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character shall be taken which would have as a consequence the depreciation of industrial establishments or a reduction of their personnel. Evacuation by the enemy of Rhinelands shall be so ordered as to be completed within a further period of eleven days, in all twenty-five days after the signature of the Armistice. All movements of evacuation and occupation will be regulated according to the Note (Annexure I).* 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 destruction of any kind to be committed. Military establishments of all kinds shall be delivered intact, as well as military stores of food, munitions, equipment not removed during the periods 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 moved. 7. Roads and means of communication of every kind, railroads, waterways, main roads, bridges, telegraphs, telephones shall be in no manner impaired. All civil and military personnel at present employed on. them shall remain. Five thousand locomotives, one hundred and fifty thousand wagons, and five thousand motor-lorries in good working-order with all necessary spare parts and fittings shall be delivered to the Associated Powers within the period fixed for 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 country 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 as far as the means of communication are concerned in an efficient state by Germany during the whole period of the Armistice. All barges taken from the Allies shall be restored to them. The Note appended as Annexure 2* regulates the details of these measures. 8. The German Command shall be responsible for revealing all mines or delay-action fuses disposed on territory 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 springs, wells, &c), under penalty of reprisals. 9. The right of requisition, shall be exercised by the Allied and United States Armies in all occupied territory, save for settlement of accounts with authorized persons; the upkeep of the troops of occupation in the Rhineland (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; the Allied Powers and the United States of America shall be able to dispose of these prisoners as they wish. However, the return of the German prisoners of war interned in Holland and Switzerland shall continue as heretofore. The return of German prisoners of war shall be settled at Peace preliminaries. 11. Sick and wounded who cannot be removed from evacuated territory will he cared for by German personnel, who will be left on the spot with the medical material required. B. Clauses relating to the Eastern Frontiers of Germany. 12. All German troops at present in any territory which before the war belonged to Russia, Roumania, or Turkey shall withdraw within the frontiers of Germany as they existed on the Ist August, 1914; and all German troops at present in territories which before the war formed part of Russia must likewise return to within the frontiers of Germany as above defined as soon as the Allies shall think the moment suitable, having regard to the internal situation of these territories. 13. Evacuation by German troops to begin at once; and all German instructors, prisoners, and civilian as well as military agents now on the territory of Russia (as defined on the Ist August, 1914) to be recalled.

* AnnexUres not yet received.

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