ARTICLE 135. The use of flame throwers, asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and all similar liquids, materials or devices being prohibited, their manufacture and importation are strictly forbidden in Austria. Material specially intended for the manufacture, storage or use of the said products or devices is equally forbidden. The manufacture and importation into Austria of armoured cars, tanks or any similar machines suitable for use in war are equally forbidden. TABLE I. COMPOSITION and Maximum Effectives of an Infantry Division. Units. Headquarters of an Infantry Division. Headquarters of Divisional Artillery. 3 Regiments of Infantry* (on the basis of 65 officers and 2,000 men per regiment). 1 Battalion of Pioneers † (3 companies) *Each regiment comprises 3 battalions of infantry. Each battalion comprises 3 companies of infantry and 1 machine-gun company. Each battalion comprises 1 headquarters, 2 pioneer companies, 1 bridging section, 1 searchlight section. Each regiment comprises 1 headquarters, 3 groups of field or mountain artillery, comprising 8 batteries; each battery comprising 4 guns or howitzers (field or mountain). This detachment comprises: Telephone detachment, I listening section, 1 carrier pigeon section. TABLE II.-COMPOSITION and Maximum Effectives for a Cavalry Division. Each regiment comprises 4 squadrons. 1 15 6 30 30 1 4 30 259 5,380 Each group comprises 9 fighting cars, each carrying 1 gun, 1 machine gun, and 1 spare machine gun, 4 communication cars, 2 small lorries for stores, 7 lorries, including 1 repair lorry, 4 motor cycles. NOTE. The large cavalry units may include a variable number of regiments and be divided into independent brigades within the limit of the effectives laid down above. TABLE III-COMPOSITION and Maximum Effectives for a Mixed Brigade. *Each regiment comprises 3 battalions of infantry. Each battalion comprises 3 companies of infantry and 1 machine gun company. TABLE IV.-MINIMUM Effectives of the Units whatever Organisation is adopted in the Army. TABLE V.-MAXIMUM authorized Armaments and Munition Supplies. No heavy guns, i. e., of a calibre greater than 105 mm. is authorised, with the exception of the normal armament of fortified places. SECTION II.-NAVAL CLAUSES. ARTICLE 136. From the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty all Austro-Hungarian warships, submarines included, are declared to be finally surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. All the monitors, torpedo boats and armed vessels of the Danube Flotilla will be surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. Austria will, however, have the right to maintain on the Danube for the use of the river police three patrol boats to be selected by the Commission referred to in Article 154 of the present Treaty. ARTICLE 137. The Austro-Hungarian auxiliary cruisers and fleet auxiliaries enumerated below will be disarmed and treated as merchant ships: All warships, including submarines, now under construction in Austrian ports, or in ports which previously belonged to the AustroHungarian Monarchy, shall be broken up. The work of breaking up these vessels will be commenced as soon as possible after the coming into force of the present Treaty. ARTICLE 139. Articles, machinery and material arising from the breaking up of Austro-Hungarian warships of all kinds, whether surface vessels or submarines, may not be used except for purely industrial or commercial purposes. They may not be sold or disposed of to foreign countries. ARTICLE 140. The construction or acquisition of any submarine, even for commercial purposes, shall be forbidden in Austria. ARTICLE 141. All arms, ammunition and other naval war material, including mines and torpedoes, which belonged to Austria-Hungary at the date of the signature of the Armistice of November 3, 1918, are declared to be finally surrendered to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. ARTICLE 142. Austria is held responsible for the delivery (Articles 136 and 141), the disarmament (Article 137), the demolition (Article 138), as well as the disposal (Article 137) and the use (Article 139) of the objects mentioned in the preceding Articles only so far as these remain in her own territory. ARTICLE 143. During the three months following the coming into force of the present Treaty, the Austrian high-power wireless telegraphy station at Vienna shall not be used for the transmission of messages concerning naval, military or political questions of interest to Austria, or any State which has been allied to Austria-Hungary in the war, without the assent of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. This station may be used for commercial purposes, but only under the supervision of the said Powers, who will decide the wave-length to be used. During the same period Austria shall not build any more highpower wireless telegraphy stations in her own territory or that of Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria or Turkey. SECTION III.-AIR CLAUSES. ARTICLE 144. The armed forces of Austria must not include any military or naval air forces. No dirigible shall be kept. ARTICLE 145. Within two months from the coming into force of the present Treaty, the personnel of the air forces on the rolls of the Austrian land and sea forces shall be demobilised. ARTICLE 146. Until the complete evacuation of Austrian territory by the Allied and Associated troops the aircraft of the Allied and Associated Powers shall enjoy in Austria freedom of passage through the air, freedom of transit and of landing. ARTICLE 147. During the six months following the coming into force of the present Treaty, the manufacture, importation and exportation of aircraft, parts of aircraft, engines for aircraft, and parts of engines for aircraft shall be forbidden in all Austrian territory. ARTICLE 148. On the coming into force of the present Treaty, all military and naval aeronautical material must be delivered by Austria and at her expense to the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. Delivery must be effected at such places as the Governments of the said Powers may select, and must be completed within three months. In particular, this material will include all items under the following heads which are or have been in use or were designed for warlike purposes:— Complete aeroplanes and seaplanes, as well as those being manufactured, repaired or assembled. Dirigibles able to take the air, being manufactured, repaired, or assembled. Plant for the manufacture of hydrogen. Dirigible sheds and shelters of every kind for aircraft. Pending their delivery, dirigibles will, at the expense of Austria, be maintained inflated with hydrogen; the plant for the manufacture of hydrogen, as well as the sheds for dirigibles, may, at the discretion of the said Powers, be left to Austria until the time when the dirigibles are handed over. Engines for aircraft. Nacelles and fuselages. Armaments (guns, machine guns, light machine guns, bomb-dropping apparatus, torpedo apparatus, synchronisation apparatus, aiming apparatus). Munitions (cartridges, shells, bombs, loaded or unloaded, stocks of explosives or of material for their manufacture). Instruments for use on aircraft. Wireless apparatus and photographic or cinematograph apparatus for use on aircraft. Component parts of any of the items under the preceding heads. The material referred to above shall not be removed without special permission from the said Governments. SECTION IV.-INTER-ALLIED COMMISSIONS OF CONTROL. ARTICLE 149. All the Military, Naval and Air Clauses contained in the present Treaty for the execution of which a time limit is prescribed shall be executed by Austria under the control of Inter-Allied Commissions specially appointed for this purpose by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. The above-mentioned Commissions will represent the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers in dealing with the Austrian Government in all matters concerning the execution of the Military, Naval and Air Clauses. They will communicate to the Austrian authorities the decisions which the Principal Allied and Associated Powers have reserved the right to take or which the execution of the said Clauses may necessitate. |