Franco-Russian Alliance

DRAFT OF MILITARY CONVENTION.

France and Russia, animated by a common desire to preserve the peace, and having no other end in mind than to ward off the necessities of a defensive war, provoked by an attack of the forces of the Triple Alliance against either of them, have agreed upon the following provisions:

1. If France is attacked by Germany, or by Italy supported by Germany, Russia shall employ all its available forces to fight Germany.

2. In case the forces of the Triple Alliance, or of one of the powers which are a party to it, should be mobilized, France and Russia, at the first indication of the event, and without a previous agreement being necessary, shall mobilize all their forces immediately and simultaneously, and shall transport them as near to their frontiers as possible.

3. The available forces which must be employed against Germany shall be: For France, 1,300,000 men; for Russia, from 700,000 to 800,000 men.

These forces shall begin complete action with the greatest dispatch, so that Germany will have to fight at the same time in the east and in the west.

4. The staffs of the armies of the two countries shall constantly plan in concert in order to prepare for and facilitate the execution of the measures set forth above.

They shall communicate to each other, in time of peace, all the information regarding the armies of the Triple Alliance which is in, or shall come into their possession.

The ways and means of corresponding in time of war shall be studied and arranged in advance.

5. France and Russia shall not conclude a separate peace.

6. The present convention shall have the same duration as the Triple Alliance.

7. All the clauses enumerated above shall be kept absolutely secret.