Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-08-26

United States is not bound to parti-
cipate in any such commission unless
it shall elect to do SO.
"W. THAT the periods OF time 10
which reference Is made In ArtiSie
Four Hundred and Forty of the
Treaty of Versailles. shall run, with
respect to any act or election on the
part OF the United States, from the
date of the coming into force OF the
present treaty.
ARTICLE LII
The present treaty shall be ratined
in accordance with the constitutional
forms of the high contracting parties
and shall take effect Immediately on
the exchange of notifications which
shall take place as soon as possible at
Berlin.
1t witness whereof. the respective
plenipotentiaries have signed this
treaty and have hereunto affixed
their seals.
Done in duplicate in Berlin this
Twenty Fifth day of August Nineteen
Twenty One"
END PART II. AND TENT
The following statement with re-
spect 10 the treaty was made by the
State department:
The treaty defining peace relations
between the United States and Ger
many was signed at Berlin today 1t
was signed on behalf of the President
OF the United States by Ellis Loring
Dresel, commissioner of the United
States, who had received full powers
for the purpose: and on behalf of the
president of Germany by DR.. Fried
erich Rosen, minister of foreign af-
fairs.
THE treaty with Germany is in &C
cordance with the peace resolution
adopted by Congress and approved by
the President on July - 1921.
/ The preamble of the treaty recites
sections one, two and Ave of the reso-
luton which relate to Germany.
/ Article One of the treaty provides
that the United States shall have all
the rights and advantages specified
in the resolution, including those stip-
uIated for the benefit of the United
States in the treaty of Versailles.
more particularly the obligations of
Germany with respect to certain pro-
visions in the treaty of Versailles.
Thus it is provided that the rights and
advantages stipulated in the treaty of
Versailles for the benefit Of the
United States. which it is intended the
United states shall enjoy. are those
defined in Section One Of Part " and
! Parts V. VI. VIII. TX, X, XII, XII,
XIV and XIV.
Section one of Part " contains
the provisions by which Germany re-
nounced her former overseas posses
sions in favor of the principal allied
and associated powers. This confirms
the rights of the United States with
respect to zap and the other former
overseas German possessions upon an
equality with the other powers. The
other parts Of the treaty of Versal-
les above mentioned embrace the mill
tary clauses, the reparations, financial
and economic clauses, the parts relat-
ing to aerial navigation. ports, watei-
ways and railways, guarantees and
miscellaneous provisions. The result
- ~ put the lHlttu states on Il 1000
ing with the other allied and asso-
ciated powers with respect to all the
rights defined in all these clauses. II
is provided that the United States in
availing<itself of the rights and ad-
vantages stipulated in these provisions
Of the treaty will do so in a manner
consistent with the rights accorded
to Germany under such provisions.
The treaty provides that the Unit
Cd States shall not be bound by any
of the provisions of the treaty which
relate to the League of Nations. The
United states also assumes no obli-
cations under Parts II, III Sections
II to VIII inclusive OF Part " and
Part XIII of the treaty of Versailles
Part III relates to the boundaries of
Germany: Part III to the political
clauses for Europe; Sections II to
VIII inclusive of Part " embrace
certain provisions with respect TO Chi
ma, Siam Liberia. Morocco. Egypt
Turkey. Bulgaria and Shantune; and
Part XIII relates to the international
orga nization Of, labor under the
Leasu of Nations"