The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1921-09-01

1 August Is in Berlin, Germany,
made public by the State Depart
ment in Washington, follows:
"The United States Of America
and Germany:
considering that the United
States, acting in conjunction with its
co-belligerents, entered into an ar
mistice with Germany on November
IL, 1918, in order that treaty of
peace might be concluded;
considering that the treaty Of
Versailles was signed on June rs,
1919, and came into force according
to the terms of its article 44O, bur
has not been ratified by the United
States;
Quotes Peace Resolution
considering that the Congress of
the United States passed a joint
resolution approved by the president
July 2, 1921, which reads in part as
follows:
"'Resolved, by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Con-
gress assembled, that the state Of
war declared to exist between the
imperial German government and the
United States of America bv the joint
resolution of Congress approved
April s, 1917, is hereby declared at
an end.
"'Section 2-That in making this
declaration, and as part Of it,
there are expressly reserved to the
United States of America and its
nationals any and all rights, priyi-
leges, indemnities, PREPARATIONS or adj
vantages, together with the right to
enforce the same, to which it or they
have become entitled under the terms
of the armistice signed November II,
1918, or any extensions or modifica-
tons thereof, or which were acquired
by or are in the possession of the
United States of America by reason
of its participation in the war, or to
which its nationals have thereby be-
come rightfully entitled, or which,
under the treaty of Versailles, have
been stipulated for it's or their ben
eft, or to which it is entitled as one
of the principal allied and associated
powers, or to which it is entitled by
virtue of any act or acts of Con-
gress, or otherwise.
Holding of German Property
Section 5--All property of the
imperial German government, or its
successor or successors, and of all
German nationals, which was on
April 6, 1917, in or has since that
date come into the possession or UNI
der the control Of, or has been the
subject of a demand by the United
States Of America or any Of its Of
ficers, agents or employees, from any
source or by any agency whatsoever,
and all property of the imperial and
royal Austro- Hungarian government
or its successor or successors, and of
all Austro Hungarian nationals,
which on December, 1917, was in or
has since that date come into the
possession or under the control of, or
has been the subject Of demand by
the United States of America, or
any of its officers, agents or en-
ployes, from any source or by any
agency whatsoever, shall be retained
by the United States Of America, and
no disposition thereof made, except
as shall have been heretofore or spe-
officially hereafter shall be provided
by law, until such time as the impe-
rial German government and the i'm
perial royal Austro-Hungarian gov
arnment, or their successor or sue
cessors, shall have respectively
made suitable provision for the sat
isfaction Of all claims against said
governments, respectively, of all
persons, wheresoever domiciled, who
owe permanent allegiance to the
United States of America and who
have suffered, through acts Of the
imperial German government, or its
agents, or the imperial royal Austo-
hungarian government, or its ag-
ents, since July 81, 1914, loss, dam
age or injury to their persons or
property, directly or indirectly, |
whether through the ownership or
shares of stock in German, Austro-
Hungarian, American or other cor
porations, or in consequence Of hos
tilities or of any operations of war.
or otherwise, and also shall have |
granted to persons owing permanent
allegiance to the United States of |
America Observation-Disclosures treat
ment, whether the same be national
or otherwise, in all matters affecting
residence, business, profession, trade.
navigation, commerce and industrial |
property rights, and until the impe-
rial German government and the i'm
perial and royal Austro- Hungarian
or their successor or
successors, shall have respectively
confirmed to the United States Of !
America, all fines, forfeitures, pen
altles and seizures imposed or made
by the United States of America
during the war, whether in respect
to the property of the imperial Ger
man government or German nation
ais or the imperial and royal Austro-
hungarian government or Austro-
Hungarian nationals, and shall have
waived any and all pecuniary claims
against the United States of Amer
ica.'
Articles of the Treaty
Being DESTROYS of restoring the
friendly relations existing between
the two nations prior to the outbreak
Of war:
"Have for that purpose appointed
their plenipotentiaries:
"The president of the United
States of America, Ellis Loring