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The High Contracting Parties agree that, in the absence of a subsequent agreement to the contrary, the Chairman of any Commission established by the present Treaty shall in the event of an equality of votes be entitled to a second vote.

The Allied and Associated Powers agree that where Christian religious missions were being maintained by German societies or persons in territory belonging to them, or of which the government is entrusted to them in accordance with the present Treaty, the property which these missions or missionary societies possessed, including that of trading societies whose profits were devoted to the support of missions, shall continue to be devoted to missionary purposes. In order to ensure the due execution of this undertaking the Allied and Associated Governments will hand over such property to boards of trustees appointed by or approved by the Governments and composed of persons holding the faith of the Mission whose property is involved.

The Allied and Associated Governments, while continuing to maintain full control as to the individuals by whom the Missions are conducted, will safeguard the interests of such Missions.

Germany, taking note of the above undertaking, agrees to accept all arrangements made or to be made by the Allied or Associated Government concerned for carrying on the work of the said missions or trading societies and waives all claims on their behalf.

Without prejudice to the provisions of the present Treaty, Germany undertakes not to put forward directly or indirectly against any Allied or Associated Power, signatory of the present Treaty, including those which without having declared war, have broken off diplomatic relations with the German Empire, any pecuniary claim based on events which occurred at any time before the coming into force of the present Treaty.

The present stipulation will bar completely and finally all claims of this nature, which will be thenceforward extinguished, whoever may be the parties in interest.

Germany accepts and recognises as valid and binding all decrees and orders concerning German ships and goods and all orders relating to the payment of costs made by any Prize Court of any of the Allied or Associated Powers, and undertakes not to put forward any claim arising out of such decrees or orders on behalf of any German national.

The Allied and Associated Powers reserve the right to examine in such manner as they may determine all decisions and orders of German Prize Courts, whether affecting the property rights of nationals of those Powers or of neutral Powers. Germany agrees to furnish copies of all the documents constituting the record of the cases, including the decisions and orders made, and to accept and give effect to the recommendations made after such examination of the cases.

The present Treaty, of which the French and English texts are both authentic, shall be ratified.

The deposit of ratifications shall be made at Paris as soon as possible.

Powers of which the seat of the Government is outside Europe will be entitled merely to inform the Government of the French Republic through their diplomatic representative at Paris that their ratification has been given; in that case they must transmit the instrument of ratification as soon as possible.

A first procès-verbal of the deposit of ratifications will be drawn up as soon as the Treaty has been ratified by Germany on the one hand, and by three of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers on the other hand.

From the date of this first procès-verbal the Treaty will come into force between the High Contracting Parties who have ratified it. For the determination of all periods of time provided for in the present Treaty this date will be the date of the coming into force of the Treaty.

In all other respects the Treaty will enter into force for each Power at the date of the deposit of its ratification.

The French Government will transmit to all the signatory Powers a certified copy of the procès-verbaux of the deposit of ratifications.

In faith whereof the above-named Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty.

Done at Versailles, the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, in a single copy which will remain deposited in the archives of the French Republic, and of which authenticated copies will be transmitted to each of the Signatory Powers.

[For the United States:]

Woodrow Wilson [SEAL]

Robert Lansing [SEAL]

Henry White [SEAL]

E. M. House [SEAL]

Tasker H. Bliss [SEAL]

[For the United Kingdom:]

D. Lloyd George [SEAL]

A. Bonar Law [SEAL]

Milner [SEAL]

Arthur James Balfour [SEAL]

George N. Barnes [SEAL]

[For the Dominion of Canada:]

Chas. J. Doherty [SEAL]

Arthur L. Sifton [SEAL]

[For the Commonwealth of Australia:]

W. M. Hughes [SEAL]

Joseph Cook [SEAL]

[For the Union of South Africa:]

Louis Botha [SEAL]

J. Chr. Smuts [SEAL]

[For the Dominion of New Zealand:]

W. F. Massey [SEAL]

[For India:]

Ed. S. Montagu [SEAL]

Ganga Singh, Maharaja de Bikaner [SEAL]

[For France:]

G. Clemenceau [SEAL]

S. Pichon [SEAL]

L. L. Klotz [SEAL]

André Tardieu [SEAL]

Jules Cambon [SEAL]

[For Italy:]

Sidney Sonnino [SEAL]

Imperiali [SEAL]

Silvio Crespi [SEAL]

[For Japan:]

Saionji [SEAL]

N. Makino [SEAL]

S. Chinda [SEAL]

K. Matsui [SEAL]

H. Ijuin [SEAL]

[For Belgium:]

Hymans [SEAL]

J. van den Heuvel [SEAL]

Emile Vandervelde [SEAL]

[For Bolivia:]

Ismael Montes [SEAL]

[For Brazil:]

Calogeras [SEAL]

Rodrigo Octavio [SEAL]

[For China:]

[For Cuba:]

Antonio S. de Bustamante [SEAL]

[For Ecuador:]

E. Dorn y de Alsua [SEAL]

[For Greece:]

Eleftherios Veniselos [SEAL]

Nicolas Politis [SEAL]

[For Guatemala:]

Joaquin Méndez [SEAL]

[For Haiti:]

Tertullien Guilbaud [SEAL]

[For the Hedjaz:]

M. Rustem Haidar [SEAL]

Abdul Hadi Aouni [SEAL]

[For Honduras:]

P. Bonilla [SEAL]

[For Liberia:]

C. D. B. King [SEAL]

[For Nicaragua:]

Salvador Chamorro [SEAL]

[For Panama:]

Antonio Burgos [SEAL]

[For Peru:]

C. G. Candamo [SEAL]

[For Poland:]

I. J. Paderewski [SEAL]

Roman Dmowski [SEAL]

[For Portugal:]

Affonso Costa [SEAL]

Augusto Soares [SEAL]

[For Roumania:]

Ion I. C. Bratiano [SEAL]

General C. Coanda [SEAL]

[For the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes:]

Nik P. Pachitch [SEAL]

Dr. Ante Trumbic [SEAL]

Mil. R. Vesnitch [SEAL]

[For Siam:]

Charoon [SEAL]

Traidos Prabandhu [SEAL]

[For the Czecho-Slovak Republic:]

Karel Kramar [SEAL]

Dr. Edward Benes [SEAL]

[For Uruguay:]

J. A. Buero [SEAL]

[For Germany:]

Hermann Müller [SEAL]

Dr. Bell [SEAL]

With a view to indicating precisely the conditions in which certain provisions of the Treaty of even date are to be carried out, it is agreed by the High Contracting Parties that:

A Commission will be appointed by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers to supervise the destruction of the fortifications of Heligoland in accordance with the Treaty. This Commission will be authorized to decide what portion of the works protecting the coast from sea erosion are to be maintained and what portion must be destroyed;

Sums reimbursed by Germany to German nationals to indemnify them in respect of the interests which they may be found to possess in the railways and mines referred to in the second paragraph of Article 156 shall be credited to Germany against the sums due by way of reparation;

The list of persons to be handed over to the Allied and Associated Governments by Germany under the second paragraph of Article 228 shall be communicated to the German Government within a month from the coming into force of the Treaty;

The Reparation Commission referred to in Article 240 and paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Annex IV cannot require trade secrets or other confidential information to be divulged;

From the signature of the Treaty and within the ensuing four months Germany will be entitled to submit for examination by the Allied and Associated Powers documents and proposals in order to expedite the work connected with reparation, and thus to shorten the investigation and to accelerate the decisions;

Proceedings will be taken against persons who have committed punishable offences in the liquidation of German property, and the Allied and Associated Powers will welcome any information or evidence which the German Government can furnish on this subject.

Done at Versailles, the twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

[For the United States:]

Woodrow Wilson

Robert Lansing

Henry White

E. M. House

Tasker H. Bliss

[For the United Kingdom:]

D. Lloyd George

A. Bonar Law

Milner

Arthur James Balfour

George N. Barnes

[For the Dominion of Canada:]

Chas. J. Doherty

Arthur L. Sifton

[For the Commonwealth of Australia:]

W. M. Hughes

Joseph Cook

[For the Union of South Africa:]

Louis Botha

J. C. Smuts

[For the Dominion of New Zealand:]

W. F. Massey

[For India:]

Ed. S. Montagu

Ganga Singh, Maharaja de Bikaner

[For France:]

G. Clemenceau

S. Pichon

L. L. Klotz

André Tardieu

Jules Cambon

[For Italy:]

Sidney Sonnino

Imperiali

Silvio Crespi

[For Japan:]

Saionji

N. Makino

S. Chinda

K. Matsui

H. Ijuin

[For Belgium:]

Hymans

J. van den Heuvel

Emile Vandervelde

[For Bolivia:]

Ismael Montes

[For Brazil:]

Calogeras

Rodrigo Octavio

[For China:]

[For Cuba:]

Antonio S. de Bustamante

[For Ecuador:]

E. Dorn y de Alsua

[For Greece:]

Eleftherios Veniselos

Nicolas Politis

[For Guatemala:]

Joaquin Méndez

[For Haiti:]

Tertullien Guilbaud

[For the Hedjaz:]

M. Rustem Haidar

Abdul Hadi Aouni

[For Honduras:]

P. Bonilla

[For Liberia:]

C. D. B. King

[For Nicaragua:]

Salvador Chamorro

[For Panama:]

Antonio Burgos

[For Peru:]

C. G. Candamo

[For Poland:]

I. J. Paderewski

Roman Dmowski

[For Portugal:]

Affonso Costa

Augusto Soares

[For Roumania:]

Ion I. C. Bratiano

General C. Coanda

[For the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes:]

Nik P. Pachitch

Dr. Ante Trumbic

Mil. R. Vesnitch

[For Siam:]

Charoon

Traidos Prabandhu

[For the Czecho-Slovak Republic:]

Karel Kramar

Dr. Edward Benes

[For Uruguay:]

J. A. Buero

[For Germany:]

Hermann Müller

Dr. Bell

At the moment of proceeding to the first deposit of ratifications of the Treaty of Peace, it is placed on record that the following obligations, which Germany had undertaken to execute by the Armistice Conventions and supplementary Agreements, have not been executed or have not been completely fulfilled:

Armistice Convention of November 11, 1918, Clause VII; obligation to deliver 5,000 locomotives and 150,000 wagons. 42 locomotives and 4,460 wagons are still to be delivered;

Armistice Convention of November 11, 1918, Clause XII; obligation to withdraw the German troops in Russian territory within the frontiers of Germany, as soon as the Allies shall think the moment suitable. The withdrawal of these troops has not been effected, despite the reiterated instructions of August 27, September 27 and October 10, 1919;

Armistice Convention of November 11, 1918, Clause XIV; obligation to cease at once all requisitions, seizures or coercive measures in Russian territory. The German troops have continued to have recourse to such measures;

Armistice Convention of November 11, 1918, Clause XIX; obligation to return immediately all documents, specie, stocks, shares, paper money, together with plant for the issue thereof, affecting public or private interests in the invaded countries. The complete lists of specie and securities carried off, collected or confiscated by the Germans in the invaded countries have not been supplied;

Armistice Convention of November 11, 1918, Clause XXII; obligation to surrender all German submarines. Destruction of the German submarine U. C. 48 off Ferrol by order of her German commander, and destruction in the North Sea of certain submarines proceeding to England for surrender;

Armistice Convention of November 11, 1918, Clause XXIII; obligation to maintain in Allied ports the German warships designated by the Allied and Associated Powers, these ships being intended to be ultimately handed over. Clause XXXI; obligation not to destroy any ship before delivery. Destruction of the said ships at Scapa Flow on June 21, 1919;

Protocol of December 17, 1918, Annex to the Armistice Convention of December 13, 1918; obligation to restore the works of art and artistic documents carried off in France and Belgium. All the works of art removed into the unoccupied parts of Germany have not been restored;

Armistice Convention of January 16, 1919, Clause III and Protocol 392/1 Additional Clause III of July 25, 1919; obligation to hand over agricultural machinery in the place of the supplementary railway material provided for in Tables 1 and 2 annexed to the Protocol of Spa of December 17, 1918. The following machines had not been delivered on the stipulated date of October 1, 1919. 40 “Heucke” steam plough outfits; all the cultivators for the outfits; all the spades; 1,500 shovels; 1,130 T.F. 23/26 ploughs; 1,765 T.F. 18/21 ploughs; 1,512 T.F. 23/26 ploughs; 629 T.F. o m. 20 Brabant ploughs; 1,205 T.F. o m. 26 Brabant ploughs; 4,282 harrows of 2 k. 500; 2,157 steel cultivators; 966 2 m. 50 manure distributors; 1,608 3 m. 50 manure distributors;

Armistice Convention of January 16, 1919, Clause VI; obligation to restore the industrial material carried off from French and Belgian territory. All this material has not been restored;

Convention of January 16, 1919, Clause VIII; obligation to place the German merchant fleet under the control of the Allied and Associated Powers. A certain number of ships whose delivery had been demanded under this clause have not yet been handed over;

Protocols of the Conferences of Brussels of March 13 and 14, 1919; obligation not to export war material of all kinds. Exportation of aeronautical material to Sweden, Holland and Denmark.

A certain number of the above provisions which have not been executed or have not been executed in full have been renewed by the Treaty of June 28, 1919, whose coming into force will ipso facto render the sanctions there provided applicable. This applies particularly to the various measures to be taken on account of reparation.

Further, the question of the evacuation of the Baltic provinces has been the subject of an exchange of notes and of decisions which are being carried out. The Allied and Associated Powers expressly confirming the contents of their notes, Germany by the present Protocol undertakes to continue to execute them faithfully and strictly.

Finally, as the Allied and Associated Powers could not allow to pass without penalty the other failures to execute the Armistice Conventions and violations so serious as the destruction of the German fleet at Scapa Flow, the destruction of U. C. 48 off Ferrol and the destruction in the North Sea of certain submarines on their way to England for surrender, Germany undertakes:

B. To deliver within 10 days from the signature of the present Protocol a complete list of all floating docks, floating cranes, tugs and dredgers which are German property. This list, which will be delivered to the Naval Inter-Allied Commission of Control referred to in Article 209 of the Treaty of Peace, will specify the material which on November 11, 1918, belonged to the German Government or in which the German Government had at that date an important interest;

C. The officers and men who formed the crews of the warships sunk at Scapa Flow and who are at present detained by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers will, with the exception of those whose surrender is provided for by Article 228 of the Treaty of Peace, be repatriated at latest when Germany has carried out the provisions of Paragraphs A. and B. above;

D. The destroyer B. 98 will be considered as one of the 42 destroyers whose delivery is provided for by Article 185 of the Treaty of Peace;

To hand over within 10 days from the signature of the present Protocol the engines and motors of the submarines U. 137 and U. 138 as compensation for the destruction of U.C. 48;

To pay to the Allied and Associated Governments before January 31, 1920, the value of the aeronautical material exported, in accordance with the decision which will be given and the valuation which will be made and notified by the Aeronautical Inter-Allied Commission of Control referred to in Article 210 of the Treaty of Peace.

In the event of Germany not fulfilling these obligations within the periods laid down above, the Allied and Associated Powers reserve the right to take all military or other measures of coercion which they may consider appropriate.

Done at Paris, the tenth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, at four o’clock p.m.

[For Germany:]

V. Simson

Freiherr von Lersner