Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-05-08

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ersburg, thence the northern boundary
of Oletsko to it's junction with the
present frontier, and the second in
the area comprising the circles of
Stuhm and Rosenberg and the parts
! OF the circles of Marineburg and
Marlenwerder east of the Vistula. In
each case German troops and authori-
ties will move out within Is DAYS of
the peace and the territories be pac-
ed under an international commission
of five members appointed by the
I'VE allied and associated powers, with
the particular duty of arranging for
a free, fair and secret vote. The COM
mission will report the results of the
plebiscites to the five powers with a
recommendation for the boundary and
will terminate its work as soon as the
boundary has been laid down and the
new authorities set up.
Can Use Vistula.
The five allied and associated DOW
ers will draw up regulations ssur-
ing East Prussia full and equable
access to and use of the Vistula. A
subsequent convention of which the
terms will be fixed by the five allied
and associated powers, will be enter
ed to between Poland, Germany and
Danzig to assure suitable railroad
communication across German terri
tory on the right bank of the Wis.,
tula between Poland and Danzig,
while Poland shall grant free passage
from East Prussia to Germany.
| The northeastern corner of East
Prussia about Memel is to be ceded
by Germany to the associated powers,
the former agreeing to accept the
settlement made, especially as regards
the nationality of the inhabitants.
| Danzig: Danzig and the district
Immediately about it is to be consti-
tuted into the "free city of Danzig."
! Under the guarantee of the league of
nations. A high commissioner ap-
pointed by the league and president
at Danzig shall draw up constitu-
ton in agreement with the duly ap-
pointed representatives of the city
and shall deal in the first instance
with all difference arising between the
city and Poland. The actual boundar-
les Of the city shall be delimited by a
commission appointed within six
months from the peace and to include
three representatives chosen by the
allied and associated powers and one
each by Germany and Poland
| Danzig to Poland.
A convention, the terms of which
shall be fixed by the five allied and
associated powers, shall be concluded
between Poland and Danzig which
shall include Danzig within the Pol
ish customs frontiers through a free
area in the port; insure to Poland the
free use of all the city's waterways,
docks and other port facilities, the
Vistula and the whole through rail-
way systems within the city, and
postal, Geographic and telephone
communication between Poland and
Danzig, provide against discrimina-
ton against Poles within the city and
!place it's foreign relations and the
diplomatic protection of it's citizens
abroad in charge of Poland
Denmark: The frontier between
Germany and Denmark will be fixed
by the DIFFERENTIATION of the
population. Ten days from the peace
German troops and authorities shall
evacuate the region north of the line
running from the mouth of the Sch
lei, south of Kappel, Schleswig and
Freidrichstadt along the Elder to the
North Sea south of Tonning; the
workmens and soldiers councils shall
be dissolved; and the territory admin.
tered by an international commission
of five, of whom Norway and Swed.
en- shall be invited to name two.
| Orders Free Vote.
The commission shall insure free
and secret vote in three zones. That
between the German Danish frontier
and line running south of the island
of Alsen, north of Flensburg and
south of Tondern to the North Sea
north of the island of Sylt will vote
as unit within three weeks after
the evacuation. Within five. weeks af-
ter this state the second zone, whose
southern boundary runs from the
north sea south of the Island of Fehr
to the Baltic south of Sygum, will
vote by communes. Two weeks after
that vote the third zone running to
the limit of evacuation also will vote
by communes. The international COM
mission will then draw anew from
tier on the basis of these plebiscites
and with due regard for geographical
cal and economic conditions. Ger
many will renounce all sovereignty
over territories north of this line in
favor Of associated governments, who
hand them over to Denmark.
Heligoland: The Notifications,
military establishments and harbors
of the Islands of Heligoland and Dune
are to be DESTROYED under the super
vision of the allies by German labor
and at Germany's expense. They may
not be reconstructed for any similar
Notifications built in the future.
To Respect Russia.
! Russia: Germany agrees to respect
as permanent and inalienable the in
dependency of all territories which
were part Of the former Russian en-
pire, to accept the abrogation of the
Brest- Litovsk and other treaties en-
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