Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-15
FEW DEVLATIONS SHOWN
BY AMENDED TERMS


BY AMENDED TERMS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-AppeaIs OF
the German armiStice ENJOYS to Marshal
Foch Tor modification of the terms o.
surrender were Of little avail. This Is
indicated by the amended terms when
were published today. Close survey of
the amendments show few deViations in
essential details from the original draft.
which was announced Monday.
The amended ,erms in some respects
favor the defeated enemy. but other
provisions completely offset the slight
favors granted Chief among the chang
es made by Marshal Foch was the ill
clusion of provision under which Ger
many is forced to give up her entire
fleet of submarines. The original term
ing over to the allies and the United
States OF only $50 U-boats. The amend
as to submarines provided for the turn
ment further provides that the German
submarine fleet must be SURRENDERED
within fourteen days.
Another Of the eighteen terms which
were amended provides that the deSig-
mated units of the German fleet which
are to be surrendered must be prepared
after the signing of the armistice. No
time limit was fixed IN the original
draft Instead of $4,000 railroad cars
the Germans are required to surrender
10000 cars. The number OF machine
guns to be turned over to the associated
governments is reduced from sc, 900 to
$4,000. Ge.man troops in East Africa
are required to evacuate that territory
instead of surrendering. Specific ref
erence is made in the amended terms tc
repatriation of German prisoners of war
at the conclusion of peace. Territories
which belonged to Austria-Hungary be-
fore the war are added to those which
must be evacuated. Russian provinces are
to be evacuated "as soon as the allies, TAX
ing into account the internal situation
of these territories, shall decide that the
mediately. Provision also is made in
the amended terms for an armtstice com.
mission.
A summary of the changes follows:
Article 3. Fifteen days instead of
fourteen are allowed for the -epa-
triation, beginning at once, of all
the inhabitants removed from in
Vaded countries, including hostages
and persons under trial or convicted.
Article 4. Providing for the sur
render of munitions and equipment
reduces the number of machine
guns to be delivered from 10000 to
$4,000, the number of aeroplanes
from 1000 to 100.
Article 5. Providing for the evac-
uation by the Germans of the coun-
tries on the left bank of the Rhine,
stipulates that these countries
shall be administered by the local
troops of occupation" instead of by
the local authorities under the con-
troll of the allied and United States
armies, and the occupation is to be
carried out by" instead of deter
mined by" allied and United States
garrisons holding strategic points
and the principal crossings of the
Rhine Thirty-one days instead of
twenty-five are allowed for compile
ton of the evacuation.
Article 6. Providing that no dam
age or harm shall be done to per-
sons and property in territory
evacuated by the Germans has
sentence added specifically stipu-
latinE that no person shall be pros
ecuted for offenses of participation
in war measures prior to the sign
ing of the armistice.
Article Z. Providing for the
abandonment or delivery in good
order to the associated powers of
all roads and means of communica-
ton and transportation in evacuated
territory calls for 100000 wagons
(railroad cars), inst lad of $4,000;
5000 motor lorries instead of TO-
600, and requires that all civil and
military personnel at present en-
ployed on such means of communi-
cation and transportation, includ-
ty-one instead of twenty-five days
are allowed for handing over the
materials. Thirty-six days are al
lowed for the handing over of the
railways of Alsace-Lorraine, to-
gether with the pre-war personnel.
Article s. Forty-eight hours is
given the German command to re-
veal destructive measures, such as
polluted springs and wells, and to
reveal and assist in discovering and
destroying mines or delayed action
fuses on evacuated territory. No
time limit was fixed originally.
Article 9. Providing for the
right of requisition by the United
States and allied armies in occupied
territory, has the clause added,
subject to regulation of accounts
with those whom II may concern"
Article TO- Providing for the re-
patriation without reciprocity of
all allied and United States pris-
onerS of war, including persons
under trial or CONVICTED. has the
following added: This condition
annuls the previous conventions or
the subject of the exchange of pris-
oners of war, including the one of
July, 1918, in course of ratification.
However, the repatriation of Ger
man prisoners of war informed in
Holland and in Switzerland shall
continue as before. The repatria-
ton of German prisoners of war
shall be regulated at the conclusion
of the preliminaries of peace"
Article IL. Providing for the
withdrawal of German troops from
territory which belonged before the
war to Russia, Rumania and Turkey,
is rewritten Territory which be-
longed to Austria-Hungary is added
to that from which the German
troops now there shall withdraw
within the frC.ltiers of Germany "as
soon as the allies, taking, into &C
count the internal situation of those
territories, shall decide that the d
time for this has come"
Article IS. Remuneration" is sub
stituted for abandonment" in stip-
ulation that the treaties of Bucha-
rest and Brest-LitovSk are multi
fled.
Article 16. Providing free access
for the allies into evacuated terri
tory through the German eastern
frontier, is changed so as to declare
such access is for the purpose of