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PEACE TERMS ARE GIVEN THE HUNS Bitter Dose of Mcdicino for Cure of German Murder and Rapine VERSAILLES France May 7 By the terms of the treaty given to the German plenipotentiaries today Germany restores AlsaceLorraine to France accepts the internationalization of the Saar basin temiK rarily and of Dantzig permanently agrees to territorial changes toward Belgium and Denmark and in Kast Prussia cedes most of upper Silesia to Poland and renounces all territorial and political rights outside Europe as to her own or her allies territories and specially to Morocco Egypt Siam Liberia and Shantung She also recognizes the total independence of GermanAustria CzechoSlovakla and Poland PolandHer Her army is reduced to 100000 men including officers conscription within her territories is abolished all forts fifty kilometers east of the Rhine razed and all importation exportation and nearly all production of war material stopped Allied occupation of parts of Germany will continue till reparation is made It will be reduced at the end of each of three fiveyear periods if Germany is fulfilling her obligation Any violation by Ger ¬ many of the conditions as to the zone fifty kilo ¬ meters east of the Rhine will be regarded as an act of war warThe The German navy is reduced to six battleships six light cruisers and twelve torpedo boats with ¬ out submarines and a personnel of not over fifteen thousand All other vessels must be surrendered or destroyed destroyedGermany Germany is forbidden to build forts controlling the Baltic Must demolish Helgoland open the Kiel Canal to all nations and surrender her four ¬ teen submarine cables She may have no military or naval air forces except one hundred unarmed seaplanes until October 1 to detect mines and may manufacture aviation material for six months Germany monthsGermany accepts full responsibility for all damage caused to allied and associate governments and nationals agrees specifically to reimburse all civilian damages beginning with an initial payment of twenty billion marks subsequent payments to be secured by bonds to be issued at the discretion of the reparation commission Germany is to pay shipping damage on a tonforton basis by cession of a large part of her merchant coasting and river fleets and by new construction and to devote her economic resources to the rebuilding of the devastated regions She agrees to return to the 1914 mostfavorednation tariffs without discrimination of any sort to allow allied and associated nationals freedom of transit through her territories and to accept highly detailed provisions as prewar debts unfair competition international zation of roads and rivers and other economic and financial clauses She also agrees to the trial of the exkaiser by an international high court for a supreme offense against international morality and of other nationals for violation of the law and customs of war Holland to be asked to extradite the former and Germany being responsible for de ¬ livering the latter latterThe The league of nations accepted by the allied and associated powers as operative and by Germany in principle but without membership Similarly an international lalwr body is brought into being with a permanent office and an annual convention A great number of international bodies of different kinds and for different purposes arc created Some under the league of nations some to execute the peace treaty Among the former is the commission to govern the Saar basin till a plebiscite is held fifteen years hence The high commissioner of Dantzig which is created into a free city tinder the league and various commissions for plebiscites in Malmody Schleswig and East Prussia among those to carry out tho peace treaty are the repara ¬ tions military naval air financial and economic commissions the international high court and mili ¬ tary tribunals to fix responsibilities and a scries of bodies for the control of international rivers Certain riversCertain problems are left for solution Iwtwcen the allied and associate powers notably details of the disposition of the German fleet and cables the former German colonies and the values in reparation Certain other problems such as tho laws of the air and the opium arms and liquor traffic are cither agreed to in detail or set for early international action
