The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-05-16
PEACE TERMS
FOR GERMANY
Enemy Is Shorn of All Military
Power by the Stern
Document.
FIRST PAYMENT 5 BILLION
Must Agree to Restoration of AIsace-
Lorraine; Agree to Trial of Elk
Kaiser; Approves League; Cut
Army to 100000, and
Reduce the Navy.

II dis, may Or OllOWlHS IL the o.
fetal brief summary of the peac
treaty as presented to the Germa
plenipotentiaries at memorable a:
senblage at Versailles on Wednesda
afternoon, attended by the delegate
of the twenty-seven nations which ar
parties to the peace pact:
Following the preamble and depo
sition of powers comes the covenan
of the league of nations as the frs
section of the treaty.
The frontiers of Germany in Eu
rope are defined in the second sec
ton; European political classes giver
in the third European political classe.
| in the fourth.
Next are the military, naval ant
air terms as the fifth section, followed
by section on prisoners of war and
military graves and a seventh on re
| sponsibilities.
Preparations, financial terms and
economic terms are covered in sec
tons eight to ten. Then comes the
aeronautic sections, ports, waterways
and railways sections, the labor cove
nant, the sections on guarantees, and
the final clauses.
AIsace-Lorraine Restored.
Germany, by the terms of the treaty,
restores Alsace-Lorraine to France.
accepts the Decentralization of the
Sarre Basin temporarily and of Dan
zig permanently, agrees to territorial
changes toward Belgium and Den
mark and in East Prussia, cedes most
of upper Silesia to Poland, and re-
nounces all territorial and political
rights outside Europe, as to her own
or her allies territories, and especial
ly to Morocco, Egypt, Siam, Liberia
and Shantung.
She also recognizes the total indie
pendence of German-Austria, Czecho-
Slovakia and Poland.
Her army is reduced 70 100000 men,
including officers.
Conscription within her territories
is abolished
All forts 80 kilometers east of the
Rhine are to be RACED.
All importation, expectation and
nearly all production of war material
is stopped.
German Navy is Reduced.
Allied occupation Of parts of Ger !
many will continue till reparation is
made, but will be reduced at the end |
Of each of three fiye-year periods if |
Germany is fulfilling her obligations.
Any violation by Germany of the
as to the zone so kilometers
east of the Rhine will be regarded as
IN act of war.
The German navy is reduced to six
six light cruisers and
welve torpedo boats, without sub
and personnel Of not over
5 5000.
All other vessels must be surren-
ered or destroyed
Germany is forbidden to build forts
ontrolling the Baltic, must demolish !
Ieligoland, open the Kiel canal to
II nations and surrender her four
cen submarine cables.
She may have no military or naval
ir forces except 100 unarmed sea-
lanes until October / to detect mines.
Responsible for All Damage.
Germany may manufacture aviation !.
aterial for only six months
Germany accepts full responsibility
r all damages caused to allied and
sociated governments and nationals, :.
srees specifically to reimburse all :
william damages beginning with an in
al payment of 20,000,00O,OO0 marks,
bsequent payments to be secured by T.
nds to be issued at the discretion Ia
the reparation commission. a,
Germany is to pay shipping damage n
a ton-for-ton basis by cession of ~
large part of her merchant. coasting or
d river fleets and by new construc-
n, and to devote her economic re- m
Irces to the rebuilding of devastated 81
,ions. m
Germany agrees to return to the I'll
a Observation-Disclosures tariffs with nj
discrimination of any sort; to al It,
' allied and associated nationals I'M
edom of transit through her terri OF
les, and to accept highly detailed
visions, as pre-war debts, unfair
1petition, Observation-Disclosures of Tts
DIS and rivers, and other economic m,
financial clauses. frf
he also agrees to the trial of the at
Kaiser by an international high court to
a supreme offense against inter- ,
Ional morality and of other nation Pa
for violation Of the laws and Gus Gil
$ of war, Holland to be asked to his