The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-05-07

junction with the present frontier.
and the second in the area comprise
ing the circles of Stuhm ahd Rosen-
burg and the parts OF the circles OF
Marienburg and Marienwerder, east
of the Vistula.
In each case German troops anc
authorities will move out within nj
teen days of the peace and the ter
ritorjesr be placed under an interna-
tional commission OF five members
appointed by the FIVE allied and as
sociated powers. with the particular
duty of arranging for free. fair and
secret vote. The commission will re-
port the results OF the plebiscites 10
the five powers, with a recommends
ton for the boundary. and will term
mate its work as soon as the bound
airy has been laid down and the new
authorities set up.
Vistula--A subsequent convention.
of which the terms will be fixed by
| the Ave allied and associated powers
will be entered into between Poland,
| Germany and Danzig to assure suit
| able railroad communications across
| German territory on the right bank
| of the Vistula between Poland and
| Danzig, while Poland shall grant free
passage from East Prussia to Ger
many.
The northeastern conner of East
| Prussia about Memel is to be ceded
by Germany TO the associated powers.
| the former agreeing to accept the
settlement made especially as re-
CARDS the nationality OF the inhab
itants.
! : panxig to BE Free City.
Danzig-Danzig and the district
bimmedialy aboutet it is to be con
stituted into the free city OF Danzisi
under the guarantee of the league Of
nations. The high commissioner ap
pointed by the league and president
at Danzig shall draw up a constitu-
tion in agreement with the duly APP
pointed representatives of the city
and shall deal in the first instance
| with all differences arising between
the city and Poland. The actual
boundaries Of the city shall be de-
limited by commission appointed
within six months from the peace
and to include three representatives
chosen by the allied and associated
powers and one each by Germany ant
Poland.
A convention, the terms of whicl
shall be fixed by the five allied am
between Poland and Danzig, which
shall include Danzig within the Polisl
customs frontiers. though a free ares
in the port: insure to Poland the fres
use OF all the city's waterways, docks
and other port facilities, the contro
and administration of the Vistula
and the whole through railway sys-
TENS within the city, and postal, tele-
graphic and telephone communiea-
ton between Poland and Danzig, pro-
vide against discrimination against
Poles within the city and place its
foreign relations and the diplomatic
protection of it's citizens abroad in
charge of Poland.
Denmark-The frontier between
Germany and Denmark will be fixed
by the self-determination of the pop
ulation. Ten days from the peace,
German troops and authorities shall
evacuate the region north Of the line
running from the mouth of the
Schlei, south of Kappel, Schleswie
and Friedrichstadt along the Elder to
the North sea, south of Tonning: the
workmen's and soldiers councils
shall be dissolved; and the TERRITORY
administered by an international
commission of five. of whom Nor
way and Sweden shall be invited to
name two.
The commission shall insure a free
and secret vote in three zones. That
between the German-Danish frontier
and a line running south of the Is
! land of Alsen, north OF Flensburg and
south of Tondern to the North sea
north of the Island of Sylt will vote
as a unit within three weeks after
/, the evacuation. Within five weeks
after this vote the second zone. whose
southern boundary runs from the
North sea south of the Island of Fehr
TO the Baltic south of Sygum, will
vote by communes. Two weeks after
that vote the third zone running to
the limit OF evacuation also will vote
by communes. The international
commission will then draw a new
frontier on the basis of these plebis-
cites and with due regard for geo
, graphical and. economic conditions
Germany Will renounce all sover-
eighty over territories north of this
line in favor of the associated gov
ernments, who will hand them over
to Denmark.
, Helgoland-The Notifications. mill
tary establishments and harbors Of
the Islands of Heligoland and Dune
are to be destroyed under the super
vision Of the allies by German labor
and at Germany's expense. They
may not be reconstructed for any
similar fortifcations built in the
future.
Russia-Germany agrees TO respect
as permanent and inalienable the de-
pendency of all territories which were
part of the former Russian empire.
to accept the abrogation of the
Brest-Litovsk and other treaties en-
tered into with the maximalst gov
ernment Of Russia. TO recognize the
fun force Of all treaties entered into
by the allied and associated powers
with states which were a part OF the
former Russian empire. and 10 rec
oSnize the frontiers as determined
thereon. The allied and associated