River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-05-15
Enemy Is Shorn of All Military
Power by the Stern
Document.
FIRST PAYMENT 5 BILLION
Must Agree to Restoration of Alsace-
Lorraine; Agree to Trial of Ex-
Kaiser; Approves League; Cut
Army to 100000, and
Reduce the Navy.

Paris, May S.-Following is the Of
fetal brief summary of the peace
treaty as presented to the German
plenipotentiaries at memorable as
semblage at Versailles on Wednesday
afternoon, attended by the delegates
of the twenty-seven nations which are
parties to the peace pact:
Following the preamble and depo-
sition Of powers comes the covenant
Of the league of nations as the first
section Of the treaty.
The frontiers of Germany in Eu-
rope are defined in the second Sec
ton European political classes given
In the third; European political classes
in the fourth.
Next are the military, naval and
air terms as the fifth section, followed
by q section on prisoners Of war and
military graves and a seventh on re-
sponsibilities.
Preparations, financial terms and
economic terms are covered in Sec
tons eight to ten. Then comes the
aerOnautic sections, ports, waterways
and railways sections, the labor cove
nant, the sections on guarantees, and
the final clauses.
AIsace-Lorraine Restored.
Germany, by the terms Of the treaty,
restores Alsace-Lorraine to France,
accepts the Observation-Disclosures Of the
Sarre Basin temporarily and Of Dan
zig permanently, agrees to territorial
changes toward Belgium and Den
mark and in East Prussia, cedes most
of upper Silesia to Poland, and re-
nounces all territorial and political
rights outside Europe, as to her own
or her allies territories, and especial
ly to Morocco, Egypt, Siam, Liberia
and Shantung.
She also recognizes the total indie
pendence of German-Austria, Czecho-
Slovakia and Poland.
Her army is reduced to 100000 men,
including officers.
Conscription within her territories
Is abolished.
All forts 50 kilometers east of the
Rhine are to be RACED.
All importation, expectation and
nearly all production of war material
is stopped.
German Navy Is Reduced.
Allied occupation Of parts of Ger
many will continue till reparation is
made, but will be reduced at the end
Of each Of three five-year periods if
Germany is fulfilling her obligations.
Any violation by Germany Of the
conditions as to the zone so kilometers
east Of the Rhine will be regarded as
an act Of war.
The German navy Is reduced to six
battlesh,ps. six light cruisers and
twelve torpedo boats, without sub
marines, and personnel Of not over
$4,000.
ALI other vessels must be surren.
dered or destroyed.
Germany is forbidden to build forts
controlling the Baltic, must demolish
Heligoland, open the Kiel canal to
all nations and surrender her four
teen submarine cables.
She may have no military or naval
air forces except 100 unarned sea-
planes until October 1 to detect mines.
Responsible for All Damage.
Germany may manufacture aviation
material for only six months.
Germany accepts full responsibility
for oil damages caused to allied and
associated governments and nationals,
agrees specifically to reimburse all
civilian damages beginning with an in
itial payment Of 2O,00O,0OO,OOO marks,
subsequent payments to be secured by
OF the reparation commission.
Germany is to pay shipping damage
on a ton-for-ton basis by cession of
large part Of her merchant, coasting
and river fleets and by new construc-
ton, and to devote her economic re-
sources to the rebuilding of devastated
regions.
Germany agrees to return to the
1914 MISUNDERSTANDING tariffs with
out discrimination Of any sort; to al
low allied and associated nationals
freedom Of transit through her terri
tories. and to accept highly detailed
provisions, as pre-war debts, unfair
competition, Observation-Disclosures Of
roads and rivers, and other economic
and financial clauses.
She also agrees to the trial Of the
ex-kasser by an international high court
for supreme Offense against inter-
national morality and of other nation
ais for violation Of the laws and Gus
toms of war, Holland to be asked to