FARLIER
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THE PEACE TERRIS,"
SECTION 2: THE BOUNDARIES OF GERMANY,
London, May
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by the Commission in the of properties, Car Ihes – businesses, rights, concessions, etc. Certificates for beneficial interest represents ing either bonds or goods delivered by Germany may be issued by the Commission to the interested Power. As the Bonds are distributed and pass from the control of the Commission, sa amount of Germany's debt equivalent to their par value is to be considered as Equidated.
The boundaries of Germany are described in two articles, one dealing with Germany proper and the other with East Prussia- Tho. boundary lines between the new state of Poland and Germany and East Hrussia respectively and the new boundary line between East Prussia And Lithuania, arè described in detail, in so far as they are not left to be settled by Boundary Commissions' on the spot. The boundary With Belgium follows the line described in the later section dealing with Belgium. The frontier with Luxembourg and with Switzerland is that ệt August 1914. The frontier with France is that of 18th July 1st, with a reservation regarding the Saar, The, frontier with Austria is the same as that of 3rd. August 1914, up to the point where that of the new State of Tehecho-Slovakia begins. The frontier of Tchechu Slovakia follows the old frontier between Germany and Austria up to-ships for account of the Allies to the amount of not exceeding 200,000 the point where the new state of Poland begins. The boundary between Germany and Denmark, and a portion of the boundary between East Prussia and Poland remain to be decided by the result of a plébiscite.
Shipping The German Government recognises the right of the Allies to the replacement, ton for ton and class for class, of all merchant ships and fishing boats lost or damage owing to the war, - and agrees to code to the Allies all German merchant ships of 1,800 tons gross and upwards, one half of her ships between 1,600 and 1000 tons gross and one quarter of her, steam trawlers and other fishing | boats. These ships are to be delivered within two months to the
Reparation Commission together with documents of title asidencing- the transfer of 'ships, from encumbrance: As an additional part of reparation the German Government further agrees to build - merchant
SECTION 3: POLITICAL CLAUSES IN EUROPE.
Belgium. Germany is to consent to the abrogation of the Treaties of 1539, by which Belgium was established as a neutral state and her frontier, etc,,' fixed and to agree in advance to any Convention with which the Allies may determine to replace them. Germany is to recognise the fall sovereignty of Belgium over the contested territory of Morennet and over part of Prussian Moreanet and is to renounce in favour of Belgium all rights over Eupen and Malmedy, the inhabitants of which are to be entitled within six months to protest against this change, either in whole'ur in part, the final decision to be reserved to the League of Nations A Commission is to settle the details of the frontier and various regulations for individual changes of nationality are laid down. Territories acquired. by Belgium will be free of all obligations.
Luxembourg-Germany renounces her various treaties and con ventions with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and recognises that it ceased to be part of the German Zollverein from 1st. January lası She renounces all rights of exploitation of railways, adheres to the abrogation of its neutrality and accepts in advance any international- agreements as to it reached by the Allied and Associated Powers..
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Left Bank of the Rhine.As subsequently provided in the Military Section Germany must not maintain or construct any fortifications ess than fifty kilometers to the east of the Rhine. In the above area Germany may maintain no armed forces, either permanent or temporary. nor hold any manoeuvres, por maintain any works for facilitating mobilisation If the provisions of this article are violated she shall be regarded as committing a hostile act against the signatories of the Treaty and as intending to disturb the world's peace. By virtue of the Treaty she must respond to any request for explanation which the Council of the League of Nations may address to her
AMENDED SECTION 8: REPARATION AND RESTITUTION. The Allied and Associated Government's affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of herself and her Allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as the consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies. While the Allied and Associated Governments recognise that the resources of Germany, are not adequate, after taking into account the diminu- tions of such resources which will result from other Treaty claims, to make complete reparation for all such loss and damage, they require her to make compensation for all damage caused to civilians cader sever main categories: (a) Damage by personal injury to civilians caused by acts of war directly or indirectly, including bombardments from the air; (b) Damage caused to civilians, including exposure at sea resuiting from nets of cruelty ordered by the enemy and to civilians in occupied territories; (c) Damage caused by maltreatment of prisoners; (d) Damages to Allied peoples, represented by pensions and separation allowance capitalised at the signature of this Treaty; (e) Damages to property other than naval and military materials; () Damage to civil- ians by being forced to labour; (g) Damages in form of levies or ines imposed by the enemy.
Germany further binds herself to repay all sums borrowed by Belgium from the Allies as the result of Germany's violation of the Treaty of 1539 up to November 11th, 1918, and for this purpose will issue at once and hand over to the Reparation Commission five per cent. Gold Bonds falling due in 1998.
The total obligation of Germany to pay as defined in the cate gory of damages is to be determined and notified to her after fair bearing and not later than 1st May, 1921, by an Inter-Allied Repara- tion Commission. At the same time, the schedule of payments to discharge the obligation within thirty years shall be presented. These payments are subject to postponement in certain contingencies. Ger- many irrevocably recognises the full authority of this Commission and agrees to supply it with all necessary information and pass legislation tò effectuate its findings. She further agrees to restore to the Allies cash and certain articles which can be identified. As an immediate step towards restoration Germany shall pay within two years £1,000,- 0.000 sterling in either gold, goods, ships or other specific forms of payment, this sum being included in and not additional to the Erst theusand million Bond Issue referred to below, with the understanding that ceftain expenses, such as those of the armies of occupation and payments for food and raw materials may be dedacted at the discretion of the Allies. In periodically estimating Germany's capacity to pay, tha Reparation Commission shall examine the German system of taxation, first to the end that sums for reparation which Germany is required to pay shall become a charge upon all her revenues prior to that for the service or discharge of any domestic loan; and secondly so as to satisfy itself that in general the German scheme of taxation is fully as heavy proportionately as that of any of the Powers repre- sented on the Commission. The measures which the Allied and As. sociated Powers shall have the right to take in the case of voluntary default by Germany and which Germany agrees not to regard as acta of war may include economic and financial prohibitions and reprisals and in general such other measures as the respective Governments may determine to be necessary in the circinstances. The Commission shall consist of one representative each of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Belgium, a representative of Serbia or Japan taking the place of the Belgian representative when the interests. of either country are particularly affected, with all other Allied Powers entitled, when their claims are under consideration, to the right of representation without voting power. It shall permit Germany to give evidence regarding her capacity to pay and shall assure her a jast opportunity to be heard. It shall make its headquarters at Paris, establish its own procedure and personnel, have general control of the whole reparation problem and become the exclusive agency of the Allies for receiving, holding, selling and distributing reparation payments. A majority vote "shall prevail, except that unanimity is required on questions involving the sovereignty of any of the Allis, the cancella tion of all or part of Germany's obligations, the time and manner öi selling, distributing and negotiating the Bonds issued by Germany, any postponement between 1921 and 1998 of the annual payments beyond 1830 and any postponement after 1993 for a period of more than three years, the application of a different method of measuring damage than in similar forfner case and the interpretation of the "provisions. Withdrawal from representation on the Commission is permitted upon twelve months notice. The Commission may require Germany to give From time to time by way of garanty issues of Bonds or other obligations, to cover such claims a shot otherwise satished. In this connection and on account of the total amount of claims Bond Issacs are af present to be required of Germany in acknowledgment of its debt be follows: £1,000,000,000 sterling payable not later than the 1st. May 1921 without interest; £2,000,000,000 sterling bearing two and half per cent. interest between 1981 and 1926 and thereafter five per cent. with a one per cent, Sinking Fund, payment beginning in 1990, and an undertaking to deliver Bonds to the additional amount $2,000,000,000 sterling bearing interest at five per cent, under terms to be fired by the Commission. Interest on Germany's debt will be
tens gross annually during the next five years, all ships used for inland navigation taken by Germany from the Allies are to be restored within two months, the amount of loss not covered by sach restitation to be made up by the cessation of the German. river fleet up to twenty per cent, thereof.
Devastated Areas-Germany undertakes to devote her economic resources directly to the physical restoration of invaded areas. The Reparation Commission is authorised to require Germany to replace destroyed articles by the delivery of animals, machinery, etc. existing in Germany and to manufacture materials required for reconstraction purposes-all with due considetation for Germany's essential domestic requirements. T
Coal, etc Germany is to deliver annually for ten years to Franco coal equivalent to the difference between the annual pre-war output of the Nord and Pas de Calais mines and the annual prodre tion "during about ten years. Germany further gives options over ten years for delivery of seven million tons of coal per year to France in addition to, the above, of eight million tens to Belgium and of an amount rising from four and a half million tons in 1919 to 1990 to eight and a half million tons in 1993 to 1994 to Italy, at prices to be faxed as prescribed in the Treaty. Coke may be taken in plics of coal in the ratio of three tons to four. Provision is also made for delivery to France over three years of benzol, coal tar, and sulphate of ammonia. The Commission has power to postpone or annul the above deliveries should they interfers unduly with the industrial re- | quirements of Germany..
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**Dyestuffs and Chemical Drugs-Germany accords an option to the Commission on dyestuffs and chemical drugs including quinine up to fifty per cent. of the tofal stock in Germany at the time the Treaty comes into force and a similar option during each six months to the end of 1994 up to twenty five per cent, of the previous six months output.
Cables.-Germany renounces all title to specified cables, the value of such as were privately owned being credited to her against her reparation indebtedness.
Special Provisions.As reparation for the destruction of the library of Louvain Germany is to hand over manuscripts, early printed books, priots, etc.. to the equivalent of those destroyed. In addition to. the above Germany is to hand over to Belgium the wings now at Berlin belonging to the altarpiece of "The adoration of the Lamb" by Hubert and Jan van Eyck the centre of which is now in the Church of St. Bare at Ghent, and the wings now at Berlin and Munich of the altarpiece of "The Last Sapper" by Birk Boats the centre of which belongs to the Church of St. Peter at Lourain. Germany is to restore within six months The Koraa of Caliph Othman, formerly at Medina, to the king of the Hedjaz, and the skull of the Baltan Mkwawa, formerly in German East Africa, to His Britannic Ma jesty's Government The German Government is also to restore to the French Government certain papers taken by the German authori ties in 1970 belonging then to T. Bosher and to restore the French dags taken during the war of 1570-TL
SECTION 14: EASTERN EUROPE
Similarly all German troops at present in the territories to the East of the new frontier shall return as soon as the Allies think the moment suitable. They are to abstain from all requisitions, etc., and are in no way to interfere with such measures for national defence as may be adopted by the Provisional Governments concerned.
OCCUPATION OF TERKITOEST.
All questions regarding occupation not provided for by the Treaty will be regulated by a subsequent convention or conventions which will have similar force and effect.
SECTION 15: MISCELLANEOUS.
Germany agrees to recognise the full validity of the Treaties of Peace and additional Conventions to be concluded by the Allied and Associated Powers with the Powers allied with Germany, to agron to the decisions to be taken as to the territories of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey and to recognise new states in frontiers to he fixed for them. The high contracting parties note the Treaty of July 1918 between France and the Principality of Monaco and they agree that Chairmen of Commissions-shall, under certain circumstances, have a casting vote. The work of religious missions maintained by German societies in the territory transferred to or belonging to Allied or As sociated Powers, is to be continued under trustees appointed by those Powers. In a clause Germany undertakes not to put forward any pecuniary claim against any Allied Power signing the present Treaty based on events previous to the coming into force of the Treaty. Ger- many accepts all decrees, etc., as to German ships and the right to examine all decisions of the German Prize Courts. The present Treaty, of which the French and English texts are both authentic, shall be ratified and the deposit of ratification made in Paris as soon as possible. Various diplomatic provisions as to ratification follow. The Treaty is to enter into force in all respects for each Power on the date of its ratification
FUTURE OF SHANTUNG.
JAPAN'S INTENTIONS.
London, May 5.
Baron Makino tas informed Reuter that Japan intends to return. the Shantung Peninsula in full sovereignty to China, merely retaining the economic concessions granted to Germany and the right 19 establish a settlement at Tsingtao. As tegards the railway there, which is to become a Chino-Japanese joint undertaking, Baron Making stated that special police will be used only to ensure the security of traffic. The police will be Chiflese with such Japanese instructors, as the railway directors select and will be appointed by the Chinese Govern ment.
CHINESE CRITICISMS.
Paris, May 5
decision of the Cohference respecting Kinochan and declaring that it The Chinese delegation has made a statement criticising the
secures to Japan more than a reversion of the former German rights in Shantung. It gives Japan political ascendancy there which is a menace to the sovereignty and integrity of China.
SILVER EXPORTATION..
The Government has removed the war restrictions on the export
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Like all girls who run away from home, she goes to New York and with the few dollars she has in her purse, hires lodging in a certain side street. Detectives, employed by her father trace and locate her in the lodging house Old man Poindexter suggests that she be left to her own devices and for the nephew to keep an eye on her, and if they are. thrown together, may fail in love with each other in the natural course. of events.
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