All barges taken from the Allies shall be restored to them. A note
appended regulates the details of these measures.
Eight--The German command shall be responsible for revealing all
mines or other 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.
Nine--The right of requisition shall be exercised by the Allied and
the United States armies in all occupied territory. The upkeep of
the troops of occupation in the Rhine land (excluding
Alsace-Lorraine), shall be charged to the German Government.
Ten--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.
Eleven--Sick and wounded, who can not be removed from evacuated
territory will be cared for by German personnel who will be left on
the spot with the medical material required.
II. DISPOSITION RELATIVE TO THE EASTERN FRONTIERS OF GERMANY:
Twelve--All German troops at present in any territory which before
the war belonged to Russia, Rumania or Turkey shall withdraw within
the frontiers of Germany as they existed on August 1, 1914.
Thirteen--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.
Fourteen--German troops to cease at once all requisitions and
seizures and any other undertaking with a view to obtaining
supplies intended for Germany in Rumania and Russia (as defined on
August 1, 1914).
Fifteen--Abandonment of the treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk
and of the supplementary treaties.
Sixteen--The Allies shall have free access to the territories
evacuated by the Germans on their eastern frontier either through
Danzig or by the Vistula in order to convey supplies to the
population of those territories or for any other purpose.
III. CLAUSE CONCERNING EAST AFRICA:
Seventeen--Uncon
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