th bridgeheads at these points in
thirty kilometre 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 kilometres
(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 kilometres (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 eleven days, in all nineteen days after the signature of
the armistice. All movements of evacuation and occupation will be
regulated according to the note annexed.

Six--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, 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.

Seven--All civil and military personnel at present employed on them
shall remain. Five thousand locomotives, fifty thousand wagons and
ten 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 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.