SECTION II.
NAVAL CLAUSES.
ARTICLE 83.
From the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty all Bulgarian warships, submarines included, are declared to be finally surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.
Bulgaria will, however, have the right to maintain on the Danube and along her coasts for police and fishery duties not more than four torpedo boats and six motor boats, all without torpedoes and torpedo apparatus, to be selected by the Commission referred to in Article 99.
The personnel of the above vessels shall be organised on a purely civilian basis.
The vessels allowed to Bulgaria must only be replaced by lightly-armed patrol craft not exceeding l00tons displacement and of non-military character.
ARTICLE 84.
All warships, including submarines, now under construction in Bulgaria shall be broken up. The work of breaking up these vessels shall be commenced as soon as possible after the coming into force of the present Treaty.
ARTICLE 85.
Articles, machinery and material arising from the breaking up of Bulgarian warships of all kinds, whether surface vessels or submarines, may not be used except for purely industrial or commercial purposes.
They may not be sold or disposed of to foreign countries.
ARTICLE 86.
The construction or acquisition of any submarine, even for commercial purposes, shall be forbidden in Bulgaria.
ARTICLE87.
All arms, ammunition and other naval war material, including mines and torpedoes, which belonged to Bulgaria at the date of the signature of the Armistice of September 29, 1918, are declared to be finally surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.
ARTICLE 88.
During the three months following the coming into force of the present Treaty the high-power wireless telegraphy station at Sofia shall not be used for the transmission of messages concerning naval, military or political questions of interest to Bulgaria, or any State which has been allied to Bulgaria in the war, without the assent of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. This station may be used for commercial purposes, but only under the supervision of the said Powers, who will decide the wave-length to be used.
During the same period Bulgaria shall not build any more high-power wireless telegraphy stations in her own territory or that of Germany, Austria, Hungary or Turkey.
Source: CMD522,Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Bulgaria, and Protocol. Signed at Neuilly-sur-Seine, November 27, 1919, His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1920.
