Gilpin observer., 1918-11-14


Afsace- Lorraine shall be handed over
within the same period. together
with all pre-war personnel and MACE
rial. Further material necessary
for the working of railways in the
country on the left bank of the
Rhine shall be left in situ. All stores
of coal and material for the upkeep
Of permanent ways, signals and re-
pair shops left entire in situ and kept
In an efficient state by Germany dur
ing the whole period of armistice.
All barges taken from the allies shall
be restored to them. A note append
ed regulates the details OF these
measures.
"Eighth--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 ih their dis
covery and destruction.
| THE German command shall also
reveal all destructive measures that
may have been taken (such as poison
ing or polluting springs. wells, etc)
under penalty of reprisals.
"Ninth-The right of requisition
shall be exercised by the allies and
the United States armies in all oc-
cupied territory The upkeep of the
troops of occupation in the Rhine
land (excluding Alsace Lorraine)
shall be charged to the German gov
ernment.
| "Tenth-Anl immediate repatriation
without reciprocity according to de-
tailed conditions which shall be fixed,
of all allied and United States pris-
oners ii war. The allied powers and
the Unised States shall be able to dis
pose OF these prisoners as they wish.
"Eleyenth-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.
2-D!sposition relative to the east
ern frontiers of Germany:
"Twelfth-All German troops at
present in any territory which before
the war belonged to Russia, Rumania
or Turkey shall withdraw within the
frontiers of Germany as they existed
on Aug. /, 1914.
"ThIrteenth-Evacu by Ger
man troops to begin at once and all
German instructors, prisoners and
civilians, as well as military agents,
now in the territory of Russia las de-
fined before 1910 to be recalled.
''Fourteenth = German troops to
cease at once all requisitions and
seizures and any other undertaking
with view of obtaining supplies in
tended for Germany in Rumania and
Russia (as defined on Aug. 1, 1910.
Fifteenth = Abandonment of the
treaties of Bucharest and Brest-
Litovsk and of the supplementary
treaties.
"Sixteenth-The allies shall have
free access to the territories, evac-
uated by the Germans on their eastern
frontier either through Danzig OR by
the Vistula, in order to convey sup
plies to the populations OF those ter
ritories or for any other purpose
"3-clause concerning East Africa:
.."Sixteenth-Unconditional gapitula-
tion of all German forces operating in
East Africa within one month.
"4-General clauses:
Eighteenth = Repatriation, without
reciprocity. within maximum period
of one month, in accordance with de-
tailed conditions hereafter to be fixed,
of all civilians interned or deported
who may be citizens of other allied or
associated states than those men,
toned in claude three. paragraph nine
teen, with the, reservation that any
further claims and demands of the
allies and the United States of Amer
lea remain unaffected.
"Nineteenth-The following finan-
cial conditions are required:
Preparation for damage done.
While such armistice lasts no public
securities shall be removed by the en-.
emy which can serve as pledge to
the allies for the recovery or repara-
tion for war losses. Immediate resti-
tuition of the cash deposit in the ma.
tional bank of Belgium, and In gener-
al immediate return of all documents,
specie. stock, shares, paper money. to.
gether with plant for the issue there
of, touching public or priva.e interests
in the invaded countries. Restitution
OF the Russian and Rumanian gold
yielded to Germany or taken by that
power This gold to be delivered in
trust to the allies until the signature
of peace
"5.-NavaI conditions.
"Twentieth-Immediate cessation of
all hostilities at sea and definite In.
formation to be given as to the loca.
ton and movements of all German
ships. Notification to BE given to neu.
trails that freedom of navigation in all
territorial waters is-giyen to the naval
and mercantile marines of the allied