t one hundred unarmed seaplanes. No aviation
grounds or dirigible sheds are to be allowed within 150 kilometers of
the Rhine or the eastern or southern frontiers. The manufacture of
aircraft and parts of aircraft is forbidden. All military and
aeronautical material must be surrendered.
The repatriation of German prisoners and interned civilians is to be
carried out without delay and at Germany's expense.
Both parties will respect and maintain the graves of soldiers and
sailors buried on their territories.
Responsibility and Reparation--The allied and associated powers will
publicly arraign William II of Hohenzollern, formerly German emperor,
before a special tribunal composed of one judge from each of the five
great powers, with full right of defense.
Persons accused of having committed acts in violation of the laws and
customs of war are to be tried and punished by military tribunals under
military law.
SECTION 7. Reparation--Germany accepts responsibility for all loss and
damages to which civilians of the allies have been subjected by the war,
and agrees to compensate them. Germany binds herself to repay all sums
borrowed by Belgium from the Allies. Germany irrevocably recognizes the
authority of a reparation commission named by the Allies to enforce and
supervise these payments. She further agrees to restore to the Allies
cash and certain articles which can be identified. As an immediate step
toward restoration, Germany shall pay within two years $5,000,000,000 in
either gold, goods, ships or other specific forms of payment.
The measures which the allied and associated powers shall have the right
to take, in case of voluntary default by Germany, and which Germany
agrees not to regard as acts of war, may include economic and financial
prohibitions and reprisals and in general such other measures as the
respective governments may determine to be necessary in the
circumstances.
The commission may require Germany to give from time to time, by way of
guaranty, issues of bonds or other obligations to cover such claims as
are not otherwise satisfied.
The German government recognizes the right of the Allies to the
replacement, ton for ton and class for class, of all merchant ships and
fishing boats lost or damaged owing to the war, and agrees to cede to
the Allies all German merchant ships of sixteen hundred tons gross and
upward.
The German government further agrees to build merchant ships for the
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