Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-12

shall be done to the persons
or property Of the Inhabitants.
No obstruction OF any kind to be
committed. Military establishments Of
all kinds shall be delivered intact as
wei: as military stores Of food, nu-
nftions. equipment not removed dur
ting the periods fixed for evacuation.
Stores Of food of all kinds for the
civil population, cattle. etc., shall be
left in stu. Industrial establishments
shall not be impaired in any way and
their personnel shall not be moved.
Roads and means of communication
CT every kind, railroad, waterways,
main roads. bridges. telegraphs, tele-
phones, shall be in no manner i'm
paired.
1--All civil and military personnel
at present employed on them shall re-
main. Five thousand locomotives co.
900 wagons and 10000 motor lorries
in good working order with all neces-
sary spare parts and fittings shall be
delivered TO the associated powers
within the period fixed for the evac-
uation Of Belgium and Luxembourg.
The railways of Alsace-Lorraine shall
he handed over within the same Pc
Rod together with all pre-war per-
sonnet and material. Further material
necessary for the working Of rail-
ways in the country on the left bank
OF Rhine to be left in stu. Stores Of
coal and material for the upkeep of
permanent ways, signals and repair
shops left entire in stu and kept In
sn efficient state by Germany during
the whole period of armistice. All
harges taken from the Allies shall be
restored to them. A note appended
regulates the details of these meas
u1eS.
3-The German command shall be
responsible for revealing all mines or
delay acting fuse disposed on terri
tory evacuated by the German troops
and shall assis. in their discovery
and destruction. The German COM
mand shall also reveal all destructive
measures that may have been taken
tsuch as poisoning or pollutiEg OF
springs. wells, ctc.> under penalty of
Ieprisais.
a-The right OF requisiries shall be
exercised by the Allies and the Unit
ed States armies in all occupied ter
ritory. The upkeep of the troops of
occupation in the Rhine land, Eek
Guiding .Alsace Lorraine) shall be
charged to the German government.
1O--An immediate repatriation
without reciprocity. according to de-
tailed conditions. which shall be
fixed. Of all Allied and United States
prisoners Of war. Tho Allied powers
und the United States shall be able
to dispose of these prisoners as they
wish.
11-Sick ana wounded who cannot
he renewed from evacuated territory
will be cared for by German person.
mel who will be left on the spot with
the medical material required.
III. DISPOSITION RELATIVE TO
THE EASTERN FRONTIERS OF
GERMANY:
12--All German troops in any ter
ritorT which before the war belonged
10 Russia, Rumania or Turkey, shall
withdraw within the frontiers Of
Germany as they existed on August /,
1919
:" A-'''>ttttiS'h ~ NiCi ttoOpS
TO begin at once and all German in
structors, prisoners and civilian as
we'll as military agents. now on the
territory Of Russia Gas defined be-
fore 1910 to be recalled.
14-German troops to cease at once
all acquisitions and seizures and any
ether undcrte king with a view to OBJ
tanning supplies intended for Ger
many in Rumania and Russia (as de-
fined on Aug. I. 1910
15--Abandonment OF the treaties Of
bucharest and i3rcst- Litovsk and Of
the supplementary treaties.
16--The Allies shall have free ac-
cess 70 the territories evacuated by
the Germans on their eastern from
tier either through Danzig or by the
Vistuia in order to convey supplies to
for any other purpose.
III. CLAUSE CONCERNING
EAST AFRICA:
17-Cnconditional capitulation Of
all German forces operating in East
Africa within one month.
~. GENERAL CLAUSES:
1S-Repudiation. without reciproc-
ity, within maximum period Of one
month. in accordance with detailed
conditions hereafter to be fixed. Of all
civilians informed or reported who
may be citizens Of Allied or Associat-
ed states than those mentioned in
Clause 3. paragraphs 10 with the res
ervation than any future claims and
demands of the Allies and the United
States OF America remain unaffected.
19-The following financial condi-
tions are required: PREPARATION for
damage done. While such armjstice
lasts no public securities shall be re-
moved by the enemy which can
serve as pledge to the Allies for the
recovery or reparation for war loss
IS. Immediate restitution Of the
cash deposit in the National Bank OF
Belgium, and in general immediate
return Of all documents. specie.
stocks, shares, paper money together
with plant for the issue thereof,
touching public or private 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 sigma
ture of peace.
Y. NAVAL CONDITIONS:
o0-Immediate cessation Of all hos
tilities at sea and definite informa-
ton TO be given as to the location
and movements at all German shina