The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-04
By AsseeIated Press

Paris, Wednesday, July 2.-The text of the agreements between France and the United States and France and Great Britain were given out by the foreign of flee late tonight.
 The agreement with the United States cites articles of the peace treaty pro- hibiting Germany from fortifying either the right or lief. bank of the Rhine, or assembling fcrces within 30 miles east of the Rhine, and provides in case these provisions do not assure France proper security and protection, the United States is bound to come immediately to the aid of France, If any unprovoked act of aggression is made against her by Germany.
 It is provided the treaty shall be sub mitted to the council of the league of nations, which will decide whether to rec ognize it as an engagement in con- formity with the league covenant, and also provides that the treaty shall be submitted to the United States Senate and the French parliament for approval Ire text of the treaty follows:
 Considering that the United States of America and the government of the French republic are equally animated by desire to maintain the peace of the world, so happily restored by the treaty signed at Versailles on June 2, which put an end to the war begun by the ag- gression of the German empire and ter minated by the defeat of that power and,
 Considering that the United States of America and the government of the French republic, fully convinced that an x-oIrz many against France would not only vio- late at the same time the letter and spirit of the Versailles treaty to which the United States and France are par ties. thus exposing France anew to the intolerable burden of unprovoked war but that such aggression on the part or Germany would constitute an act repre- sented by the treaty of Versailles as be- ing against all the powers signatory to the treaty, and calculated to trouble the peace of the world, involving inevitably and directly the states of Europe and in- directly the entire world, as experience has amply and unhappily demonstrated, and,
 considering that the United States of America and the government of the French republic apprehend that the stip- ulationse concerning the left bank of the Rhine cannot assure immediately to France, on the one hand and to the United States on the other as signatory powers to the treaty of Versailles, appro- priate security and protection;
 "Consequently the United States of America and the government of the French republic, having decided to con clude treaty to realize these necessary ends, Woodrow Wilson President of the United States of America and Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, especially authorized to that end by the President OF TxnfhN
 Georges Cemenceau, president of the council of ministers and minister of war. and stephen Pichon, minister of foreign affairs, specially authorized to that end by Raymond Poincaire, president of the French republic, have agreed upon the following:
 Article 1. The following stipulations concerning the left bank of the Rhine are contained in the peace treaty signed with Germany at Versailles, June 2S. 1919 by the United States of America, the gov ernment of the French republic and by the British empire, among other powers:
 Article P. Germany is prohibited from maintaining or constructing forti- flea lions either on the left bank of the Rhine or on the right bank west of a line running 50 kilometres to the east of that river.
 Article g. In the area defined q atave the maintenance and the assembly Of armed forces either permanently or temporarily, ad military maneuvers of any kind, as well as the upkeep of all permanent works for mobilization, are In the same way forbidden.
 Article 24. In case Germany vio- lates in any manner whatever the pro- visions of Articles P and 23, she shall be regarded as committing a hostile act against the powers signatory of the pres ent treaty. and as calculated to disturb the peace of the world"