The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-07
Longest Treaty Ever Drawn Spells End of Germany AS Military Power Forever

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 thousand men including officers; con- ] scription within her territories is
 abolished; all forty fifty kilometers | east of the Rhine abolished and all | importation, expor1ation and nearly
 production af war material stopped. 1 Allied occupation of parts of Ger many will continue until reparation
 is made but will be reduced at the ! end of each of three five-year pc riods if Germany is fulfilling her ob- | legations. Any violation by Ger
 many of the conditions as to the zone fifty kilometers east of the
 Rhine will be regarded as an act of war.
 The German navy Is reduced to six batleships, six light cruisers and 12 1 torpedo boats. without submarines, and a personnel of not over 15,0O0. All other vessels must be surrendered or destroyed Germany is forbidden to build forts controlling the Baltic; must demolish Heligoland, open the Kiel canal to all nations, and surren- der her 14 submarine cables. She may have no military or naval air forces except 100 unarmed seaplanes until October 1st, to detect mines, and may manufacture aviation material for six months.
 Germany accepts full responsibil- ity for all damages caused to Allied and Associated Governments and na- tionals, agrees specifically to reim- i purse all civilian damages beginning with an initial payment of 2O,00O, | 000,000 marks subsequent payments to be secured by bonds to be issued 1 at the discret-on of the reparation i commission. Germany is to pay shipping damage on a ton-for-ton 1 bases by cession of a large part of : her merchant, coasting and river | fleets and by new construction; and i to devote her economic resources to | the rebuilding of the devastated re- | gions.
 i She agrees to return to the nine | teen fourteen most-favored-nation
 tariffs. without discrimination of sort. 1 To allow Allied and Associated na-
 tionals freedom of transit through ner ] territories, and to accept highly de- | tailed provisions as to pre-war debts,
 unfair competition, internationaliza- 1 ton of roads and rivers, and other | economic and financial clauses. She | also agrees to the trial of the eX- 1 Kaiser by an international high court | for a supreme offense against inter national morality, and of other na- ! ticnals for violation of the laws and l CuSlOIlS- Ol war; E1Olldnu to De dSk6d l to eXtradite the former and Germany
 being responsible for delivering the l latter.
 The League of Nations is accepted ! by the Allied and Associated Powers i as operative and by Germnay in prin- l ciple but without membership. Sim | ilarly an international labor body is l brought into being with a permanent i office and annual convention. A i great number of international bodies ! of different kinds and for different ! purposes are created, some under the i League of Nations, some to execute l the peace treaty. Among the former
 is the commission to govern the Saar 1 Basin till a plebiscite is held IS years
 hence. The high commissioner of Danzig, which is created into a free
 city under the league, and various i commissions for plebiscites in Nal ! mody, Schleswig, and East Prussia.
 Among those toAcarry out the peace i treaty are the reparations, military, 1 naval, air, financial and economic | commissions, the international high
 court and military tribunals to fix re- i responsibilities, and a series of bodies 1 for the control of international rivers.
 Certain problems are left for solu- ton between the A7<!ed and Associat- l ed Powers, notably details of the dis position of the German fleet and ca bles, the former German colonies, and the values paid in reparation. Ger
 tain other problems such as the laws of the air and the opium, arms and
 liquor traffic are either agreed to in detail or set for early international action.
 | PREAALBLE-The preamble names
 as parties of the one part the United
 States, the British Empire, France
 Italy. and Japan, described as the five
 allied and associated powers, and Bel
 giunl, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba,
 Ecuador, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti,
 the Hedjaz, Honduras, Liberia, Nic-
 Gragua, Panama, Peru Portugal Rou-
 klania, Serbia, Siam, Czech -SIovakia
 and Uruguay, who with the five above
 are described as the Allied and Asso-
 ciated Powers and on the other part,
 Germany.
 It states that: Bearing in mind
 that on the request of the Imperial German government an armistice was
 granted on Nov. Il, 1918, by the five
 Allied and Associated Powers in or
 der that a treaty of peace might be
 concluded with her and whereas the
 Allied and Associated Powers being
 equally desirous that the war in
 which they were involved directly or indirectly, and which originated in
 the declaration of war by Austria Hungary on July 28, 1914, against Ser bia, the declaration of war by Ger many against Russia on August 1st, 1 1914, and against France on August 3rd, 1914, and in the invasion of Bel giun, should be replaced by @ firm,
 just and durable peace, the p1enipo- } tentiaries, Chaving communicated ] their full powers found in good and due form have agreed as follows): From the coming into force of the ] present treaty the state of war will terminate.