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
The German wireless stations at Nauen, Hanover, and Berlin are not
to be used for naval, military, or political messages without the
assent of the Allied and Associated Governments during three months,
but only for commercial purposes, under supervision. During the same
period Germany is not to build any more high-power wireless stations.
AERIAL
The Air clauses provide that the armed forces of Germany must not
include any military or naval air forces. Germany is, however, to be
allowed to maintain a maximum of 100 unarmed seaplanes up to the 1st
October 1919, to be exclusively employed in searching for submarine
mines. The entire personnel of the air forces in Germany is to be
demobilised within two months, except for a total of 1000 men,
including officers, which may be retained up to October 1919.
Until the complete evacuation of German territory by the Allies and
Associated troops, the aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers
shall enjoy in Germany freedom of passage through the air, freedom
of transit and of landing.
All military and naval aircraft (including dirigibles) and
aeronautical material are to be delivered to the Allied and
Associated Governments within three months, except for the hundred
seaplanes already specified.
PART VI
_Prisoners of War and Graves_
The Allied and Associated Powers agree to repatriate German
prisoners and interned civilians without delay after the coming in
force of the present Treaty; the whole cost of repatriation to be
borne by the German Government.
The Allied Governments and the German Government will cause to be
respected and maintained the graves of the soldiers and sailors
buried in their respective territories.
PART VII
_Penalties_
William II., of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, to be tried
by a special tribunal for a supreme offence against international
morality and the sanctity of treaties. The tribunal to consist of
five judges, one appointed by each of the following powers: the
U.S.A., Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan.
The German Government recognises the right of the Allied Powers to
bring before military tribunals persons accused of having committed
acts in violation of the laws and customs of war and agrees to hand
over such persons.
PART VIII
REPARATION
'The Allied and Associated Governments affirm, and Germany accepts
on behalf of herself and her Allies, the responsibility for
causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated
Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence
of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her
Allies.'
The Allied and Associated Governments recognise that the resources
of Germany are insufficient to make complete reparation possible,
but through the instrumentality of an Inter-Allied commission, to
be called the Reparation Commission, her responsibility for the
loss and damage caused by the war is to be assessed and gradually
liquidated as far as possible.
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