The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-15

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communication Of every kind, railroad,
waterways, main roads, bridges, tele-
graphs, telephones. shall be In no man
ner impaired.
Civil Personnel to Remain.
~. All civil and military person
mel at present employed on them shall
remain. Five thousand locomotives,
$4,000 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 evacua-
ton OF Belgium and Luxembourg. The
railways of Alsace-Lorraine shall be
handed over within the same period,
together with all pre-war personnel
and material. Further material nee
essary 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.
20. The German command shall be
responsible for revealing all mines or
delay acting fuses disposed on terri
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 renr!sals.
80. 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 Rhine land Excluding Alsace-
Lorraine) shall be charged to the Ger
man government.
40. An immediate repatriation with
out reciprocity, according to detailed
conditions, 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.
al. 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.
Eastern Frontiers of Germany.
I'll. Disposition relative to the east
ern frontiers of Germany.
"12. All German troops at present
in any territory which before the war
belonged to Russia, Roumania or Tur-
key shall withdraw within the from
tiers Of Germany as they existed on
August l, 1914.
"13. Evacuation by German troops
to begin at once and all German in
structors, prisoners and civilians, as
well as military agents, now on the
territory of Russia Gas defined before
1910 to be recalled.
"a. German troops to cease at once
all acquisitions and seizures and any
other undertaking with a view to OBJ
tanning supplies intended for Germany
in Roumania and Russia Gas defined
on August l, 1910.
"15. Abandonment Of the treaties
Of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk and
Of the supplementary treaties.
"15. The allies shall have free ac-
cess to the territories evacuated by
the Germans on their eastern front
tier, either through Danzig or by the
Vistuia, in order to convey supplies
10 the populations Of those territories
or for any other purpose.
"III. Clause concerning East Africa:
at. Unconditional capitulation Of
all German forces operating in East
Africa within one month.
"IV. General clauses:
"1S. Repatriation, without reciproc-
ity, within a maximum period Of one
month, In accordance with detailed
conditions hereafter to be fixed, Of all
civilians informed or deported who
may be citizens Of other allied or as
ISOLATED 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.
"19. The following financial condi-
tons are required:
Preparation for damage done.
While such armistice lasts no public
securities shall be removed by the
enemy which can serve as a pledge
to the allies for the recovery or rep
aration for war losses. Immediate
restitution Of the cash deposit in the
National Bank Of Belgium, and, in
general. immediate return of all docu-
ments. specie, stocks. shares, paper
money, together with plant for the
issue thereof, touching public or pri-
vate interests in the invaded coun-
tries. Restitution Of the Russian and
Roumanian gold yielded to Germany
or taken by that power. This gold to
be delivered in trust to the allies un-
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