The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-07
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kaiser and by an international high
court for supreme offense against
International morality and of other ma
tionals for violation of the laws and
customs Of war, Holland to be asked
to expedite the former, and Germany
being responsible for delivering the
latter.
The league OF nations Is accepted
by the allied and associated powers
as operative and by Germany in prin-
ciple but without membership.
Commission Provided
Similarity an international labor
body is brought into being with a per.
raanent office and an annual conven-
ton. A great number Of international
bodies of different kinds and for DIFF
ferent purposes are created, some
under the league OF nations, some to
execute the peace treaty. Among the
former is the commission to govern
the Saar basin until plebiscite Is
held fifteen years hence; the high COM
mission of Danzig which is created
into a free city under the league and
various commissions for plebiscites in
Malmody Schleswig and East Prussia.
Among those to carry out the peace
treaty, are the reparations military,
naval, air, financial and economic
conditions, the international high
courts and military tribunals to FIX
responsibilities, and series Of bodies
for the control of International rivers.
Certain problems are left for solu-
ton between the allied and associated
powers, notably details Of the DISPOSE
ton of the German feet and cables,
the former German colonies. and the
values paid in reparation. Certain
other problems, such as the air and
the opium, arms and liquor traffic are
either agreed to in detail or set for
an early international action.
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 Belgium, Bo-
livia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador,
Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, the Hedjaz,
Honduras, Liberia, Nicaragua, Pana-
ma, Peru, Portugal, Rumania, Serbia,
Siam, Czecho-Slovakia and Uruguay,
who with the five above are described
as the allied and associated powers
and on the other part, Germany.
It states that: Bearing In mind that
on the request of the then imperial
German government an armistice was
granted on November II, 1918, by the
five allied and associated powers in
order that a treaty Of peace might be
concluded with her, and where as the
allied and associated powers being
equally DESTROYS that the war in which
they were successfully involved, direct
ly or indirectly, and which originated
in the declaration of war by Austria
Hungary on July %, 1914, against Ser
bia, the declaration OF war by Germany
against Russia on August /, 1913, and
against France on August 8, 1914, and
in the invasion of Belgium should be
replaced by a firm just and durable
peace, the plenipotentiaries, having
communicated their full powers have
agreed as follows:
From the. coming into force of the
present treaty, the state of war will
terminate from the moment, and sub
ject to the provision of this treaty.
official relations with Germany, and
| with each of the German states, will
be resumed by the allied and associat.
ed powers.
Section 1 League Of Nations-The
covenant of league of nations consti
tutes section 1 Of the peace treaty
which places upon the league many
specific duties In addition to its gen
eral duties. 1t may question Germany
at any time for violation of the neu
traliZed zone east of the Rhine as 8
threat against the worlds peace. Il
will appoint three of the Eve members
Of the Saar commission, oversee it:
regime, and carry out the plebiscite.
1t will appoint the high commission
er OF Danzig, guarantee the independ
ence Of the free city and arrange fol
a treaty between Danzig and German!
and Poland. It will work out the man
datory system to be applied to the for
mer German colonies and act as &
final court in part Of the plebscite o
the Belgian-German frontier, and II
/ disputes as to the Kiel canal, and de
eide certain Of the economic and finan
cial problems.
An international conference of lab
or is to be held in October under 1T
direction and another on the inter
national control of ports, waterway
and Railways is foreshadowed.