germany regarded war as existing. Germany replied in the negative May 16, 1918. (N. Y. Times, Current History, 8 (pt. 1); 429.) 11 Germany: Abdication of Emperor William, November 28, 1918. (p. 55.) Hedjaz: Declaration of Independence, June 27, 1916. (N. W. C., 1917, Recognition by Great Britain, March 19, 1917. (N. W. C., 1917, Jugo-Slav Peoples: Declaration of Corfu, July 27, 1917. Declaration of Rome, April 10, 1918. (p. 107.) Approval of nationalistic aspirations by United States, May 31, Approval of nationalistic aspirations by Allied Supreme War Coun- Approval of nationalistic aspirations by Austria, October 29, 1918. Lithuania: Recognition by Germany, March 24, 1918. (p. 54.) Recognition by Germany, November 4, 1916. (p. 53.) Recognition of belligerency by United States, November 2, 1918. Recognition of Provisional Government by United States, January 30, 1919. (p. 212.) Russia: Abdication of Czar Nicholas, March 15, 1917. (p. 144.) Recognition of Provisional Government by United States, March 22, 1917. (p. 208.) Recognition of Provisional Government by France, March 22, 1917. Recognition of Provisional Government by Great Britain, March 22, 1917. Recognition of Provisional Government by Italy, March 22, 1917. Ukraine: Declaration of Independence, November 20, 1917. Recognition by Germany, February 9, 1918. (54.) ARMISTICES. Roumania with Germany, Austria, Turkey, Bulgaria, December 9, 1917.1 1 The terms of this armistice, signed at Focshani, were denounced Mar. 2 and expired, Mar. 5, 1918, at 12 noon, but before that time preliminaries of peace were signed at Buftea, Mar. 5, 1918, providing for a 14-day truce, to run from midnight, Mar. 5, 1918, with a period of three days for denunciation. (N. Y. Times, Current History, 8 (pt. 1): 57; London Times, History of the War, 17: 39.) A treaty of peace was signed at Bucharest May 6, 1918 (N. Y. Times, Current History, 8 (pt. 1): 531; 8 (pt. 2): 127; London Times, History of the War, 17: 44.) 1 Russia with Germany, Austria, Turkey, Bulgaria, December 16, 1917. (p. 145.) Bulgaria with Allies, September 29, 1918. (p. 35.) Turkey with Allies, October 30, 1918. (p. 159.) Austria with Allies and Associated Powers, November 3, 1918. (p. 14.) Germany with Allies and Associated Powers, November 11, 1918. p. 56.) AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. Recognition of independence of Russian Poland and autonomy of Galicia November 4, 1916. 1 DEAR DR. VON KOERBER: In accordance with the understanding reached between me and the German Emperor, an independent State with an hereditary monarchy and a constitution will be formed of the Polish districts which our brave armies have snatched from Russian rule. On this occasion I recall with deep emotion the many proofs of devotion and loyalty which during my reign I have received from Galicia and the great and heavy sacrifices which this Province, exposed in the present war to a fierce enemy assault, had to bear in the interest of the victorious defense of the eastern frontiers of the Empire, sacrifices which secure for it a lasting claim on my warmest fatherly regard. It is therefore my will at the moment when the new State comes into existence and coincident with this development to grant Galicia also the right to manage independently its own internal affairs in as full a measure as this can be done in accordance with its membership of the State as a whole and with the latter's prosperity, and thereby give the population of Galicia a guarantee for its racial and economic development. In informing you of this my intention I charge you to prepare suitable proposals for its legal realization and to submit these to me. FRANCIS JOSEPH, KOERBER. Vienna, November 4, 1916. (Countersigned) Recognition of independence of Czecho-Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs, October 29, 1918. [Official U. S. Bulletin, No. 451, p. 1.] Swedish Minister to Secretary of State. DEPARTMENT OF AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN INTERESTS, LEGATION OF SWEDEN, Wa hington, D. C., October 29, 1918. EXCELLENCY: By order of my Government, I have the honor to beg you to transmit to the President the following communication from the Imperial and Royal Government of Austria-Hungary. In reply to the note of the President, Mr. Wilson, to the Austro-Hungarian Government dated October 18 of this year, and about the decision of the President to take up with Austro-Hungary separately the question of armistice and peace, the Austro-Hungarian 2 Infra, p. 209. 1 Infra, p. 53. |