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been constituted in this area shall be dissolved. Members of such

councils who are natives of another region and are exercising their

functions at the date of the coming into force of the present treaty, or

who have gone out of office since the 1st March, 1919, shall be

evacuated.

All military and semi-military unions formed in the said area by the

inhabitants of the district shall be immediately disbanded. All members

of such military organizations who are not domiciled in the said area

shall be required to leave it.

2. The plebiscite area shall be immediately placed under the authority

of an international commission of four members to be designated by the

following powers: The United States of America, France, the British

Empire, and Italy. It shall be occupied by troops belonging to the

Allied and Associated Powers, and the German Government undertakes to

give facilities for the transference of troops to Upper Silesia.

3. The commission shall enjoy all the powers exercised by the German or

by the Prussian Government; except those of legislation or taxation. It

shall also be substituted for the Government of the Province and the

Regierungsbezirk.

It shall be within the competence of the commission to interpret the

powers hereby conferred upon it, and to determine to what extent it

shall exercise them and to what extent they shall be left in the hands

of the existing authorities.

Changes in the existing laws and the existing taxation shall only be

brought into force with the consent of the commission.

The commission will maintain order with the help of the troops which

will be at its disposal and to the extent which it may deem necessary by

means of gendarmerie recruited among the inhabitants of the country. The

commission shall provide immediately for the replacement of the

evacuated German officials, and, if occasion arises, shall itself order

the evacuation of such authorities and proceed to the replacement of

such local authorities as may be required. It shall take all steps which

it thinks proper to insure the freedom, fairness, and secrecy of the

vote. In particular, it shall have the right to order the expulsion of

any person who may in any way have attempted to distort the result of

the plebiscite by methods of corruption or intimidation.

The commission shall have full power to settle all questions arising

from the execution of the present clauses. It shall be assisted by

technical advisers, chosen by it from among the local populations. The

decision of the commission shall be taken by a majority vote.

4. The vote shall take place at such date as may be determined by the

principal Allied and Associated Powers, but not sooner than six months

or later than eighteen months after the establishment of the commission

in the area.

The right to vote shall be given to all persons, without distinction of

sex, who:

(a) Have completed their twentieth year on the 1st of January of the

year in which the plebiscite takes place;

(b) Were born in the plebiscite area or have been domiciled there since

a date to be determined by the commission, which shall not be subsequent

to January 1, 1919, or who have been expelled by the German authorities

and have not retained their domicile there.

Persons convicted of political offenses shall not exercise their right

of voting. Every person will vote in the commune where he is domiciled,

or in which he was born, if he has not retained his domicile in the

area.

The result of the vote will be determined by the communes according to

the majority of votes in each commune.

5. On the conclusion of the voting the number of votes cast in each

commune will be communicated by the commission to the principal Allied

and Associated Powers with a full report as to the taking of the vote

and a recommendation as to the line which ought to be adopted as the

frontier of Germany in Upper Silesia. In this recommendation regard will

be paid to the wishes of the inhabitants, as shown by the vote, and to

the geographical and economic conditions of the locality.

6. As soon as the frontier has been fixed by the principal Allied and

Associated Powers the German authorities will be notified by the

International Commission that they are free to take over the

administration of the territory which it is recognized should be German;

the said authorities must proceed to do so within one month of such

notification and in the manner prescribed by the commission. Within the

same period and in the manner prescribed by the commission, the Polish

Government must proceed to take over the administration of the

territory which it is recognized should be Polish.

When the administration of the territory has been provided for by the

German and Polish authorities respectively the powers of the commission

will terminate.

The cost of the Army of Occupation and expenditure by the commission,

whether in discharge of its own functions or in the administration of

the territory, will be a charge on the area.

=ARTICLE 89.=--Poland undertakes to accord freedom of transit to

persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons, and mails in transit between

East Prussia and the rest of Germany over Polish territory, including

territorial waters, and to treat them at least as favorably as the

persons, goods, vessels, carriages, wagons, and mails, respectively, of

Polish or of any other most-favored nationality, origin, importation

starting point, or ownership, as regards facilities, restrictions, and

all other matters.

Goods in transit shall be exempt from all customs or other similar

duties.

Freedom of transit will extend to telegraphic and telephonic services

under the conditions laid down by the conventions referred to in Article

98.

=ARTICLE 90.=--Poland undertakes to permit, for a period of fifteen

years, the exportation to Germany of the products of the mines in any

part of Poland in accordance with the present treaty. Such export shall

be subject to duties or other charges or restrictions on exportation.

Poland agrees to take such steps as may be necessary to secure that such

products shall be available for sale to purchasers in Germany on terms

as favorable as are applicable to like products sold under similar

conditions to purchasers in Poland or in any other country.

=ARTICLE 91.=--German nationals habitually resident in territories

recognized as forming part of Poland will acquire Polish nationality

ipso facto and will lose their German nationality. German nationals,

however, or their descendants who became resident in these territories

after January 1, 1908, will not acquire Polish nationality without a

special authorization from the Polish State.

Within a period of two years after the coming into force of the present

treaty, German nationals over 18 years of age, habitually resident in

any of the territories recognized as forming part of Poland, will be

entitled to opt for German nationality. Poles who are German nationals

over 18 years of age, and habitually resident in Germany, will have a

similar right to opt for Polish nationality. Option by a husband will

cover his wife and option by parents will cover their children under 18

years of age. Persons who have exercised the above right to opt must

within the succeeding twelve months transfer their place of residence to

the State for which they have opted. They will be entitled to retain

their immovable property in the territory of the other State, where they

had their place of residence before exercising the right to opt. They

may carry with them their movable property of every description. No

export or import duties or charges may be imposed upon them in

connection with the removal of such property.

Within the same period Poles who are German nationals and are in a

foreign country will be entitled, in the absence of any provisions to

the contrary in the foreign law, and if they have not acquired foreign

nationality, to obtain Polish nationality and to lose their German

nationality by complying with the requirements laid down by the Polish

State.

In this portion of Upper Silesia submitted to a plebiscite the

provisions of this article should only come into force as from the

definite attribution of the territory.

=ARTICLE 92.=--The proportion and the nature of the financial

liabilities of Germany and Prussia to be borne by Poland will be

determined in accordance with Article 254 of Part IX. (financial

clauses) of the present treaty. There shall be excluded from the share

of such financial liabilities assumed by Poland that portion of the debt

which, according to the finding of the Reparation Commission referred to

in the above mentioned article, arises from measures adopted by the

German and Prussian Governments with a view to German colonization in

Poland. In fixing under Article 256 of the present treaty the value of

the property and possessions belonging to the German Empire and to the

German states which pass to Poland, with the territory transferred

above, the Reparation Commission shall exclude from the valuation

buildings, forests, and other State property which belonged to the

former kingdom of Poland; Poland shall acquire these properties free of

all costs and charges.

In all the German territory transferred in accordance with the present

treaty and recognized as forming definitely a part of Poland, the

property rights and interests of German nationals shall not be

liquidated under Article 297 by the Polish Government except in

accordance with the following provisions:

1. The proceeds of the liquidation shall be paid direct to the owner;

2. If, on his application, the mixed arbitral tribunal provided for by

the Section 6 of Part X. (economic clauses) of the present treaty, or an

arbitrator appointed by that tribunal, is satisfied that the conditions

of the sale or measures taken by the Polish Government outside of its

general legislation were unfairly prejudicial to the price obtained,

they shall have discretion to award to the owner equitable compensation

to be paid by the Polish Government.

Further agreements will regulate all questions arising out of the

cession of the above territory, which are not regulated by the present

treaty.

=ARTICLE 93.=--Poland accepts and agrees to embody in a treaty with the

principal Allied and Associated Powers such provisions as may be deemed

necessary by the said powers to protect the interests of inhabitants of

Poland who differ from the majority of the population in race, language

or religion.

Poland further accepts and agrees to embody in a treaty with the said

powers such provisions as they may deem necessary to protect freedom of

transit and equitable treatment of the commerce of other nations.

SECTION IX.--_East Prussia._

=ARTICLE 94.=--In the area between the southern frontier of East

Prussia, as described in Article 28 of Part II. (frontiers of Germany)

of the present treaty, and the line described below, the inhabitants

will be called upon to indicate by a vote the State to which they wish

to belong:

The western and northern boundary of Regierungsbezirk Allenstein to its

junction with the boundary between the Kreise of Oletsko and Angerburg,

thence, the northern boundary of the Kreise of Oletsko to its junction

with the old frontier of East Prussia.

=ARTICLE 95.=--The German troops and authorities will be withdrawn from

the area defined above within a period not exceeding fifteen days after

the coming into force of the present treaty. Until the evacuation is

completed they will abstain from all requisitions in money or in kind

and from all measures injurious to the economic interests of the

country.

On the expiration of the above-mentioned period the said area will be

placed under the authority of an International Commission of five

members appointed by the principal Allied and Associated Powers. This

commission will have general powers of administration and, in

particular, will be charged with the duty of arranging for the vote, and

of taking such measures as it may deem necessary to insure its freedom,

fairness, and secrecy. The commission will have all necessary authority

to decide any questions to which the execution of these provisions may

give rise. The commission will make such arrangements as may be

necessary for assistance in the exercise of its functions by officials

chosen by itself from the local population; its decisions will be taken

by a majority.

Every person, irrespective of sex, will be entitled to vote who:

(a) Is 20 years of age at the date of the coming into force of the

present treaty, and

(b) Was born within the area where the vote will take place, or has been

habitually resident there from a date to be fixed by the commission.

Every person will vote in the commune where he is habitually resident

or, if not habitually resident in the area, in the commune where he was

born.

The result of the vote will be determined by commune, (Gemeinde,)

according to the majority of the votes in each commune.

On the conclusion of the voting the number of votes cast in each commune

will be communicated by the commission to the principal Allied and

Associated Powers with a full report as to the taking of the vote and a

recommendation as to the line which ought to be adopted as the boundary

of East Prussia in this region.

In this recommendation, regard will be paid to the wishes of the

inhabitants as shown by the vote, and to the geographical and economic

conditions of the locality. The principal Allied and Associated Powers

will then fix the frontier between East Prussia and Poland in this

region. If the line fixed by the principal Allied and Associated Powers

is such as to exclude from East Prussia any part of the territory

defined in Article 94, the renunciation of its rights by Germany in

favor of Poland, as provided in Article 87, above, will extend to the

territories so excluded. As soon as the line has been fixed by the

principal Allied and Associated Powers, the authorities administering

East Prussia will be notified by the International Commission that they

are free to take over the administration of the territory to the north

of the line so fixed, which they shall proceed to do within one month of

such notification and in the manner prescribed by the commission. Within

the same period, and as prescribed by the commission, the Polish

Government must proceed to take over the administration of the territory

to the south of the line. When the administration of the territory by

the East Prussian and Polish authorities, respectively, has been

provided for, the powers of the commission will terminate.

Expenditure by the commission, whether in the discharge of its own

functions or in the administration of the territory, will be borne by

the local revenues. East Prussia will be required to bear such

proportion of any deficit as may be fixed by the principal Allied and

Associated Powers.

=ARTICLE 96.=--In the area comprising the Kreise of Stuhm and Rosenberg,

and the portion of the Kreise of Marienburg which is situated east of

the Nogat, and that of Marienwerder east of the Vistula, the inhabitants

will be called upon to indicate by a vote, to be taken in each commune,

(Gemeinde,) whether they desire the various communes situated in this

territory to belong to Poland or to East Prussia.

=ARTICLE 97.=--The German troops and authorities will be withdrawn from

the area defined in Article 96 within a period not exceeding fifteen

days after the coming into force of the present treaty. Until the

evacuation is completed they will abstain from all requisitions in money

or in kind and from all measures injurious to the economic interests of

the country. On the expiration of the above-mentioned period the said

area will be placed under the authority of an International Commission

of five members appointed by the principal Allied and Associated Powers.

This commission, supported, if occasion arises, by the necessary forces,

will have general powers of administration, and, in particular, will be

charged with the duty of arranging for the vote and of taking such

measures as it may deem necessary to insure its freedom, fairness, and

secrecy. The commission will conform as far as possible to the

provisions of the present treaty relating to the plebiscite in the

Allenstein area. Its decision will be taken by a majority. Expenditure

by the commission, whether in the discharge of its own functions or in

the administration of the territory, will be borne by the local

revenues.

On the conclusion of the voting, the number of votes cast in each

commune will be communicated by the commission to the principal Allied

and Associated Powers, with a full report as to the taking of the vote

and a recommendation as to the line which ought to be adopted as the

boundary of East Prussia in this region. In this recommendation regard

will be paid to the wishes of the inhabitants as shown by the vote and

to the geographical and economic conditions of the locality. The

principal Allied and Associated Powers will then fix the frontier

between East Prussia and Poland in this region, leaving in any case to

Poland for the whole of the section bordering on the Vistula full and

complete control of the river, including the east bank as far east of

the river as may be necessary for its regulation and improvement.

Germany agrees that in any portion of the said territory which remains

German no fortifications shall at any time be erected.

The principal Allied and Associated Powers will at the same time draw up

regulations for assuring to the population of East Prussia to the

fullest extent, and under equitable conditions, access to the Vistula,

and the use of it for themselves, their commerce, and their boats. The

determination of the frontier and the foregoing regulations shall be

binding upon all the parties concerned. When the administration of the

territory has been taken over by the East Prussian and Polish

authorities, respectively, the powers of the commission will terminate.

=ARTICLE 98.=--Germany and Poland undertake, within one year of the

coming into force of this treaty, to enter into conventions of which the

terms, in case of difference, shall be settled by the Council of the

League of Nations, with the object of securing on the one hand to

Germany full and adequate railroad, telegraphic, and telephonic

facilities for communication between the rest of Germany and East

Prussia over the intervening Polish territory, and Anthe other hand to

Poland full and adequate railroad, telegraphic, and telephonic

facilities for communication between Poland and the free city of Danzig

over any German territory that may, on the right bank of the Vistula,

intervene between Poland and the free city of Danzig.

[Illustration: _Copyright Harris and Ewing_

Sir Eric Drummond

The first Secretary of the League of Nations. Sir Eric joined the

British Foreign Office in 1900, and later served as confidential

secretary to Sir Edward (Viscount) Grey, Herbert H. Asquith, and Arthur

J. Balfour. In 1917 he accompanied Mr. Balfour to the United States as a

member of the British High Commission.]

SECTION X.--_Memel_

=ARTICLE 99.=--Germany renounces in favor of the principal Allied and

Associated Powers all rights and title over the territories included

between the Baltic, the northeastern frontier of East Prussia as defined

in Article 28 of Part II. (frontiers of Germany) of the present treaty

and the former frontier between Germany and Russia.

Germany undertakes to accept the settlement made by the principal Allied

and Associated Powers in regard to these territories, particularly in so

far as concerns the nationality of the inhabitants.

SECTION XI.--_Free City of Danzig_

=ARTICLE 100.=--Germany renounces in favor of the principal Allied and

Associated Powers all rights and title over the territory comprised

within the following limits:

From the Baltic Sea southward to the point where the principal channels

of navigation of the Nogat and Vistula (Weichsel) meet;

The boundary of East Prussia as described in Article 28 of Part II.

(boundaries of Germany) of the peace treaty;

Thence the principal channel of navigation of the Vistula downstream to

a point about 6½ kilometers north of the bridge of Dirschau;

Thence northwest to point 5, 1½ kilometers southeast of the Church of

Güttland, a line to be fixed on the ground;

Thence in a general westerly direction to the salient of the Kreise of

Berent, 8½ kilometers northeast of Schöneck;

A line to be fixed on the ground passing between Mühlbanz on the south

and Rambeltsch on the north;

Thence the boundary of the Kreise of Berent, westward to the re-entrant

which it forms 6 kilometers north-northwest of Schöneck;

Thence to a point on the median line of Lonkener See; a line to be fixed

on the ground passing north of Neu Fietz and Schatarpi and south of

Barenhütte and Lonken; thence the median line of the Lonkener See to its

northernmost point; thence to the southern end of Pollenziner See; a

line to be fixed on the ground;

Thence the median line of Pollenziner See to its northernmost point;

Thence in a northeasterly direction to a point about one kilometer south

of Koliebken Church, where the Danzig-Neustadt Railway crosses a stream;

A line to be fixed on the ground passing southeast of Kamehlen, Krissau,

Fidlin, Sulmin, (Richthof,) Mattern, Schaferei, and to the northwest of

Neuendorf, Marschau, Czapielken, Hoch and Klein Kelpin, Pulvermühl,

Renneberg, and the towns of Oliva and Zoppot;

Thence the course of this stream to the Baltic Sea.

The boundaries described above are drawn on a German map scale

1-100,000, attached to the present treaty, (Map No. 4.)

=ARTICLE 101.=--A commission composed of three members appointed by the

principal Allied and Associated Powers, including a High Commissioner as

President, one member appointed by Germany, and one member appointed by

Poland, shall be constituted within fifteen days of the coming into

force of the present treaty for the purpose of delimiting on the spot

the frontier of the territory as described above, taking into account as

far as possible the existing communal boundaries.

=ARTICLE 102.=--The principal Allied and Associated Powers undertake to

establish the town of Danzig, together with the rest of the territory

described in Article 100, as a free city. It will be placed under the

protection of the League of Nations.

=ARTICLE 103.=--A constitution for the free city of Danzig shall be

drawn up by the duly appointed representatives of the free city in

agreement with a High Commissioner to be appointed by the League of

Nations. The constitution shall be placed under the guarantee of the

League of Nations.

The High Commissioner will also be intrusted with the duty of dealing in

the first instance with all differences arising between Poland and the

free city of Danzig in regard to this treaty or any arrangements or

agreements made thereunder.

The High Commissioner shall reside at Danzig.

=ARTICLE 104.=--The principal Allied and Associated Powers undertake to

negotiate a treaty between the Polish Government and the free city of

Danzig which shall come into force at the same time as the establishment

of said free city, with the following objects:

1. To effect the inclusion of the free city of Danzig within the Polish

customs frontiers and to establish a free area in the port.

2. To insure to Poland without any restriction the free use and service

of all waterways, docks, basins, wharves, and other works within the

territory of the free city necessary for Polish imports and exports.

3. To insure to Poland the control and administration of the Vistula and

of the whole railway system within the free city; except such street and

other railways as serve primarily the needs of the free city and of

postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communication between Poland and the

Port of Danzig.

4. To insure to Poland the right to develop and improve the waterways,

docks, basins, wharves, railways, and other works and means of

communication mentioned in this article, as well as to lease or purchase

through appropriate processes such land and other property as may be

necessary for these purposes.

5. To provide against any discrimination within the free city of Danzig

to the detriment of citizens of Poland and other persons of Polish

origin or speech.

6. To provide that the Polish Government shall undertake the conduct of

the foreign relations of the free city of Danzig as well as the

diplomatic protection of citizens of that city when abroad.

=ARTICLE 105.=--On the coming into force of the present treaty German

nationals ordinarily resident in the territory described in Article 100

will ipso facto lose their German nationality, in order to become

nationals of the free city of Danzig.

=ARTICLE 106.=--Within a period of two years from the coming into force

of the present treaty German nationals over 18 years of age ordinarily

resident in the territory described in Article 100 will have the right

to opt for German nationality.

Option by a husband will cover his wife and option by parents will cover

their children less than 18 years of age.

All persons who exercise the right of option referred to above must

during the ensuing twelve months transfer their place of residence to

Germany.

These persons will be entitled to preserve the immovable property

possessed by them in the territory of the free city of Danzig. They may

carry with them their movable property of every description. No export

or import duties shall be imposed upon them in this connection.

=ARTICLE 107.=--All property situated within the territory of the free

city of Danzig belonging to the German Empire or any German State shall

pass to the principal Allied and Associated Powers for transfer to the

free city of Danzig or to the Polish State as they may consider

equitable.

=ARTICLE 108.=--The proportion and nature of the financial liabilities

of Germany and of Prussia to be borne by the free city of Danzig shall

be fixed in accordance with Article 254 of Part IX. (financial clauses)

of the present treaty.

All other questions which may arise from the cession of the territory

referred to in Article 100 shall be settled by further agreements.

SECTION XII.--_Schleswig_

=ARTICLE 109.=--The frontier between Germany and Denmark shall be fixed

in conformity with the wishes of the population.

For this purpose the population inhabiting the territories of the former

German Empire situated to the north of a line from east to west, (shown

by a brown line on the Map No. 3 annexed to the present treaty;)

Leaving the Baltic coast about thirteen kilometers east-northeast of

Flensburg, running southwest so as to pass southeast of Sygum,

Ringsberg, Munkbrarup, Adelby, Tastrup, Jarplund, Oversee, and northwest

of Langballigholz, Langballig, Bönstrup, Rüllschau, Weseby,

Kleinwolstrup, Gross-Solt; thence westward passing south of Frörup and

north of Wanderup; thence in a southwesterly direction passing southeast

of Oxlund, Stieglund, and Ostenau and northwest of the villages on the

Wanderup-Kollund road; thence in a northwesterly direction passing

southwest of Löwenstedt, Joldelund, Goldelund and northeast of

Kalkerheide and Högel to the bend of the Soholmer Au, about one

kilometer east of Soholm, where it meets the southern boundary of the

Kreise of Tondern; thence following this boundary to the North Sea;

thence passing south of the islands of Fohr and Amrum and north of the

islands of Oland and Langeness shall be called upon to pronounce by a

vote which will be taken under the following conditions:

1. Within a period not exceeding ten days from the coming into force of

the present treaty, the German troops and authorities (including the

Oberprasidenten, Regierungs-Prasidenten, Landrathe, Amtsvorsteher,

Oberbürgermeister) shall evacuate the zone lying to the north of the

line above fixed.

Within the same period the Workmen's and Soldiers' Councils which have

been constituted in this zone shall be dissolved; members of such

councils who are natives of another region and are exercising their

functions at the date of the coming into force of the present treaty, or

who have gone out of office since the 1st March, 1919, shall also be

evacuated.

The said zone shall immediately be placed under the authority of an

international commission, composed of five members, of whom three will

be designated by the principal Allied and Associated Powers; the

Norwegian and Swedish Governments will each be requested to designate a

member. In the event of their failing to do so, these two members will

be chosen by the principal Allied and Associated Powers.

The commission, assisted in case of need by the necessary forces, shall

have general powers of administration. In particular, it shall at once

provide for filling the places of the evacuated German authorities, and,

if necessary, shall itself give orders for their evacuation and proceed

to fill the places of such local authorities as may be required. It

shall take all steps which it thinks proper to insure the freedom,

fairness, and secrecy of the vote. It shall be assisted by German and

Danish technical advisers chosen by it from among the local population.

Its decisions will be taken by a majority.

One-half of the expenses of the International Commission and of the

expenditure occasioned by the plebiscite shall be paid by Germany.

2. The right to vote shall be given all persons, without distinction of

sex, who:

(a) Have completed their twentieth year at the date of the coming into

force of the present treaty; and

(b) Were born in the zone in which the plebiscite is taken, or had been

domiciled there since a date before the 1st January, 1900, or had been

expelled by the German authorities without having retained their

domicile there.

Every person will vote in the commune (Gemeinde) where he is domiciled

or of which he is a native.

Military persons, officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of

the German Army, who are natives of the zone of Schleswig, in which the

plebiscite is taken, shall be given the opportunity to return to their

native place in order to take part in the voting there.

3. In the section of the evacuated zone lying to the north of a line

from east to west (shown by a red line on Map No. 3, which is annexed to

the present treaty):

Passing south of the Island of Alsen and following the median line of

Flensburg Fjord;

Thence leaving the fjord about six kilometers north of Flensburg, and

following the course of the stream flowing past Kupfermühle upstream to

a point north of Niehuus;

Thence passing north of Pattburg and Ellund and south of Fröslee to meet

the eastern boundary of the Kreise of Tondern at its junction with the

boundary between the old jurisdiction of Slogs and Kjaer, (Slogs Herred

and Kjaer Herred;)

Thence the latter boundary to where it meets the Scheidebek;

Thence the course of the Scheidebek, (Alte Au), Süder Au, and Wied Au

downstream successively to the point where the latter bends northward,

about 1,500 meters west of Ruttebüll;

Thence in a west-northwesterly direction to meet the North Sea north of

Sieltoft;

Thence passing north of the Island of Sylt.

The vote above provided for shall be taken within a period not exceeding

three weeks after the evacuation of the country by the German troops and

authorities.

The result will be determined by the majority of votes cast in the whole

of this section. This result will be immediately communicated by the

commission to the principal Allied and Associated Governments and

proclaimed.

If the vote results in favor of the reincorporation of this territory in

the Kingdom of Denmark, the Danish Government, in agreement with the

commission will be entitled to effect its occupation with their military

and administrative authorities immediately after the proclamation.

4. In the section of the evacuated zone situated to the south of the

preceding section and to the north of the line which starts from the

Baltic Sea thirteen kilometers from Flensburg and ends north of the

islands of Oland and Langeness, the vote will be taken within a period

not exceeding five weeks after the plebiscite shall have been held in

the first section.

The result will be determined by communes (Gemeinden) in accordance with

the majority of the votes cast in each commune, (Gemeinde.)

=ARTICLE 110.=--Pending a delimination on the spot, a frontier line will

be fixed by the principal Allied and Associated Powers according to a

line based on the result of the voting, and proposed by the

International Commission, and taking into account the particular

geographical and economic conditions of the localities in question.

From that time the Danish Government may effect the occupation of these

territories which the Danish civil and military authorities, and the

German Government may reinstate up to the said frontier line the German

civil and military authorities whom it has evacuated.

Germany hereby renounced definitively in favor of the principal Allied

and Associated Powers all rights of sovereignty over the territories

situated to the north of the frontier line fixed in accordance with the

above provisions. The principal Allied and Associated Powers will hand

over the said territories to Denmark.

=Article 111.=--A commission composed of seven members, five of whom

shall be nominated by the principal Allied and Associated Powers, one by

Denmark, and one by Germany, shall be constituted within fifteen days

from the date when the final result of the vote is known, to trace the

frontier line on the spot.

The decisions of the commission will be taken by a majority of votes,

and shall be binding on the parties concerned.

=ARTICLE 112.=--All the inhabitants of the territory which is returned

to Denmark will acquire Danish nationality ipso facto, and will lose

their German nationality. Persons, however, who had become habitually

resident in this territory after the 1st October, 1918, will not be able

to acquire Danish nationality without permission from the Danish

Government.

=ARTICLE 113.=--Within two years from the date on which the sovereignty

over the whole or part of the territory of Schleswig subjected to the

plebiscite is restored to Denmark:

Any person over 18 years of age, born in the territory restored to

Denmark, not habitually resident in this region and possessing German

nationality, will be entitled to opt for Denmark.

Any person over 18 years of age habitually resident in the territory

restored to Denmark will be entitled to opt for Germany.

Option by a husband will cover his wife and option by parents will cover

their children less than 18 years of age.

Persons who have exercised the above right to opt must within the

ensuing twelve months transfer their place of residence to the State in

favor of which they have opted.

They will be entitled to retain the immovable property which they own in

the territory of the other State in which they were habitually resident

before opting. They may carry with them their movable property of every

description. No export or import duties may be imposed upon them in

connection with the removal of such property.

=ARTICLE 114.=--The proportion and nature of the financial or other

obligations of Germany and Prussia which are to be assumed by Denmark

will be fixed in accordance with Article 254 of Part IX. (financial

clauses) of the present treaty.

Further stipulations will determine any other questions arising out of

the transfer to Denmark of the whole or part of the territory of which

she was deprived by the treaty of Oct. 30, 1864.

SECTION XIII.--_Heligoland_

=ARTICLE 115.=--The fortifications, military establishments, and harbors

of the islands of Heligoland and Dune shall be destroyed under the

supervision of the principal Allied Governments by German labor and at

the expense of Germany within a period to be determined by the said

Governments.

The term "harbors" shall include the Northeast Mole, the West Wall, the

outer and inner breakwaters and reclaimed land within them, and all

naval and military works, fortifications, and buildings, constructed or

under construction, between lines connecting the following positions

taken from the British Admiralty Chart No. 126 of 19 April, 1918:

(A) Lat. 54 degrees 10 minutes 49 seconds N.; long. 7 degrees 53 minutes

39 seconds E.;

(B) Lat. 54 degrees 10 minutes 35 seconds N.; long. 7 degrees 54 minutes

18 seconds E.;

0 seconds E.;

(D) Lat. 54 degrees 10 minutes 17 seconds N.; long. 7 degrees 53 minutes

37 seconds E.;

(E) Lat. 54 degrees 10 minutes 44 seconds N.; long. 7 degrees 53 minutes

26 seconds E.

These fortifications, military establishments, and harbors shall not be

reconstructed nor shall any similar works be constructed in future.

SECTION XIV.--_Russia and Russian States_

=ARTICLE 116.=--Germany acknowledges and agrees to respect as permanent

and inalienable the independence of all the territories which were part

of the former Russian Empire on Aug. 1, 1914.

In accordance with the provisions of Article 259 of Part IX. (financial

clauses,) and Article 292 of Part X. (economic clauses,) Germany accepts

definitely the abrogation of the Brest-Litovsk Treaties and of all

treaties, conventions, and agreements entered into by her with the

Maximalist Government in Russia.

The Allied and Associated Powers formally reserve the rights of Russia

to obtain from Germany restitution and reparation based on the

principles of the present treaty.

=ARTICLE 117.=--Germany undertakes to recognize the full force of all

treaties or agreements which may be entered into by the Allied and

Associated Powers with States now existing or coming into existence in

future in the whole or part of the former Empire of Russia as it existed

on August 1, 1914, and to recognize the frontiers of any such States as

determined therein.

PART IV

German Rights and Interests Outside Germany

=ARTICLE 118.=--In territory outside her European frontiers as fixed by

the present treaty, Germany renounces all rights, titles, and privileges

whatever in or over territory which belonged to her or to her allies,

and all rights, titles, and privileges, whatever their origin, which she

held as against the Allied and Associated Powers.

Germany undertakes immediately to recognize and to conform to the

measures which may be taken now or in the future by the principal Allied

and Associated Powers, in agreement where necessary with third powers,

in order to carry the above stipulation into effect.

In particular, Germany declares her acceptance of the following articles

relating to certain special subjects:

SECTION I.--_German Colonies_

=ARTICLE 119.=--Germany renounces in favor of the principal Allied and

Associated Powers all her rights and titles over her overseas

possessions.

=ARTICLE 120.=--All movable and immovable property in such territories

belonging to the German Empire or to any German State shall pass to the

Government exercising authority over such territories on the terms laid

down in Article 257 of Part IX. (financial clauses) of the present

treaty. The decision of the local courts in any dispute as to the nature

of such property shall be final.

=ARTICLE 121.=--The provisions of Section I. (commercial relations) and

Section IV. (property, rights, and interests) of Part X. (economic

clauses) of the present treaty shall apply in the case of these

territories whatever be the form of government adopted for them.

=ARTICLE 122.=--The Government exercising authority over such

territories may make such provisions as it thinks fit with reference to

the repatriation from them of German nationals, and to the conditions

upon which German subjects of European origin shall, or shall not, be

allowed to reside, hold property, trade, or exercise a profession in

them.

=ARTICLE 123.=--The provisions of Article 260 of Part IX. (financial

clauses) of the present treaty shall apply in the case of all agreements

concluded with German nationals for the construction or exploitation of

public works in the German overseas possessions, as well as any

sub-concessions or contracts resulting therefrom which may have been

made to or with such nationals.

=ARTICLE 124.=--Germany hereby undertakes to pay in accordance with the

estimate to be presented by the French Government, and approved by the

Reparation Commission, reparation for damage suffered by French

nationals in the Cameroons or the frontier zone by reason of the acts of

the German civil and military authorities and of German private

individuals during the period from Jan. 1, 1900, to Aug. 1, 1914.

=ARTICLE 125.=--Germany renounces all rights under the conventions and

agreements with France of Nov. 4, 1911, and Sept. 28, 1912, relating to

equatorial Africa. She undertakes to pay to the French Government, in

accordance with the estimate to be presented by the Government and

approved by the Reparation Commission, all the deposits, credits,

advances, &c., effected by virtue of these instruments in favor of

Germany.

=ARTICLE 126.=--Germany undertakes to accept and observe the agreements

made or to be made by the Allied and Associated Powers or some of them

with any other power with regard to the trade in arms and spirits, and

to the matters dealt with in the general act of Berlin of Feb. 26, 1885,

the general act of Brussels of July 2, 1890, and the conventions

completing or modifying the same.

=ARTICLE 127.=--The native inhabitants of the former German overseas

possessions shall be entitled to the diplomatic protection of the

Governments exercising authority over those territories.

SECTION II.--_China_

=ARTICLE 128.=--Germany renounces in favor of China all benefits and

privileges resulting from the provisions of the final protocol signed at

Peking on Sept. 7, 1901, and from all annexes, notes, and documents

supplementary thereto. She likewise renounces in favor of China any

claim to indemnities accruing thereunder subsequent to March 14, 1917.

=ARTICLE 129.=--From the coming into force of the present treaty the

high contracting parties shall apply in so far as concerns them

respectively:

1. The arrangement of Aug. 29, 1902, regarding the new Chinese customs

tariff.

2. The arrangement of Sept. 27, 1905, regarding Whang-Poo, and the

provisional supplementary arrangement of April 4, 1912. China, however,

will no longer be bound to grant to Germany the advantages of privileges

which she allowed Germany under these arrangements.

=ARTICLE 130.=--Subject to the provisions of Section VIII. of this part,

Germany cedes to China all the buildings, wharves and pontoons,

barracks, forts, arms and munitions of war, vessels of all kinds,

wireless telegraphy installations and other public property belonging to

the German Government, which are situated or may be in the German

concessions at Tientsin and Hankow or elsewhere in Chinese territory.

It is understood, however, that premises used as diplomatic or consular

residences or offices are not included in the above cession, and,

furthermore, that no steps shall be taken by the Chinese Government to

dispose of the German public and private property situated within the

so-called legation quarter at Peking without the consent of the

diplomatic representatives of the powers which, on the coming into force

of the present treaty, remain parties to the final protocol of Sept. 7,

1901.

=ARTICLE 131.=--Germany undertakes to restore to China within twelve

months from the coming into force of the present treaty all the

astronomical instruments which her troops in 1900--1901 carried away from

China, and to defray all expenses which may be incurred in affecting

such restoration, including the expenses of dismounting, packing,

transporting, insurance, and installation in Peking.

[Illustration: From Around the World

_Copyright Paul Thompson_

Lord Robert Cecil

A son of Lord Salisbury and one of the most influential statesmen in

Great Britain during the war and an enthusiastic advocate of a League of

Nations.]

=ARTICLE 132.=--Germany agrees to the abrogation of the leases from the

Chinese Government under which the German concessions at Hankow and

Tientsin are now held.

China, restored to the full exercise of her sovereign rights in the

above areas, declares her intention of opening them to international

residence and trade. She further declares that the abrogation of the

leases under which these concessions are now held shall not affect the

property rights of nationals or Allied and Associated Powers who are

holders of lots in these concessions.

=ARTICLE 133.=--Germany waives all claims against the Chinese Government

or against any Allied or Associated Government arising out of the

internment of German nationals in China and their repatriation. She

equally renounces all claims arising out of the capture and condemnation

of German ships in China or the liquidation, sequestration or control of

German properties, rights, and interests in that country since Aug. 14,

1917. This provision, however, shall not affect the rights of the

parties interested in the proceeds of any such liquidation, which shall

be governed by the provisions of Part X. (economic clauses) of the

present treaty.

=ARTICLE 134.=--Germany renounces, in favor of the Government of his

Britannic Majesty, the German State property in the British concession

at Shameen at Canton. She renounces, in favor of the French and Chinese

Governments conjointly, the property of the German school situated in

the French concession at Shanghai.

SECTION III.--_Siam_

=ARTICLE 135.=--Germany recognizes that all treaties, conventions, and

agreements between her and Siam, and all rights, titles and privileges

derived therefrom, including all rights of extra territorial

jurisdiction, terminated as from July 22, 1917.

=ARTICLE 136.=--All goods and property in Siam belonging to the German

Empire or to any German State, with the exception of premises used as

diplomatic or consular residences or offices, pass ipso facto and

without compensation to the Siamese Government.

The goods, property, and private rights of German nationals in Siam

shall be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of Part X.

(economic clauses) of the present treaty.

=ARTICLE 137.=--Germany waives all claims against the Siamese Government

on behalf of herself or her nationals arising out of the seizure or

condemnation of German ships, the liquidation of German property, or the

internment of German nationals in Siam. This provision shall not affect

the rights of the parties interested in the proceeds of any such

liquidation, which shall be governed by the provisions of Part X.

(economic clauses) of the present treaty.

SECTION IV.--_Liberia_

=ARTICLE 138.=--Germany renounces all rights and privileges arising from

the arrangements of 1911 and 1912 regarding Liberia, and particularly

the right to nominate a German receiver of customs in Liberia. She

further renounces all claim to participate in any measures whatsoever

which may be adopted for the rehabilitation of Liberia.

=ARTICLE 139.=--Germany recognizes that all treaties and arrangements

between her and Liberia terminated as from Aug. 4, 1917.

=ARTICLE 140.=--The property, rights, and interests of Germans in

Liberia shall be dealt with in accordance with Part X. (economic

clauses) of the present treaty.

SECTION V.--_Morocco_

=ARTICLE 141.=--Germany renounces all rights, titles, and privileges

conferred on her by the general act of Algeciras of April 7, 1906, and

by the Franco-German agreements of Feb. 9, 1909, and Nov. 4, 1911. All

treaties, agreements, arrangements, and contracts concluded by her with

the Sherifian Empire are regarded as abrogated as from Aug. 3, 1914.

In no case can Germany take advantage of these instruments, and she

undertakes not to intervene in any way in negotiations relating to

Morocco which may take place between France and the other powers.

=ARTICLE 142.=--Germany having recognized the French Protectorate in

Morocco, hereby accepts all consequences of its establishment, and she

renounces the régime of the capitulations therein.

This renunciation shall take effect as from Aug. 3, 1914.

=ARTICLE 143.=--The Sherifian Government shall have complete liberty of

action in regulating the status of German nationals in Morocco and the

conditions in which they may establish themselves there.

German-protected persons, semsars, and "associés agricoles" shall be

considered as having ceased, as from Aug. 3, 1914, to enjoy the

privileges attached to their status and shall be subject to the ordinary

law.

=ARTICLE 144.=--All property and possessions in the Sherifian Empire of

the German Empire and the German States pass to the Maghzen without

payment.

For the purposes of this clause, the property and possessions of the

German Empire and States shall be deemed to include all the property of

the crown, the empire, or States, and the private property of the former

German Emperor and other royal personages.

All movable and immovable property in the Sherifian Empire belonging to

German nationals shall be dealt with in accordance with Sections III.

and IV. of Part X. (economic clauses) of the present treaty.

Mining rights which may be recognized as belonging to German nationals

by the Court of Arbitration set up under the Moroccan mining regulations

shall form the subject of a valuation, which the arbitrators shall be

requested to make, and these rights shall then be treated in the same

way as property in Morocco belonging to German nationals.

=ARTICLE 145.=--The German Government shall insure the transfer to a

person nominated by the French Government of the shares representing

Germany's portion of the capital of the State Bank of Morocco. The value

of these shares, as assessed by the Reparation Commission, shall be paid

to the Reparation Commission for the credit of Germany on account of the

sums due for reparation. The German Government shall be responsible for

indemnifying its nationals so dispossessed.

This transfer will take place without prejudice to the repayment of

debts which German nationals may have contracted toward the State Bank

of Morocco.

=ARTICLE 146.=--Moroccan goods entering Germany shall enjoy the

treatment accorded to French goods.

SECTION VI.--_Egypt_

=ARTICLE 147.=--Germany declares that she recognizes the protectorate

proclaimed over Egypt by Great Britain on Dec. 18, 1914, and that she

renounces the régime of the capitulations in Egypt. This renunciation

shall take effect as from Aug. 4, 1914.

=ARTICLE 148.=--All treaties, agreements, arrangements, and contracts

concluded by Germany with Egypt are regarded as abrogated as from Aug.

4, 1914.

In no case can Germany avail herself of these instruments, and she

undertakes not to intervene in any way in negotiations relating to Egypt

which may take place between Great Britain and the other powers.

=ARTICLE 149.=--Until an Egyptian law of judicial organization

establishing courts with universal jurisdiction comes into force,

provision shall be made, by means of decrees issued by his Highness the

Sultan for the exercise of jurisdiction over German nationals and

property by the British consular tribunals.

=ARTICLE 150.=--The Egyptian Government shall have complete liberty of

action in regulating the status of German nationals and the conditions

under which they may establish themselves in Egypt.

=ARTICLE 151.=--Germany consents to the abrogation of the decree issued

by his Highness the Khédive on Nov. 28, 1904, relating to the commission

of the Egyptian public debt, or to such changes as the Egyptian

Government may think it desirable to make therein.

=ARTICLE 152.=--Germany consents, in so far as she is concerned, to the

transfer to his Britannic Majesty's Government of the powers conferred

on his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, by the convention signed at

Constantinople on Oct. 29, 1888, relating to the free navigation of the

Suez Canal.

She renounces all participation in the Sanitary, Maritime, and

Quarantine Board of Egypt, and consents, in so far as she is concerned,

to the transfer to the Egyptian authorities of the powers of that board.

=ARTICLE 153.=--All property and possessions in Egypt of the German

Empire and the German States pass to the Egyptian Government without

payment.

For this purpose the property and possessions of the German Empire and

States shall be deemed to include all the property of the crown, the

empire, or the States, and the private property of the former German

Emperor and other royal personages.

All movable and immovable property in Egypt belonging to German

nationals shall be dealt with in accordance with Sections III. and IV.

of Part X. (economic clauses) of the present treaty.

=ARTICLE 154.=--Egyptian goods entering Germany shall enjoy the

treatment accorded to British goods.

SECTION VII.--_Turkey and Bulgaria_

=ARTICLE 155.=--Germany undertakes to recognize and accept all

arrangements which the Allied and Associated Powers may make with Turkey

and Bulgaria, with reference to any rights, interests, and privileges

whatever which might be claimed by Germany or her nationals in Turkey

and Bulgaria and which are not dealt with in the provisions of the

present treaty.

SECTION VIII.--_Shantung_

=ARTICLE 156.=--Germany renounces in favor of Japan, all her rights,

titles, and privileges--particularly those concerning the territory of

Kiao-Chau, railways, mines, and submarine cables--which she acquired in

virtue of the treaty concluded by her with China on 6th March, 1898, and

of all other arrangements relative to the Province of Shantung.

All German rights in the Tsing-tao-Tsinan-Fu railway, including its

branch lines, together with its subsidiary property of all kinds,

stations, shops, fixed and rolling stock, mines, plant, and material for

the exploitation of the mines are and remain acquired by Japan, together

with all rights and privileges attaching thereto.

The German State submarine cables from Tsing-tao to Shanghai and from

Tsing-tao to Che Foo, with all the rights, privileges, and properties

attaching thereto, are similarly acquired by Japan, free and clear of

all charges and incumbrances.

=ARTICLE 157.=--The movable and immovable property owned by the German

State in the territory of Kiao-Chau, as well as all the rights which

Germany might claim in consequence of the works or improvements made or

of the expenses incurred by her, directly or indirectly, in connection

with this territory, are and remain acquired by Japan, free and clear of

all charges and incumbrances.

=ARTICLE 158.=--Germany shall hand over to Japan within three months

from the coming into force of the present treaty the archives,

registers, plans, title deeds, and documents of every kind, wherever

they may be, relating to the administration, whether civil, military,

financial, judicial or other, of the territory of Kiao-Chau.

Within the same period Germany shall give particulars to Japan of all

treaties, arrangements or agreements relating to the rights, title or

privileges referred to in the two preceding articles.

PART V

Military, Naval, and Aerial Clauses

In order to render possible the initiation of a general limitation of

the armaments of all nations, Germany undertakes strictly to observe the

military, naval, and air clauses which follow:

SECTION I.--_Military Clauses_

CHAPTER I.--EFFECTIVES AND CADRES OF THE GERMAN ARMY

=ARTICLE 159=--The German military forces shall be demobilized and

reduced as prescribed hereinafter.

=ARTICLE 160=--1. By a date which must not be later than March 31, 1920,

the German Army must not comprise more than seven divisions of infantry

and three divisions of cavalry. After that date the total number of

effectives in the army of the States constituting Germany must not

exceed 100,000 men, including officers and establishments of depots. The

army shall be devoted exclusively to the maintenance of order within the

territory and to the control of the frontiers.

The total effective strength of officers, including the personnel of

staffs, whatever their composition, must not exceed 4,000.

2. Divisions and army corps headquarters staffs shall be organized in

accordance with Table No. 1 annexed to this section.

The number and strength of the units of infantry, artillery, engineers,

technical services, and troops laid down in the aforesaid table

constitute maxima which must not be exceeded.

The following units may each have their own depot:

An infantry regiment; a cavalry regiment; a regiment of field artillery;

a battalion of pioneers.

3. The divisions must not be grouped under more than two army corps

headquarters staff.

The maintenance or formation of forces differently grouped or of other

organizations for the command of troops or for preparation for war is

forbidden.

The Great German General Staff and all similar organizations shall be

dissolved and may not be reconstituted in any form.

The officers, or persons in the position of officers, in the Ministries

of War in the different States in Germany and in the administrations

attached to them, must not exceed three hundred in number and are

included in the maximum strength of four thousand laid down in the third

sub-paragraph of the first paragraph of this article.

=ARTICLE 161.=--Army administrative services consisting of civilian

personnel not included in the number of effectives prescribed by the

present treaty will have such personnel reduced in each class to

one-tenth of that laid down in the budget of 1913.

=ARTICLE 162.=--The number of employes or officials of the German

States, such as customs officers, forest guards, and coast guards shall

not exceed that of the employes or officials functioning in these

capacities in 1913.

The number of gendarmes and employes or officials of the local or

municipal police may only be increased to an extent corresponding to the

increase of population since 1913 in the districts or municipalities in

which they are employed.

These employes and officials may not be assembled for military training.

=ARTICLE 163.=--The reduction of the strength of the German military

forces as provided for in Article 160 may be effected gradually in the

following manner:

Within three months from the coming into force of the present treaty the

total number of effectives must be reduced to 200,000 and the number of

units must not exceed twice the number of those laid down in Article

160.

At the expiration of this period, and at the end of each subsequent

period of three months, a conference of military experts of the

principal Allied and Associated Powers will fix the reductions to be

made in the ensuing three months, so that by the 31st of March, 1920, at

the latest, the total number of German effectives does not exceed the

maximum number of 100,000 men laid down in Article 160. In these

successive reductions the same ratio between the number of officers and

of men, and between the various kinds of units shall be maintained as is

laid down in that article.

CHAPTER II.--ARMAMENT, MUNITIONS, AND MATERIAL

=ARTICLE 164.=--Up till the time at which Germany is admitted as a

member of the League of Nations the German Army must not possess an

armament greater than the amounts fixed in Table No. 2, annexed to this

section, with the exception of an optional increase not exceeding

one-twenty-fifth part for small arms and one-fiftieth part for guns,

which shall be exclusively used to provide for such eventual

replacements as may be necessary.

Germany agrees that after she has become a member of the League of

Nations the armaments fixed in the said table shall remain in force

until they are modified by the Council of the League. Furthermore she

hereby agrees strictly to observe the decisions of the Council of the

League on this subject.

=ARTICLE 165.=--The maximum number of guns, machine guns, trench

mortars, rifles, and the amount of ammunition and equipment which

Germany is allowed to maintain during the period between the coming into

force of the present treaty and the date of March 31, 1920, referred to

in Article 160, shall bear the same proportion to the amount authorized

in Table No. 3 annexed to this section as the strength of the German

Army as reduced from time to time in accordance with Article 163 bears

to the strength permitted under Article 160.

=ARTICLE 166.=--At the date of March 31, 1920, the stock of munitions

which the German Army may have at its disposal shall not exceed the

amounts fixed in Table No. 3 annexed to this section.

Within the same period the German Government will store these stocks at

points to be notified to the Governments of the principal Allied and

Associated Powers. The German Government is forbidden to establish any

other stocks, depots, or reserves of munitions.

=ARTICLE 167.=--The number and calibre of the guns constituting at the

date of the coming into force of the present treaty the armament of the

fortified works, fortresses, and any land or coast forts which Germany

is allowed to retain, must be notified immediately by the German

Government to the Governments of the principal Allied and Associated

Powers, and will constitute maximum amounts which may not be exceeded.

Within two months from the coming into force of the present treaty the

maximum stock of ammunition for these guns will be reduced to, and

maintained at, the following uniform rates: Fifteen hundred rounds per

piece for those the calibre of which is 10.5 cm. and under; 500 rounds

per piece for those of higher calibre.

=ARTICLE 168.=--The manufacture of arms, munitions, or any war material

shall only be carried out in factories or works the locations of which

shall be communicated to and approved by the Governments of the

principal Allied and Associated Powers, and the number of which they

retain the right to restrict.

Within three months from the coming into force of the present treaty all

other establishments for the manufacture, preparation, storage, or

design of arms, munitions, or any war material whatever shall be closed

down. The same applies to all arsenals except those used as depots for

the authorized stocks of munitions. Within the same period the personnel

of these arsenals will be dismissed.

=ARTICLE 169.=--Within two months from the coming into force of the

present treaty, German arms, munitions, and war materials, including

anti-aircraft material, existing in Germany in excess of the quantities

allowed must be surrendered to the Governments of the principal Allied

and Associated Powers, to be destroyed or rendered useless. This will

also apply to any special plant intended for the manufacture of military

material, except such as may be recognized as necessary for equipping

the authorized strength of the German Army.

The surrender in question will be effected at such points in German

territory as may be selected by the said Governments.

Within the same period, arms, munitions, and war material, including

anti-aircraft material, of origin other than German, in whatever state

they may be, will be delivered to the said Governments, who will decide

as to their disposal.

Arms and munitions which on account of the successive reductions in the

strength of the German Army become in excess of the amounts authorized

by Tables 2 and 3 of the annex must be handed over in the manner laid

down above within such periods as may be decided by the conferences

referred to in Article 163.

=ARTICLE 170.=--Importation into Germany of arms, munitions, and war

material of every kind shall be strictly prohibited.

The same applies to the manufacture for and export to foreign countries

of arms, munitions, and war material of every kind.

=ARTICLE 171.=--The use of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases and

all analogous liquids, materials or devices being prohibited, their

manufacture and importation are strictly forbidden in Germany.

The same applies to materials specially intended for the manufacture,

storage, and use of the said products or devices.

The manufacture and the importation into Germany of armored cars, tanks,

and all similar constructions suitable for use in war are also

prohibited.

=ARTICLE 172.=--Within a period of three months from the coming into

force of the present treaty the German Government will disclose to the

Governments of the principal Allied and Associated Powers the nature and

mode of manufacture of all explosives, toxic substances or other like

chemical preparations used by them in the war or prepared by them for

the purpose of being so used.

CHAPTER III.--RECRUITING AND MILITARY TRAINING

=ARTICLE 173.=--Universal compulsory military service shall be abolished

in Germany.

The German Army may only be constituted and recruited by means of

voluntary enlistment.

=ARTICLE 174.=--The period of enlistment for non-commissioned officers

and privates must be twelve consecutive years.

The number of men discharged for any reason before the expiration of

their term of enlistment must not exceed in any year 5 per cent. of the

total effectives as fixed by the second sub-paragraph of Paragraph 1 of

Article 160 of the present treaty.

=ARTICLE 175.=--The officers who are retained in the army must undertake

the obligation to serve in it up to the age of forty-five years, at

least.

Officers newly appointed must undertake to serve on the active list for

twenty-five consecutive years, at least.

Officers who have previously belonged to any formation whatever of the

army and who are not retained in the units allowed to be maintained must

not take part in any military exercise, whether theoretical or

practical, and will not be under any military obligations whatever.

The number of officers discharged for any reason before the expiration

of their term of service must not exceed in any year 5 per cent. of the

total effectives of officers provided for in the third sub-paragraph of

Paragraph 1 of Article 100 of the present treaty.

=ARTICLE 176.=--On the expiration of two months from the coming into

force of the present treaty there must only exist in Germany the number

of military schools which is absolutely indispensable for the

recruitment of the officers of the units allowed. These schools will be

exclusively intended for the recruitment of officers of each arm, in the

proportion of one school per arm.

The number of students admitted to attend the courses of the said

schools will be strictly in proportion to the vacancies to be filled in

the cadres of officers. The students and the cadres will be reckoned in

the effectives fixed by the second and third sub-paragraphs of Paragraph

1 of Article 160 of the present treaty.

Consequently, and during the period fixed above, all military academies

or similar institutions in Germany, as well as the different military

schools for officers, student officers (aspiranten), cadets

non-commissioned officers, or student non-commissioned officers

(aspiranten), other than the schools above provided for, will be

abolished.

=ARTICLE 177.=--Educational establishments, the universities, societies

of discharged soldiers, shooting or touring clubs, and, generally

speaking, associations of every description, whatever be the age of

their members, must not occupy themselves with any military matters. In

particular they will be forbidden to instruct or exercise their members,

or to allow them to be instructed or exercised, in the profession or use

of arms.

These societies, associations, educational establishments, and

universities must have no connection with the Ministries of War or any

other military authority.

=ARTICLE 178.=--All measures of mobilization or appertaining to

mobilization are forbidden.

In no case must formations, administrative services, or general staffs

include supplementary cadres.

=ARTICLE 179.=--Germany agrees, from the coming into force of the

present treaty, not to accredit nor to send to any foreign country any

military, naval, or air mission, nor to allow any such missions to leave

her territory, and Germany further agrees to take appropriate measures

to prevent German nationals from leaving her territory to become

enrolled in the army, navy, or air service of any foreign power, or to

be attached to such army, navy, or air service for the purpose of

assisting in the military, naval, or air training thereof, or otherwise

for the purpose of giving military, naval, or air instruction in any

foreign country.

The Allied and Associated Powers agree, so far as they are concerned,

from the coming into force of the present treaty, not to enroll in nor

to attach to their armies or naval or air forces any German national for

the purpose of assisting in the military training of such armies or

naval or air forces, or otherwise to employ any such German national as

military, naval, or aeronautic instructor.

The present provision, however, does not affect the right of France to

recruit for the Foreign Legion in accordance with French military laws

and regulations.

CHAPTER IV.--FORTIFICATIONS

=ARTICLE 180.=--All fortified works, fortresses, and field works

situated in German territory to the west of a line drawn fifty

kilometers to the east of the Rhine shall be disarmed and dismantled.

Within a period of two months from the coming into force of the present

treaty such of the above fortified works, fortresses, and field works as

are situated in territory not occupied by Allied and Associated troops

shall be disarmed and within a further period of four months they shall

be dismantled. Those which are situated in territory occupied by Allied

and Associated troops shall be disarmed and dismantled within such

periods as may be fixed by the Allied High Command.

The construction of any new fortification, whatever its nature and

importance, is forbidden in the zone referred to in the first paragraph

above.

The system of fortified works of the southern and eastern frontiers of

Germany shall be maintained in its existing state.

=TABLE NO. 1.=

=State and Establishment of Army Corps Headquarters Staffs and of

Infantry and Cavalry Divisions.=

These tabular statements do not form a fixed establishment to be imposed

on Germany, but the figures contained in them (number of units and

strengths) represent maximum figures, which should not in any case be

exceeded.

+----------------------+----------+----------------------------+

|Unit | Maximum| Max. Strength of Each Unit |

| | No.| |

| +----------+----------------------------+

| | Division.| | Men.|

+----------------------+----------+---------------+------------+

|Army corps hdq. staffs| 2| 30| 150|

|Total for hdq. staffs | ..| 60| 300|

+----------------------+----------+---------------+------------+

2. ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INFANTRY DIVISION.

+--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+

| |Maximum No.| |

| | of Such | |

| |Units in a | Max. Strength of Each Unit |

| | Single +-----------+-----------------+

+--------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------+

|Hdqrs. of inf. div. | 1| 25| 70|

| | | | |

|Hdqrs. of divisional inf. | 1| 4| 30|

| | | | |

|Hdqrs. of divisional art. | 1| 4| 30|

| | | | |

|Regiment of inf. | 3| 70| 2,300|

| | | | |

| | | | |

|Trench mortar company | 3| 6| 150|

| | | | |

|Divisional squadron | 1| 6| 150|

| | | | |

|Field artillery regiment | 1| 85| 1,300|

| | | | |

| | | | |

|Pioneer battalion | 1| 12| 400|

| | | | |

| | | | |

|Signal detachment\ | 1| 12| 300|

| | | | |

| | | | |

|Divisional Med. Service | 1| 20| 400|

| | | | |

|Parks and convoys | ..| 14| 800|

| | | | |

|Total for infantry div. | ..| 410| 10,830|

+--------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------------+

3. ESTABLISHMENT OF A CAVALRY DIVISION.

+------------------------------------+----------+--------+---------+

| | Maximum Strength |

| | of Each Unit |

| +----------+------------------+

| | | | |

|Headquarters of a cavalry division | 1| 15| 50|

| | | | |

|Cavalry regiment | 6| 40| 800|

| | | | |

| | | | |

|Horse artillery group (three | 1| 20| 400|

| | | | |

|Total for cavalry division | ..| 275| 5,250|

+------------------------------------+----------+---------+--------+

[31] Maximum number of such units in single division.

=TABLE NO. 2.=

=Tabular statement of armament establishment for a maximum of seven

infantry divisions, three cavalry divisions, and two army corps

headquarters staffs.=

+--------------------------+-------+-------+-------+------+-------+

|Materials. | Inft.| For 7| Cav.| For 3| Total|

| | Div.| Inft.| Div.| Cav.|Columns|

+--------------------------+-------+-------+-------+------+-------+

|Rifles | 12,000| 84,000| ...| ...| 84,000|

| | | | | | |

|Carbines | ...| ...| 6,000|18,000| 18,000|

| | | | | | |

|Heavy machine guns | 108| 756| 12| 36| 792|

| | | | | | |

|Light machine guns | 162| 1,134| ...| ...| 1,134|

| | | | | | |

|Medium trench mortars | 9| 63| ...| ...| 63|

| | | | | | |

|Light trench mortars | 27| 189| ...| ...| 189|

| | | | | | |

|7.7 cm. guns | 24| 168| 12| 36| 204|

| | | | | | |

|10.5 cm. howitzers | 12| 84| ...| ...| 84|

+--------------------------+-------+-------+-------+------+-------+

Army corps headquarters staff establishment

must be drawn from the increased armaments of

the divisional infantry.

=TABLE NO. 3.=

=Maximum Stocks Authorized.=

+----------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+

+----------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+

|Rifles | 84,000 } | 40 | 40,800,000|

| | | | |

|Carbines | 18,000 } | | |

| | | | |

|Heavy machine guns | 792 } | 8,000 | 15,408,000|

| | | | |

|Light machine guns | 1,134 } | | |

| | | | |

|Medium trench mortars | 63 | 40 | 25,200|

| | | | |

|Light trench mort's | 189 | 800 | 151,200|

| | | | |

| | | | |

|7.7 cm. guns | 204 | 1,000 | 204,000|

| | | | |

|10.5 cm. howitzers | 84 | 800 | 67,200|

+----------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+

SECTION II.--_Naval Clauses_

=ARTICLE 181.=--After the expiration of a period of two months from the

coming into force of the present treaty the German naval forces in

commission must not exceed: Six battleships of the Deutschland or

Lothringen type, six light cruisers, twelve destroyers, twelve torpedo

boats, or an equal number of ships constructed to replace them as

provided in Article 190.

No submarines are to be included. All other warships except where there

is provision to the contrary in the present treaty must be placed in

reserve or devoted to commercial purposes.

=ARTICLE 182.=--Until the completion of the minesweeping prescribed by

Article 193, Germany will keep in commission such number of minesweeping

vessels as may be fixed by the Governments of the principal Allied and

Associated Powers.

=ARTICLE 183.=--After the expiration of a period of two months from the

coming into force of the present treaty the total personnel of the

German Navy, including the manning of the fleet, coast defenses, signal

stations, administration, and other land services, must not exceed

15,000, including officers and men of all grades and corps. The total

strength of officers and warrant officers must not exceed 1,500. Within

two months from the coming into force of the present treaty the

personnel in excess of the above strength shall be demobilized. No naval

or military corps or reserve force in connection with the navy may be

organized in Germany without being included in the above strength.

=ARTICLE 184.=--From the date of the coming into force of the present

treaty all the German surface warships which are not in German ports

cease to belong to Germany, who renounces all rights over them. Vessels

which, in compliance with the armistice of Nov. 11, 1918, are now

interned in the ports of the Allied and Associated Powers, are declared

to be finally surrendered. Vessels which are now interned in neutral

ports will be there surrendered to the Governments of the principal

Allied and Associated Powers. The German Government must address a

notification to that effect to the neutral powers on the coming into

force of the present treaty.

=ARTICLE 185.=--Within a period of two months from the coming into force

of the present treaty the German surface warships enumerated below will

be surrendered to the Governments of the principal Allied and Associated

Powers in such allied ports as the said powers may direct. These

warships will have been disarmed as provided in Article 23 of the

armistice, dated Nov. 11, 1918. Nevertheless, they must have all their

guns on board.

Battleships--Oldenburg, Thuringen, Ostfriesland, Heligoland, Posen,

Westfalen, Rheinland, and Nassau.

Light Cruisers--Stettin, Danzig, München, Lübeck, Stralsund, Augsburg,

Kolberg, and Stuttgart.

And in addition forty-two modern destroyers and fifty modern torpedo

boats, as chosen by the Governments of the principal Allied and

Associated Powers.

=ARTICLE 186.=--On the coming into force of the present treaty the

German Government must undertake, under the supervision of the

Governments of the principal Allied and Associated Powers, the breaking

up of all the German surface warships now under construction.

=ARTICLE 187.=--The German auxiliary cruisers and fleet auxiliaries

enumerated below will be disarmed and treated as merchant ships.

Ships interned in neutral countries: Berlin, Santa Fé, Seydlitz, Yorck.

Ships interned in Germany: Ammon, Fürst Bülow, Answald, Gertrud, Bosnia,

Kigoma, Cordoba, Rugia, Cassel, Santa Elena, Dania, Schleswig, Rio

Negro, Möwe, Rio Pardo, Sierra Ventana, Santa Cruz, Chemnitz, Schwaben,

Emil Georg von Strauss, Solingen, Habsburg, Steigerwald, Meteor,

Franken, Waltraute, Gundomar, Scharnhorst.

=ARTICLE 188.=--On the expiration of one month from the coming into

force of the present treaty all German submarines, salvage vessels, and

docks for submarines, including the tubular dock, must have been handed

over to the Governments of the principal Allied and Associated Powers.

Such of these submarines, vessels, and docks as are considered by said

Governments to be fit to proceed under their own power or to be towed

shall be taken by the German Government into such allied ports as have

been indicated. The remainder, and also those in course of construction,

shall be broken up entirely by the German Government under the

supervision of the said Governments. The breaking up must be completed

within three months at the most after the coming into force of the

present treaty.

=ARTICLE 189.=--Articles, machinery, and material arising from the

breaking up of German 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 190.=--Germany is forbidden to construct or acquire any

warships other than those intended to replace the units in commission

provided for in Article 181 of the present treaty. The warships intended

for replacement purposes as above shall not exceed the following

displacement: Armored ships, 10,000 tons; light cruisers, 6,000 tons;

destroyers, 800 tons; torpedo boats, 200 tons. Except where a ship has

been lost, units of the different classes shall only be replaced at the

end of a period of twenty years in the case of battleships and cruisers,

and fifteen years in the case of destroyers and torpedo boats, counting

from the launching of the ship.

=ARTICLE 191.=--The construction or acquisition of any submarine, even

for commercial purposes, shall be forbidden in Germany.

=ARTICLE 192.=--The warships in commission of the German fleet must only

have on board or in reserve the allowance of arms, munitions, and war

material fixed by the principal Allied and Associated Powers. Within a

month from the fixing of the quantities as above, arms, munitions and

war material of all kinds, including mines and torpedoes now in the

hands of the German Government and in excess of the said quantities,

shall be surrendered to the Governments of the said powers at places to

be indicated by them. Such arms, munitions and war material will be

destroyed or rendered useless. All other stocks, depots or reserves of

arms, munitions or naval war material of all kinds are forbidden. The

manufacture of these articles in German territory for, and their export

to, foreign countries shall be forbidden.

=ARTICLE 193.=--On the coming into force of the present treaty Germany

will forthwith sweep up the mines in the following areas in the North

Sea to the eastward of longitude 4 degrees 00 minutes east of Greenwich:

(1) Between parallels of latitude 53 degrees 00 minutes N. and 59

degrees 00 minutes N.; (2) to the northward of latitude 60 degrees 30

minutes N. Germany must keep these areas free from mines. Germany must

also sweep and keep free from mines such areas in the Baltic as may

ultimately be notified by the Governments of the principal Allied and

Associated Powers.

=ARTICLE 194.=--The personnel of the German Navy shall be recruited

entirely by voluntary engagements entered into for a minimum period of

twenty-five consecutive years for officers and warrant officers, and

twelve consecutive years for petty officers, and men. The number engaged

to replace those discharged for any reason before the expiration of

their term of service must not exceed 5 per cent. per annum of the

totals laid down in this section. (Article 183.)

The personnel discharged from the navy must not receive any kind of

naval or military training or undertake any further service in the navy

or army. Officers belonging to the German Navy and not demobilized must

engage to serve till the age of 45 unless discharged for sufficient

reasons. No officer or man of the German mercantile marine shall receive

any training in the navy.

=ARTICLE 195.=--In order to insure free passage into the Baltic to all

nations, Germany shall not erect any fortifications in the area

comprised between latitudes 55.27 north and 54.00 north and longitudes

9.00 east and 16.00 east of the meridian of Greenwich, nor install any

guns commanding the maritime routes between the North Sea and the

Baltic. The fortifications now existing in this area shall be demolished

and the guns removed under the supervision of the Allied Governments and

in periods to be fixed by them. The German Government shall place at the

disposal of the Governments of the principal Allied and Associated

Powers all hydrographical information now in its possession concerning

the channels and adjoining waters between the Baltic and the North Sea.

[Illustration: Copyright Underwood & Underwood

=Berlin Demonstrations Against The Peace Treaty=]

=ARTICLE 196.=--All fortified works and fortifications other than those

mentioned in Article 195 and in Part III. (political clauses for

Europe), Section XIII. (Heligoland), now established within fifty

kilometers of the German coast or on German islands off that coast,

shall be considered of a defensive nature and may remain in their

existing condition. No new fortifications shall be constructed within

these limits. The armament of these defenses shall not exceed, as

regards the number and calibre of guns, those in position at the date of

the coming into force of the present treaty. The German Government shall

communicate forthwith particulars thereof to all the European

Governments. On the expiration of a period of two months from the coming

into force of the present treaty the stocks of ammunition for these guns

shall be reduced to and maintained at a maximum figure of fifteen

hundred rounds per piece for calibres of 4.1-inch and under, and five

hundred rounds per piece for higher calibres.

=ARTICLE 197.=--During the three months following the coming into force

of the present treaty the German high-power wireless telegraphy stations

at Nauen, Hanover, and Berlin shall not be used for the transmission of

messages concerning naval, military, or political questions of interest

to Germany or any State which has been allied to Germany in the war,

without the assent of the Governments of the principal Allied and

Associated Powers. These stations may be used for commercial purposes,

but only under the supervision of the said Governments, who will decide

the wave length to be used. During the same period Germany shall not

build any more high-power wireless telegraphy stations in her own

territory or that of Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, or Turkey.

SECTION III.--_Air Clauses_

=ARTICLE 198.=--The armed forces of Germany must not include any

military or naval air forces. Germany may, during a period not extending

beyond Oct. 1, 1919, maintain a maximum number of 100 seaplanes or

flying boats, which shall be exclusively employed in searching for

submarine mines, shall be furnished with the necessary equipment for

this purpose, and shall in no case carry arms, munitions, or bombs of

any nature whatever. In addition to the engines installed in the

seaplanes or flying boats above mentioned, one spare engine may be

provided for each engine of each of these craft. No dirigible shall be

kept.

=ARTICLE 199.=--Within two months from the coming into force of the

present treaty the personnel of the air forces on the rolls of the

German land and sea forces shall be demobilized. Up to the 1st October,

1919, however, Germany may keep and maintain a total number of 1,000

men, including officers, for the whole of the cadres and personnel,

flying and nonflying, of all formations and establishments.

=ARTICLE 200.=--Until the complete evacuation of German territory by the

Allied and Associated troops, the aircraft of the Allied and Associated

Powers shall enjoy in Germany freedom of passage through the air,

freedom of transit and of landing.

=ARTICLE 201.=--During the six months following the coming into force of

the present treaty the manufacture and importation of aircraft, parts of

aircraft, engines for aircraft, and parts of engines for aircraft shall

be forbidden in all German territory.

=ARTICLE 202.=--On the coming into force of the present treaty all

military and naval aeronautical material, except the machines mentioned

in the second and third paragraphs of Article 198, must be delivered to

the Governments of the principal Allied and Associated Powers. Delivery

must be effected at such places as the said Governments may select, and

must be completed within three months. In particular, this material will

include all items under the following heads, which are or have been in

use or were designed for warlike purposes:

Complete airplanes and seaplanes, as well as those being manufactured,

repaired, or assembled.

Dirigibles able to take the air being manufactured, repaired, or

assembled.

Plant for the manufacture of hydrogen.

Dirigible sheds and shelters of every kind for aircraft.

Pending their delivery, dirigibles will, at the expense of Germany, be

maintained inflated with hydrogen; the plant for the manufacture of

hydrogen, as well as the sheds for dirigibles, may, at the discretion of

said powers, be left to Germany until the time when the dirigibles are

handed over.

Engines for aircraft.

Nacelles and fuselages.

Armament (guns, machine guns, light machine guns, bomb-dropping

apparatus, torpedo-dropping apparatus, synchronization apparatus, aiming

apparatus).

Munitions (cartridges, shells, bombs, loaded or unloaded, stocks of

explosives or of material for their manufacture).

Instruments for use on aircraft.

Wireless apparatus and photographic or cinematograph apparatus for use

on aircraft.

Component parts of any of the items under the preceding heads.

The material referred to above shall not be removed without special

permission from the said Governments.

SECTION IV.--_Interallied Commissions of Control_

=ARTICLE 203.=--All the military, naval, and air clauses contained in

the present treaty, for the execution of which a time limit is

prescribed, shall be executed by Germany under the control of

interallied commissions specially appointed for this purpose by the

principal Allied and Associated Powers.

=ARTICLE 204.=--The Interallied Commissions of Control will be specially

charged with the duty of seeing to the complete execution of the

delivery, destruction, demolition, and rendering things useless to be

carried out at the expense of the German Government in accordance with

the present treaty. They will communicate to the German authorities the

decisions which the principal Allied and Associated Powers have reserved

the right to take, or which the execution of the military, naval, and

air clauses may necessitate.

=ARTICLE 205.=--The Interallied Commissions of Control may establish

their organizations at the seat of the Central German Government. They

shall be entitled as often as they think desirable to proceed to any

point whatever in German territory, or to send sub-commissions, or to

authorize one or more of their members to go, to any such point.

=ARTICLE 206.=--The German Government must give all necessary facilities

for the accomplishment of their missions to the Interallied Commissions

of Control and to their members. It shall attach a qualified

representative to each Interallied Commission of Control for the purpose

of receiving the communications which the commission may have to address

to the German Government, and of supplying or procuring for the

commission all information or documents which may be required. The

German Government must in all cases furnish at its own cost all labor

and material required to effect the deliveries and the work of

destruction, dismantling, demolition, and of rendering things useless,

provided for in the present treaty.

=ARTICLE 207.=--The upkeep and cost of the Commissions of Control and

the expenses involved by their work shall be borne by Germany.

=ARTICLE 208.=--The Military Interallied Commission of Control will

represent the Governments of the principal Allied and Associated Powers

in dealing with the German Government in all matters concerning the

execution of the military clauses. In particular it will be its duty to

receive from the German Government the notifications relating to the

location of the stocks and depots of munitions, the armament of the

fortified works, fortresses and forts which Germany is allowed to

retain, and the location of the works or factories for the production of

arms, munitions and war material and their operations. It will take

delivery of the arms, munitions, and war material, will select the

points where such delivery is to be effected, and will supervise the

works of destruction and demolition and of rendering things useless

which are to be carried out in accordance with the present treaty. The

German Government must furnish to the Military Interallied Commission of

Control all such information and documents as the latter may deem

necessary to insure the complete execution of the military clauses, and

in particular all legislative and administrative documents and

regulations.

=ARTICLE 209.=--The Naval Interallied Commission of Control will

represent the Governments of the principal Allied and Associated Powers

in dealing with the German Government in all matters concerning the

execution of the naval clauses. In particular it will be its duty to

proceed to the building yards and to supervise the breaking up of the

ships which are under construction there, to take delivery of all

surface ships or submarines, salvage ships, docks and the tubular dock,

and to supervise the destruction and breaking up provided for. The

German Government must furnish to the Naval Interallied Commission of

Control all such information and documents as the commission may deem

necessary to insure the complete execution of the naval clauses, in

particular the designs of the warships, the composition of their

armaments, the details and models of the guns, munitions, torpedoes,

mines, explosives, wireless telegraphic apparatus and in general

everything relating to naval war material, as well as all legislative or

administrative documents or regulations.

=ARTICLE 210.=--The Aeronautical Interallied Commission of Control will

represent the Governments of the principal Allied and Associated Powers

in dealing with the German Government in all matters concerning the

execution of the air clauses. In particular it will be its duty to make

an inventory of the aeronautical material existing in German territory,

to inspect airplane, balloon, and motor manufactories, and factories

producing arms, munitions, and explosives capable of being used by

aircraft, to visit all aerodromes, sheds, landing grounds, parks, and

depots, to authorize, where necessary, a removal of material, and to

take delivery of such material. The German Government must furnish to

the Aeronautical Interallied Commission of Control all such information

and legislative, administrative or other documents which the commission

may consider necessary to insure the complete execution of the air

clauses, and, in particular, a list of the personnel belonging to all

the German air services, and of the existing material as well as of that

in process of manufacture or on order, and a list of all establishments

working for aviation, of their positions, and of all sheds and landing

grounds.

SECTION V.--_General Articles_

=ARTICLE 211.=--After the expiration of a period of three months from

the coming into force of the present treaty the German laws must have

been modified and shall be maintained in conformity with this part of

the present treaty. Within the same period all the administrative or

other measures relating to the execution of this part of the treaty must

have been taken.

=ARTICLE 212.=--The following portions of the armistice of Nov. 11,

1918: Article VI., the first two and the sixth and seventh paragraphs of

Article VII, Article IX, Clauses I., II., and V. of Annex No. 2 and the

protocol, dated April 4, 1919, supplementing the armistice of Nov. 11,

1918, remain in force so far as they are not inconsistent with the above

stipulations.

=ARTICLE 213.=--So long as the present treaty remains in force, Germany

undertakes to give every facility for any investigation which the

Council of the League of Nations, acting if need be by a majority vote,

may consider necessary.

PART VI

Prisoners of War and Graves

SECTION I.--_Prisoners of War_

=ARTICLE 214.=--The repatriation of prisoners of war and interned

civilians shall take place as soon as possible after the coming into

force of the present treaty and shall be carried out with the greatest

rapidity.

=ARTICLE 215.=--The repatriation of German prisoners of war and interned

civilians shall, in accordance with Article 214, be carried out by a

commission composed of representatives of the Allied and Associated

Powers on the one part, and of the German Government on the other part.

For each of the Allied and Associated Powers a sub-commission composed

exclusively of representatives of the interested powers and of delegates

of the German Government shall regulate the details of carrying into

effect the repatriation of the prisoners of war.

=ARTICLE 216.=--From the time of their delivery into the hands of the

German authorities the prisoners of war and interned civilians are to be

returned without delay to their homes by the said authorities. Those

among them who before the war were habitually resident in territory

occupied by the troops of the Allied and Associated Powers are likewise

to be sent to their homes, subject to the consent and control of the

military authorities of the Allied and Associated Armies of Occupation.

=ARTICLE 217.=--The whole cost of repatriation from the moment of

starting shall be borne by the German Government, who shall also provide

the land and sea transport and staff considered necessary by the

commission referred to in Article 215.

=ARTICLE 218.=--Prisoners of war and interned civilians awaiting

disposal or undergoing sentences for offenses against discipline shall

be repatriated irrespective of the completion of their sentence or of

the proceedings pending against them.

This stipulation shall not apply to prisoners of war and interned

civilians punished for offenses committed subsequent to May 1, 1919.

During the period pending their repatriation all prisoners of war and

interned civilians shall remain subject to the existing regulations,

more especially as regards work and discipline.

=ARTICLE 219.=--Prisoners of war and interned civilians who are awaiting

disposal or undergoing sentence for offenses other than those against

discipline may be detained.

=ARTICLE 220.=--The German Government undertakes to admit to its

territory without distinction all persons liable to repatriation.

Prisoners of war or other German nationals who do not desire to be

repatriated may be excluded from repatriation; but the Allied and

Associated Governments reserve to themselves the right either to

repatriate them or to take them to a neutral country or to allow them to

reside in their own territories.

The German Government undertakes not to institute any exceptional

proceedings against these persons or their families nor to take any

repressive or vexatious measures of any kind whatsoever against them on

this account.

=ARTICLE 221.=--The Allied and Associated Governments reserve the right

to make the repatriation of German prisoners of war or German nationals

in their hands conditional upon the immediate notification and release

by the German Government of any prisoners of war who are nationals of

the Allied and Associated Powers and may still be in Germany.

=ARTICLE 222.=--Germany undertakes:

1. To give every facility to the commissions to inquire into the cases

of those who cannot be traced; to furnish such commissions with all

necessary means of transport; to allow them access to camps, prisons,

hospitals, and all other places; and to place at their disposal all

documents, whether public or private, which would facilitate their

inquiries.

2. To impose penalties upon any German officials or private persons who

have concealed the presence of any nationals of any of the Allied and

Associated Powers, or have neglected to reveal the presence of any such

after it had come to their knowledge.

=ARTICLE 223.=--Germany undertakes to restore without delay from the

date of the coming into force of the present treaty all articles, money,

securities, and documents which have belonged to nationals of the Allied

and Associated Powers and which have been retained by the German

authorities.

=ARTICLE 224.=--The high contracting parties waive reciprocally all

repayment of sums due for the maintenance of prisoners of war in their

respective territories.

SECTION II.--_Graves_

=ARTICLE 225.=--The Allied and Associated Governments and the German

Government will cause to be respected and maintained the graves of the

soldiers and sailors buried in their respective territories.

They agree to recognize any commission appointed by an Allied or

Associated Government for the purpose of identifying, registering,

caring for, or erecting suitable memorials over the said graves and to

facilitate the discharge of its duties.

Furthermore, they agree to afford, so far as the provisions of their

laws and the requirements of public health allow, every facility for

giving effect to requests that the bodies of their soldiers and sailors

may be transferred to their own countries.

=ARTICLE 226.=--The graves of prisoners of war and interned civilians

who are nationals of the different belligerent States and have died in

captivity shall be properly maintained in accordance with Article 225 of

the present treaty.

The Allied and Associated Governments on the one part, and the German

Government on the other part, reciprocally, undertake also to furnish to

each other:

1. A complete list of those who have died, together with all information

useful for identification.

2. All information as to the number and position of the graves of all

those who have been buried without identification.

PART VII

Penalties

=ARTICLE 227.=--The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign

William II. of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme

offense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties.

A special tribunal will be constituted to try the accused, thereby

assuring him the guarantees essential to the right of defense. It will

be composed of five judges, one appointed by each of the following

powers: The United States of America, Great Britain, France, Italy, and

Japan.

In its decision, the tribunal will be guided by the highest motives of

international policy with a view to vindicating the solemn obligations

of international undertakings and the validity of international

morality. It will be its duty to fix the punishment which it considers

should be imposed.

The Allied and Associated Powers will address a request to the

Government of the Netherlands for the surrender to them of the

ex-Emperor in order that he may be put on trial.

=ARTICLE 228.=--The German Government recognizes the right of the Allied

and Associated Powers to bring before military tribunals persons accused

of having committed acts in violation of the laws and customs of war.

Such persons shall, if found guilty, be sentenced to punishments laid

down by law. This provision will apply, notwithstanding any proceedings

or prosecution before a tribunal in Germany or in the territory of her

allies.

The German Government shall hand over to the Allied and Associated

Powers or to such one of them as shall so request, all persons accused

of having committed an act in violation of the laws and customs of war

who are specified either by name or by the rank, office, or employment

which they held under the German authorities.

=ARTICLE 229.=--Persons guilty of criminal acts against the nationals of

one of the Allied and Associated Powers will be brought before the

military tribunals of that power.

Persons guilty of criminal acts against the nationals of more than one

of the Allied and Associated Powers will be brought before military

tribunals composed of members of the military tribunals of the powers

concerned.

In every case the accused will be entitled to name his own counsel.

=ARTICLE 230.=--The German Government undertakes to furnish all

documents and information of every kind, the production of which may be

considered necessary to insure the full knowledge of the incriminating

acts, the discovery of offenders, and the just appreciation of

responsibility.

PART VIII

Reparation

SECTION I.--_General Provisions_

=ARTICLE 231.=--The Allied and Associated Governments affirm, and

Germany accepts, the responsibility of Germany and her allies for

causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated

Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of

the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.

=ARTICLE 232.=--The Allied and Associated Governments recognize that the

resources of Germany are not adequate, after taking into account

permanent diminutions of such resources which will result from other

provisions of the present treaty, to make complete reparation for all

such loss and damage.

The Allied and Associated Governments, however, require, and Germany

undertakes, that she will make compensation for all damage done to the

civilian population of the Allied and Associated Powers and to their

property during the period of the belligerency of each as an Allied or

Associated Power against Germany by such aggression by land, by sea, and

from the air, and in general all damage as defined in Annex I. hereto.

In accordance with Germany's pledges, already given as to complete

restoration for Belgium, Germany undertakes, in addition to the

compensation for damage elsewhere in this chapter provided for, as a

consequence of the violation of the treaty of 1839, to make

reimbursement of all sums which Belgium has borrowed from the Allies and

Associated Governments up to Nov. 11, 1918, together with interest at

the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on such sums. This amount shall be

determined by the Reparation Commission, and the German Government

undertakes thereupon forthwith to make a special issue of bearer bonds

to an equivalent amount payable in marks gold, on May 1, 1926, or, at

the option of the German Government, on the 1st of May in any year up to

1926. Subject to the foregoing, the form of such bonds shall be

determined by the Reparation Commission. Such bonds shall be handed over

to the Reparation Commission, which has authority to take and

acknowledge receipt thereof on behalf of Belgium.

=ARTICLE 233.=--The amount of the above damage for which compensation is

to be made by Germany shall be determined by an interallied commission,

to be called the Reparation Commission, and constituted in the form and

with the power set forth hereunder and in Annexes II. to VII. inclusive

hereto.

This commission shall consider the claims and give to the German

Government a just opportunity to be heard.

The findings of the commission as to the amount of damage defined as

above shall be concluded and notified to the German Government on or

before the 1st May, 1921, as representing the extent of that

Government's obligations.

The commission shall concurrently draw up a schedule of payments

prescribing the time and manner for securing and discharging the entire

obligation within a period of thirty years from the 1st May, 1921. If,

however, within the period mentioned, Germany fails to discharge her

obligations, any balance remaining unpaid may, within the discretion of

the commission, be postponed for settlement in subsequent years, or may

be handled otherwise in such manner as the Allied and Associated

Governments, acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in this

part of the present treaty, shall determine.

=ARTICLE 234.=--The Reparation Commission shall after the 1st May, 1921,

from time to time, consider the resources and capacity of Germany and,

after giving her representatives a just opportunity to be heard, shall

have discretion to extend the date and to modify the form of payments,

such as are to be provided for in accordance with Article 233; but not

to cancel any part, except with the specific authority of the several

Governments represented upon the commission.

=ARTICLE 235.=--In order to enable the Allied and Associated Powers to

proceed at once to the restoration of their industrial and economic

life, pending the full determination of their claims, Germany shall pay

in such installments and in such manner (whether in gold, commodities,

ships, securities, or otherwise) as the Reparation Commission may fix,

during 1919, 1920, and the first four months of 1921, the equivalent of

20,000,000,000 gold marks.

Out of this sum the expenses of the armies of occupation subsequent to

the armistice of the 11th November, 1918, shall first be met, and such

supplies of food and raw materials as may be judged by the Governments

of the principal Allied and Associated Powers to be essential to enable

Germany to meet her obligations for reparation may also, with the

approval of the said Governments, be paid for out of the above sum. The

balance shall be reckoned toward liquidation of the amounts due for

reparation.

Germany shall further deposit bonds as prescribed in Paragraph 12 (c) of

Annex II. hereto.

=ARTICLE 236.=--Germany further agrees to the direct application of her

economic resources to reparation as specified in Annexes III., IV., V.,

and VI., relating respectively to merchant shipping, to physical

restoration, and to coal and derivatives of coal, and to dyestuffs and

other chemical products; provided always that the value of the property

transferred and any services rendered by her under these annexes,

assessed in the manner herein prescribed, shall be credited to her

toward liquidation of her obligations under the above articles.

=ARTICLE 237.=--The successive installments, including the above sum,

paid over by Germany in satisfaction of the above claims, will be

divided by the Allied and Associated Governments in proportions which

have been determined upon by them in advance on a basis of general

equity and of the rights of each.

For the purposes of this division the value of property transferred and

services rendered under Article 243 and under Annexes III., IV., VI.,

and VII. shall be reckoned in the same manner as cash payments effected

in that year.

=ARTICLE 238.=--In addition to the payments mentioned above, Germany

shall effect, in accordance with the procedure laid down by the

Reparation Commission, restitution in cash of cash taken away, seized,

or sequestrated, and also restitution of animals, objects of every

nature, and securities taken away, seized, or sequestrated, in the cases

in which it proves possible to identify them in territory belonging to

Germany or her allies.

Until this procedure is laid down restitution will continue in

accordance with the provisions of the armistice of 11th November, 1918,

and its renewals and the protocols thereto.

=ARTICLE 239.=--Germany undertakes to make forthwith the restitution

contemplated by Article 238 and to make the payments and deliveries

contemplated by Articles 233, 234, 235, and 236.

=ARTICLE 240.=--Germany recognizes the commission provided for by

Article 233 as the same may be constituted by the Allied and Associated

Governments in accordance with Annex II. and agrees irrevocably to the

possession and exercise by such commission of the power and authority

given to it under the present treaty. The German Government will supply

to the commission all the information which the commission may require

relative to the financial situation and operations and to the property,

productive capacity, and stocks and current production of raw materials

and manufactured articles of Germany and her nationals, and, further,

any information relative to military operations which in the judgment of

the commission may be necessary for the assessment of Germany's

liability for reparation as defined in Annex I.

The German Government will accord to the members of the commission and

its authorized agents the same rights and immunities as are enjoyed in

Germany by duly accredited diplomatic agents of friendly powers. Germany

further agrees to provide for the salaries and expenses of the

commission, and of such staff as it may employ.

=ARTICLE 241.=--Germany undertakes to pass, issue, and maintain in force

any legislation, orders, and decrees that may be necessary to give

complete effect to these provisions.

=ARTICLE 242.=--The provisions of this part of the present treaty do not

apply to the property, rights, and interests referred to in Sections

III. and IV. of Part X. (economic clauses) of the present treaty, nor to

the product of their liquidation, except so far as concerns any final

balance in favor of Germany under Article 243 (a).

=ARTICLE 243.=--The following shall be reckoned as credits to Germany in

respect of her reparation obligations:

(a) Any final balance in favor of Germany under Sections III. and IV. of

Part X. (economic clauses) and Section V. (Alsace-Lorraine) of Part III.

(political clauses for Europe).

(b) Amounts due to Germany in respect of transfers under Part IX.

(financial clauses), Part XII. (ports, waterways, and railways), and

Section IV. (Sarre Basin) of Part III. (political clauses for Europe).

credited to Germany on account of any other transfers under the present

treaty of property, rights, concessions, or other interests.

In no case, however, shall credit be given for property restored in

accordance with Article 238.

=ARTICLE 244.=--The transfer of the German submarine cables which do not

form the subject of particular provisions of the present treaty as

regulated by Annex VII. hereto.

ANNEX I.

Compensation may be claimed from Germany under Article 232 above in

respect of the total damage under the following categories:

1. Damage to injured persons and to surviving dependents by personal

injury to or death of civilians caused by acts of war, including

bombardments or other attacks on land, on sea, or from the air, and all

the direct consequences thereof, and of all operations of war by the two

groups of belligerents wherever arising.

2. Damage caused by Germany or her allies to civilian victims of acts of

cruelty, violence, or maltreatment, (including injuries to life or

health as a consequence of imprisonment, deportation, internment, or

evacuation, of exposure at sea, or of being forced to labor by Germany

or her allies,) wherever arising, and to the surviving dependents of

such victims.

3. Damage caused by Germany or her allies in their own territory or in

occupied or invaded territory to civilian victims of all acts injurious

to health or capacity to work, or to honor, as well as to the surviving

dependents of such victims.

4. Damage caused by any kind of maltreatment of prisoners of war.

5. As damage caused to the peoples of the Allied and Associated Powers,

all pensions and compensations in the nature of pensions to naval and

military victims of war, (including members of the air forces,) whether

mutilated, wounded, sick or invalided, and to the dependents of such

victims, the amount due to the Allied and Associated Governments being

calculated for each of them as being the capitalized costs of such

pensions and compensations at the date of the coming into force of the

present treaty, on the basis of the scales in force in France at such

date.

6. The cost of assistance by the Governments of the Allied and

Associated Powers to prisoners of war and to their families and

dependents.

7. Allowances by the Governments of the Allied and Associated Powers to

the families and dependents of mobilized persons or persons serving with

the forces, the amount due to them for each calendar year in which

hostilities occurred being calculated for each Government on the basis

of the average scale for such payments in force in France during that

year.

8. Damage caused to civilians by being forced by Germany or her allies

to labor without just remuneration.

9. Damage in respect of all property, wherever situated, belonging to

any of the Allied or Associated States or their nationals, with the

exception of naval and military works or materials, which have been

carried off, seized, injured, or destroyed by the acts of Germany or her

allies on land, on sea, or from the air, or damage directly in

consequence of hostilities or of any operations of war.

10. Damage in the form of levies, fines and other similar exactions

imposed by Germany or her allies upon the civilian population.

ANNEX II.

1. The commission referred to in Article 233 shall be called "The

Reparation Commission," and is hereinafter referred to as "the

commission."

2. Delegates to the commission shall be nominated by the United States

of America, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, and the

Serb-Croat-Slovene State. Each of these powers will appoint one delegate

and also one assistant delegate, who will take his place in case of

illness or necessary absence, but at other times will only have the

right to be present at proceedings without taking any part therein. On

no occasion shall the delegates of more than five of the above powers

have the right to take part in the proceedings of the commission and to

record their votes. The delegates of the United States, Great Britain,

France, and Italy shall have this right on all occasions. The delegates

of Belgium shall have this right on all occasions other than those

referred to below. The delegate of Japan shall have this right on

occasions when questions relating to damage at sea and questions arising

under Article 260 of Part IX. (financial clauses) in which Japanese

interests are concerned are under consideration. The delegate of the

Serb-Croat-Slovene State shall have this right when questions relating

to Austria, Hungary, or Bulgaria are under consideration.

Each Government represented on the commission shall have the right to

withdraw therefrom upon twelve months' notice, filed with the commission

and confirmed in the course of the sixth month after the date of the

original notice.

3. Such of the other Allied and Associated Powers as may be interested

shall have the right to appoint a delegate to be present and act as

assessor only while their respective claims and interests are under

examination or discussion, but without the right to vote.

4. In case of the death, resignation or recall of any delegate,

assistant delegate, or assessor, a successor to him shall be nominated

as soon as possible.

5. The commission will have its principal permanent bureau in Paris and

will hold its first meeting in Paris as soon as practicable after the

coming into force of the present treaty, and thereafter will meet in

such place or places and at such time as it may deem convenient and as

may be necessary for the most expeditious discharge of its duties.

6. At its first meeting the commission shall elect from among the

delegates referred to above a Chairman and a Vice Chairman, who shall

hold office for one year and shall be eligible for re-election. If a

vacancy in the Chairmanship or Vice Chairmanship should occur during the

annual period the commission shall proceed to a new election for the

remainder of the said period.

[Illustration: Copyright Underwood & Underwood

German Press Representatives in Versailles

These men who are shown in their work room in the Hotel Des Reservoirs,

Versailles, sent the news of the progress of the Peace Treaty throughout

Germany]

7. The commission is authorized to appoint all necessary officers,

agents, and employees who may be required for the execution of its

functions, and to fix their remuneration; to constitute committees,

whose members need not necessarily be members of the commission, and to

take all executive steps necessary for the purpose of discharging its

duties, and to delegate authority and discretion to officers, agents,

and committees.

8. All proceedings of the commission shall be private unless, on

particular occasions, the commission shall otherwise determine for

special reasons.

9. The commission shall be required, if the German Government so desire,

to hear, within a period which it will fix from time to time, evidence

and arguments on the part of Germany on any question connected with her

capacity to pay.

10. The commission shall consider the claims and give to the German

Government a just opportunity to be heard, but not to take any part

whatever in the decisions of the commission. The commission shall afford

a similar opportunity to the allies of Germany when it shall consider

that their interests are in question.

11. The commission shall not be bound by any particular code or rules of

law or by any particular rule of evidence or of procedure, but shall be

guided by justice, equity, and good faith. Its decisions must follow the

same principles and rules in all cases where they are applicable. It

will establish rules relating to methods of proof of claims. It may act

on any trustworthy modes of computation.

12. The commission shall have all the powers conferred upon it, and

shall exercise all the functions assigned to it by the present treaty.

The commission shall in general have wide latitude as to its control and

handling of the whole reparation problem as dealt with in this part of

the present treaty, and shall have authority to interpret its

provisions. Subject to the provisions of the present treaty, the

commission is constituted by the several Allied and Associated

Governments referred to in Paragraphs 2 and 3 above as the exclusive

agency of the said Governments respectively for receiving, selling,

holding, and distributing the reparation payments to be made by Germany

under this part of the present treaty. The commission must comply with

the following conditions and provisions:

(a) Whatever part of the full amount of the proved claims is not paid in

gold, or in ships, securities, and commodities or otherwise, Germany

shall be required, under such conditions as the commission may

determine, to cover by way of guarantee by an equivalent issue of bonds,

obligations, or otherwise, in order to constitute an acknowledgment of

the said part of the debt;

(b) In periodically estimating Germany's capacity to pay, the commission

shall examine the German system of taxation, first to the end that the

sums for reparation which Germany is required to pay shall become a

charge upon all her revenues prior to that for the service or discharge

of any domestic loan, and, secondly, so as to satisfy itself that, in

general, the German scheme of taxation is fully as heavy proportionately

as that of any of the powers represented on the commission.

economic life of the Allied and Associated countries, the commission

will, as provided in Article 235, take from Germany by way of security

for and acknowledgment of her debt a first installment of gold bearer

bonds free of all taxes or charges of every description established or

to be established by the Government of the German Empire or of the

German States, or by any authority subject to them; these bonds will be

delivered on account and in three portions, the marks gold being payable

in conformity with Article 262 of Part IX. (financial clauses) of the

present treaty, as follows:

First. To be issued forthwith, 20,000,000,000 marks gold bearer bonds,

payable not later than May 1, 1921, without interest. There shall be

specially applied toward the amortization of these bonds the payments

which Germany is pledged to make in conformity with Article 235, after

deduction of the sums used for the reimbursement of expenses of the

armies of occupation and for payment of foodstuffs and raw materials.

Such bonds as have not been redeemed by May 1, 1921, shall then be

exchanged for new bonds of the same type as those provided for below,

(Paragraph 12, c. second.)

Second. To be issued forthwith, further 40,000,000,000 marks gold bearer

bonds, bearing interest at 2½ per cent. per annum between 1921 and 1926,

and thereafter at 5 per cent. per annum, with an additional 1 per cent

for amortization beginning in 1926 on the whole amount of the issue.

Third. To be delivered forthwith a covering undertaking in writing, to

issue when, but not until, the commission is satisfied that Germany can

meet such interest and sinking fund obligations, a further installment

of 40,000,000,000 marks gold 5 per cent. bearer bonds, the time and mode

of payment of principal and interest to be determined by the commission.

The dates for payment of interest, the manner of applying the

amortization fund, and all other questions relating to the issue,

management, and regulation of the bond issue shall be determined by the

commission from time to time.

Further issues by way of acknowledgment and security may be required as

the commission subsequently determines from time to time.

(d) In the event of bonds, obligations, or other evidence of

indebtedness issued by Germany by way of security for or acknowledgment

of her reparation debt being disposed of outright, not by way of pledge,

to persons other than the several Governments in whose favor Germany's

original reparation indebtedness was created, an amount of such

reparation indebtedness shall be deemed to be extinguished

corresponding to the nominal value of the bonds, &c., so disposed of

outright, and the obligation of Germany in respect for such bonds shall

be confined to her liabilities to the holders of the bonds, as expressed

upon their face.

(e) The damage for repairing, reconstructing, and rebuilding property in

the invaded and devastated districts, including reinstallation of

furniture, machinery and other equipment, will be calculated according

to the cost at the dates when the work is done.

(f) Decisions of the commission relating to the total or partial

cancellation of the capital or interest of any verified debt of Germany

must be accompanied by a statement of its reasons.

13. As to voting, the commission will observe the following rules:

When a decision of the commission is taken, the votes of all the

delegates entitled to vote, or in the absence of any of them, of their

assistant delegates, shall be recorded. Abstention from voting is to be

treated as a vote against the proposal under discussion. Assessors have

no vote.

On the following questions unanimity is necessary:

(a) Questions involving the sovereignty of any of the Allied and

Associated Powers, or the cancellation of the whole or any part of the

debt or obligations of Germany.

(b) Questions of determining the amount and conditions of bonds or other

obligations to be issued by the German Government and of fixing the time

and manner for selling, negotiating, or distributing such bonds.

payment of installments falling due between the 1st May, 1921, and the

end of 1926 inclusive.

(d) Any postponement, total or partial, of any installment falling due

after 1926 for a period exceeding three years.

(e) Questions of applying in any particular case a method of measuring

damages different from that which has been previously applied in a

similar case.

(f) Questions of the interpretation of the provisions of this part of

the present treaty.

All other questions shall be decided by the vote of a majority.

In case of any difference of opinion among the delegates, which cannot

be solved by reference to their Governments, upon the question whether a

given case is one which requires a unanimous vote for its decision or

not, such difference shall be referred to the immediate arbitration of

some impartial person to be agreed upon by the Governments, whose award

the Allied and Associated Governments agree to accept.

14. Decisions of the commission, in accordance with the powers conferred

upon it, shall forthwith become binding and may be put into immediate

execution without further proceedings.

15. The commission will issue to each of the interested powers, in such

form as the commission shall fix:

First. A certificate stating that it holds for the account of the said

power bonds of the issues mentioned above, the said certificate, on the

demand of the power concerned, being divisible in a number of parts not

exceeding five;

Second. From time to time certificates stating the goods delivered by

Germany on account of her reparation debt which it holds for the account

of the said power.

The said certificates shall be registered, and, upon notice to the

commission, may be transferred by indorsement.

When bonds are issued for sale or negotiation, and when goods are

delivered by the commission, certificates to an equivalent value must be

withdrawn.

16. Interest shall be debited to Germany as from 1st May, 1921, in

respect of her debt as determined by the commission, after allowing for

sums already covered by cash payments or their equivalent, or by bonds

issued to the commission, or under Article 243. The rate of interest

shall be 5 per cent., unless the commission shall determine at some

future time that circumstances justify a variation of this rate.

The commission, in fixing on 1st May, 1921, the total amount of the debt

of Germany, may take account of interest due on sums arising out of the

reparation of material damage, as from 11th November, 1918, up to 1st

May, 1921.

17. In case of default by Germany in the performance of any obligation

under this part of the present treaty, the commission will forthwith

give notice of such default to each of the interested powers and may

make such recommendations as to the action to be taken in consequence of

such default as it may think necessary.

18. The measures which the Allied and Associated Powers shall have the

right to take, in case of voluntary default by Germany, and which

Germany agrees not to regard as acts of war, may include economic and

financial prohibitions and reprisals and in general such other measures

as the respective Governments may determine to be necessary in the

circumstances.

19. Payments required to be made in gold or its equivalent on account of

the proved claims of the Allied and Associated Powers may at any time be

accepted by the commission in the form of chattels, properties,

commodities, businesses, rights, concessions, within or without German

territory, ships, bonds, shares, or securities of any kind, or

currencies of Germany or other States, the value of such substitutes for

gold being fixed at a fair and just amount by the commission itself.

20. The commission, in fixing or accepting payment in specified

properties or rights, shall have due regard for any legal or equitable

interests of the Allied and Associated Powers or of neutral powers or of

their nationals therein.

21. No member of the commission shall be responsible, except to the

Government appointing him, for any action or omission as such member. No

one of the Allied or Associated Governments assumes any responsibility

in respect of any other Government.

22. Subject to the provisions of the present treaty this annex may be

amended by the unanimous decision of the Governments represented from

time to time upon the commission.

23. When all the amounts due from Germany and her allies under the

present treaty or the decisions of the commission have been discharged

and all sums received, or their equivalents, shall have been distributed

to the powers interested, the commission shall be dissolved.

ANNEX III.

1. Germany recognizes the right of the Allied and Associated Powers to

the replacement, ton for ton (gross tonnage) and class for class, of all

merchant ships and fishing boats lost or damaged owing to the war.

Nevertheless, and in spite of the fact that the tonnage of German

shipping at present in existence is much less than that lost by the

Allied and Associated Powers, in consequence of the German aggression,

the right thus recognized will be enforced on German ships and boats

under the following conditions:

The German Government on behalf of themselves and so as to bind all

other persons interested, cede to the Allied and Associated Governments

the property in all the German merchant ships which are of 1,600 tons

gross and upward; in one-half, reckoned in tonnage, of the ships which

are between 1,000 tons and 1,600 tons gross; in one-quarter, reckoned in

tonnage, of the steam trawlers, and in one-quarter, reckoned in tonnage,

of the other fishing boats.

2. The German Government will, within two months of the coming into

force of the present treaty, deliver to the Reparation Commission all

the ships and boats mentioned in Paragraph 1.

3. The ships and boats mentioned in Paragraph 1 include all ships and

boats which (a) fly, or may be entitled to fly, the German merchant

flag; or (b) are owned by any German national, company, or corporation

or by any company or corporation belonging to a country other than an

Allied or Associated country and under the control or direction of

German nationals; or (c) which are now under construction (1) in

Germany, (2) in other than Allied or Associated countries for the

account of any German national, company, or corporation.

4. For the purpose of providing documents of title for the ships and

boats to be handed over as above mentioned, the German Government will:

(a) Deliver to the Reparation Commission in respect of each vessel a

bill of sale or other document of title evidencing the transfer to the

commission of the entire property in the vessel free from all

incumbrances, charges, and liens of all kinds, as the commission may

require:

(b) Take all measures that may be indicated by the Reparation Commission

for insuring that the ships themselves shall be placed at its disposal.

5. As an additional part of reparation, Germany agrees to cause merchant

ships to be built in German yards for the account of the Allied and

Associated Governments as follows:

(a) Within three months of the coming into force of the present treaty,

the Reparation Commission will notify to the German Government the

amount of tonnage to be laid down in German shipyards in each of the two

years next succeeding the three months mentioned above:

(b) Within twenty-four months of the coming into force of the present

treaty, the Reparation Commission will notify to the German Government

the amount of tonnage to be laid down in each of the three years

following the two years mentioned above;

200,000 tons, gross tonnage;

(d) The specifications of the ships to be built, the conditions under

which they are to be built and delivered, the price per ton at which

they are to be accounted for by the Reparation Commission, and all other

questions relating to the accounting, ordering, building and delivery of

the ships, shall be determined by the commission.

6. Germany undertakes to restore in kind and in normal condition of

upkeep to the Allied and Associated Powers, within two months of the

coming into force of the present treaty, in accordance with procedure to

be laid down by the Reparation Commission, any boats and other movable

appliances belonging to inland navigation which since the 1st August,

1914, have by any means whatever come into her possession or into the

possession of her nationals, and which can be identified.

With a view to make good the loss in inland navigation tonnage, from

whatever cause arising, which has been incurred during the war by the

Allied and Associated Powers, and which cannot be made good by means of

the restitution prescribed above, Germany agrees to cede to the

Reparation Commission a portion of the German river fleet up to the

amount of the loss mentioned above, provided that such cession shall not

exceed 20 per cent. of the river fleet as it existed on the 11th

November, 1918.

The condition of this session shall be settled by the arbitrators

referred to in Article 339 of Part XII. (ports, waterways and railways)

of the present treaty, who are charged with the settlement of

difficulties relating to the apportionment of river tonnage resulting

from the new international régime applicable to certain river systems or

from the territorial changes affecting those systems.

7. Germany agrees to take any measures that may be indicated to her by

the Reparation Commission for obtaining the full title to the property

in all ships which have been during the war transferred, or are in

process of transfer, to neutral flags, without the consent of the Allied

and Associated Governments.

8. Germany waives all claims of any description against the Allied and

Associated Governments and their nationals in respect of the detention,

employment, loss or damage of any German ships or boats, except when

being made of payments due in respect of the employment of ships in

conformity with the armistice agreement of the 13th January, 1919, and

subsequent agreements.

The handing over of the ships of the German mercantile marine must be

continued without interruption in accordance with the said agreement.

9. Germany waives all claims to vessels or cargoes sunk by or in

consequence of naval action and subsequently salved, in which any of the

Allied or Associated Governments or their nationals may have any

interest, either as owners, charterers, insurers or otherwise,

notwithstanding any decree of condemnation which may have been made by a

prize court of Germany or of her allies.

ANNEX IV.

1. The Allied and Associated Powers require, and Germany undertakes,

that, in part satisfaction of her obligations expressed in this part of

the present treaty, she will, as hereinafter provided, devote her

economic resources directly to the physical restoration of the invaded

areas of the Allied and Associated Powers, to the extent that these

powers may determine.

2. The Allied and Associated Governments may file with the Reparation

Commission lists showing:

(a) Animals, machinery, equipment, tools, and like articles of

commercial character, which have been seized, consumed, or destroyed by

Germany or destroyed in direct consequence of military operations, and

which such Governments, for the purpose of meeting immediate and urgent

needs, desire to have replaced by animals and articles of the same

nature which are being in German territory at the date of the coming

into force of the present treaty;

Within the same period the workmen's and soldiers' councils which have