GERMAN AUSTRIA
[Sidenote: Independence to be recognized.]
"Germany recognizes the total independence of German Austria in the
boundaries traced."
CZECHO-SLOVAKIA
[Sidenote: Frontiers of the new State.]
Germany recognizes the entire independence of the Czecho-Slovak State,
including the autonomous territory of the Ruthenians south of the
Carpathians, and accepts the frontiers of this State as to be
determined, which in the case of the German frontier shall follow the
frontier of Bohemia in 1914. The usual stipulations as to acquisition
and change of nationality follow.
POLAND
[Sidenote: A Boundary Commission to be constituted.]
[Sidenote: Minorities to be protected.]
Germany cedes to Poland the greater part of Upper Silesia, Posen and the
province of West Prussia on the left bank of the Vistula. A Field
Boundary Commission of seven, five representing the allied and
associated powers and one each representing Poland and Germany, shall be
constituted within fifteen days of the peace to delimit this boundary.
Such special provisions as are necessary to protect racial, linguistic
or religious minorities and to protect freedom of transit and equitable
treatment of commerce of other nations shall be laid down in a
subsequent treaty between the principal allied and associated powers and
Poland.
EAST PRUSSIA
[Sidenote: Frontiers of East Prussia and Poland.]
The southern and the eastern frontier of East Prussia as touching Poland
is to be fixed by plebiscites, the first in the regency of Allenstein
between the southern frontier of East Prussia and the northern frontier,
or Regierungsbezirk Allenstein from where it meets the boundary between
East and West Prussia to its junction with the boundary between the
circles of Oletsko and Angersburg, thence the northern boundary of
Oletsko to its junction with the present frontier, and the second in the
area comprising the circles of Stuhm and Rosenberg and the parts of the
circles of Marienburg and Marienwerder east of the Vistula.
[Sidenote: German troops and officials to leave.]
In each case German troops and authorities will move out within fifteen
days of the peace, and the territories be placed under an international
commission of five members appointed by the principal allied and
associated powers, with the particular duty of arranging for a free,
fair and secret vote. The commission will report the results of the
plebiscites to the powers with a recommendation for the boundary, and
will terminate its work as soon as the boundary has been laid down and
the new authorities set up.
[Sidenote: Access to the Vistula.]
The principal allied and associated powers will draw up regulations
assuring East Prussia full and equitable access to and use of the
Vistula. A subsequent convention, of which the terms will be fixed by
the principal allied and associated powers, will be entered into
between Poland, Germany and Danzig, to assure suitable railroad
communication across German territory on the right bank of the Vistula
between Poland and Danzig, while Poland shall grant free passage from
East Prussia to Germany.
The northeastern corner of East Prussia about Memel is to be ceded by
Germany to the associated powers, the former agreeing to accept the
settlement made, especially as regards the nationality of the
inhabitants.
DANZIG
[Sidenote: Danzig to be under League of Nations.]
Danzig and the district immediately about it is to be constituted into
the "free city of Danzig" under the guarantee of the League of Nations.
A high commissioner appointed by the League and President of Danzig
shall draw up a constitution in agreement with the duly appointed
representatives of the city, and shall deal in the first instance with
all differences arising between the city and Poland. The actual
boundaries of the city shall be delimited by a commission appointed
within six months from the peace and to include three representatives
chosen by the allied and associated powers, and one each by Germany and
Poland.
[Sidenote: Convention between Danzig and Poland.]
A convention, the terms of which shall be fixed by the principal allied
and associated powers, shall be concluded between Poland and Danzig,
which shall include Danzig within the Polish customs frontiers, though a
free area in the port; insure to Poland the free use of all the city's
waterways, docks and other port facilities, the control and
administration of the Vistula and the whole through railway system
within the city, and postal, telegraphic and telephonic communication
between Poland and Danzig; provide against discrimination against Poles
within the city, and place its foreign relations and the diplomatic
protection of its citizens abroad in charge of Poland.
DENMARK
[Sidenote: Frontier to be fixed by self-determination.]
The frontier between Germany and Denmark will be fixed by the
self-determination of the population. Ten days from the peace German
troops and authorities shall evacuate the region north of the line
running from the mouth of the Schlei, south of Kappel, Schleswig, and
Friedrichstadt along the Eider to the North Sea south of Tonning; the
Workmen's and Soldiers' Councils shall be dissolved, and the territory
administered by an international commission of five, of whom Norway and
Sweden shall be invited to name two.
[Sidenote: Voting to be in zones.]
The commission shall insure a free and secret vote in three zones. That
between the German-Danish frontier and a line running south of the
Island of Alsen, north of Flensburg, and south of Tondern to the North
Sea, north of the Island of Sylt, will vote as a unit within three weeks
after the evacuation. Within five weeks after this vote the second zone,
whose southern boundary runs from the North Sea south of the Island of
Fehr to the Baltic south of Sygum, will vote by communes. Two weeks
after that vote the third zone running to the limit of evacuation will
also vote by communes. The international commission will then draw a new
frontier on the basis of these plebiscites and with due regard for
geographical and economic conditions. Germany will renounce all
sovereignty over territories north of this line in favor of the
Associated Governments, who will hand them over to Denmark.
HELIGOLAND
[Sidenote: Fortifications to be destroyed.]
The fortifications, military establishments, and harbors of the Islands
of Heligoland and Dune are to be destroyed under the supervision of the
Allies by German labor and at Germany's expense. They may not be
reconstructed, nor any similar fortifications built in the future.
RUSSIA
[Sidenote: Brest-Litovsk treaty to be abrogated.]
Germany agrees to respect as permanent and inalienable the independency
of all territories which were part of the former Russian Empire, to
accept the abrogation of the Brest-Litovsk and other treaties entered
into with the Maximalist Government of Russia, to recognize the full
force of all treaties entered into by the allied and associated powers
with States which were a part of the former Russian Empire, and to
recognize the frontiers as determined thereon. The allied and associated
powers formally reserve the right of Russia to obtain restitution and
reparation on the principles of the present treaty.