Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-05-14
OFFICIAL SUMMARY OF PEACE TREATY
Great Pact Handed to Germans at Versailles Pushes In Their
Frontiers and Destroys Their Military POwer-League of
Nations Established by the Document.


CZECHO-SLOVAKI rec
ognlzes the entire independence of the
Czecho-Slovak state, including the au-
| tonomous territory of the Ruthenians
south of the Carpathians, and accepts
the frontiers of this state as to be de-
termined which in the case of the Ger
or bohemia in 1914. The usual stipu-
iauons as to acquisition and change of
nationality follow.
POLAND-Germany cedes to Poland the
greatest part up upper SileSia, Posen and
the province of West Prussia, on the left
bank of the Vistula A field boundary
commission of seVen-fve representing
the allied and associated powers and one
each representing Poland and Germany
shall be constituted within Is days Of the
peace to delimit this boundary. Such
special provisions as are necessary to
protect racial linguistic or religious mi
norities and to protect freedom of tran
sit and equitable treatment of commerce
of other nations shall be laid down in a
subsequent treaty between the five allied
and associated powers and Poland.
EAST PRUSSIA-The southern and the
eastern frontier of East Prussia is to be
fixed by plebiscites, the first in the re-
ern frontier of East Prussia and the
northern frontier of Regierungsbesirk
| Allenstein, from where 1t meets the
| boundary between East and West Prus-
| STA to its ju lction with the boundary be-
tween the circles of Oletsko and Augers-
purg, thence the northern boundary OF
| OIetSbO TO It's Junction Will the present
frontier, and the second in the area COM
prising the circles of Stuhm and Rosen-
burg and the parts of the circles of Ma
rienburg and Marienwerder east of the
Vistula.
In each case German troops and au-
thorities will move out within Is days of
the peace and the territories be placed
under an international commission of five
members appointed by the five allied and
associated powers, with the particular
duty of arranging free, fair and secret
vote. The commission will report the re-
suits of the plebiscites to the five powers
with recommendation for the boundary
and will terminate It's work as soon as
the boundary has been laid down and the
new authorities set up.
The five allied and associated powers
will draw up regulations assuring East
Prussia full and equitable access to and
use OF the Vistula. A subsequent con-
Vention, of which the terms will be fixed
by the five allied and associated powers,
will be entered into between Poland,
Germany and Danzig, to assure suitable
railroad communication across German
territory on the right bank of the Vistula
between Poland and DanZig, while Poland
shall grant free passage from East Prus-
STA to Germany.
The northeastern corner of East Prus
STA about Memel is to be ceded by Ger
many to the associated powers, the for
mer agreeing to accept the settlement
made, especially as regards the nation
atty of the inhabitants.
DANZIG-Danzig and the district inn
mediately about it is to be constituted
into the free city of Danzig" under the
guaranty of the league of nations. A
high commissioner appointed by the
league and resident at Danzig shall draw
the duly appointed representatives of
the city and shall deal in the first
instance with all differences arising be-
tween the city and Poland. The actual
boundaries of the city shall be delimited
by a commission appointed within six
months from the peace and to include
three representatives chosen by the allied
and associated powers and one each by
Germany and Poland.
A convention, the terms of which shall
be fixed by the five allied and associated
powers, shall be concluded between Po-
land and Danzig, which shall include Dan
zig within the Polish customs frontiers,
though free area in the port; insure TO
Poland the free use of all the city's
waterways, docks and other port facii-
ties, the control and administration of the
Vistula and the whole through railway
systems within the city, and postal, tele
graph and telephone communication be-
tween Poland and DanZig; provide against
discrimination against Poles within the
city and place its foreign relations and
the diplomatic protection of its citizens
abroad in charge of Poland.
DENMARK-The frontier between Ger
many and Denmark will be fixed by the
self-determination of the population. Ten
days from the peace German troops and
authorities shall evacuate the region
north of the line running from the mouth
of the Schlei, south of Kappel, SchleSWig
and Friedrichstadt, along the Elder to
the North sea, south of Tonning; the
workmen's and soldiers council shall be
dissolved, and the territory administered
by an international commission of five,
of whom Norway and Sweden shall be in
vited to name two.
HELGOLAND. - The Notifications,
military establishments and harbOrs of
the islands of Helgoland and Dune are
to be destroyed under the supervision
of the allies by German labor and at
Germany's expense. They may not be
reconstructed for any similar fOrtifica-
tIOn built I'm the future.
RUSSIA.-Germany agrees to respect
as permanent and inalienable the indie
tendency of all territories which were
part of the former Russian empire, to
accept the abrogation of the Brest-
Litovsk and other treaties entered into
with the MaXimaliSt government of
all treaties entered into by the allied
and associated powers with states
which were a part of the former Rus
sian empire and to recognize the from
tiers as determined thereon. The al
lied and associated powers formally re-
serve the right of Russia to obtain res
titution and reparation of the princi-
Piles of the present treaty.
| Section FiVe-German Rights Outside
Europe
Outside Europe Germany renounces
all rights, titles and privileges as to
her own or her allies territories to all
the allied and associated powers, and
undertakes to accept whatever meas
ures are taken by the five allied pow
ers in relation thereto.
COLONIES AND OVERSEAS Pos
SESSIONS-Germany renOunces I'm ia
vor of the allied and associated powers
her overseas possessions with all rights
and titles therein. All movable and
immOvab1e property belonging to the
German empire or to any German
state shall pass to the government ex-
ercisinE authority therein.
These governments may make what
ever provisions seem suitable for the
repatriation of German nationals and
as to the conditions on which German
subjects of European origin shall re-
side, hold property or carry on busi-
ness. Germany undertakes to pay rep
aration for damage suffered by French
nationals in the kameruns or its from
tier zone through the acts of German
civil and military authorities and of
individual Germans from January l.
1909 to August l, 1914.