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ers, DomDers-f1rstly D73s and night
bombing machines). The above to be
delivered in stu to the allies and the
United States troops in accordance with
the detailed conditions laid down in the
annexed note.
Evacuate Bank of Rhine.
5. Evacuation by the German armies
of the countries on the left bank of the
Rhine. These countries on the left
bank of the Rhine shall be administer
ed by the local authorities under the
control of the allied and United States
armies of occupation.
The occupation of these territories
will be determined by allied and United
States garrisons holding the principal
crossings of the Rhine, Mayenee, Cob
LEM, Cologne, together with bridgeheads
at these points in 3O-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
forty kilometers to the east from the
frontier of Holland to the parallel of
Garnsheim and as far as practicable a
distance of thirty kilometers from the
east of the stream from this parallel
upon the Swiss frontier.
Evacuation by the enemy of the
Rhine lands shall be so ordered as to be
completed within a further period of
eleven days, in all nineteen days after
the signature of the armistice. All
movements of evacuation and occupation
will be regulated according to the note
annexed.
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.
Surrender Military Stores.
Military establishments of all kinds
shall be delivered intact, as well as
military stores of food, munitions, equip
ment not removed during the periods
fixed for evacuation. Stores of food of
all kinds for civil population, cattle,
etc., shall be left in stu.
Industrial establishments shall not be
impaired in any way and their person
mel shall not be moved. Roads and
means of communication of every kind,
railroads, waterways, main roads,
bridges, telegraphs, telephones, shall in
no manner be impaired
7. All civil and military personnel
at present employed on them shall re-
main. Five thousand locomotives, 3d.
600 wagons and 10000 motor lorries in
good working order with all necessary
spare parts and fittings shall be deliver
ed to the associated powers within the
period fixed for the evacuation of Bel
gium and Luxembourg.
The railways of Alsace-Lorraine shall
be handled over within the same period,
together with all pre-war personnel and
material.
Further material necessary for the
working of railways in the country on
left bank of the Rhine shall be left IN
s;tu All stores of coal and material
for the upkeep of permanent ways sig
nails and repair shop left entire in stu
and kept in an efficient state by Ger
MANY during the whole period of armis-
tiee. All barges taken from the allies
shall be restored to them. A note ap-
pended regulates the details OF these
measures.
The German command shall be
resnonsible for revealing all mines or
DELAY acting fuses disposed on territory
evacuated by the German troops and
shall assist in their discovery and des-
truction. German command srall also
reveal all destructive measures that may
have been taken (sueh as poisoning or
polluting of springs, wells, etc. under
penalty of reprisals.
Q. 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 Excluding Alsace-
Lorraine) shall be charged to the Ger
man government -,
10. An immediate repatriation with
out reciprocity, according to detailed
conditions which shall be fixed, of all
allied and United States prisoners Oh
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