days of all inhabitants of the countries above mentioned, including
hostages and persons under trial or convicted.

4. Surrender in good condition by the German armies of the following
equipment: Five thousand guns (two thousand five hundred heavy, two
thousand five hundred field), twenty-five thousand machine guns, three
thousand minenwerfers, seventeen hundred airplanes. The above to be
delivered in situ to the Allies and the United States troops in
accordance with the detailed conditions 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 troops of occupation under the control of the
Allied and United States armies 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 bridgeheads at these points in 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 of the Rhine between the
stream and a line drawn parallel to it forty kilometers (twenty-six
miles) to the east from the frontier of Holland to the parallel of
Gernsheim and as far as practicable a distance of thirty kilometers
(twenty miles) from the east of stream from this parallel upon Swiss
frontier. Evacuation by the enemy of the Rhine lands shall be so ordered
as to be completed within a further period of sixteen days, in all
thirty-one 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 destruction of any kind to be committed.
Military establishments of all kinds shall be delivered 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, 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 roads, bridges, telegraphs, telephones, shall
be in no manner impaired. No p