women and children in their own countries
and other countries, and undertake to secure just treatment of the
native inhabitants of territories under their control; they will entrust
the League with the general supervision over the execution of agreements
for the suppression of traffic in women and children, &c.; and the
control of the trade in arms and ammunition with countries in which
control is necessary; they will make provision for freedom of
communication and transit and equitable treatment for commerce of all
members of the League, with special reference to the necessities of
regions devastated during the war; and they will endeavor to take steps
for international prevention and control of disease. International
bureaus and commissions already established will be placed under the
League, as well as those to be established in the future.
AMENDMENTS TO THE COVENANT
Amendments to the covenant will take effect when ratified by the Council
and by a majority of the Assembly.
SECTION II
BOUNDARIES OF GERMANY
[Sidenote: Germany to cede to France and Poland.]
Germany cedes to France Alsace-Lorraine, 5,600 square miles to the
southwest, and to Belgium two small districts between Luxemburg and
Holland, totaling 382 square miles. She also cedes to Poland the
southeastern tip of Silesia beyond and including Oppeln, most of Posen,
and West Prussia, 27,686 square miles, East Prussia being isolated from
the main body by a part of Poland. She loses sovereignty over the
northeastern tip of East Prussia, 40 square miles north of the river
Memel, and the internationalized areas about Danzig, 729 square miles,
and the Basin of the Sarre, 738 square miles, between the western border
of the Rhenish Palatinate of Bavaria and the southeast corner of
Luxemburg. The Danzig area consists of the V between the Nogat and
Vistula Rivers made a W by the addition of a similar V on the west,
including the city of Danzig. The southeastern third of East Prussia and
the area between East Prussia and the Vistula north of latitude 53
degrees 3 minutes is to have its nationality determined by popular vote,
5,785 square miles, as is to be the case in part of Schleswig, 2,787
square miles.
SECTION III
BELGIUM
[Sidenote: Frontier changes.]
Germany is to consent to the abrogation of the treaties of 1839, by
which Belgium was established as a neutral State, and to agree in
advance to any convention with which the allied
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