Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1918 — PRICE FOR SINS FOES HOST PAY [ARTICLE]

PRICE FOR SINS FOES HOST PAY

ALLIES WILL DEMAND FULL REPARATION FROM GERMANY AND ALLIES. - .' Military Surrenders. The Germans, within fourteen days, must evacuate all of Belgium, France, Alsace-Lorraine, and Luxemburg. AI German troops remaining after that time will become prisoners of war. The Germans must surrender 5,000 cannon, half field and half light artillery; 30,000 machine guns, 8,000 flame throwers, and 2,ooo*airplanes, fighters, bombers—firstly D. seventythrees—and night bombing machines. The- Germans must surrender in good condition 5,000 locomotives, 60,000 wagons, and 10,000 motor lorries. They also roust turn over all the railways in Alsace-fLorraane and their coal and metal supplies. All Germans in East Africa must surrender in one month. Naval Surrenders.

The Germans must surrender 160 submarines, including alii cruiser and mine laying submarines. They also must give up the following naval craft, the individual ships to be designated by the allies: Fifty destroyers, six battle cruisers, ten battleships* eight -light cruisers. The other submarines and all the other surface vessels are to he disarmed and' dismamned and concentrated in German ports to be designated by the allies. A|l auxiliary vessels (trawlers, motor vessels, etc.) are to be disarmed. All ports on the Black sea occupied by the Germans are to be surrendered, together -with all the Russian vessels captured by the Germans, All merchant vessels belonging to the allies now in the hands of the Germans aie to be surrendered without reciprocity.

Occupation*. The allies will occupy all of the country on the left (west bank of the Rhine and the, principal crossings at Mayence, Coblenz, and Cologne, together with the bridgeheads (twenty miles in radius) on the right bank. The Germans to evacuate in nineteen . days. The Germans must withdraw and create a neutral zone on the right jank forty kilometres wide from the Holland border to the Swiss border. The allies will occupy the German forts on 'the Cottegat to insure freedom of access to- the Baltic. Restoration. Beside France, Belgium and Alsace, the Germans must retire fropa all 'territory held by Russia, Kotunania and Turkey before the way. The treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Litoysk are abrogated. The allies are to have access to the restored territories in the east either through Dantzg dr the River Vistula. Restitution. ~ Full restitution for all damage donfe jy the Germa nannies. Restitution of the cash taken from the National Bank of Belgium. Return of all the goH, taken by the Gentians from Russia and Roumania, this gold to be turned over to the allies as trustees. , Repatriation. AB allied prisoners dm Germany, military, naval or civilian, to be released immediately without reciprocal action by the allies.