Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-05-16

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understandings like the Monroe Doc
trine, for securing the maintenance
Of peace.
I The Mandatory System.
The tutelage Of nations not yet able
to stand by themselves will be en-
trusted to advanced nations who are
best fitted to undertake 1t.
Amendments to Covenant.
Amendments to the covenant will
take effect when ratified by the coun-
Gil and by a majority Of the assembly.
Boundaries of Germany.
Germany cedes to France Alsace-
Lorraine, 5000 square miles, to the
southwest. and to Belgium two small
districts between Luxembourg and Hol-
land, totaling $50 square miles. She
also cedes to Poland the southeastern
tip Of Silesia, beyond and including
Oppelin, most of Posen and West
Prussia, 27,6S6 square miles Of East
Prussia being isolated from the main
body by part Of Poland. She loses
sovereignty over the northeasternmost
tip of East Prussia, 40 square miles
north of the River Memel, and the in
ternationalized areas about Danzig,
729 square miles, and the basin of The
Saar, 73S square miles, between the
western border Of the Rhenish Pala-
tinate Of Bavaria and the southeast cor
ner Of Luxembourg. The Danzig area
consists of the V between the Nogat
and Vistula rivers made by the addi-
ton Of similar V on the west, includ-
ing the city Of DanZig. The south
eastern third of East Prussia and the
area between East Prussia and the
Vistula north Of latitude SO degrees 8
minutes Is to have it's nationality de-
termined by popular vote, 5,7S5 square
miles, as is to be the case in part of
Belgium.
Germany is to consent to the abro-
CATION of the treaties Of 1889, by which
Belgium was established as q neutral
state, and to agree in advance to any
convention with which the Allied and
Associated Powers may determine to
replace them. She is to recognize the
full sovereignty Of Belgium over the
contested territory of Moresnet and
over part Of Prussian Moresnet, and to
medy, the inhabitants Of which are to
ben entitled within six months to pro-
test against this change Of sovereignty
either in whole or in part, the final de-
cision to be reserved to the League OF
Nations. A commission Is to settle
the details of the frontier, and various
regulations for change Of nationality
are laid down.
Luxembourg.
Germany renounces her various
treaties and conventions with the
Grand Duchy Of Luxembourg, recog'
nizes that it ceased to be part of
the German Zollverein from January
l last, renounces all right Of exploita-
ton of the railroads, adheres to the ab-
rogation Of its neutrality, and accepts
in advance any international agree
ment as to it, reached by the Allied
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AIsace-Lorraine.
After recognition of the moral obli-
CATION to repair the wrong done in
1871 by Germany to France and the
people of Alsace-Lorraine, the terri.
tories ceded to Germany by the treaty
Of Frankfort are restored to France
with their frontiers as before 1871, to
date from the signing of the armistice
and to be free of all public debts.
>*..' - The saar.
In compensation for the destruc-
ton of coal mines in northern France
and as payment on account of repara-
ton, Germany cedes to France full
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Saar basin with their subsidiaries,
accessories, and facilities; their value
will be estimated by the Reparation
Commission and credited against that
account. The French rights will be
governed by German law in force at
the armistice, excepting war legisla.
ton, France replacing the present
owners whom Germany undertakes to
indemnify. France will continue to
furnish the present proportion Of coal
for local needs and contribute in just
proportion to local taxes. The basin
extends from the frontier of Lorraine
as re-annexed to France, north as far
as Stwendel, including on the west
the valley of the Saar as far as Saar-
holzbach and on the east the town of
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German Austria. -.-..
Germany recognizes the total inde-
pendence Of German Austria in the
boundaries traced.
Czecho-Slovakia. - ~
Germany recognizes the entire in
dependence Of the Czecho-Slovak state.
Poland.
Germany cedes to Poland the great