Bisbee daily review., 1918-11-12

the Rhine These countries on the left bank of the Rhine shall be admin i istered by the local authorities under the control of the allied and United States armies of occupation. The oc- | eupation of these territories will be determined by allied United States | garrisons holding the principal cross i ings of the RhiSe, Mayence, Coblenz, ! Cologne, together with bridgeheads at these points in the 30-kilometer radius | on the right bank and by garrisons similarly holding the strategic points | of the regions. A neutral zone shall | be reserved on the right of the Rhine | between the stream and a line drawn | parallel to it 10 kilometers to the east | from the frontier of Holland to the | parallel of Gernsheim and as far as i practicable a distance of 30 kilometers from the east of the stream from this | parallel upon Swiss frontier Evacua- tion by the enemy of the Rhinelands shall be so ordered as to be completed within a further period of II days, in all 19 days after the signing of the armistice. All movements of evacua- ton and occupation will be regulated according to the note anneexd.
 6. In all territory evacuated by the enemy there shall be no evacuation of inhabitants; no damage or harm shall be done to the persons or property of the inhabitants No destruction of any kind to be committed. Military establishments of all kinds shall be delivered intact as well as military stores of food. munitions, equipment not removed during the periods fixed for evacuation. Stores of food of all kinds for the civil population, cattle, etc, shall be left in situ. Industrial establishments shall not be impaired in any way and their personnel shall not be moved Roads and means of communication of every kind, raii- road, waterways, main roads, bridges, telegraphs, telephones, shall in no manner be impaired.
 T. All civil and military personnel at present employed on them shall re- main. Five thousand locomotives, 5O,0OO wagons and 10000 motor lorries in good working order with all neces- sary spare parts and fittings shall De delivered to the associated powers within the period fixed for the evacua- tion of Belgium and LuXemburg. The railways of Alsace-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 situ. All stores of coal and material for the upkeep of permanent ways, signals and repair shops left entire in situ 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 meas ures.
 s. The Geman command shall be responsible for revealing all mines or delay acting fuses disposed on ter- ritory evacuated by the German troops and shall assist in their discovery and the Geman command shall also re- veal destructive measures that may have been taken (such as poisoning or polluting of springs, wells. etc., under penalty of reprisals.
 g. The right of requisition shall be exercised by the allies and the United States armies in all occupied terri tory. The upkeep of the troops of Oc- cupation in the Rhine land (excluding Alsace-Lorraine) shall be charged to the German government.
 10. An immediate repatriation with. out reciprocity, according to detailed conditions which shall be fixed, of all allied and United States prisoners 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 person mel who will be left on the spot with the medical material required.
 Il. Disposition Relative to the Eastern
 Frontiers of Germany.
 F. All German troops at present in any territory which before the war belonged to Russia. Rumania or Fur key shall withdraw within the from tiers of Germany as they existed on August 1, 1914.
 13. Evacuation by German troops to
  begin at once and ali German instruc- tors, prisoners and civilian, as we'll as military agents. now on the territory of Russia Jas defined before 1914) to be recalled.
 II. German troops to cease at once all acquisitions and seizures and any other undertaking with a view to ob- 1 taining supplies intended for Germany in Rumania and Russia( as defined on August 1. 1914).
 Is. Abandonment of the treaties of l Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk and of the supplementary treaties.
 16. The allies shall have free access | to the territories. evacuated by the i Germans on their eastern frontier | either through Dantzig or by the Wis | tula in order to convey supplies to the l populations of those territories or for any other purpose.
 III.
 cIaute Concerning East Africa.
 17. Unconditional equalization of all ! German forces operating in East |