Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-11-20

graphs. telephones, shall be in no man
ner impaired.
Civil Personnel to Remain.
az. 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 De
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.
''S. 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 ana
| 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 reprlsals.
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.
I'll 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
| 1919 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 (as defined
on August. 1, 1910.
"15. Abandonment of the treaties
| of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk and
! of the supplementary treaties.
"15. The allies shall have free &C
| cess to the territories evacuated by
| the Germans on their eastern 'front.'
tier, either through DanZig or by the
Vistula, in order to convey supplies
| to the populations Of those territories
or for any other purpose.
"III. Clause concerning East Africa:
az. Unconditional capitulation of
all German forces operating in East
Africa within one month.
CIV. 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 interned 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.
40. 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-
meOtS SOpcip stocks shares noDor
money, together with plant for the
issue thereof, touching public or pri-
yate 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 trnSf To tho alias I'M