Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-11-21

the enemy there shall be no eyacua-
ton of inhabitants. no damage or
harm shall be done to the persons
or property of the inhabitants; no
destruction of any kind to be COM
mitted. Military establishments of
all kinds shall be delivered intact, as
well as military stores of food, mu-
nitions, equipment not removed dur
ing the periods fixed for evacuation.
Stores of food of all kinds for the
civil population, cattle, ETC., shall be
left sn stu. Industrial establish
ments shall not be impaired in any
way and their personnel shall not be
moved. Roads and means Of COM
munication of every kind. railroads
| waterways, main roads, bridges, tele-
graphs, telephones, shall in no man
ner be impaired.
Seyen-All civil and military per-
sonnet at present employed on them
shall remain. Five thousand locomo-
tiyes, $4,000 wagons and 10000 mo-
tor lorries in good working order.
with all necessary spare parts and
fittings. shall be delivered to the as
ISOLATED powers within the period
fixed for the evacuation of Belgium
and Luxembourg. The railways of
Alsace-Lorraiue shall be handed over
within the same period, together with
all pre-war personnel and material.
Further material necessary for the
working of railways in the country
on the left bank of the Rhine shall
be left in stu. All stores of coal and
material for the upkeep of permanent
ways, signal and repair shops left in
stu and kept In an efficient state By
Germany during the whole period OF
rmlstice. All barges taken from the
allies shall be restored to them. A
note appended regulates the details
of these MEASURES.
MUST REVEAL POISONED WELLS
Eight-The German command
shall be responsible for revealing all
mines or delay acting fuses disposed
on territory evacuated by the Ger
man troops and shall assist in their
discovery and destruction. The Ger
man command shall also reveal all
destructive measures that may have
been taken (such as poisoning or pol
luting of springs, wells. etc. under
penalty of reprisals.
Nine--The right of requisition
shall be exercised by the allies and
the United States armies in all occu-
pied territory. The upkeep of the
troops OF occupation in the Rhine
land Excluding AlsaR-Lorraine),
shall be charged to the German gov
eminent.
REPATRIATION WITHOUT Reel
PROCITY
Ten-An immediate repatriation
| without reciprocity according to de-
tailed conditions which shall be fixed
Of all allied and United States pris-
oners of war. The allied powers and
the United States shall be able to
dispose of these prisoners as they
wish.
Eleven-Sick and wounded who
cannot be removed from evacuated
territory will be cared for by German
personnel who will be left on the spot
with the medical material required.
MUST CLEAR OUT ON EAST
Disposition relative to the
eastern frontiers of Germany;
Twelve-All German troops at
present in any territory which be-
fore the war belonged to Russia, Ru-
mania or Turkey shall withdraw
within the frontiers of Germany as
they existed on Aug. /, 1914.
Thirteen-Evacuatio by German
troops to begin at once and all Ger
man instructors, prisoners and civil
ians, as well az military agents, now
on the territory of Russia Gas defined
before 1910 to be recalled
N m
at once all acquisitions and seizures
and any other undertaking with a
view 10 obtaining supplies intended
for Germany in Rumania and Russia
Gas deGed on Aug. 1, 1910.
ABANDONMENT OF TREATIES
Fifteen Abandonment of the
treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Li-
tovsk and of the supplementary
treaties.
Sixteen The allies shall have free
access to the territories evacuated by
the Germans on their eastern from
tier, either through Danzig or by the
Vistula. in order to convey supplies
to the populations of those territories
or for an yother purposes.
SURRENDER EAST AFRICA
Clause concerning East Afr-
ca:
Seventeen Unconditional capitu-
lation of all German forces operating
in East Africa within one month.
IV-General clauses:
Eighteen Repatriation without
reciprocity within IA maximum
period of one month, in accordance
AL. 4 ~ \, ftxr an
be fixed. OF all civilians interested or
deported who may be citizens OF
other allied or associated states than
those mentioned in clause three.
paragraph nineteen, with the reserva-
ton that any further claims and de-
mands of the allies and the United
States of America remain unaffected.
PREPARATION AND RESTRICTION
Nineteen-The following financial
conditions are required:
Reparation for damage done. While
such armistice lasts no public securi-
ties shall be removed by the enemy
which can serve as pledge to the
allies for the recovery of reparation
for war losses. Immediate restitu-
tion of the cash deposit in the Ma
tional Bank of Belgium and in gen
eral immediate return pf all docu-
ments, specie. stocks. shares, paper
money, together with the plant for
the issue thereof touching public or
private interests in the invaded
countries Restitution OF the Russian
and Rumanan gold yielded to Ger
many or taken in that power. This
gold to be delivered in trust to the
allies until the signature of peace.
NAVAL conditions.
Twenty Immediate cessation of
all lrostilities at sea and definite in
formation to be given as to the loca
ion and movements of all German