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erson shall be prosecuted for offenses of
participation in war measures prior to the signing of the armistice.
7. All civil and military personnel at present employed on them shall
remain. Five thousand locomotives, one hundred 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 thirty-six days,
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 the
upkeep of permanent ways, signals and repair shops left entire in situ
and kept in an efficient state by Germany during the whole period of
armistice. All barges taken from the Allies shall be restored to them.
All civil and military personnel at present employed on such means of
communication and transporting including waterways shall remain.
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.
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