Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1919-07-03
Acknowledges Cu|pability and
Complete Disaster in At
tempt to Conquer World.
MUST KEEP CONDITIONS
Terms of Treaty as Signed by leu.
tons and Entente Allies Must Be
/ Kept or Troops vii Move
d Into Rhineiand.

TdflS, June SO.-Germany has finally
confessed culpability and. complete dis
aster in the monstrous undertaking to
conquer the world, begun July %, 1914.
The German republic agrees in sign
Ing the peace treaty to hand over to the
Allies for trial and punishment all per-
sons guilty of acts contrary to the laws
of war, including the former emperor.
William II.
Such acts include the submarine pi-
racy, the bombardment Of undefended
cities from land, sea or air, the wiIful
and needless destruction of civilian
lives and property, the jmpressment
and deportation of civilians for en-
forced labor, and crimes against women
and children.
Germany is to pay an indemnity Of
not less than s23,800, 600, 900 and as
much more as the Allies shall deter
mine is due in the next two years.
Germany shall maintain no larger
army than OF $1,000 men and shall have
no submarines nor military or naval
aircraft.
The Allied armies shall occupy all
OF Germany west of the Rhine river for
Is years.. No German forts or other
military establishment shall be main
tained west of a line IS miles east of
the Rhine.
German Republic Defined.
The German republic shall consist of
the territory between the Rhine and
the Vistula river and as far south as
the Swiss border, also as much of East
Prussia as shall vote in a popular cleo.
ton to be part of Germany.
Rhenish Prussia, west of the Rhine.
shall be restored to Germany after the
Allies evacuate that territory in 1884,
provided the people living there do not
set up some different form of govern
ment in the meantime.
French Hold saar Valley.
The Saar valley coal region will be
held by the French for Is years, after
which the people will choose their own
form of government, but the coal mines
will remain the perpetual property of
France, unless Germany pay France
for heir value, even though the people
decide to be German.
A1sace and Lorraine are restored to
France without qualification.
For the next Is years the Germans
will be confronted by Allied troops
along the Rhine, a new republic of
Czech-SloVakia on the former Austrian
border and a new republic of Poland
extending into the former German
provinces of Posen, Silesia and West
Prussia.
Economic Terms Rigorous.
The commercial terms of the treaty
provide that the principal rivers of
Germany shall be governed by inter
national commissions and that rail-
roads and canals will be operated,
whenever necessary, as parts of inter
national thoroughfares and means of
communication.
No higher tariff may be collected by
Germany on imports from the Allied
coentrles than is exacted from the most
favored nation, but the Allies will be
under no obligation to extend equal
treatment to Germany.
Most of Iron Taken.
Three-fourths OF the iron mines
which were in Germany's possession in
1914 have been restored to France and
one-third of the German coal, supply is
divided between France and Poland.
In case of the violation by Germany
OF any of. these requirements, the AL
lies reserve the right under the treaty
to move troops into Germany or to
reoccupy the Rhineland in case it shall
have been evacuated.
CHICAGO Bill DERS STRIKE