The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1919-05-23
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 Ex-
Kaiser; Approves League; Cut
Army to 100000, and
Reduce the Navy.

fetal brief summary OF the peace
treaty as presented to the German
plenipOtentiarieS at memorable as
semblage mt Versailles on Wednesday
afternoon, attended by the delegates
be twenty-seven nations which are
hes to the peace pact;
Following the preamble and depo7'
sition Of powers comes the covenant
of the league of nations as the first
section of the treaty.
The frontiers Of Germany in Eu-
rope are defined In the second sec
ton; European political classes given
In the third European political classes
in the fourth.
Next are the military, naval ana
air terms as the fifth section, followed
Ly section on prisoners OF war ana
military graves and seventh on re-
spOnsibilisies.
ReparaiiOns, financial terms ana
economic terms are covered In sec
lions eight to ten. Then comes the
aerona,l.ic sections, ports, waterways
and railways sections, the labor cove
nant. the sections on guarantees, ana
the final clauses
Asace-Lorraine Restored.
Germany, by the terms OF the treaty
restores Alsace-Lorraine to France,
accepts the internationalization OF the
Sarre Basin temporarily and Of Dan
zig perrn;. nently, agrees to terrltorlai
changes toward Belgium and Den
mark and in East Prussia, cedes most
of upper Silesia to Poland, and re-
noulfces all territorial and political
rights outside Europe, as to her OWL
or her allies territories, and especial.
iy to Morocco, Egypt. Sian. Liberia
and SiiaItung.
She also recognizes the total inde+l
uendencA of German Austria, .Czecho-
Slovak;a and Poland.
Her army is reduced to 100000 men,,
including officers.
Consumption within her territories
is abolished.
All forts so kilometers east OF the
Rhine are to be RACED.
All importation, expectation ana
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 emo
of each of three five-year periods II
Germany is fulfilling her obligations.
ANY violation by Germany of the
80, ~. 20, thu ynOo IN kilOmptprS
east of he Rhine will be regarded as
an act of war.
The German navy is reduced to SIX
battlesh ps, six light cruisers ana
twelve torpedo boats, without sub
marines and a personnel Of not over
$4,000.
All other vessels must be surren-
dered or destroyed.
Germany is forbidden to build forts
controlling the Baltic, must demolish
HeEgoland, open the Kiel canal TO
all nations and surrender her four
teen submarine cables.
She may have no military or naval
air forces except 100 unarmed sea-
planes until October l to detect mines.
Respc nsibIe for All Damage.
Germany may manufacture aviation
material for only six months.
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 in
itial payment of 20OO0,0OO,OOO marks
subsequent payments to be secured by
bonds to be issued at the discretion
OF che reparatiOn commission.
Germany is to pay shipping damage
ON ton-fOr-ton basis by cession OF
a large part Of her merchant, coasting
and river fleets and by new construc-
ton. and to devote her economic re-
sources to the rebuilding of devastated
regions.
Germany agrees to return to the
1914 most characterization tariffs with
out discrimination of any sort; to al
low allied and associated nationals
freedom of transit through her terri
tories, and to accept highly detailed
provisions, as pre-war debts, unfair
competition, Observation-Disclosures of
roads and rivers, and other economic
and finan ,ial clauses.
She alsl agrees to the trial Of the
ex-kaiser by an international high court
for a supreme offense against inter
national morality and OF other nation
ais for violation Of the laws and Gus
toms OF war. Holland to be asked 70