World's War Events $v Volume 3: Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.
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World's War Events $v Volume 3: Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919.
World War, 1914-1918
Five--Evacuation by the German armies of the countries on the left bank
of the Rhine. The countries on the left bank of the Rhine shall be
administered by the local troops of occupation. The occupation of these
territories will be carried out by allied and United States garrisons
holding the principal crossings of the Rhine (Mayence, Coblenz,
Cologne), together with the bridgeheads at these points of a
thirty-kilometer radius on the right bank and by garrisons similarly
holding the strategic points of the regions. A neutral zone shall be
reserved on the right bank of the Rhine between the stream and a line
drawn parallel to the bridgeheads and to the stream and at a distance of
ten kilometers, from the frontier of Holland up to the frontier of
Switzerland. The evacuation by the enemy of the Rhinelands (left and
right 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 the movements of evacuation or occupation are regulated
by the note (annexure No. 1) drawn up at the moment of the signing of
the armistice.
[Sidenote: Allies to occupy left bank of Rhine and principal crossings.]
[Sidenote: Inhabitants of evacuated territories to be protected.]
Six--In all territories evacuated by the enemy there shall be no
evacuation of inhabitants; no damage or harm shall be done to the
persons or property of the inhabitants. No person shall be persecuted
for offenses of participation in war measures prior to the signing of
the armistice. No destruction of any kind shall be committed. Military
establishments of all kinds shall be delivered intact, as well as
military stores of food, munitions, and equipment, not removed during
the time fixed for evacuation. Stores of food of all kinds for the civil
population, cattle, &c., shall be left in situ. Industrial
establishments shall not be impaired in any way and their personnel
shall not be removed.
[Sidenote: Means of transportation to be surrendered in good order.]
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