Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-05-14


| ciated governments either jointly or sew
| orally all persons so accused and all
| documents and information necessary to
| insure full knowledge OF the incrlminat-
| ing acts, the discovery of the Offenders
| and the just appreciation of the respon-
| sibility.
Section Seven-Reparation.
The allied and associated govern
ments affirm, and Germany accepts on
behalf of herself and her allies, the re-
sponsibility for causing all the loss
and damage to which the allied and
associated governments and their ma
donals have been subjected as con-
! sequence of the war imposed upon
them by the aggression of the enemy
! states.
The total obligation of Germany to
| pay as defined in the category of dam
! ages. is to be determined and notified
! to her after a fair hearing and not
! later than May l. 1921, by an inter
| allied reparation commission. At the
| same time a schedule of payments to
| discharge the obligation within thirty
| years shall be presented. These pay
| ments are subject to postponement in
| certain contingencies. Germany irreV.
| ocably recognizes the full authority or
| this commission, agrees to supply IT
| with all the necessary information and
| findings. She further agrees to restore
! to the allies cash and certain articles
! which can be identified.
AS an immediate step toward resto-
ration Germany shall pay within two
| years 10000, 600, 900 marks in either
| gold. goods, ships, or other SPECIFIC
| standing that certain expenses, such as
| those of the armies of occupation and
| payments for food and raw materials.
| may be deducted at the discretion of
| the allies
While the grand total of damages
| assessed against Germany may exceed
| make compensation for all damages
| caused to civilians under seven main
| categories: (a) Damages by personal
injury to civilians caused by acts of
| war, directly or indirectly; (b) damage
| caused to civilians by acts of cruelty
! ordered by the enemy and to civilians
| in the occupied territory; Co damages
| caused by maltreatment of prisoners;
| Cd damages to the allied peoples pre-
| sented by pensions and separation al
| lowances capitalized at the signature
of this treaty; (e) damages to prop
| erty other than naval or military ma
| terials; CD damages to civilians by be-
| ing forced to labor; (g) damages in the
| form of levies or fines imposed by the
| enemy.
In periodically estimating Germany's
| capacity to pay the reparation COM
| mission shall examine the German sys-
| tenn of taxation, first to the end that
| the sums for reparation which Ger
| many is required to pay shall become
| charge upon all her revenues, prior
| to that for the service or discharge OF
| any domestic loan, and, secondly, SO as
| to satisfy itself that in general the
| German scheme of taxation is fully as
| heavy proportionately as that Of any
| of the powers represented on the com
| mission.
| The commission may require Germany
| to give from time to time, by way OF
| guaranty, issues of bonds or other obnga.
| tons to cover such claims as are not
| otherwise satisfied. In this connection
! and on account of the total amount OF
claims, bond issues are presently to be
! required of Germany in acknowledgment
| of its debt as follows:
| Twenty billion marks, gold payable
not later than May l, 1921, without IN
| terest; forty billion marks, gold. bearing
| 21h per cent interest between 1921 and
| 1926 and thereafter 5 per cent, with L
| per cent sinking fund payment begin
liver forty billion marks gold bonds bear
! ing interest at per cent under terms 10
| be fixed by the commission.
sHIPoPING.-The German government
| recognizes the right of the allies to the
replacement ton for ton and class, for
| class, of all merchant ships and fishing
| boats lost or damaged owing to the war,
and agrees to cede to the allies all Ger
| man merchant ships of 1900 tons gross
and upward; one-half of her ships between
| 1,600 and LOCO tons gross and one-quarter
| of her steam trawlers and other fishing
boats These ships are to be delivered
| within two months TO the reparatlon
| committee together with documents of
| title evidencing the transfer of the ships
| free from encumbrance.
AS an additional part of PREPARATION.
| the German government further agrees
| to build merchant ships for the account
| of the allies to the amount of not ex-
| ceeding 100000 tons gross annually dur
ing the next five years. All ships used
| for inland navigation taken by Germany
| from the allies are to be restored within
| two months, the amount of loss not COW
cred by such restitution to be made up
| by the cession of the German river fleet
! up to 20 per cent thereof.
/ In order to effect payment by deliv-
/ cries in kind, Germany is required for
| limited number of years. varying in the
| case of each, to deliver coal, coal tar
| products, dyestuffs and chemical drugs in
| specific amounts to the separations com
| mission. The commission may so modi-
| fly the conditions of delivery as not to
| interfere unduly with GermanyS indus
| trial requirements. The deliveries of coal
are, based largely upon the principle OF
| ton of the allied countries resulting from
| the war.
DEVASTATED AREAs.-Germany un-
| dertakes to devote her economic
| sources directly to the physical restora-
| ton of the invaded areas. The reparation
commission is authorized to require Ger
| the delivery of animals machinery, etc,
| existing in Germany, and to manufacture
| materials required for reconstruction pur-
| poses; all with due consideration for Ger
many's essential domestic requirements.
Germany is to restore within six months
| the Koran of the Caliph Gilman, former
| ly at Medina, to the king of Hedjaz and
| the skull of the Sultan Okwawa, formerly
| in German East Africa, to his Britannia
| majesty's government. The German gov
| eminent is also to restore to the French
| government certain papers taken by the
| German authorities in 1870, belonging then
| to NJ Reuher and to restore the French
| 1871
| FINANCES.-Powers to which German
| territory is coded will assume a GER
| tain portion of the German prewar debt,
| the amount to be fixed by the repara-
| tons commission on the basis of the
| ratio between the revenue and Of the
ceded territory and Germany's total rev.
| enues for the three years preceding the
| war. In view. however, of the special
| circumstances under which Alsace-Lor-
| raine was separated from France in
| 1871, when Germany refused to accept
any part of the French public debt,
| France will not assume any part of Ger
many's prewar debt there, nor will Po-
| land share in certain German debts in
Cured for the oppression of Poland. If
the value of the German public property
| in coded territory exceeds the amount
| of debt assumed, the states to which
] property ceded will give credit on repara-