Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-11-15

IS 900 wagons AID 4 [, 300 motor
in good working order with II iacesi
sary spare parts and fifth Is shall DC
delivered to the associa ed powers
within the period fixed for the ev2cI'
alton of Belgium and Luxem%urg. IAe
railways of Alsace-Lorraine SKI! be
handed over within the same period.
together with all prewar personnel
and material.
Further material necessary for the
working Of railways in the country on
the left bank of the Rhine shall be
kept in stu.
All stores of coal and material for
the upkeep of permanent ways, as far
as practicable distance of 80 kllo-
meters from the east of the stream
from this parallel upon Swiss from
tier.
Evacuation by the enemy of the
Rhine lands shall be so ordered as
to be completed within further
period of IL days, in all 10 days after
the signature of the armistice. All
movements of evacuation and occupa-
ton will be regulated according to the
note annexed. Signals and repair
shops shall be left entire in stu and
kept in an efficient state by Germany
during the whole period of armistice.
All barges taken from the Allies shall
be restored to them A note append
ed regulates the details.
8. The German command shall be
responsible for revealing all mines
or delay, acting fuses disposed on
territory evacuated by the German
troops and shall assist in their dis
"overy and destruction. The German
command shall also reveal all de-
structive measures that may have
oeen taken (such as poisoning or
polluting Of springs, wells, etc.,, I'M
der penalty of reprisals.
9. The right Of requisition shall be
exercised by the Allied and the United
States armies in all occupied terri
tory. The upkeep of the troops OF
occupation in the Rhineland, 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 prison
ers 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
be removed from evacuated territory
will be cared for by German per-
sonnet who will be left on the spot
with the medical material required.
Disposition Relative to the Eastern
Frontiers Of Germany.
~. All German troops at present
in any territory which before the wal
belonged to Russia, Rumania or Tur'
key shall withdraw within the from
tiers of Germany as they existed on
Aug. 1, 1914. 49,
10. Evacuation by German troops
to begin at once and all German In
structors, prisoners and civilians az
we'll as military agents now on the
territory of Russia Gas defined before
1910, to be recalled.
IA. German troops to cease at once
all requisitions and seizures and any
other undertakings with view to OBJ
tanning supplies intended for Germany
in Rumania and Russia las defined or
Aug. /, 1910. as
Is. Abandonment of the treaties OF
Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk and Of
the supplementary treaties.
Is. The Allies shall have free &C
cess 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 any other purpose.
East Africa.
(. IT. Unconditional capitulation Of
all German forces operating in East
Africa within one month.
General Clauses.
F.: IS. Repatriation without reciproc
ity within a maximum period Of one
month, in accord with details here
after to be fixed, of all civilians in
termed or deported who may be citi
Gems of other Allied or associated
states than those mentioned in Clause
3, paragraph -, with the reservation
that any future claims and demands
of the Allies and the United States OF
America remained unaffected.
Financial Conditions.
10. The following financial condi
lions are required: Reparation fol-
damage done. While such armtstice
lasts no public securities shall be re-
moved by the enemy which can serve
as a pledge to the Allies for the recov'
cry or reparation for war losses. I'm
mediate restitution of the cash deposit
in the national bank of Belgium and
in general immediate return OF all
documents, species, stocks, shares,
paper money, together with plant for
the issue thereof, touching public OF
private interests in the invaded coun'