The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-08
OciaI Summary of Peace Treaty Presented 10 Gernany
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tContinucd from Page Tbree) passes to French without payment or credit.
 France is substituted for Germany as regards ownership of the railroads and' rights over concessions of tramVfays. The Rhine bridges pass to France with rae obligation for their upkeep. For five years manufactured products of A1saee-forraine win be admitted to Germany free of duty to total amount not exceeding in any year the average or the three wears preceding the war anu textile materials may be imported rom tfermany to Alsace- Lorraine and re-eH- ported free of duty. ContnaoSs Tor eiee- stric power from the right bank must be continued for 1e years.
 ADMINISTRATIONS OF PORTS For seven wears with possible extension to 10, the ports of Tlehae and Strassbours shall be administered as a single unlI by French administrator appointed anu supervised by the Central Rhine commis- sion Property rights will be sateguarded in both ports and equality ot treatment as respects traffic assured the nationals vessels and goods of every country. Co9- tracts between Alsace-L -Lorrainers ald Germans are maintained save TOT Frances right to annul on grounds or public interest; judgments of courts holu in certain classes of eases, while in others judicial execuature is first redutred. Political sconaemnat ticns during the war are nuli and void and the obligation 10 repav war fines 'is established as in other parts of allied territory.
 Various clauses adjust the general pro- visions of the treaty to the speclal eonol- fions of Alsace-Lorraine, certaip matters of execution being left to conVe2tlons to be made between France and%l}er- many.
 FRANCE GETS MINES
 In lcompensation for the destruction Of coal mines in northern France and as payment on account of repsratlon, Ne many cedes to France full ownership or The coal mines of the Saar basin With their subsidiaries. accessories and tacih- ties.
 Their value will be estimated by the repara ton commission and creolteu F against that account The treheh rights will be goverened by German law in force at the armistice excepting war legislation, France replacing the' present owners whom Germany under takes to indemnify France will com tinue to furnish the present proportion of coal for local needs and cohtrlpule in inst proportion to local taxes
 The basin extends From the frontier of Lorraine as reanneXed to France north as far as St Wendell. including on the west the valley of the Saar as far as Saarholzbach andaon the east the town of Homburg
 GOVERNMENT, OF SAAR
 In order to secure the rights and well are of the population and to guarantee
 France entire freedom in working
 mines. the territory will be gov
 d by commission appointed by the
 ue ofa nations and consisting Of
 French native
 itant of the Saar and three rep
 ing three different countries
 than France and Germany. The
 will appoint a member of the
 ssion as chairman to act as ex-
 of the commission The commits
 yfll have ah powers of govern
 fG-merly belonging to the Ger
 .mpire Prussia and Bavaria will
 lister the railroads and other pub
 et-vice and have full power to in
 est the treaty clauses Ihe local
 Is will continue but subject to
 commission Existing German legis- ion will remain the basis of the law, It the commission may make modt- ication after consulting. a local rep resentative assembly which it will or < ranize It will have the taxing power, but for local purposes only Ne" IaNes must be approved by this assembly
 Labor legislation will consider the wishes of the local labor organizations and the labor programme of the league.
 CONTROL OF LABOR French and other labor may be freely utilized the former being free to be.- long to French unions. All rights ac- uuired as to pensions and social lh- , surance will be maintained by Germany 7 and the Saar commission. There Will be mo military service, but only a local ' neoule will preserve their local assem- blies religious liberties, schools and language, but may vote only for loeal assemblies. They will keep their pres ent nationality except so far as lhol' viduls may change it.
 Those wishing to leave will have every facility with respect to then property. The territory will form par' f of the French customs system with nc export tax on coal and metallurglca products going to Germany nor or German products entering the basin 4 and for five years no' import duties or 7 products of the basin going to Germany v or German products coming s1nto ta' basin for local consumption. French ruonev may circulate without reStrlc ton.
 ls PLEBISCITE PROVIDED FOR After Is years a plebiscite will h' tf held by eommunes to ascertain the de sires of the population as to. contlnu ance of the existing regime under tn' league of nations union with Franc of union with Germany. The right t' vote will belong to all inhabitants owe 20 resident therein att the signature ia Taking into account the opionons tnu expressed the league will decide tn ultimate sovereignty In any poruoi restored to Germany the German goY arnment must buy out the frencl mines at an appraised valuation. l the price is not paid within six month thereafter this portion passes tinall to France If Germany buys back tn mines the league will determine hoy much of the coal shall be annually sol 2 to France
 GERM AN AUSTRIA Germany recognizes the total inde st pendence of German Austria in tn boundaries traced.
 Germany recognizes the entire indepene ence of the Tcheeho- Slovak state, lnclue x ing the autonomous territory of the Rr thenians south of the Carpathians an accepts the frontiers of this state as N be determined, which in the ease of til (.srvnan frontier shall follow the frontit k Of Bohemia in 1914. The usual stipuE T tions as to acquisition and change of ns ticnality follow:
 Germany cedes to Poland the great' mart of upper Silesia, Posen and u he