The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-05-15
GERMANY HANDED TREATY
BY PREMIER CLEMENCEAU
Germany restores Alsace Lorrai,


to France.
Germany accepts internationaliza-
tion of the Saar basin temporarily.
Germany shall be bound to accept
any agreement reached with her form
er Allies.
The treaty promulgates the League
Of Nations.
Danzig is permanently internation-
allied.
Germany agrees to territorial
changes toward Belgium and Dem
mark, and in East Prussia.
Germany cedes most Of the upper
Silesia to Poland.
Germany renounces all her territor-
ial and political rights outside Of
Europe.
Germany recognizes total independ-
ence Of German Austria.
Germany recognizes total independ-
ence of Czecho Slovakia and Poland.
The German army is reduced to
100000 men, including officers.
Conscription within German terri
tory abolished. -
All German forts for so kilometers
east of the Rhine to be razed.
All importation, expectation and
nearly all production Of war material
stopped.
Allied occupation of part Of Ger
many to continue until reparation is
made.
Any German violation of conditions
pertaining to the Rhine zone consti-
tutes an act of war.
The German navy reduced to six
battleships, six light cruisers and
twelve torpedo boats with no subma-
rines.
All other vessels must be surrendered
or destroyed.
German navy personnel to consist of
not over $4,000.
Germany forbidden to build forts
controlling the Baltic.
All Heligoland Notifications must
be demolished.
The Kiel canal to be open to all ma
tions.
Germany must surrender her four
teen submarine cables.
Germany's navy and military all
forces abolished after October 1.
Germany to accept full responsible.
ity for all damages to Allied and asso'
c;ated governments and nationalities
Germany must reimburse all civil.
ian damages beginning with initial
payment of 100000 100000 marks and
subsequent payment in reparation to
be secured by a bond issue approved
by the reparations commission.
Germany must pay shipping dam
ages ton for ton.
Germany must accept highly de.
tailed provision as to pre-war debts
unfair competition, and other econom.
ic and financial matters.
Germany must revert to pre-wal
traffic without discrimination.
Germany must allow freedom Of
transit through her territory to Al
lied nationalities.
Germany must accept highly de-
tailed provisions for internationaliza'
ton Of roads and rivers.
The ex-kaiser to be tried by an in.
ternational high court.
Other violators Of the laws Of wal
to be tried.
Holland to be asked to extradite the
ex-kaiser.
Germany is responsible for deliver.
ing other violators Of internationa
law.
Germany to accept the League o1
Nations in principle, but without mem
bership. ..
An international labor body created
Various international bodies to ex
ecute the provisions Of the treaty.
A commission created to govern tht
Saar basin pending plebiscite fifteer
years hence.
Commission created for plebiscitt
in Malmedy, Schcleswig, and East
Prussia.
Details of disposition Of the German
fleet and cables left to Allied powers
Disposition Of former German col
onies also left to the Allies.
Germany cedes to Belgium 80;
square miles Of territory between Lux
| emberg and Holland.
.Germany's sessions to Poland isolate
East Prussia from the rest Of Ger
many; the cession comprising 27,68'
square miles to France, $500 includ
ing Alsace Lorraine. d
| Germany's consent to the treaty
establishing Belgium as q neutra
state.
/ Luxemberg ceases to be a member
Of the German tariff union.
All Hohenzolern property in Alsact
Lorraine goes to France and Wes
Prussia to Poland.
Besides upper Silesia, Germany
ceded the greater part Of Posen with
out payment.
| France gains permanent possession
az the Saar coal mines. regardless o.