7. Roads and means of communication of every kind, railroads, waterways, roads, bridges, telegraphs, telephones shall be in no manner impaired. All civil and military personnel at present employed on them shall remain. 5000 locomotives and 150,000 wagons in good working order, with all necessary spare parts and fittings, shall be delivered to the Associated Powers within the period fixed in Annexe 2 (not exceeding thirty-one days in all). 5000 motor lorries are also to be delivered in good condition within thirty-six days. The railways of Alsace-Lorraine shall be handed over within thirty-one days, together with all personnel and material belonging to the organisation of the system. Further, working material in the territories on the left bank of the Rhine shall be left _in situ_. All stores of coal and material for upkeep of permanent way, signals and repair shops shall be left _in situ_ and kept in an efficient state by Germany, so far as the means of communication on the left bank of the Rhine are concerned. All lighters taken from the Allies shall be restored to them. The Note attached as Annexe 2 defines the details of these measures. 8. The German Command shall be responsible for revealing, within forty-eight hours of the signing of the Armistice, all mines or delay-action fuses disposed on territories evacuated by the German troops, and shall assist in their discovery and destruction. The German Command shall also reveal all destructive measures that may have been taken (such as poisoning or pollution of wells, springs, etc.), under penalty of reprisals. 9. The right of requisition shall be exercised by the Allied and United States Armies in all occupied territories, save for the settlement of accounts with authorised persons. The upkeep of the troops of occupation in the Rhine districts (excluding Alsace-Lorraine) shall be charged to the German Government. 10. The immediate repatriation, without reciprocity, according to detailed conditions which shall be fixed, of all Allied and United States prisoners of war, including those under trial and condemned. The Allied Powers and the United States of America shall be able to dispose of these prisoners as they think fit. This condition annuls all other conventions regarding prisoners of war, including that of July 1918, now being ratified. However, the return of German prisoners of war interned in Holland and Switzerland shall continue as heretofore. The return of German prisoners of war shall be settled at the conclusion of the peace preliminaries. 11. Sick and wounded, who cannot be removed from territory evacuated by the German forces, will be cared for by German personnel, who will be left on the spot with the material required. _B_--CLAUSES RELATING TO THE EASTERN FRONTIERS OF GERMANY