Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-05-14
GERMANS GIVEN
PEACE TREATY
Provisions Of Compact As Framed
BY Allies and Presented To
Enemy ENJOYS.
MUST PAY ALL DAMAGE

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creed to Foe In Document Con-
tanning 10000 Words-Lone-
est Treaty Ever Drawn.
Versailles, May 9.-Following Is the
official summary of the peace treaty.
as issued by the Allied governments:
1t is the longest treaty ever drawn;
into IS main sections and represents
the combined product Of more than
1000 experts working continually
is printed in parallel pages Of English
and, French. which are recognized as
With S aestinE & 1ss a' S s9
Binding GERMANY 70 aeesPt any agree:
=. Following the preamble and deposi::
the League Of Nations as the first sec:
Germany in Europe are defined in the
second section; European political
classes given in the third; European
QO1ll1CdA C1ASSob III the NeAl
are the military. naval and air terms
In the fifth section, followed by sec
ton on prisoners OF war and military
Hes ke aa anan D terms and
economic terms are covered in Sections
to 10. Then comes the aeronautic
erection. the labor covenant, the section
on guarantees and the final clauses.
Alsace-LOrrafne Restored.
Germany by the terms of the treaty.
eepts the Observation-Disclosures Of the
Saar basin temporarily and of Danzig
permanently, agrees to territorial
and in east Prussia; cedes most Of
upper Silesia to Poland and renounces
all territorial and political rights out.
territories, and especially to Morocco,
Egypt, Siam, Liberia, and Shantung.
She also recognizes the total indepen-
dence of German Austria, Czech-slo-
Her army is reduced to 100000 men,
including officers CONSUMPTION within
80 miles east of the Rhine razed; and
all importation, expectation and nearly
al production of war material stopped.
Allied OCCUPATION; Of parts of Germany
but viii be reduced at the end of each
is fulfilling her obligations.
Any violation by Germany of the con-
dltl0ns as to the zone 80 miles east OF
war.
German Navy Limited.
The German navy is reduced to six
battleships, six light cruisers and ~
a personnel Of not over 1900. All
other vessels must be surrendered or
destroyed Germany is forbidden to
demolish Heligoland, open the Kiel
canal, to all nations, and surrender her
II submarine cables: She may have no
unarmed seaplanes until Oct. 1 to de-
tect mines, and may manufacture avia-
ton material for six months.
tor ali ii damages ' CAUSED allied and asso,
agrees Specifically to reimburse ali
nta Of %sn
quent payments to be secured by bonds
to be issued at the discretion OF. the
pay shipping damage on ton for ton
basis by cession of a 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.
Economic Terms to Foe.
She agrees to return to the 1914 most
| associated nationals freedom Of transit
through her territories, and to accept
war debts. Unfair competition. inter
naturalization of roads and rivers, and
other economic and financial clauses.
former Kaiser by an International high
court for supreme offense against
internatio9 2 m9raiity anS Of other
customs Of war. Holland to be asked
| to extradte the former, and Germany
being responsible for delivering the lat
The League Of Nations is accepted by
the Allied and Associated Powers as
but without membership, similarly, an
International labor body is brought into
being with permanent office and an
annual convention.
A great number of International
bodies of different kinds and for differ
ent purposes are created some under
cute the peace treaty. Among the for
mer is the co Gommiss sl9IG. to govern the
years hence the high Commissioner Of
city under the league, and various COM
missions for plebiscites in Malmody.
s Slesvig al and d., East Prussia Among
the PREPARATIONS, military, naval. air A.
| nancial and economic commissions; the
to fix responspties ana
| series of bodies for the control Of in
| ternational rivers.
| Problems Left Undecided.
! Certain problems are left for solu-
ton between the Allied and Associated
Powers, notably details of the dispo-
sition Of the German fleet. and cables,
vauas paid In a Gertan
other problems such as the laws Of the
air and the opium, arms and liquor
traffic are either agreed to in detail OF
| set for early international action.
| The preamble names as parties Of the
one part the United States, the British
empire, France, Italy. and Japan. de-
ciated Powers; and Belgium, Bolivia
Brazil, China, Cuba, Ecuador, Greece
Guatemala, Haiti, the Hedjaz. Hondur.
f Po,and 1er nanama RsEs
Siam, Szecho-Slovakia, and Uruguay
who with the five above are described
as the Allied and Associated Powers
and on the other part, Germany.
Treaty Ends War at Once.
on the request of the then imperia
German government an an, armistice was
ed ana Associated SoMe gs 1he orde1
that treaty of peace might be con.
cluded with her. and whereas the Allie6
dnd Stat be beng sSq1ahl
were successfully involved, directly OF
indirectly, and which originated in tn
declaration of war by AUSTRIA Hungar,
on July. %, 1914, against Serbia, thu
;; declaration Of war by Germany agains
Russia on Aug. L., 1914. and agains
France on Aug: 3, 1914, and in the in
by firm, Just and durable peace, tn
Observation-Disclosures. having communicate
heir full powers found in good ans
,ue form, have agreed as follows:
'"sont Treaty the state of war wi.
~;-cte Frog, the moment and Sub
(Continu,
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