(6.) Colours, including the materials exclusively used for their manufacture, with the exception of paint for ships' hulls; varnish.

(7.) Sulphate of soda in cakes.

(8.) Machinery specially adapted for agriculture and for printing.

(9.) Precious stones, excepting diamonds used for industrial purposes [see Article 21, under (44)]; semiprecious stones, pearls, mother of pearl and corals.

(10.) Steeple and wall clocks, timepieces and watches, excepting chronometers.

(11.) Fashion and fancy goods.

(12.) Feathers of all kinds.

(13.) Articles of domestic furniture and decorative articles for domestic purposes; office furniture and appliances. This Ordinance shall take effect from the day of its promulgation.

Chief Headquarters, June 25, 1917.

(Signed) WILHELM. (Countersigned) VON CAPELLE.

GERMAN DECREE modifying the List of Contraband of War.--January 18, 1918.

(Translation.)*

IN further retaliation for the regulations issued by England and her Allies inconsistent with the Declaration of London of the 26th February, 1909, I approve the application during the present war of the following modifications of the Prize Ordinance of the 30th September, 1909, and of the supplements thereto dated the 18th October, the 23rd November and the 14th December, 1914, the 18th April, 1915, t the 3rd June and the 22nd July, 1916, and the 9th January, the 25th June, and the 16th July, 1917:

1. Article 21 [List of absolute contraband], Section 3, add: paper and cardboard of every kind and in every form and the refuse thereof; wood-pulp and cellulose."

2. In Article 27 [List of goods which cannot be declared contraband] omit Section 5.

This Ordinance comes into force on the day of its promulgation.

Given at Grand Headquarters, January 18, 1918.

(Signed) WILHELM. (Countersigned) VON CAPELLE.

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London Gazette," February 26, 1918.

+ See Vol. 27, pages 176, 255, 256, 257, and 261.

See page 90.

ARMISTICE between the Allied Governments and Germany. -Signed November 11, 1918.

(Translation.)*

BETWEEN Marshal Foch, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies, acting in the name of the Allied and Associated Powers, with Admiral Wemyss, First Sea Lord, on the one hand, and Herr Erzberger, Secretary of State, President of the German Delegation, Count von Oberndorff, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Major-General von Winterfeldt, Captain Vanselow (German Navy), duly empowered and acting with the concurrence of the German Chancellor, on the other hand.

An Armistice has been concluded on the following conditions :

Conditions of the Armistice concluded with Germany.

(A.)—CLAUSES RELATING TO THE WESTERN FRONT. I.—Cessation of hostilities by land and in the air six hours after the signing of the Armistice.

II. Immediate evacuation of the invaded countriesBelgium, France, Luxemburg, as well as Alsace-Lorraineso ordered as to be completed within fifteen days from the signature of the Armistice.

German troops which have not left the above-mentioned territories within the period fixed shall be made prisoners of

war.

Occupation by the Allied and United States Forces jointly shall keep pace with the evacuation in these areas.

All movements of evacuation and occupation shall be regulated in accordance with a note (Annexe 1) determined at the time of the signing of the Armistice.

III.-Repatriation, beginning at once, to be completed within fifteen days, of all inhabitants of the countries above enumerated (including hostages, persons under trial, or condemned).

IV. Surrender in good condition by the German Armies of the following equipment:-

5,000 guns (2,500 heavy, 2,500 field).

25,000 machine guns.

3,000 trench mortars.

1,700 aeroplanes (fighters, boinbers-firstly all D. 7's

and night-bombing machines).

The above to be delivered in situ to the Allied and United States troops in accordance with the detailed conditions laid

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down in the note (Annexe 1) determined at the time of the signing of the Armistice.

V.-Evacuation by the German Armies of the districts on the left bank of the Rhine. These districts on the left bank of the Rhine shall be administered by the local authorities under the control of the Allied and United States Armies of Occupation.

The occupation of these territories by Allied and United States troops shall be assured by garrisons holding the principal crossings of the Rhine (Mainz, Coblenz, Cologne), together with bridgeheads at these points of a 30-kilom. (about 19 miles) radius on the right bank, and by garrisons similarly holding the strategic points of the area.

A neutral zone shall be reserved on the right bank of the Rhine, between the river and a line drawn parallel to the bridgeheads and to the river and 10 kilom. (6 miles) distant from them, between the Dutch frontier and the Swiss frontier.

The evacuation by the enemy of the Rhine districts (right and left banks) shall be so ordered as to be completed within a further period of sixteen days, in all thirty-one days after the signing of the Armistice.

All movements of evacuation and occupation shall be regulated according to the note (Annexe 1) determined at the time of the signing of the Armistice.

VI. In all territories evacuated by the enemy, evacuation of the inhabitants shall be forbidden; no damage or harm shall be done to the persons or property of the inhabitants.

No person shall be prosecuted for having taken part in any military measures previous to the signing of the Armistice.

No destruction of any kind to be committed.

Military establishments of all kinds shall be delivered intact, as well as military stores, food, munitions and equipment, which shall not have been removed during the periods fixed for evacuation.

Stores of food of all kinds for the civil population, cattle, &c., shall be left in situ.

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No measure of a general character shall be taken, and no official order shall be given which would have as a consequence the depreciation of industrial establishments or a reduction of their personnel.

VII.-Roads and means of communication of every kind, railroads, waterways, roads, bridges, telegraphs, telephones, shall be in no manner impaired.

All civil and military personnel at present employed on

them shall remain.

Five thousand locomotives and 150,000 waggons, in good

working order, with all necessary spare parts and fittings, shall be delivered to the Associated Powers within the period fixed in Annexe 2 (not exceeding thirty-one days in all).

Five thousand motor lorries are also to be delivered in good condition within thirty-six days.

The railways of Alsace-Lorraine shall be handed over within thirty-one days, together with all personnel and material belonging to the organisation of this system.

Further, the necessary working material in the territories on the left bank of the Rhine shall be left in situ.

All stores of coal and material for the upkeep of permanent way, signals and repair shops shall be left in situ and kept in an efficient state by Germany, so far as the working of the means of communication on the left bank of the Rhine is concerned.

All lighters taken from the Allies shall be restored to them.

The note attached as Annexe 2 defines the details of these measures.

VIII The German Command shall be responsible for revealing within forty-eight hours after the signing of the Armistice, all mines or delay-action fuzes disposed on territories 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 pollution of wells, springs, &c.).

Breaches of these clauses will involve reprisals.

IX. The right of requisition shall be exercised by the Allied and United States Armies in all occupied territories, save for settlement of accounts with authorised persons.

The upkeep of the troops of occupation in the Rhine districts (excluding Alsace-Lorraine) shall be charged to the German Government.

X.-The immediate repatriation, without reciprocity, according to detailed conditions which shall be fixed, of all Allied and United States prisoners of war, including those under trial and condemned. The Allied Powers and the United States of America shall be able to dispose of these prisoners as they think fit. This condition annuls all other Conventions regarding prisoners of war, including that of July 1918, now being ratified. However, the return of German prisoners of war interned in Holland and Switzerland shall continue as heretofore. The return of German prisoners of war shall be settled at the conclusion of the Peace preliminaries.

XI-Sick and wounded who cannot be removed from territory evacuated by the German forces shall be cared

for by German personnel, who shall be left on the spot with the material required.

(B.)-CLAUSES RELATING TO THE EASTERN FRONTIERS OF

GERMANY.

XII.-All German troops at present in any territory which before the war formed part of Austria-Hungary, Roumania or Turkey, shall withdraw within the frontiers of Germany as they existed on the 1st August, 1914, and all German troops at present in territories, which before the war formed part of Russia, must likewise return to within the frontiers of Germany as above defined, as soon as the Allies shall think the moment suitable, having regard to the internal situation of these territories.

XIII. Evacuation of German troops to begin at once, and all German instructors, prisoners and agents, civilian as well as military, now on the territory of Russia (frontiers as defined on the 1st August, 1914), to be recalled.

XIV.-German troops to cease at once all requisitions and seizures and any other coercive measures with a view to obtaining supplies intended for Germany in Roumania and Russia (frontiers as defined on the 1st August, 1914).

XV.-Annulment of the Treaties of Bucharest and BrestLitovsk and of the Supplementary Treaties.

XVI. 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 populations of these territories or for the purpose of maintaining order.

(C.)-CLAUSE RELATING TO EAST AFRICA. XVII-Evacuation of all German forces operating in East Africa within a period specified by the Allies.

(D.)—GENERAL CLAUSES.

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XVIII-Repatriation without reciprocity, within naximum period of one month, in accordance with detailed conditions hereafter to be fixed, of all interned civilians, including hostages and persons under trial and condemned, who may be subjects of Allied or Associated States other than those mentioned in Clause III.

FINANCIAL CLAUSES.

XIX.-With the reservation that any subsequent concessions and claims by the Allies and United States remain unaffected, the following financial conditions are imposed: