The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-05-08

order. The people VIII preserve thelr
Soyu a(,emblies, religious tperties
schools and language. but may vote ON
Is for local assemblies, They viii Keep
their present nationality except 50 iaF
a. individuals may change II, Those
wishing To leave will have every facil'
ity with respect 10 their property The
territory will form part Of the french
customs with no export tax ON coal
and mctallurglcal products going to
Germany nor TO German products en-
terlng the basin ana for five years no
import duties on products of IN" BASIN
going To Germany or German products
coming into the basin for local con
sumption. French money may clrcu'
late without restriction,
After 10 years u plcbiscitc VIII he
held by the communos to ascertain the
Il sires of the population as To con
tinuance of the existing regime under
the league of nations union with
France or union with Germany. The
right to vote viii belong to all inhabit'
ants over 20 residents therein at the
hgrilturc Taking into account the
opinions thus expressed ii. the league
Will decide the ultimate sovereignty
I'm any portion restored to Germany
the German government must buy out
the French mines at an appraised valu-
alton. II the price is not paid within
six months. thereafter, this portion
pass - finally to France.
II Germany buys back the mines
| the league will determine how much OF
the coal shall be annually sold 10
Francs"
German Austria Independent
German Austria Germany r-cog-
nizc5 the total independence Of Ger
man. Austria in the boundaries traced.
| Czrcho .Slovakia; Germany recognizes
/ the entr, independence OF the Czecho
Sloyak state. including the autonomous
territory of the Ruthenians south of the
Curputhlans, and accepts the frontiers
Of this state ~ to be- determined, which
in the ease of tha German frontier shall
follow the frontier of bohemia in 1914.
The usual stipulatiOns rs 10 ACQUISITION
/
/ Poland-Gcrmany ce,es to Poland
| the greater part of Upper Silesia. Po'
sen and the province of West Prussia,
on the left bank of Nistula, A field
boundary commission of seventy
representing the allied and associated
powers and one each representing Po'
land, and Germany shall be constituted
with 10 days of the peaUse to deiimit
this boundary. such special provisions
/ as are necessary to protect racial, lin
guistic or religious minorities and to
protect freedom OF transit and equita-
BILE treatment OF commerce of other
nations shall be laid down in II subse-
quent treaty, between the five allied
and associated powers and Poland.
East Prussia; The southern and the
eastern frontier of east Prussia as
word obscure) Poland D. bee fixed by
plebiscites. the first in ,Lr regency of
Allenstein between the southern frontier
of east Prussia and the northern frontier
of Regieringsbesirk Allenstciu from
where it meets the boundary between
the circles of Oletsko and Augersburg,
the northern boundary of Oetsku to its
junction with the present frontier and
the second in the area comprising the
circles of Stuhm and Rosenburg and the
parts of the circles of Marienhurg ana
Marienwder east of the Nistula
In each case. German troops and
authorities will move out within IL days
of the peace and the territories be place.
under an international commission of
five members appointed by the five allied
and associated powers, with the par
ticular duty of arranging for free.
fair and secret vote. The commission
will report the results of the plebsct
es TO the five powers with a recommen-
dation fortho boundary and will ter
inmate it's work as soon as the boundary
has been laid down and the new au-
thoriteS set up.
The five allied and associated
powers will draw up regulations assur-
ing east Prussia full and equable access
to the use of the Vistula A subse
quent convention, of which the terms
will he fixed by the five allied and as
sociated powers will be entered into
between Poland. Germany and Danzig.
TO assure suitable railroad communica
tion across German territory on the
right bank of the Nistula beween Po-
land and DanZig, while Poland shall
grant free passage from east Prussia
to Germany
The northeastern corner of east
Prussia about Memial is to be ceded by
Germany to the associated powers, the