8. The German command shall be responsible for revealing within forty-eight hours all mines or delay acting 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 polluting of springs, wells, etc.) under penalty of reprisals.
9. The right of requisition shall be exercised by the Allies and the United States armies in all occupied territory, "subject to regulation of accounts with those whom it may concern." The upkeep of the troops of occupation in the Rhine land (excluding Alsace-Lorraine) shall be charged to the German Government.
10. An 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 shall be able to dispose of these prisoners as they wish. This condition annuls the previous conventions on the subject of the exchange of prisoners of war, including the one of July, 1918, in course of ratification. However, the repatriation of German prisoners of war interned in Holland and in Switzerland shall continue as before. The repatriation of German prisoners of war shall be regulated at the conclusion of the preliminaries of peace.
11. Sick and wounded, who cannot be removed from evacuated territory will be cared for by German personnel who will be left on the spot with the medical material required.
12. All German troops at present in any territory which before the war belonged to Roumania, Turkey or Austria-Hungary shall immediately withdraw within the frontiers of Germany as they existed on August 1, 1914. German troops now in Russian territory shall withdraw within the frontiers of Germany, as soon as the Allies, taking into account the internal situation of those territories, shall decide that the time for this has come.
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 before 1914) to be recalled.
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French Official Photograph.
DRAFTING THE DRASTIC TERMS OF SURRENDER
The above French official photograph is the first received in this
country showing the statesmen of the Allied Powers at Versailles
drafting the armistice terms, which later were accepted by the German
plenipotentiaries, and virtually brought the World War to an end. The
men in the photograph are: Left side of table, left to right—General
di Robilant of Italy; Baron Sidney Sonnino, Italian Foreign Minister;
Vittorio Orlando, Italian Premier; Colonel E. M. House, representative
of President Wilson; General Tasker H. Bliss, U. S. A.; (next man
unknown); Eleutherios Venizelos, Greek Premier; Vesnitch, Serbian
Premier. Right, side of table, left to right—Admiral Wemyss, R. N.
(with back turned); General Sir Henry Wilson; Field Marshal Sir
Douglas Haig; General Sackville-West; Andrew Bonar Law, British
Chancellor of the Exchequer; David Lloyd George, British Premier;
Georges Clemenceau, French Premier; Stephen Pichon, French Foreign
Minister.
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Copyright Press Illustrating Service.
GERMANS FLEEING BEFORE ALLIED ADVANCE
To speed their retreat the German engineers built a temporary bridge
using a British tank as a foundation.
[Illustration: Photograph] Copyright Press Illustrating Service. THE GERMAN GOOSE-STEP The Kaiser reviews his troops marching with the goose-step. This photograph shows the pick of the German army. Most of these men were killed by the end of the first year of the war.
14. German troops to cease at once all requisitions and seizures and any other undertakings with a view to obtaining supplies intended for Germany in Roumania and Russia (as defined on August 1, 1914).