Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-05-08
TERMS SPELL END
TO GERMANY AS A
MILITARY POWER
Digest is Released in New
York Soon After Treaty
is Presented.

New York, May 7-Following is
summary of treaty of peace for use
of the papers:
Paris, May THE treaty of peace
between the twenty-seven allied and
associated powers on the one hand and
Germany on the other, was handed to
the German plenipotentiaries at Yer
sailles today.
at is the longest treaty ever drawn.
1t totals about 10000 words divided
into Is main sections and represents
the combined product of over thous-
and experts working continually
through series of commissions for
three and a half months since Jan
uary 10, the treaty printed in paral-
lei English and French which are
recognized as having equal validity
1t does not deal with questions af-
fecting Austria, Bulgaria, and Tur-
ky except insofar as binding Germany
to accept any agreement reached with
those former allies.
Following the preamble and de-
position Of powers comes the cove
nant of the League of Nations as the
first section of the treaty. The from
tiers of Germany in Europe as defined
in the second section: European po-
litical classes given in the third;
European political classes in the
fourth: Next are the military, naval
and air terms as the fifth section,
following by a section on prisoners
of war and military graves, and
seventh on responsibilities. Repara-
tions, financial terms, and economic
terms are covered in sections eight
to ten. Then comes the aeronautic
section, ports waterways and railways
section, the. labor covenant, the Sec
ton on guarantees and the final
clauses.
Hun Make Concessions.
Germany by the terms of the treaty
restores Alsace-Lorraine to France,
accepts the decentralization of the
Saar basin temporarily and of Dam
zig permanently, agrees to territorial
changes towards 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
F., ly to Morocco, Egypt, Siam, Liberia
and Shantung She also recognizes
the total independence of German
Austria, Czecho- Slovakia and Poland.
"Her army is reduced to 100000
men including officers; CONSUMPTION
within her territories is abolished;
all forts fifty kilometers east of the
Rhine razed: and all importation, ex-
portation and nearly all production Of
war material stopped. Allied occu-
patton of parts of GERMANY will con-
tinue till reparation is made but will
be reduced at the end of each of three
filling her obligations. Any viola
five years periods if Germany is full
ton by German of the conditions as
to the zone fifty kilometers east of
the Rhine will be regarded as an act
of war.
"The German navy is reduced to six
battleships, six light cruisers and IL
torpedo boats, without submarines,
and a personnel of not over $4,000.
All other vessels must be surrendered
or destroyed. Germany is forbidden
to build forts controlling the Baltic,
must demolish Heligoland, open the
Kiel canal to all nations, and surrrend-
err her Ia submarines cables. She
may have no military or naval air
forces except one hundred unarmed
seaplanes, until October LIST to detect
mines. and may manufacture aviation
material for six months.
Assumes Responsibilities.
| Germany accepts full responsible
| ity for all damages caused to allied
and associated governments and ma
tionals, agrees specifically to re-
imburse all civilian damages begin
ming with an initial payment of TO-
900, 100000 marks subsequent pay
ments to be secured by bonds to be
| issued at the discretion Of the re-
paration commission. 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 re-
gions.
She agrees to return to the 1914
most tariffs, with
discrimination of sort. To allow al
| lied and associated nationals free
dom of transit through her terri
tories and to accept highly detailed
provisions as to pre-war debts, UNI
fair competition, Observation-Disclosures
of roads and rivers, and other econo-
mic and financial clauses.
| She also agrees to the trial OF the
lex-kaiser by an international high
lcourt for q supreme offense against
international morality, and Of other
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