The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-13
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT CHANGES
 AND AMENDMENTS IN ARMISTICE

A summary of the changes follow:
 Article 3-Fifteen days instead of fourteen are allowed for the repatria- tion, beginning at once, of all the in- habitants removed from invaded countries, including hostages and per sons under trial or convicted.
 Article 4-Providing for the sur render of munitions and equipment reduces the number of machine guns to be delivered from 3O,O0O to 25,000, the number of aeroplanes from 2,000 to 1,70O.
 Article 5-Providing for the evacu- alton by the Germans of the countries on the left bank of the Rhine, stipu- lated that these countries shall be ad- ministered by "the local troops of oc- cupation" instead of by the. local au- thorities under the control of the al- lied and United States armies and the occupation is to be "carried out by instead of determined by by allied and United States garrisons holding strategic points and the prin- cipaI crossings of the Rhine. Thirteen days instead of twenty-five are allow ed for completion of the evacuation.
 Article 6-Providing that no dam age or harm shall be done to persons and property in territory evacuated by the Germans has a sentence added specifically stipulating that no per son shall be prosecuted for offenses of participation in war measures prior to the signing of the armistice.
 Article 7-Providing for the aban- donment or delivery in good order to the associated powers of all roads and means of communication and trans portation in evacuated territory, calls for 15O, 1000 wagons (railroad cars) in stead of 50,00O; 5000 motor lorries irl- stead of 10000 and requires that all civil and military personnel at pres ent employed on such means of com munication and transportation, in cluding waterways, shall remain. Thirty-one instead of twenty-five days are allowed for handing over the ma terial. Thirty-siX days are allowed for the handing over of the railways of Alsace-Lorraine, together with the pre-war personnel,
 Article 8-Forty- eight hours is given the German command to reveal destructive measures, such as polluted springs and wells, and to reveal ana assist in discovering and destroying mines or delayed action fuses on evac- lated territory. No time limit was fixed originally.
 Article 9-Providing for the right Of acquisition by the United States and allied armies in occupied territory has the clause added Subject to reg l uIation of accounts with those whorn | iE may concern"
 1 Article 10-Providing for the repa- i triation without reciprocity of all al | lied and United States prisoners ot war, including persons under trial o1 1 convicted, has the following added This condition annuls the previous conventions on the subject of the ex- | change of prisoners of war, includine the one of July, 1918, in course ot ratification. However, the repatria, l ton of German prisoners of war in | termed in Holland and in Switzerland | shall continue as before The re- patriation of German prisoners of val shall be regulated at the conclusion of the preliminaries of peace" i Article 12-Providing for the withdrawal of German troops from territory which belonged before the war to Russia, Rumania and Turkey is rewritten. Territory which be- longed to Austria Hungary is added to that from which the Germans mus withdraw immediately, and as to ter. ritory which belonged to Russia, it is provided that the German troops now there shall withdraw within the from tiers of Germany "as soon as the Allies, taking into account the inter. nal situation of those territories, shal
 decide that the time for this ha! come"
 Article 15-"Renunciation" is sub. stituted for Reimbursement" in stip. ulation that the treaties of Buchares and Brest-Litovsk are nuIlified.
 Article 16-Providing free access for the allies into territory evacuated through the German eastern frontier
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