A Concise Chronicle of Events of the Great War

by R. P. P. Rowe

The Allied and United States Army of Occupation shall enter these various territories after the expiration of the period allowed to the German troops for the evacuation of each, consequently the Army will cross the line No. 3 twenty days after signing of the Armistice, it will cross line No. 4 as from the twenty-fourth day after the signing of the Armistice. Line No. 5 as from the twenty-eighth day. Line No. 6 (Rhine) the thirty-second day in order to occupy the bridgeheads.

3. Surrender by the German Army of War Material specified in the Armistice.—This war material shall be surrendered according to the following conditions: The first half before the tenth day, the second half before the twentieth day. This material will be handed over to each of the Allied and United States Armies by each tactical group of the German Armies in the proportions which may be fixed by the permanent Armistice Commission.

Annexe No. 2.

Conditions of communications regarding railways, waterways, roads, river and sea ports, and telegraphic and telephonic communications.

1. All communications as far as the Rhine, inclusive, or comprised, on the right bank of the river, within the bridgeheads occupied by the Allied Armies will be placed under the supreme authority of the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies, who will have the right to take any measure he may think necessary to assure their occupation and use. All documents relative to communications will be held ready for transmission to him.

2. All the material and all the civil and military personnel at present employed in the maintenance and working of all lines of communication are to be maintained in their entirety upon these lines in all territories evacuated by the German troops.

All supplementary material necessary for the upkeep of these lines of communication in the districts on the left bank of the Rhine will be supplied by the German Government throughout the duration of the Armistice.

3. Personnel.—The French and Belgian personnel belonging to the services of the lines of communication, whether interned or not, are to be returned to the French and Belgian Armies, during the fifteen days following the signing of the Armistice. The personnel belonging to the organisation of the Alsace-Lorraine railway system are to be maintained or reinstated in such a manner as to ensure the working of the system.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies will have the right to make all changes or substitutions that he may desire in the personnel of the lines of communication.