Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-11-14


inhabitants; no damage or harm shall be
done to the persons or property of the
inhabitants. No destruction of any kind
to be committed. Military establishments
of all kinds shall be delivered intact as
we'll as military stores of food, munitions
equipment not removed during the per-
iods fixed for evacuation. Stores of food
of all kinds for the civil population. cat
tie, ETC., shall he left in stu. Industrial
establishments shall not be impaired in
any way and their personnel shall not be
impaired in any way and their personnel
shall not be moved Roads and means
of communication of every kind, railroad,
waterways, main roads, bridges, tele-
graphs, telephones, shall be in no man
ner impaired.
"Seven----All civil and military person
mel at present employed on them shall
remain. Five thousand locomotives, 49,
600 wagons and 5000 motor lorries in
good working order with all necessary
spare parts and fittings shall be delivered
to the associated powers within the per-
iod fixed for the evacuation of Belgium
and Luxembourg 81 days. The railways
within Sc days, together with all pre-war
personnel and material. Further mater
ial 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 upkeep of per-
manent ways, signals and repair shops
left entire in stu and kept in an efficient
state by Germany during the whole per-
iod of armistice. All barges taken from
the allies shall be restored to them. A
note appended regulates the details of
these measures.
"Eight----The German command shall
be responsible for revealing all mines OF
delay acting fuses disposed on territory
evacuated by the German troops and
shall assist in their discovery and de.
struction. The German command shall
also reveal all destructive measures that
may have been taken (such as poisoning
or polluting of springs wells, etc. under
penalty of reprisals. (48 hours is time
limit.)
Mine 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 Rhineland Excluding Alsace-Lor-
raine,) shall be charged to the German
government.
"Ten-An immediate repatriation with
out reciprocity according to detailed
conditions which 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. However,
the repatriation of German prisoners of
war informed in Holland and Switzerland
shall continue as before The repatria.
ton of German prisoners of war shall be
regulated at the conclusion of the pre-
liminarles of peace.
"Eleven-.-Sick and wounded who can.
not be removed from evacuated territory
will be cared for by German personnel
who will be. left on the spot with the
medical material required.
II---DISPOSITION RELATIVE TO
THE EASTERN FRONTIERS OF GER.
MANY.
"Tweke---All German troops at pres
ent in any territory, which before the
war belonged to Russia, Roumania OF
Turkey shall withdraw within the from
tiers of Germany as they existed on Au
gust l. 1914. Austria Hungary is also in
Guided. The German troops in Russia
shall withdraw as soon as the allies, TAX
ing into account the internal situation OF
those territories, shall decide that the
time for this has come.
"Thirteen..--E Evacuation BY German
troops 10 begin at once and all German
instructors, prisoners, and civilian as
we'll as military agents, now on the terri
tory of Russia las defined before 1914
to be recalled.
"Fourteen---German troops to cease
at once all acquisitions and seizures and
any other undertaking with view tc
obtaining supplies intended for Germany
in Roumania and Russia las defined on
August l, 1914.)
Fifteen Remuneration of the treaties
of Bucharest and Brest-Ltovsk and OF
the supplementary treaties
"Sixteen----The allies shall have free
access to the territories evacuated by the
Germans on their eastern frontier either
through Dantzig or by the Vistula in
order to convey supplies to the popula.
tons of those territories and for main.
tanning order.
1II..-.-CLAUSE CONCERNING EAST
AFRICA.
Seventeen Evacuation of all German
forces operating in east Africa within
one month.
"IV--.GENERAL CLAUSES.
Eighteen Repatriation, without reel
procity, within maximum period of one
month, in accordance with detailed con
ditions hereafter to be fixed, of all civil
ians interned or deported who may be
citizens of other allied or ASSOCIATED
states that those mentioned in claus,
three, paragraph 10.
"Nineteen--.Th following financia
conditions are required Repatriation TO
damage done. While such armistice last
no public securities shall be removed b,
the enemy which can serve as a pledg
to the allies for the recovery or repatri
alton for war losses. Immediate restitu
ton of the cash deposit, in the nationa
bank of Belgium, and in general imme
diate return of all documents, specie
stocks, shares, paper money togethe
with plant for the issue thereof, touchin,
| public or private interests in the invaded
countries. Restitution of the Russiai
and Rumanian gold yielded to German