The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-08

Paris, May S.-The treaty or peace be-
tween the twenty seven allied aud aSsOci
ated powers on the one hand aud Germany
on the other was handed to the German
The following official summary is
sued by the allied government.
Longest Treaty Ever Drawn.
cit is the longest treaty ever drawn
1T totals about eighty thousand words
represents the combined product OF over
&C. thousand experts working continually
thru a series Of commissions for the three
and half months since January IS The
treaty Is printed in pSfallel pages OF
English and French which are recognized
as having equal validity. 1t Goes not deal
with questions affecting Austria. bulgaria
and Turkey except insofar as binding Ger;
many to accept any agreement reacheu
Following the preamble and deposition
OF nations ms the first section of the
treaty. The frontiers of Germany In Europe
as defined In the second section; European
political classes given in the third; euro
o. pean political classes in the fourth. Next
0are the military, naval, and air terms as
prisoners OF war and military graves. and
"a seventh on responsibilities. Preparations
financial terms and economic terms are
- covered In sections eight to ten. Then
Eslcones the aeronnutic section, ports. water
Il ways and railways section, the labor cove
II nant, the section on guarantees and the
final clauses.
Restores AIsace-Lorralne.
Germany by the terms of the treaty re
B the Observation-Disclosures of the Saar basin
, temporarily and Of DanziG permanently
agrees to territorial changes toward Bel
GUM and Denmark and in East Prussia,
cedes most of upper Silesia to POland and
renounces all territorial and political
2 rights outside Europe. to her own or
z her allies territories and especially to Mo-
? rocco. Egypt, Siam. Iiberia and ShantunG
She also recognizes the total independence
Poland.
+ officers.
scriptiOn within her territories is abol-
-ished; all forts fifty, kilometers east of the
Rhine razetl and all importation. eNporta-
> ton and nearly all production of material
: stopped Allied occupation of parts Of
made but will be reduced at the end of
! each of three five-year periods If Germany
i Is fulfilling her obligations. Any viola
ton by Germany of the conditions as to
the zone fifty kiiometers east of the Rhine
will be regarded as an act of war
Leave Foe Only Battleships.
'The German navy is reduced to six
bntteships. six light cruisers and twelve
torpedo boats without submarines ana a
personnel of not over fifteen thousand. All
stroyed. Germany is forbidden to build
y ish Heligoland, open the Kiel canal to all
2 nations, and surrender her fourteen sub
= marine cables. She may have no military
or naval air forces except one hundred
unnrmed seaplanes until October to de-
tect mines and may manufacture aviation
material for six months.
"Germany accepts full responsibility for
Z all damages caused to allied and associated
Z governments and nationals. agrees spe-
a officially to reimburse all civilian damages
4 beginning with initial payment of TWEEN
ty billion marks subsequent payments to
: be secured by bonds to be issued ut the
discretion Of the reparations commission.
ton-for ton basis by cession of a large
part of her merchant, coasting and river
4 vote her economic resources to the rebuild
ing of the devastated regions
Must Surrender wilhelm.
'She agrees to return to the 1914 most
favored nations tariffs, with discrimina
= ton of sort to allow allied and assOci-
ntt.d nationals freedom of transit thru
her territories and to accept highly detail
8 ed provisions as to pre-war debts, unfair
competition, internntIOna lizhtion OF roads
j and rivers. and other economic ana imam
Z cin causes She also agrees to the trial
Z Of the ex -kaiser by an international high
court for supreme offense against in
for violation Of the laws and customs of
war. Holland to be asked to extradite the
former emperor and Germany being re-
sponsible for delivering the latter.
Accept World League.
Tile league of nations is accepted by
the allied and associated powers as opera
: tive and by Germany in principle but with
tIonai labor body is brought into being
with a permanent office and an annual
----tional bodies of different kinds and for
different purposes are created some under
~ the league Of nations, some to execute the
peace treaty Among the former is the
-. commission to govern the Sanr Basin till
i a plebiscite is held fifteen years hence; the
created into free city under the league.
= aud various commissions for plebiscites in
MalmOdy, SchesNig and East PRUSSIA.
= Among those to carry out the peace treaty
are the reparations. military. naval, mir.
y financial and economic commissions, the
j. international high court and military
= tribunal to fix responsibilities and Il series
= Of bodies for the control of International
Some Problems Left Over.
~ Certain problems are left for solution
4 between the allied aud associated powers
notably details of the disposition of the
German fleet and cables. the former Ger
y man colonies and the values paid in re-
Z paration. Certa-. 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 carly international action.
= Parties to Treaty.
PREAAIBLE-The preamble names rs
parties of the first part the United States.
- the British Empire. France, Italy and ia
pan, described as the I'VE allied and aSso
I'll. Cuba, China, Ecuador Greece, Guate-
- mnla. Haiti, the Hedjaz Honduras. Liberia,
= gal, Rumania. Serbia Siam, Czecho-Slo-
y vakia and Uruguay. who with the five
= above are described as the allied and assoc
u ciated powers. and on the other part. Ger
1T states that: Bearing in mind that on
request of the then imperial German gov
ernment armistice granted on No
: vember IL. 1918, by the five allied and
= associated powers in order that treaty
- Of peace might be concluded with her. and
> whereas the allied and associated powers
4 being equally DESTROYS that the war in
which they were successfully involved, d.
u rectly or indirectly. and which originated
In the declaration of war by Austro- Hun
= gary on July %. 1911, against Serbia, the
declaration Of war by Germany against
France on August 3, 1914. and in the in