New Britain herald., 1918-11-11

pleted within a further period of
eleven days, in all nineteen days after
the signature of the armistice. All
movements Af evacuation and occu-
patton will be regulated according to
the note annexed.
Six In all territory evacuated bv
the enemy there shall be no evacua-
ton of inhabitants; no damage or
harm shall be done to the persons or
property of the inhabitants. No de-
struct1on Of any kind to be COM
mltted. Military establishments of all
kinds shall be delivered intact as we'll
as military stores of food, munitions
equipment not removed during the
periods fixed for evacuation. Stores of
food Of all kinds for the civil popula-
ton, cattle, ETC., shall be left in stu.
Industrial establishments shall not be
impaired in any way and their per-
sonnet shall not be moved. Roads
and means of communications of every
kind railroad, waterways, main roads
| bridges, telegraphs telephones, shall
be in no manner impaired.
Seven-All civil and military per-
sonnel at present employed on them
shall remain. Five thousand 1ocomo-
tives, fifty thousand wagons and ten
thousand motor 1orries in good work
parts and fittings shall be delivered
to the associated powers within the
period fixed for the evacuation of
Belgium and Luxembourg. The rail-
ways Of A1sace-Lorraine shall be
handed over within the same period,
together with all pre-war personnel
and material. Further material neces-
sary 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, signals and repair
shops 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 appended
regulates the details of these measures.
Eight-The German command shall
be responsible for revealing all mines
or delay acting fuse disposed ont erri-
tory evacuated by the German troops
and shall assist in their discovery and
destruction. The German command
shall also reveal all destructive meas
ures that may have been taken, (such
as poisoning or polluting of springs,
wells, etc., under penalty of repris-
ais.
Nine-The right of requisition shall
be exercised by the allies and the
United States armies in all occupied
territory. The upkeep of the troops Of
occupation in the Rhineland, exclud-
ing Alsace-Lorraine, shall be charged
to the German government.
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 dis
pose 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 medical material required.
11-Disposition relative to the east
ern frontiers of Germany:
Twelve-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 August l, 1914.
MISUNDERSTANDING by German
troops to begin at once and all Ger
man instructors, prisoners, and civil
ian as we'll as military agents, now on
the territory of Russia Gas defined be-
fore 1910, to be recalled.
Fourteen-German troops to cease
at once all acquisitions and seizures
and any other undertaking with a
view to obtaining supplies intended for
Germany in Rumania and Russia Gas
defined on August 1, 1914)
Observation-Disclosures of the !!
treaties of Bucharest and Brest-IAt- |
ovsk and of the supplemen tary treat |
les.
Sixteenth-The allies shall have !
free access to the territories evacuat- /
ed by the Germans on their eastern !
frontier either through Dantzig or by !
the Vistula in order to convey sup !
plies to the populations Of these ter
ritories or for any other purpose.
IV-General clauses:
Eighteen-Repatriat without |
reciprocity, within a maximum period |
of one month, in accordance with de-
tailed conditions hereafter to be fixed,
of all civilians informed or deported
who may be citizens of other Allied or
associated states than those mentioned
in clause three, paragraph nineteen
with the reservation that any future
claims and demands of the Allies and
the United States of America remain |
unaffected.
Nineteen-The following financial
conditions are required: Reparat1on
for damage done. While such armi-
stice lasts no public securities shall be
removed by the enemy which can
serve as a pledge to the allies for the
recovery or repatriation for war
losses. Immediate restitution of the
cash deposit, in the national bank of
Belgium, and in general immediate re-
turn Of all docum ents, specie, stocks,
shares, paper money, together with
plant for the issue thereof, touching
public or private interests III the in