The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-08
PARTIAL SUMMARY
OF PEACE TREATY

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manufacture aviation material for SIX
months.
To Reimburse Civilians
"Germany accepts full responsibility
for all damages caused to allied ana
associated governments and nationals,
agrees specifically to reimburse all
civilian damages beginning with an
initial payment OF twenty billion marks
subsequent payments To be secured 10y
bonds to be issued at the discretion
Of the repaiation committee. Germany
is to pay shipping damage on ton
for-ton basis by cession of large part
OF her merchant, coasting and river
fleets and by new construction; and
to devote her economic resources to the
rebuilding of the devastated regions,
"She agrees to return TO the 1914
most favored.nation tariffs. with dis
elimination of sort: To follow allied
and associated nationals freedom of
transit through her territories and TO
accept highly detailed provisions as TO
pre-war debts, unfair competition. in
Standardization of roads and rivers,
and other economic and financial
clauses.
she also agrees to the trial of the
ex'kaiser by an International high court
Tor supreme offense against interna
tional morality and Of other nations
for violation of the laws and customs
OF war. Holland TO be asked to eXtradite
the former emperor and Germany be-
ing responsible for delivering the lat
ter.
Accepts League rs Non-Membar
=, The League of Nations is accepted
1by the allied and associated powers as
Operative and by Germany in prin.
ciple, but without membership. Simil
aI1ly, an international labor body is
brought into being with permanent
office and an annual convention. y
great number of international bodies
of different kinds and for different pur-
poses 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 till pIebiscite is held fifteen
years hence; the high commissioner of
DanZig, which is created into "a free
city under the league, and various com
missions for plebiScites III MalmOdy,
Schleswig, and East Prussia. Among
those to carry out the peace treaty are
the reparations, military, naval air,
financial and economic commissions,
the international high court and mill.
taly tribunal TO fix raspons Utilities,
and u series of bodies for the control
of international rivers.
Certain problems are left for solution
between the allied and associated pow
ers notably details of the disposition
of the German fleet. and cables, the for
mer German colonies. and the values
paid in reparation. Certain other prob.
jems such as the laws of the air and
the opium. arms and liquor traffic are
either agreed in details or set for
early International action.
Parties to the Treaty
The preamble names as parties of
the one part the United States, the
British empire, France, Italy, and ia
pan described as the five allied and
associated powers, and Belgium, Boil
! ia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador,
'Ttrcece, Guatemala, Haiti, the Hedjaz,
Honduras, Liberia, Nicaragua, Panama,
Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Ser
bia, Siam. Czecho- -Slovakia, and Uur-
quay, who with the five above are
described as the allied and associated
powers, and on the other part, Ger
many.
1t statos that: Bearing in mind that
on the request of the then imperial
German government an aI1ustice was
granted ON Nov. .ieVeHh, nineteen
eighteen, by thu five allied and asso-
ciated powers. in order that i treaty
Of peace might be concluded with her,
and whereas the allied and associated
powers being equally desrous that the
war in which they We're successfully in
volved or indirectly and which origi-
mated in the declaration of war by
Austria-Iiungary on July Is, 1914. /
against Serbia, the declaration of war
by Germany against Russia on August
l, 1914, and against France OH August /
), 1914, and i'll the invasion of Bel /
GUM, should be replaced by a firm, /
just and durable peace, the plenipo-
tentiaries having communicated their
fun powers found in good and due
form have agreed as follows:
From the coming into force Of the /.
present treaty the state of war viii
terminate. From the momllx, and /
subject to the provisions Of this treaty.
official relations with Germany, and |
with each Of the German states, will .
be resumed by the allies and associat-
ed powers.
The League of Nations
/ Section one-League of Nations. The .
Covenant of the league of nations con.
stautes section ons Of the pace /
treaty, which places upon the league
many specific duties in addition to its /
general duties. 1t may question Ger
neutralZed zone east of the Rhine as
u threat against the worlds peace
1t viii appoint the high commission
er of Danzig, guarantee the independ.
ence of the free city and arrange for
treaties between DanZig and Germany
and Poland. 1t will work out the man
datory system to be applied to the
former German colonies, and act as a
final court in part of the plebiscites
of the Belgian German frontier and in
disputes as TO the Kiel Canal, and de-
eide certain of the economic and fl
nancial problems. An international con
ference on labor is to be held in Oc-
tober under its direction and another
waterways and railways is foreshadow-
ed.
Membership-The members of the