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Treaty of Peace Between Twen-
ty-Seven Allied Nations
and German
Republic.
LONGEST EVER DRAWN
Does Not Deal with Austria, Bulgaria
and Turkey Excepting a.
Former Prussian
Allies.
LONGEST EVER DRAWN

L
VERSAILLES, May 7-Following is
the official summary of the Peace trea-
ty, as issued today by the allied gov
ernments:
The treaty of peace between the
twenty-seven allied and associated
powers on the one hand and Germany
| On the other, was handed to the Ger
man plenipotentiaries at Versailles to-
day.
q 1t is the longest treaty ever drawn.
1t totals about eighty thousand words,
divided into fifteen main sections and
represents the combined product OF
over a thousand experts working con-
.tinuously through series Of commits
, stons Cor the three and half months
s1nce January IS. The treaty is printed
in parallel pages OF English and French
which are recognized as having equal
validity.
1t does not deal with questions af-
fecting Austria, Bulgaria aud Turkey,
except in SO fa- as binding, Germany
to accept any agreement reached with
those former allies.
Following the preamble and deposi-
ton of powers comes the covenant or
iithe league of nations rs the first sec
ton of the treaty. The frontiers OF
Germany in Europe are defined in the
second section: European political
classes given in the third; and extra
European political classes in the
fourth. Next are the military, naval
and air terms as the fifth aection, fol-
lowed by a section on prisoners o,
war and military graves and a seventh
on responsibilities.
Reparation, financial terms and eco
romic terms are covered In sections
eight to ten. Then comes the aeronau-
tic section, ports, waterways and rail-
ways section, the labor covenant, the
section on guarantees, and the final
clauses.
Germany by the terms Of the treaty
restores Alsace-Lorraine to France, &C
cepts the Observation-Disclosures Of the
saar basin temporarily and Of Danzig
permanently, agrees TO territorial
changes towards Belgium and Den
mark and in East Prussia, ceeds most
cf Upper Silesia to Poland and re-
l'nounces all territorial and political
rights outside Europe, as to her own or
her allies territories, and especially
to Morocco, Egypt, Siam, Liberia and
Shantung. She also recognizes the
total independence Of German Austria,
Czecho-Slovia and Poland Her arms
Is reduced to a hundred thousand men,
Including officers; conscription within
her territories is abolished; all forts
ffty lsilometeNs east Of the Rhine
razed. and all importation. exporta-
tion and nearly all production of war
material stopped.
Allied occupation OF parts of Ger
many will continue till reparat,on Is
made. but will be reduced at the ena
of each of three five-year perloos IL
Germany is fulfilling her obligations'
Any violation by Germany or the con-
6itions as to the zone fifty hlometers
east of the Rhine will be regarded as
act Of war.
the German navy is reduced to SIX
ba tt1eships. six light cruisers and
twelve torpedo boats. without submar-
;nes and a. personnel Of not over flf-
teen Thousand All other vessels must
be surrendered or destroyed. Germany
! is forbidden to build forts controllfns
| Tho Baltic, must demolish Heligoland,
open the Kiel canal to ally nations
and surrender her fourteen submarine
ca HES She may have no military or
naval air forces except one hundrea
unarmed seaplanes until October to
detect mines and may manufacture
AVIATION material for six months:
| Germany accepts full responsibility
for all damages caused to allied ana
iassociated governments and Nationals,
egrees specifically to reimburse all
civilian damages, beginning with an
initial payment of twenty billion