The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-11
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once and to be completed within four
teen days of all Inhabitants OF the
countries above mentioned, including
hostages and persons under trial or
Four-Surrender in good condition
by the German armies of the following
equipment:
Five thousand guns (2,500 heavy.
5000 minnenwerfer, 1000 aeroplanes
Fighters. bombers-firstly D. Sew
enty-thfees and night bombing ma
CHINESE. The above to be delivered in
stu to the allies and the United
States troops in accordance with the
detailed conditions laid down in the
annexed note.
Five-Evacuation by the German
armies of the countries on the left
bank of the Rhine. These countries
on the left bank of the Rhine shall be
administered by the local authorities
under the control of the allied and
United States armies of occupation
The occupation of these territories will
be determined by allied and United
States garrisons. holding the principal
crossings of the Rhine, Mayence, Cob
LEM. Cologne. together with bridge
heads at these points in 30-kilometer
radius on the right bank and by gar
risons similarly holding the strategic
points of the regions. A neutral zone
shall be reserved on the right of the
Rhine between the stream and a line
drawn parallel to it 40 kilometers to
the east from the frontier of Holland
to the parallel of Gernsheim and as
far as practicable a distance of 80
kilometers from the east of the stream
from this parallel upon Swiss from
| tiers. Evacuation by the enemy of the
| Rh1nelands shall be SO ordered as to
| be completed within further period
OF eleven days. in all nineteen days
after the signature of the armistice.
All movement of evacuation and oc-
cupation will be regulated according to
the note annexed.
No Harm to People.
Skin all territory evacuated by
the enemy there shall be no evacua-
ton of inhabitants; no damage or
harm shall be done to the persons or
| property of the inhabitants. No de-
struction of any kind to be committed
Military establishments of all kinds
shall be delivered intact as well as
| military stores of food, munitions
equipments not removed during the
| periods fixed for evacuation. Stores
of food of all kinds for the civil popu-
| lation, cattle, etc, shall be left in stu
Industrial establishments shall not be
impaired in any way and their per-
| sonnet shall not be moved. Roads
| and means of communication of every
KIND, railroads, waterways, main
roads. bridges, telegraphs, telephones,
shall be in no manner impaired.
Hold All Personnel.
Seven-All civil and military per-
sonnet at present employed on them
shall remain. Five thousand locomo-
| tives, 500 wagons and 10000 motor
lorries. in good working order with all
necessary spare parts and fittings shall
be { slivered to the associated powers
within the period fixed for the evacua-
ton of Belgium and Luxembourg. The
railways of Alsace-Lorraine shall be
| handed over within the same period,
together with all pre-war personnel
and material. Further material neces-
sary for the working of railways in the
country on the left banks of the Rhine
shall be left in stu
All stores of coal and material for the
upkeep of permanent ways. signals and re-
pair 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.
Reveal AL Mines.
Eight7The German command shall be re-
sponSlDle Tor revealing all mines or delay
acting fuses disposed on territory eyacu-
ated by the German troops and shall assist
in their discovery and destruction The
German command shall also reveal all de.
structiye measures that may have heen
taken tsuch as poisoning or polluting OF
prisals.
Nine-Thei 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
MISUNDERSTANDING Alsace- Lorraine) shall
be charged to the German government.
| Immediate Repatriation.
, Ten-An Immediate repatriation without
. 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
Eleyen-Sick and wounded who cannot
be removed from evacuated territories will
be cared for by German personnel who will
be left on the spot with the medical ma
terial required.
On East Boundary.
H.-Disposition relative to the eastern
frontiers of Germany:
| Twelve-All German troops at present ir
any territory which before the war be
longed to Russia, Rumania or Turkey shall
as they existed on August 1, 1911.
Thirteen-Evacuation by German troop:
to begin at once and all German. tnstruc
tors, prisoners and civilians as well as
military agents now the territory OF
Russia Gas defined before 1910 to be re
called.
once all acquisitions and seizures and any
other undertaking with a view to obtain
ing supplies intended for Germany IL
Rumania and Russia las defined on Angus
l, 1910.
observation-disclosures of the treaties O.
Bucharest and Brest-Litovk and of til,
supplementary treaties.
Sixteen-The allies shall have free ac
cess to the territories evacuated by tn,
Germans on their eastern frontier eithe
thru Danzig or by the Vistula in order t.
convey supplies to the population of thos
territories or for any other purpose.
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