The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1918-11-15
TERMS OF ARM|ST|CE
Concluded from page one)

Ilishments shall not be impaired In
Fany way and~their personnel shall
mot be moved. Roads and means Of
communications Of every kind, raft
road, waterways, main roads, bridges,
telegraphs, telephones, shall be in no
manner impaired.
| IAN civil and military per-
sonnet employed on them shall re-
main. Five thousand locomotives,
fifty thousand wagons and ten thous-
and motor lorries in good working
iorder with all necessary spare parts
and fittings shall be delivered to the
associated powers within the period
fixed for the evacuation of Belgium
and Gutenberg. The railways of
Alsace-Lorraine shall be handed 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 the left bank of the Rhine shall
be left in stu. All stores Of coal
and material for the up-keep Of per-
manent ways, signals adm repair
shops left entire in stu and kept up
IN an efficient state by Germany dur
ing the whole period of armistice.
All Prisoners to be Freed.
All barges taken from the allies
shall be restored othem. A note
appended regulates the details of
thse measures.
8-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
measures that may have been taken
(such as poisoning or polluting of
spring, wells, etc. under penalty of
reprisals.
9-The right of requisition shall
be exercised by the allied and the
United States armies in occupied
Territory. The up-keep of the
troops of occupation in the Rhine
land Excluding Alsace-Lorraine)
shall be charged to the German gov
eminent.
10-An immediate repatriation
without reciprocity, according to de-
tailed conditions which shall be fix.
ed, Of all allie dand United States
prisoners of war. The allied pow
ers and the United States shall be
able to dispose Of these prisoners as
they wish.
As to Eastern Frontiers.
11-Sick and wounded who can
not be removed from evacuated ter
ritory will be cared for by German
personnel who will be left on the
spot with the medical material re-
quired.
II-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, Rumania or
Turkey shall withdraw within the
frontiers Of Germany as they exist
ed on August 1, 1914.
12-Evacuation by German troops |
to begin at once and all German in
structors, prisoners and civilian as
well as military agents now on the
territory of Russia las defined before
1910 to be recalled.
14-German troops to cease at
once all acquisitions and seizures and
any other undertaking with view to
obtaining supplies intended for Ger
many in Rumania and Russia las de-
fined on August /, 1914.)
abandonment of the treaties
OF Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk and !,
OF the supplementary treaties.
16-The allie sshall have free ac-
cess to the territories evacuated by
the Germans on their eastern from
tier either through Dansing or by
the Vistula in order to convey sup
plies othe population of those ter
ritories or for any other purpose.
Ill. Clause Concerning East Africa.
17--pnconditional capitulation Of
all German forces operating in East
Africa within one month