The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-14

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powers within the period fixed for the
evacuation of Belgium and Luxem-
burg. The railways OF Alsace-Lor-
raine 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 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 ap-
pended regulates the details of these
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 meas
ures that may have been taken (such
as poisoning or p~olluting of springs,
wells, etc.) under penalty of repris-
ais.
"9.-The right of reQhisition 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 Tex
Guiding AlsaceeLorraine) shall be
charged to the German government.
"10.-An immediate repatriation
without reciprocity according to de-
tailed conditions which shall be fixed,
of all Allied and United States pris-
oners of war. The Allied powers and
the United States shall be able to dis
pose of these prisoners as they wish.
"11.-Sick and wounded who can
not be removed from evacuated terri
tory will be cared for by German per
sonnet who will be left on the spot
with the medical material required.
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 Tur-
key shall withdraw within the from
tiers Of Germany as they existed on
August /, 1914.
"13.-Evacuation by German troops
to begin at once and all German in
structors, prisoners and civilian as
well as military agents now in 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 a view to
obtaining supplies intended for Ger
many in Rumania and Russia (as de-
fined on August /, 1910.
"15.-Abandonment of the treaties
OF Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk. and
of the supplementary treaties.
"16.-The Allies shall have free ac-
cess to the territories evacuated by
the Germans on their eastern from
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.
'17.-Unconditional capitulation of
all German forces operating in East
Africa within one month.
"IV-General clauses:
INSTRUMENTATION, without reciproc-
ity, within a maximum period of one
month, in accordance with detailed
conditions hereafter to be fixed, of all
civilians informed or deported who
may be citizens of other Allied or as
sociated states than those mentioned
in Clause three, paragraph nineteen,
within the reservation that any future
claims and demands Of the Allies and
the United States of America remain
unaffected.
"19.-The following financial condi-
lions are required: Reparation for
damage done. While such armistice
lasts no public securities shall be re-
moved by the enemy which al serve
as a pledge to the Allies for the re-
covery or reparation for war losses.
Immediate restitution Of the cash
deposit in the national bank of Bel
gium and in general immediate return
of all documents, specie, stocks,
shares, paper money together with
plant for the issue thereof, touching
public or private interests in the in.
vaded countries. Restitution of the
Russian and Rumanian gold yielded to
Germany or taken by that power. This
gold to be delivered in trust to the AL
lies until the signature OF peace.
"V-Naval conditions.
"20.-Immediate cessation of all hos
tilities at sea and definite informa
ton to be given as to the location and
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