A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great WarRowe, R. P. P.
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A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War
Rowe, R. P. P.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Chronology
Occupation by the Allied and United States Forces jointly will keep
pace with the evacuation in these areas.
All movements of evacuation and occupation will be regulated in
accordance with a Note (Annexe 1) determined at the time of the
signing of the Armistice.
3. Repatriation, beginning at once, to be completed within fifteen
days, of all inhabitants of the countries above enumerated
(including hostages, persons under trial, or condemned).
4. Surrender in good condition by the German Armies of the following
equipment:
5000 guns (2500 heavy, 2500 field).
25,000 machine guns.
3000 _Minenwerfer_.
1700 aeroplanes (fighters, bombers--firstly D 7's--and
night-bombing machines).
The above to be delivered _in situ_ to the Allied and United States
troops in accordance with the detailed conditions laid down in
the Note (Annexe 1) determined at the time of the signing of the
Armistice.
5. Evacuation by the German Armies of the districts on the left bank
of the Rhine. These districts on the left bank of the Rhine shall
be administered by the local authorities under the control of the
Allied and United States Armies of Occupation.
The occupation of these territories by Allied and United States
troops will be assured by garrisons holding the principal crossings
of the Rhine (Mainz, Coblenz, Cologne), together with bridgeheads
at these points of a thirty-kilometre [about nineteen miles] radius
on the right bank, and by garrisons similarly holding the strategic
points of the area.
A neutral zone shall be reserved on the right bank of the Rhine,
between the river and a line drawn parallel to the bridgeheads and
to the river and ten kilometres [six and a quarter miles] distant
from them, between the Dutch frontier and the Swiss frontier.
The evacuation by the enemy of the Rhine districts (right and left
bank) shall be so ordered as to be completed within a further period
of sixteen days, in all thirty-one days after the signing of the
Armistice.
All movements of evacuation and occupation will be regulated
according to the Note (Annexe 1) determined at the time of the
signing of the Armistice.
6. In all territories evacuated by the enemy, evacuation of the
inhabitants shall be forbidden; no damage or harm shall be done to
the persons or property of the inhabitants.
In the case of inhabitants no person shall be prosecuted for having
taken part in any military measures previous to the signing of the
Armistice.
No destruction of any kind to be committed.
Military establishments of all kinds shall be delivered intact, as
well as military stores of food, munitions, and equipment, which
shall not have been removed during the periods fixed for evacuation.
Stores of food of all kinds for the civil population, cattle, etc.,
shall be left _in situ_.
No measures of a general or official character shall be taken
which would have, as a consequence, the depreciation of industrial
establishments or a reduction of their personnel.
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