288     THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE, 1919, VOLUME V
the absence of agreement, shall be made by an arbitrator appointed by
the League of Nations
A AORTICLE 54
Germany undertakes to accept within ten years of the coming into
force of this Treaty, on request being made by the Swiss Government,
after agreement with the Italian Government, the denunciation of
the International Convention of the 13th October, 1909, relative to
the St. Gothard Railway.1L In the absence of agreement as to the
conditions of such denunciation Germany agrees to accept the decision
of an arbitrator designated by the United States of America.
ARiTICE 55
In view of the importance to the Tchecho-Slovak Republic of free
communication between that State and the Adriatic, the B States
recognise the right of the Tchecho-Slovak Republic to run its own
trains over the sections included within the B States of the following
lines:-
(1) from Bratislava (Pressburg) towards Fiume 'vi6 Mura
Keresztur, and a branch from Mura Keresztur towards
Pragerhof;
(2) from Budejovic (Budweiss) towards Trieste vid Linz, S.
Michael, Klagenfurt, and Assling, and the branch from
Klagenfurt towards Tarvisio.
On the application of either party, the route to be followed by
the Tchecho-Slovakian trains may be modified either permanently or
temporarily by mutual agreement between the Tchecho-Slovakian
Railway Administration and those of the B States.
ARMcTiE 56
The trains for which the running powers are used shall not engage
in local traffic, except by agreement between the territorial State
and the Tchecho-Slovak Republic.
Such running powers will include, in particular, the right to estab-
lish running sheds with small shops for minor repairs to locomotives
and rolling stock, and to appoint representatives where necessary
to supervise the working of Tchecho-Slovakian trains.
ARTILE 57
The technical, administrative and financial conditions under which
the rights of the Tchecho-Slovak Republic shall be exercised shall
be laid down in a Convention between the Railway Administration
' British and Poregn Sttat Papce, voL a., p. 6.