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planou (fighters, bombors first D 73s and night
bombing machinos). Tho above to bo delivered
Jn situ to tho Allies and tho United States troops
In accordance with tho detailed conditions laid
down in tho annexed noto.
6. Evacuation by tho German armies of tho
countries on tho left bank of tho Rhine. These
countries on tho loft bank of tho Rhine shall bo
admlnistorod by tjio local authorities under tho
control of tho Allied and United States armies
- of occupation. Tho occupation of these terri
tories will bo determined by Allied and United
States garrisons holding tho principal crossings
of tho Rhino, Maycnco, Coblenz, Cologne, to
gether with "bridgohoads at these points in 30
kilomotor radius on the right hank and by gar
risons similarly holding tho stratogic points of
tho roglons. A neutral zono shall bo reserved
on tho right bank of tho Rhino between tho
i Htrortm and a lino drawn parallel to It twenly
flvo 'miles to tho oast from tho frontier of Hol
land (o tho parallel of Gernshelm and, as far as
practicable, a distance of thirty kilometers from
tho oast of stroam from tills parallel upon Swiss
frontier. Evacuation by tho onomy of the
Rhino lands shall bo so ordorcd as to bo com
pleted within a further period of cloyon days,
in all niuoteon days after tho slgnaturo of tho
armistice. All movements of ovacuation and oc
cupation will bo regulated according to tho noto
annoxod.
6. In all rritory ovac. od by tho enemy
thoro shall bo no evacuation of inhabitants; no
dAinago or harm shall bo done to tho poisons or
property of tho inhabitants. No destruction of
any kind to bo committed. Military establish
ments of all kinds shall bo delivered Intact, as
well as military stores of food, munitions, equip
ments not romoved during the periods fixed for
ovacuation. Stores of food of all kinds for the
civil population, cattle, etc., shall bo loft In situ.
Industrial establishments shall not be impaired
In any way and their personnel shall not bo
moved. Roads and moans of communication of
ovory kind, railroad, waterways, main roads,
bridges, telographs, telephones, shall bo in no
manner Impaired.
7. All civil and military personnel at present
omployod on thorn shall romain. Five thousand
locomotives, fifty thousand wagons and ten thou
sand motor lorries in good working order, with
all necossary Bparo parts and fittings, shall be
dolivorcd to tho associated powers within tho
period fixed for the evacuation of Belgium and
Luxemburg. Tho railways of v Alsace-Lorraine
shall bo handed over within tho same period, to
gether with all pre-war porsonnel and material.
Further material necessary for the working of
railways in tho country on tho left bank of tho
Rhino shall bo loft in situ. All stores of coal and
material for tho upkeep of permanent ways,
signals and ropair shops loft entire in situ and
kept in an eiliciont state by Germany during tho
whole period of armistice. All barge3 taken
from the Allies shall bo restored to them. X note
"' apponded regulates tho dotails of these meas
ures. 8. The Gorman command shall be responsi
ble for revealing all mines or delay-acting fuses
disposed on territory evacuated by tho German
troops and shall assist in their discovery and de
struction. Tho German command shall also
roveal all destructive measures that may have
noon taken (such as poisoning or polluting of
springs, wells, etc.) under penalty of reprisals.
9. Tho right of requisition shall be exorcised
by tho Allies and tho United States armies in all
occupied territory. The upkeep of the troops of
occupation in tho Rhino land (excluding Alsace
Lorraine) shall bo. charged to the German gov
ernment. 10. An immodlato repatriation, without
reciprocity, according to detailed conditions
which shall bo fixed, of all Allied and United
States prisoners of war. Tho Allied powers and
tho United States shall bo able to dispose of
these prlsonors as thoy wish.
11. Sick and wounded who cannot be re
moved from evacuated territory will be cared for
by Gorman porsonnol, who will be loft on the
spot with tho medical matorial required.
11. Disposition relative to the eastern fron
tiers of Germany:
12. All German troops at present in any ter
ritory which before the war belonged to Russia
Rumania or Turkey shall withdraw within the
frontiers of Germany as they existed on Autrust
1, 1914.
13. Evacuation by German troops to begin
at once and all Gorman Instructors, prlsonors,
and civilian as well as military agents, now on
the territory of Russia (as defined before 1914)
to be rocalled.
14. German troops to ceaso at once all requi
sitions and seizures and any other undertaking
with a view to obtaining supplies intended for
Germany In Rumania and Russia (as defined on
August 1, 1914).
i5. Abandonment of the treaties of Buchar
est and Brest-Litovsk and of tho supplementary
treaties.
16. The Allies shall have free access to the
territories evacuated by the Germans on their
eastern frontier, either through Danzig, or by tho
Vistula, in order to convey supplies to the pop
ulations of those territories or for any other
purpose.
III. Clause concerning East Africa:
17. Unconditional capitulation of all German,
forces operating in East Africa within one
month.
IV General clauses:
18. Repatriation, without reciprocity, within
a maximum period of one month, in accordance
with detailed conditions hereafter to be fixed, of
all civilians interned or deported who may be
citizens of other Allied or associated states than
those mentioned in clause three, paragraph nine
teen, with the reservation that any future claims
and demands of the Allies and the United States
of America remain unaffected.
REPARATION IS DEMANDED
19. Tho following financial conditions are re
quired: Reparation for damage done. While
such armistice lasts no public securities shall be
removed by the enemy which can serve as a
pledge to the Allies for the recovery or repa
triation for war losses. Immediately restitu
tion of the cash deposit in the National Bank of
Belgium and in general immediate return of all
documents, specie, stocks, shares, paper money,
together with plant for the issue thereof, touch
ing public or private interests in the invaded
countries. Restitution of the Russian and Ru
manian gold yielded to Germany or taken by
that power. This gold to be delivered in trust
to tho Allies until the signature of peace. .
V. Naval conditions:
20. Immediate cessation of all hostilities at
seat and definite information to be given as to
the location and movements of all German ships.
Notification to be given to neutrals that freedom
of navigation in all territorial waters is given
to the naval and mercantile marines of the Al
lied and associated powers, all questions of neu
trality being waived.
21. All naval and mercantile marine prison
ers of war of the Allied and associated powers
in Gorman hands to bo returned without reci
procity. 22. Surrender to the Allies and the United
States of 160 German submarines (including all
submarine cruisers and- mine laying submarines)
with their complete armament and equipment in
ports which .will be specified by the Allies and
the United States of America, All other subma
rines to be paid off and completely disarmed and
placed under the supervision of the Allied Powers-
and the United States of America.
23. The following German surface warshins
which shall be designated by the Allies and the
United States of America, shall forthwith be
disarmed and thereafter interned in neutral
ports, or for the want of them, in allied norts
to be designated by the Allies and the United
States of America and placed under the surveil
lance of the Allies and the United States of
America, only caretakers being left on board
SJSTf ?iS?,x battl ,cruisers te" battle ships;
elht Unlit cruisers, including two mine layers
fifty destroyers of the most modern type All
other surface warships (including river cram
are to bo concentrated in Gorman naval bjUer, to
be designated by the Allies and the United States
of Amorica, and are to be paid off and completely
disarmed and placed under tho supervision 'of
the Allies and the United States of Amorica All
ycsses.of the auxiliary fleet (trawlers, motor
vessels, etc.) are to be disarmed.
24. Tho Allies and the United States oP
America shall have the right to sweep up al
mine fields and obstructions laid by Germany
outside German territorial waters, and the pos
tions of these are to be indicated
A5' , rr(:ed011l of cess to and from tb thN
tic to be Riven to tho naval and mercantile mn
rines o the Allied and associated powers To
secure this, the Allies and the United Stntes nf
America shall be empowered to occuny all Ser
man forts, fortifications, batteries S ,w
works of all kinds in all tnS entrance from ?J!e
Cattegat Into the Baltic, and to sweep Z
mines and obstructions within and withnufV "
man territorial waters without i mS Ger;
neutrality being raised. anHhe JXiltin?-"0?
such mines and obstructions are ?n5, of a11
2G. The existing b&Tff
rwj v ""'w auxx uoauuiiiiea powers nm
main unchanged and nil rinvv. .
found at sea are to remain liable to cant,,,. lp3
27. All naval aircraft r o pture-
immobilized in German bases t T.T ."
and
by the Allies and associated nnwo ... .
mnln hnnhn.nppri nnH nil n... r1' 10 re.
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fied by tho Allies and tho United Statcf01,'
America. llUes of
28. In evacuating tho Belgian coast ,,.,
ports, Germany shall abandon all S
ships, tugs lighter cranes, and al o &
bor materials, all materials for inland IJT
tion,-all aircraft and all materials and stoS"
all arms and armaments and all stores nn,i !?
ratus of all kinds. S and apW'
29. All Black Sea ports are to be evacuate
by Germany; all Bussian war vessels of -111
scriptions seized by Germany in the Black ?,
era to be handed over to the Allies and tS
United States of America, all neutral merchan!
vessels seized are to be released; all warlike 2
other materials of all kinds seized in those norE
are to be returned and Gorman materials as sne.
cified in clause twenty-eight are to be abandoned
30. All merchant vessels in German hands
belonging to the Allied and associated powers
are to be restored in ports to be specified by the
Allies and the United State's, of America without
reciprocity.
31. No destruction of ships or of materials
to be permitted beforo evacuation, surrender or
restoration.
32. The German government will notify the
neutral governments of the world, and particu
larly the governments of Norway, Sweden, Den
mark and Holland, that all restrictions placed on
the trading of their vessels with the Allied and
associated countries, whether by the German
government or by private German interests and
whether in return for specific concessions such
as export of shipbuilding materials or not, aro
immediately canceled.
33. No transfers of German merchant ship
ping of any description to any neutral flag are
to take place after signature of the armistice.
VI. Duration of armistice.
34. The duration of the armistice is to bo
thirty days, with option to extend. During this
period, on failure of execution of any of the
above clauses, the armistice may be denounced
by any of the contracting" parties on forty-eight
hours' previous notice.
VII. Time limit for reply:
35. This armistice to be accepted or refused
by Germany within seventy-two hours of noti
fication. GERMANT CANNOT-RENEW WAR
"The war thus comes to an end for, having ac
cepted these terms of arniistice, it will be im
possible for the German command to renew it,"
the President said.
"It is not now possible to 'assess the conse
quences of this great consummation. We know
only that this tragical war, -whose consuming
flames swept from one nation to another until
all the world "was on fire, is at an end and that
it was the privilege of our own people to enter
it at its most critical juncture in such fashion
and in such force as to contribute in a way of
which we are all deeply proud, to the great re
suit. "We know, too, that the object of the war is
attained, the object upon which all free men
had set their hearts, and attained with a sweep
ing completeness "which even -now we do not
. realize.
"Armed ' imperialism such as the men con
ceived who were but yesterday the masters 01
Germany is at an end, its illicit ambition en
gulfed in black disaster. Who will now seen
to revive it? The arbitrary power of the mili
tary caste of Germany which once could secretly,
and of its own single qhoico, disturb the peace o
the world, is discredited and destroyed. Ana
. mpre than that much more than thatnas
been accomplished. The great nations which as
sociated themselves to destroy it had now uen
nitely united in the common purpose to set ui
such a peace as will satisfy the longing of JJ
whole world for disinterested justice, emboajeu
in settlements which are based upon sometn mb
much better and much more lasting than u
selfish competitive interests of powerful states.
"There is no longer conjecture as to the o
jects the victors have in mind. They haie
mind in the matter, not only, but a heart aisu.
Their avowed and concerted purpose is to saw j
and protect the weak as well as to accord u
just rights to the strong. . .. a vlc.
"The 'humane temper and Intention of tne -v
torious governments has already been n
festod in a very practical way. Their repress
tatives in the supreme war council at veisa
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