The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-11-13

| measures prior to the signing OF Lns
aTmigtice.
Article seven-;Providfng for tho
abandonment or delivery in good or.
| der to the associated powers Of all
roads and means OF communication
and transportation in evacuated ter
ritory, calls for 1000 wagons Grail.
road cars) Instead Of 10000; 5000
motor lorries instead OF 10000, and
requires that all civil and military
personnel at present employed or
such means OF communication and
transportation including waterways
shall remain. Thirtysix days are al
allowed for handing over of the rail-
ways Of Alsace-Lorraine, togetheE
with the pre- war personnel.
Article eight--Fortyeigh hours is
given the German command to reveal
destructive measures, such as pol
luted springs and wells, and to re-
veal and assist in discovering and
destroying lines or delayed action
fuses on evacuated territory. No time
limit was fixed originally.
Article nine-Providing for the
right Of requisition by the United
States and allied armies in occupied
territory, has the clause added, Sub"
ject to regulation Of accounts with
| IL may CDtlSCAhs
Article ten-Providing for the re-
patriation reciprocity of all allied
and United States prisoners OF war,
including persons under trial or con-
victed has the following added:
"This condition annuls the previous
! conventions on the subject of the ex"
change Of prisoners Of war, includ-
ing the one Of July, 1918, in course
Of ratification. However, the re-
patriation OF German prisoners OF
war informed in Holland and In
Switzerland shall continue as before
The repatriation Of German prison
ers of war shall be regulated at the
conclusion Of the preliminaries OF
| peace"
Article twelve-Providing for the
withdrawal Of German troops from
! territory which belonged before the
war to Russia Rumania and Turkey,
is rewritten: In territory which be-
| longed to Russia 1t is provided that
the German troops now there shall
withdraw within the frontiers Of Ger
many" as soon as the allies, taking
into account the internal situation
of those territories, shall decide that
time for this has come"
Article flfteen-"Renunciatio is
substituted for abandonment" in
stipulating that the treaties OF
Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk are
nullified.
Article sixteen-Providing free &C.
cess for the allies into territory
evacuated through the German
eastern frontier, is changed so as
to declare such access is for the
purpose of conveying supplies to the
populations, land for the purpose Of
maintaining order" instead Of cor for
any other purpose"
Article seventeen-Origina pro-
viding for the unconditional capt.
tulation" within one month Of all
German forces operating in East
Africa, Is substituted by a clause re-
quiring only evacuation by all
German forces operating in East
Africa within a period to be fixed by
the allies"
Article eighteen-Providing for the
repatriation of all civilians belonging
to the allies or associated powers
other than those enumerated in arti-
Gle three is amended to eliminate a
or demands by the allies and the
United States shall remain unaffect-
ed.
Article Notwithstanding for
the surrender Of 100 German sub
marines, is changed to read "all sub
marines now existing" with the ad-
ded stipulation that those which
cannot take these (take the sea?)
shall be disarmed of war material
and personnel and shall remain I'M
der the supervision OF the allies and
the United States"
Further provisions are added re-
quiring that all the conditions Of the
articles shall be carried into effect
within IA days, that submarines ready
for sea shall be prepared to leave
German ports Immediately upon Or
ders by wireless and the remainder
at the earliest possible moment.
Article twenty-three - Providing
for the disposition Of German surface
warships, has additional clauses re-
quiring that vessels designated for
interment shall be ready to leave
German ports within seven days upon
directions by wireless and that the
military armament OF all vessels Of
the auxiliary fleet shall be put on
shore.
Article Notwithstanding that
the allied blockade remain unchanged
has this sentence added "the allies
and the United States should give
governmental aid to the provisioning
of Germany during the armistice to
the extent recognized as necessary"
Article twenty-eight - Providing
conditions Of evacuation Of the Bel
gian coast from which the Germans
actually had been driven before the
armistice was signed), was changed
in minor particulars.
Article thirty-four-Pr that
the duration Of the armistice shall he
80 days and that If it's clauses. are
not carried into execution, it may be
renounced upon AZ hours warning.
has the following added: .a-.
1T is understood that the execution
of article three and eighteen shall
not warrant the denunciation of the
armistice on the ground OF insult
ficient execution within the period
fixed, except in the case of bad faith
in carrying them into execution. In
order to assure the execution Of this
under the best conditions,
the principle OF permanent in
armistice commission is
admitted. his commission shall act
under the authority Of the allied
and naval commanders in
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