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VOL. XIII, NO. 49.
TULSA, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1918
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MILITARY CLAUSES. ON THE WESTERN FRONT
1. Cessation of operations by land and in the air six hours
after the signature of the armistice.
2 Immediate evacuation of invaded countries: Belgium,
France, Alsace-Lorraine, Luxemburg, so ordered as to be
completed within 14 days from the signature of the armis
tice. German troops which have not left the above mention
ed territories within the period fixed will become prisoners
of war . Occupation by the allied and United States forces
jointly will keep pace with evacuation in these areas. All
movements of evacuation and occupation will be regulated
in accordance with a note annexed to the stated terms.
3. Repatriation beginning at once and to be completed
within 14 days of all inhabitants of the countries abov e men
tioned, including hostages and persons under trial or con
victed. r- . "
4. Surrender in good condition by the German armies of
the following equipment: 5,000 guns (2,500 heavy, 2,500
field), 30,000 machine guns; 3,000 minnenwerfer; 2,000 air
planes (fighters, bombers-firstly D-73s and night bombing
machines), the above to be delivered to the allies and the
United States troops in accordance with the detailed condi
tions laid down in the annexed note.
5. Evacuation by the German armies of the countries on
the left bank of the Rhine. These countries 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 will be de
termined by allied and United States garrisons holding the
principal crossings of the Rhine, Mayence, Coblenz, Co
logne, together with bridgeheads at these points in 30-kilometer
radius on the right bank and by garrisons similar
ly holding -the strategic points of the regions. A neutral
zone shall be reserved on the right of the Rhine between the
stream arid a line drawn parallel to it 40 kilometers to the east
from the frontier of Holland to the parallel of Gernsheim
and as far as practicable a distance of 30 kilometers from the
east of stream from this parallel upon Swiss frontier. Evacua
tion by the enemy of the Rhine lands shall be so ordered as
to be completed within a further period of 11 days,, in all
W days after the signature of the armistice. All movements
of evacuation and occupation will be regulated according to
the note annexed.
6. In all territory 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 de
struction of any kind to be committed. Military establish
ments of all kinds shall be delivered intact as well as mili
tary' stores of food, munitions, equipments not removed dur
ing the periods fixed for evacuation. Stores of food of all
kinds for the civil population, cattle, etc., shall be left in situ.
Industrial establishments shall not be impaired, in any way
and their personnel shall not be moved. Roads and means of
communication of every kind, railroad, .waterways, .main
railroad, waterways, main roads, bridges, telegraphs, tel
ephones, shall be in no manner impaired.
7. All civil and military personnel at present employed
on them shall remain. Five thousand .locomotives, ,:u,vuu
wagons and 10,000 motor lorries in good working order,
with all necessary spare parts and fittings shall be delivered
to the associated powers within the period fixed tor the
evacuation of Belgium and Luxemburg. The railways of Alsace-Lorraine
shall be handed over within the same period,
together with all pre-war personnel and material. Further
material necessary for the working of railways in the coun
try on the left bank of the Rhine shall be left in situ. All
stores of coal and material for the upkeep of permanent
ways, signals and repair shops left entire in situ and keep in
an efficient state by Germany during the whole period oi
armistice. All barges taken from the allies shall be restored
to them. A, note appended regulates the details of these
measures.
8. The German command shall be responsible for reveal
ing all mines or delay-acting fuses disposed on territory
evacuated by the German troops and shall assist in their
discoverr and destruction. The German command shall
also reveal all destructive measures that may have been
taken (such as poisoning or polluting of springs, wells, etc.)
under penalty of reprisals.
9. The right of requisition shall be exercised by the al
lies and the United States arm ies in all occupied territory.
The upkeep of the troops of occupation in the Rhineland, ex
cluding Alsace-Lorraine, shall be charged to the German
government.
10. An immediate repatriat ion without reciprocity, ac
cording to detailed c6nditions which shall be fixed, of all al
lied and United States prisoners of war. The allied powers
shall be able to dispose of these prisoners as they wish.
11. Sick and wounded who can not be removed from evac
uated territory will be cared for by German personnel who
will be left on the spot with the medical material required.
II- Disposition relative to the eastern frontiers of Ger
many.' 12. All German troops at present in any territory which
before the war belonged to Russia, Rumania or Turkey, shall
withdraw within the frontiers of Germany as they existed
on August 1, 1914.
13. Evacuation by German troops, to begin at once and all German instruc
tors, prisoners and civilian as well as military agents, now on the territory of
Russia (as defined before 1914) to be recalled.
14. German troops to cease at once all requisitions and seizures and any oth
er undertaking with a view to obtaining supplies intended for Germany in Ru
mania and Russia (as defined on August 1, 1914).
15 Abandonment of the treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk and of the
supplementary treaties.
16. The allies shall have free taccess to the territories evacuated by the
Germans on their eastern frontier, either through Danzig or by the Vistula
in order to convey supplies to the populations of thost territories or for any
other purpose.
III Clauses concerning East Africa:
17 Unconditional capitulation of all German forces operating in East
Africa within one month.
Continued on Page two)
LONDON, Nov. 11. (2:35 p. m.)-Field
Marshal von Hindenburg hat placed himself
and the German army at the disposition of the
new people's government at Berlin, says a dis
patch from the German capital by way of
Copenhagen.
The field marshal asked the Cologne sol-
f diers' anc workers' council to send delegates
to German main headquarters at once. A dele
gation left Cologne Monday morning.. Field
Marshal von Hindenburg said he had taken this
.action "in order to avoid chaos."
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. The president
spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress:
In these anxious times of rapid and stupend
ous changes it will in some degree lighten my
sense of responsibility to perform in person the
duty of communicating to you some of the
larger circumstances of the war situation with
which it is necessary to deal.
The German authorities who have, at the in
vitation of the supreme war council, been in
communication with Marshal. Foch have ac
cepted and signed the terms of armistice
which he was authorized and instructed to
communicate to them. . Those terms are as follows:
LONDON, Nov. 11 (1:27 p. m.) Revolu
tion is steadily progressing throughout the em
pire, says a German wireless dispatch from
Berlin. Soldiers' and workers' councils are be
ing established everywhere. In general the
change of the government, the message adds,
has occurred without appreciable disturbance
of economic order or b
WASHINGTON. Not. 11. The
term of the armlHtloe with Gcr
many cw ri-ad to oonrrona by
"resident Wilson at I o'clock this
f tcrnaion.
Assembled In the hall of the
Imuw where 19 nmntlin ago aen
tor nml rrpreNentaUvea hoard the
lralilMit auk for tin declaration
of war, they today lieard him
xpeak the words which lirraldoil
the coming of
The proldcnt poke M follow:
t-ciiilcmcn of llm Conimi In
them- anxlou time of rafilil and
KluiM-ndoiiH change It will In aoino
decree lighten my wiwn of rc
sponsllilllly to iierronn In ponton
the duty of cnininunieattiur to you
Mnu of tlii' Inrp'r clreiimataner"
of llir hI I mi 1 1 it with which It la
liiHVKHiiry to deal.
Tho t.ermiin aulhorltlrM who
have at thi' Invllatkni of tho u
prcmc wnr cntiniil. hom In com
munication Willi Marshal IVh-Ii,
hove HiK'iU'il nnil Mr mil ilie
lerm nf nriiilNilif which ho wan
iiuihorrcd mid Instruetiil to onm
iminlculc lo Ihi'iu. TIichc loniM
iiro us follow:
WASHINGTON, Nov. II. I'nu.
Idem Wilson Issued a fortnnl proo
limmlloii at 10 o'clock till morn
Inir iitinoiiiitiiur that tho armistice
Willi Germany had hcon aiicnod.
'My fellow Countrymen: The
armistice was Hlirnod thl morn
I nc I'.vi'rythllii; for which Amor
Irii hit foueht Ihih boon aocomp
llshod. It will now ho our for
I ii nli" duly to assist by example,
hy Holx'r friendly cimiiinoI mid hy
material ulil In the establishment
.f lust democracy HiroiiKhnul tlie
world. WOODKOW WII.SON."
oodshed.
OI'DMI t.KN, Not. II. KlnR
I'rlodrioh uirust of Saxony ha
liccn dethroned, neif irdtnir lo an
ofliiinl tclcirmm from llorlln.
1'e!l it i'irH lii oiuniii xhnllii ni-nn
MIIM.TIIV Nov. II. Tho
Mildly mllltarv term of tho nrnil
Mieo lire i iiilir.n-.-il In II specifica
tions willed Include the cviii-millon
of all In : l- il territories. Hie with
drawal of Hie (,crninn troops from
tlic li ft liiitiL of the Khiuc and the
Mirrenilor i f nil -.iipldles of war.
Tho lerin.i hImi provide for tho
iilmiiitoiiiiii'iit liv (.ernniny of tho
I roii lies of lliiiiurov und Hrost-
I.IU'VKk.
The n:iMil I tiiw provide for the
Mirreniler of lull submarine", ."0
ill inner, six hut Ho iTiilsorM, 10
luilllcsliips. cluhl ll'.'ht cruisers ami
other inlsccllniicoti-. ships.
Ml allied i-s.cl-. In t.orman
hand-, arc lo i ' surrendered und
I.eriii.iMv Is to liolit'v inn I ni Is that
they an1 free to trade ill onee on
I In- sous ltli Hie ulllod eoiiiilrles.
Ain'Mic the fliiiiruial terms In
i luded ure nxlltutlon for damage
done by the (Jorman arnilen; mtl
t in Ion nf tlio cash taken from Ott
National I lank of IMiclum anil rc
turn of irnld taken from ItamtlA
a ml Kuniaula.
Tho military terma tnelads the
nrreiHler of 6.000 runa, half field
ami half light artillery; 10,000 ma.
chine cunM, J. OOO flame throwera
ana 2,000 alrputnca.
The aurrender of 8, OOO looomo.
flve, 60,000 wajrotw, io,(K)0 motor
lorrteM, Ure railways of Aluaoe-Lor-raino
for uae by tlie allies and
Moren of coal and Iron alao are
Included.
In connection with the evacua
tion of the left bank of the lUilne,
It la provided that the alllea aha II
hold the vrotwlnira of the river at
and near Cobleut. Coloirne and
Mayence, trcUu-r with brldebeada
and a SO-kllometor radio.
Hie ImraetluMe repatiiaUon of
all allied and American primmer
without recJprocul action by alllea
la Iniiudi-d.
The repatriation within 14 day
of tho UioumumJm of unfortunate
civilian deported from ITance and
Delirium ab la roqulred.
The riKlit bank of tlie Ilhine and
that occupMvJ by tlie allien to be
eonit a neutral aone and Vho bank
held hy tlie tiemuuu la to bo ciae
uatisjl In IV day. Tho annlatlee I
for 30 day, but the proMldent
KMko of tlie war a "coniluic to an
end."
t.cmuin troop are to retire at
once from any territory held by
Itusslu. Kuniaula and Turkey be
fore the war.
The allied fonin are to have ae
ifM lo tile evacuated territory
elilier lliroiicb I Mint .Ik or by tiu
'titer XlsliiLi. The uiH-ondiUonal
cupiiiilulliui of all iJennau fon-ea
In I iist Afrliit within one month
I proililiil.
lU'sldi-s the surrender of the 160
HiilmiurincH It In nspilreil that all
others slull hue their crons paid
ofl, put out of commission and
plaiiil under the u pert Islon of
I lu- nlllisl and American navul
fori'i-.
I ni'dimi of rcccnh lo the llaltio
sou will) iiohit to iM'cupv tionuan .
foils iiv'lbo kattC4ut is another
provision. The ticriuiui also must
I e ca I locution of mines, poisoned
wells ami tike iu.'em Ies of ili-sime-Hon
und the ulllod blockade In to
ii'tiialn uneluinued ilmiiij; tho
period of the iiruiMlcc.
TIicm- are the iilirb sot" of
tho terms us tho pi-esident road
them to i-oiitfross. t.orinany's ac
ci ptamv of them, he snlil. sI-hiiI-iisl
the end of the wur, lus'auso it
made her powerless to renew li.
All ports on the r.lic'k wa occnv
plctl h.v tiermans nn- lo bi- nr
renden'd and the Kus-liin war
vosm'Is ivionily taken by the Her
man naval foroi-a also, arc to be
Mirrendoroil to the alllo.