The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-11-14
THE END OF THE WAR
Germans Put 20 Niles Back From Border.-.Big Part
Of Flsst Must Be Given Up
ARmlsTiCE EXTENDS 80 DAYS, WlLSbN TELLS JOIN
SESSION Of C0n6REss, AND ALsACE. LORRAINE
GOES 10 FRANCE

i Rhine lands shalt be so ordered as t
be completed within further perio
tof eleven days, in all nineteen day
after the signature of the armistice
All movements OF evacuation and or
ganization will be regulated accord
inp to the note annexed.
| E. In all territory evacuated by tn
enemy there shall be no evacuation
of inhabitants; no damage or harm
shall be done to the persons or prop
erty Of the inhabitants. No destruc
tion of any kind to be committed
Military establishments Of all kind
shall be delivered intact as we'll a.
military stores of food, munitions
equipment not removed during til,
period fixed for evacuation. Store!
of food OF all kinds for the civil pop
u1atien, cattle, etc., shall be left II
stu.
Industrial establishments shall moi
be impaired in any way and their per.
sonnel shall not be moved. Road anC
means of communication of every
kind. railroad, waterways. main
roads, bridges, telegraphs, telephones
shall be in no manner impaired.
=. All civil and military personnel
! at present employed On them shall
remain. Five thousand locomotives,
fifty thousand wagons and ten thou-
sand motor lorries in good working
order with all necessary spare parts
and fittings shall be delivered to the
associated powers within the period
fixed for the evacuation of Belgium
and Luxembourg. F
The railways of Alsace- Lorraine
shalt be handed over within the same
period, together with all pre-war per-
sonnel and material. Further mater
Eiaa necessary for tho workings Of
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situ.S All Stores of coal and material
for the upkeep Of permanent ways,
signals and repair shops left entire in
situ and kept in an efficient state BY
Germany during the whole period of
armistice.
All barges taken from the Allies
shall be restored to thcni.H A note
appended regulates the details OF
these measures.
3. The German command snail DC
responsible for revealing all mines or
delay-acting fuses disposed on terri
tory evacuated by the German troops
and shall assist in their discovery
and destruction.
The German command shall also
reveal all destructive measures that
NAV have been taken (such as poison
ing or pollutihg of springs, wells,
etc.) under penalty of reprisals. "
9. The right Of requisition shall be
exercised by the Allied and the Unit
ed States armies i'll all occupied ter.
ritory. The upkeeo of the troops OF
occupation in the Rhine land (exclud-
ing Alsace-Lorraine) shall be
charged to the German government.
10. An immediate repatriation
without reciprocity according to de-
tailed conditions, which shall be
fixed. of all Allied and United States
prisoners of war. The Allied powers
and the United States shall be able
to dispose of these prisoners as they
wish.
II. Sick and wounded who cannot
he removed from evacuated territory
will be cared for by Germany person
mel who will be left on the spot with
the medical material required.
12. All. German troops at present
in any territory which before the
war belonged to Russia, Roumania or
Turkey shall withdraw within the
frontiers Of Germany as they existed
on August I, 1914.
"a. Evacuation by German troops
to begin at once and all German IN
prisoners, and civilian as
well as military agents, now on the
territory of Russia (as defined before
IoI4) to be recalled.
Ia. German troops to cease at
once all requisitions and seizures and
any other undertakings with a view
to obtaining supplies intended for
Germany in Roumania and Russia.
(as defined on August I. IoI4.)
IS. Abandonment of the treaties
of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk and
of the supplementary treaties.
10 The Allies shall have free ac-1
cess to the territories evacuated by
the Germans on their eastern frontier
either through Danzig or by the Vis-
tulA in order to convey supplies to
the populations of those territories or
for any other purpose, i
y. Unconditional rapitulation OF
10 German forces operating in East
Africa within o6e month.
1. ~ Registration. without seciproc-
IL. withiu maximum period OF one
ndath. ~ aecccdanee wifh detailed
hereafter b. ~ fixed OF