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
10. Allied occupation of the Taurus tunnel system.
11. Immediate withdrawal of Turkish troops from North-west Persia
to behind the pre-war frontier has already been ordered, and will
be carried out. Part of Transcaucasia has already been ordered to
be evacuated by Turkish troops, the remainder to be evacuated if
required by the Allies after they have studied the situation there.
12. Wireless telegraph and cable stations to be controlled by the
Allies, Turkish Government messages excepted.
13. Prohibition to destroy any naval, military, or commercial
material.
14. Facilities to be given for the purchase of coal, oil-fuel, and
naval material from Turkish sources after the requirements of the
country have been met. None of the above material to be exported.
15. Allied Control Officers to be placed on all railways, including
such portions of Transcaucasian railways now under Turkish control,
which must be placed at the free and complete disposal of the
Allied authorities, due consideration being given to the needs of
the population. This clause to include Allied occupation of Batum.
Turkey will raise no objection to the occupation of Baku by the
Allies.
16. The surrender of all garrisons in Hejaz, Assir, Yemen, Syria,
and Mesopotamia to the nearest Allied Commander, and the withdrawal
of troops from Cilicia, except those necessary to maintain order, as
will be determined under Clause 5.
17. Surrender of all Turkish officers in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica
to the nearest Italian garrison. Turkey guarantees to stop supplies
and communication with these officers if they do not obey the order
to surrender.
18. Surrender of all ports occupied in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica,
including Misurata, to the nearest Allied garrison.
19. All Germans and Austrians, naval, military, and civilian, to be
evacuated within one month from Turkish dominions. Those in remote
districts as soon after as may be possible.
20. Compliance with such orders as may be conveyed for the disposal
of the equipment, arms, and ammunition, including transport, of that
portion of the Turkish Army which is demobilised under Clause 5.
21. An Allied representative to be attached to the Turkish
Ministry of Supplies in order to safeguard Allied interests. This
representative to be furnished with all information necessary for
this purpose.
22. Turkish prisoners to be kept at the disposal of the Allied
Powers. The release of Turkish civilian prisoners and prisoners over
military age to be considered.
23. Obligation on the part of Turkey to cease all relations with the
Central Powers.
24. In case of disorder in the six Armenian vilayets the Allies
reserve to themselves the right to occupy any part of them.
25. Hostilities between the Allies and Turkey shall cease from noon,
local time, on Thursday, October 31, 1918.
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Signed in duplicate on board His Britannic Majesty's ship
_Agamemnon_, at Port Mudros, Lemnos, October the 30th, 1918.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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