(b) Hand over to the Allied Military authorities all vessels
belonging to the United Nations which are in Siamese ports.

(c) Carry out such measures of disarmament and demobilisation as
may be prescribed by the Allies.

(d) Repeal all legislative and administrative measures relating to
the annexation or incorporation in Siam of territories acquired
later than 11th December, 1940.

(e) Withdraw as may be required by competent civil or military
authority all Siamese military personnel from all Allied
territories annexed by or incorporated in Siam after 11th
December, 1940 and all Siamese officials and nationals who entered
these territories after their annexation by [or] incorporation in
Siam.

(f) Restore all property taken away from these territories. This
would include currency except to the extent to which it could be
established that fair value had been given in exchange.

(g) Compensate loss or damage to property rights and interests in
those territories arising out of the occupation of these
territories by Siam.

(h) Redeem in sterling out of former sterling reserves Siamese
notes collected by the British authorities in British territory
occupied by Siam since 1942.

2. Release all Allied Prisoners of War and internees held in Siam
or in territories annexed by or incorporated in Siam after 11th
December, 1940 and at Siamese expense provide them with adequate
food clothing medical and hygienic services and transportation in
consultation with the Allied military authorities.

3. Assume responsibility for safeguarding maintaining and
restoring unimpaired British and Allied property rights and
interests of all kinds in Siam and for payment of compensation for
losses or damage sustained. Term property rights and interest to
include inter alia, official property of His Majesty's Government
in the United Kingdom, property whose ownership has been
transferred since the outbreak of war, pensions granted to British
nationals, stocks of tin teak and other commodities, shipping and
wharves and tin teak and other leases and concessions granted to
British firms and individuals prior to 7th December, 1941 and
still valid at that date.

4. Sequestrate and reinstate British and Allied banking and
commercial concerns.

5. Accept liability with the addition of interest at an
appropriate percentage in respect of payments in arrears for
service of loans and for payment of pensions since the date when
regular payments ceased.

C. Measures Against Japan
1. Carry out such preoccupational activities as the Allied
military authority may require.

2. Disarm Japanese forces in Siam and hand them over to the Allies
as prisoners of War.

3. Intern all Japanese (and other enemy) nationals and hold them
at the disposal of the Allies.

4. Seize and deliver to designated Allied military authority all
war material belonging to the Japanese including Naval and
merchant vessels of all kinds, aircraft, weapons, ammunition,
motor and other transport, military stores including aviation and
other petrols and fuels, stocks of food and clothing, wireless
equipment and any other property whatsoever of Japanese Armed
Forces.

5. Prohibit trading with the enemy.

6. Hold all Japanese (and other enemy) property at the disposal of
the Allies.

7. Co-operate in the apprehension and trial of persons accused of
war crimes.

8. Hand over to the Allied military authority all renegades of
Allied nationality.

D. Facilities to be Granted
1. Maintain and make available to the Allied military authority
such of Siamese Naval, land and air forces with their ports,
airfields establishments, equipment, communications, weapons and
stores of all kinds as may be specified.

2. Place at the disposal of the Allied military authority ports
and free traffic facilities in and over Siamese territory as
required by operations.

3. Provide free of cost all such supplies and services and all
Siamese currency that may be required by the Allied military
authority and pay cost of production of any Siamese currency
issued by the Allied military authority for any purpose in Siam.

4. Arrange in accordance with the wishes of the Allied Military
Authorities for Press and other censorship and control over radio
and telecommunication installations or other forms of inter
communciation.

5. Undertake civil administration subject to such intructions as
may be issued by the Allied Military authority of those areas of
Siam not placed under Allied military administration in order to
meet requirements of operations against Japanese.

6. In case of need arrange for facilities for recruitment of local
labour and for utilisation in Siamese territory of industrial and
transport enterprises and of means of communication power stations
public utility enterprises and other facilities, stocks of fuel
and other materials in accordance with requirements and
instructions of A.M.A.

7. Make Siamese merchant vessels whether in Siamese or foreign
waters subject to operation control of the Allies for use as may
be required in the general interests of the Allies.

8. Negotiate an agreement granting judicial and other immunities
for the Allied Forces in Siam.

9. Agree to the setting up of a military Mission to be appointed
by appropriate A.M.A. to advise on the organisation, training and
equipment of the Siamese Armed Forces.

10. Control banks and business foreign exchange, foreign
commercial and financial transactions and regulate trade and
production as required by the Allies.

11. Undertake to prohibit, except in accordance with directions of
the Combined Boards acting on behalf of the Allies or of such
other similar authority which replaces these Boards any exports of
rice, tin, rubber and teak during the period of the war against
Japan and for such time after that as may seem to the authority
concerned necessary in economic circumstances prevailing at the
time.

12. (a) Make available free of cost at Bangkok as quickly as may
be compatible with retention of supples adequate for the Siamese
internal needs quantity still to be determined, tons of sound
white rice or if so agreed by the authorities appointed by the
Allies for the purpose equivalent quantity of paddy.

(b) For so long as in opinion of the Combined Boards or other
authority acting on behalf of the Allies a world shortage of rice
continues take all possible measures to promote and to maintain
the maximum rice production and make available to an Allied rice
unit resulting surpluses at prices to be fixed in agreement with
the Allied Rice Unit having regard to controlled prices of rice in
other Asiatic producing areas.

(c) Conclude detailed agreement with the Allied Rice Unit
regarding measures to be taken to give effect to (a) and (b)
above. Such agreement to provide-
(a) For Allies to take whatever measures may be required for the
fulfilment of these obligations until the Siamese Government are
themselves in view of Allies in a position to ensure this.

(b) For continued co-operation thereafter of Siamese Government
with Rice Unit in fulfilment of any obligations already incurred.

13. Agree to frame Siamese currency policy (including the rate of
exchange to be fixed at the outset which may include different
rates for BAHTS of prewar issue and BAHTS printed by the Japanese
in accordance with the advice of Allied representatives with a
view to facilitating the maximum production of rice and of other
commodities in short supply and to obviate economic disturbance.

14. Arrange withdrawal and redemption in Siamese currency at par
within a specified time limit of all holdings in Siamese territory
of currency issued by the Allies during military operations if it
shall have been found necessary to use such an Allied currency.

15. Agree to pay in full for all relief supplies such payment to
be made in gold until all obligations to supply rice free of
charge as Siamese contribution to the United Nations requirements
have been discharged and thereafter out of the proceeds of exports
of rice and other products.

E. Measures for Post War Strategic Co-operation
1. Recognise that the course of events in the war with Japan
demonstrate the importance of Siam to the defence of Burma, Malaya
and Indo-China and ultimately to the protection of British
strategic interests in the Indian Ocean and the South West
Pacific.

2. Agree until such time as she is admitted to membership of the
United Nations to carry out such measures for the preservation of
international peace and security as the United Nations
organisation require.

3. Undertake that no canal linking the Indian Ocean and the Gulf
of Siam shall be cut across Siamese territory without prior
concurrence of His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom.

F. Measures for Post War Economic Co-operation
1. Agree to take all possible measures to re-establish import and
export trade between Siam on the one hand and neighbouring British
territories on the other and to [3] and maintain a good
neighbourly policy in regard to coastal shipping.

2. Undertake to negotiate as soon as practicable a new treaty of
Commerce and Navigation and Consular and establishment of a
convention based on the principles in the following paragraph.

3. Pending the conclusion of the Treaty and Convention referred to
in paragraph 2 above. Undertake to observe provisions of Treaty of
Commerce and Navigation signed at Bangkok on 23rd November, 1937
and in addition not to enforce measures excluding British
commercial or industrial interests or British professional men
from participation in Siamese economy and trade (subject to such
exceptions if any as may be agreed between His Majesty's
Government in the United Kingdom and the Siamese Government) or
requiring them to maintain stocks or reserves in excess of normal
commercial shipping industrial or business practice provided that
if the Treaty and Convention have not been concluded within a
period of three years this undertaking shall lapse unless it is
prolonged by agreement.

4. Undertake to negotiate a civil aviation agreement in respect of
all British (including Commonwealth) civil air services not less
favourable than agreement of 1937 with respect to the Imperial
Airways.

5. Undertake to participate in any international arrangements
regarding tin and rubber. [4]

[AA : A1838/2, 453/10/1/2]

1 On file AA : A1066, H45/1014/2. It emphasised that the
conditions set out in this document were entirely provisional and
requested that any comments by Dominion Governments be made within
a week.

2 See Document 144, note 8.

3 A sign here indicates 'mutilated'.

4 Part of paragraph D5, apparently repeated here in error, has
been omitted.