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enjoy for the purpose of exploiting the
mines and their accessories and sub
salaries"
All of this goes to the French State
to do with as 1t will In the remote
event of the territory deciding to return
10 Germany at the end OF fifteen years
end being permitted to return-Germany,
having previously Unidentified all private
owners for this loss, will be required to
pay the French for the mines on a then
to be appraised valuation.
Furthermore. the Germans are forbid
den to erect any barrier in the way OF
French exploitation through tariffs, rail-
road rates or other discrimination. No
such bar stands in the way of the
French. The treaty provides that the
Germans may maintain their own
schools but the French also are per-
mitted to institute schools from the pri-
mary to the technical "in connection with
the exploitation OF the mines" and as
the mines are the. overwhelming industry
OF the region II Is fairly presumed that
the French schools will easily dominate.
French workmen are to be permitted to
enter the territory freely and to belong
to French unions.
Though the government of the Saar
Valley is reposed finally in the COM
mission Of the League of Nations. this
commission must consult the locally
elected governing bodies. Despite the
present German character of the popula-
ton the permission for the importation
of French workmen 10 deemed reason
ably to foreshadow the complexion Of
| these local legislatures within the very
| immediate future.
Supplying Coal to France.
Despite the fact that all of this IS
done on the theory of indemnifying
France for the German destruction of
| her northern coal mines. another section
of the treaty provides that Germany
shall supply to France at price to be
later agreed upon in accord with the
then market conditions of English coal,
| 1000, 900 tons of coal a year. and in ad-
dition thereto. coal equivalent to the
difference between the production of the
| French mines in the Departments du'
Nord and Pas de Calais in the year in
question and their production before the
| war, not to exceed in all 100000 tons
| in any of the first five years and 8.000,-
900 tons In any of the succeeding five
years.
| The mines of these two departments
are the ones against whose destruction
the Saare settlement was supposed to
operate.
As already cabled to THE Sun by
Mr. Hills and to other papers by their
Paris correspondents the treaty shows
the most farreaching powers over Ger
| man affairs reposed in the Reparation
Commission upon which will sit a repre-
| sentative each of the United States,
| Great Britain. France, Italy and Bel
GUM. with representatives of Serbia
| or Japan taking the place OF the Bel
gian delegate when their own affairs are
| in question and they being similarly re-
placed in favor of other delegates in
similar conditions. 1t Is now proposed
to allow Germany representative on
| this commission.
through it's hands will pass all the bust
ness OF the settlement of the multitude
nous and heterogeneous claims against
| Germany under the many categories set
| forth in the treaty.
| The text reveals that the total cash
reparation required from Germany will
be In the neighborhood OF S25 900, 000,-
| 600. provided for in a series of three
bond issues Preparations In ships and
otherwise in kind will bring the total
sum to probably several times the cash
mentioned.
OF Importance to Bankers.
| 1t Is pointed out here that the In
volved procedure set out for the issue
| and guarantee of the German bonds
the provisions for the new German fnan-
cial relations toward her former allies,
priorities in German payments to the
various debtors created, the disposition
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