to change or replace any of the personnel of the communication services as he may think fit. 4. Material: (a) Rolling-Stock.-The rolling-stock handed over to the Allied Armies in the zone between the front line and line No. 3 (not including Alsace-Lorraine) shall amount to at least 5,000 locomotives and 150,000 wagons. Delivery of this rolling-stock shall be carried out within the periods fixed by clause 7 of the Armistice, and under the detailed conditions to be settled by the Permanent International Armistice Commission. All this rolling-stock shall be in a good state of repair and in running order, and provided with all usual spare parts or accessories. It shall be used (with its own or any other personnel) at any point of the railway system of the Allied Armies. The rolling-stock directly employed on the railways of AlsaceLorraine shall be retained in situ or returned to the French Army. The material to be left in situ in the territories on the left bank of the Rhine, as well as within the bridgeheads, must allow of normal traffic being maintained on the lines in these areas. (b) Permanent-way, Signals, and Workshop Plant.-The signaling apparatus, machinery and tools removed from the workshops and depôts of the French and Belgian railways shall be replaced in accordance with detailed conditions to be settled by the Permanent International Armistice Commission. The permanent-way material, rails, appurtenances, apparatus, bridging material, and timber necessary for repairing the destroyed lines beyond the present front shall be supplied to the Allied Armies. (c) Fuel and Materials for Upkeep.-During the period of the Armistice, fuel and materials for upkeep shall be supplied by the German Government to the depôts normally serving the traffic in the territories on the left bank of the Rhine. 5. Telegraphic and Telephonic Communications. All telegraph and telephone lines and fixed wireless stations shall be surrendered to the Allied Armies with all the civil and military personnel and all equipment, including all stores existing on the left bank of the Rhine. All additional stores necessary for the maintenance of traffic shall be supplied by the German Government during the period of the Armistice, as and when required. The Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies shall assume military control of this system, guarantee its organization, and replace or change any of the personnel as he may think fit. He shall return to the German Army all the military personnel which he does not consider necessary for the working and maintenance of the system. All plans of the German telegraph and telephone systems shall be handed over to the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies. RULES OF THE PRELIMINARY PEACE CONFERENCE AT PARIS, 1919 The Conference summoned with a view to lay down the conditions of peace, in the first place by peace preliminaries and later by a definitive Treaty of Peace, shall include the representatives of the Allied or Associated belligerent Powers. The belligerent Powers with general interests (the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy, and Japan) shall attend all sessions and commissions. The belligerent Powers with special interests (Belgium, Brazil, the British Dominions and India, China, Cuba, Greece, Guatemala, Hayti, the Hedjaz, Honduras, Liberia, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Serbia, Siam, and the Czecho-Slovak Republic) shall attend sessions at which questions concerning them are discussed. Powers having broken off diplomatic relations with the enemy Powers (Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay) shall attend sessions at which questions interesting them will be discussed. Neutral Powers and States in process of formation shall, on being summoned by the Powers with general interests, be heard, either orally or in writing, at sessions devoted especially to the examination of questions in which they are directly concerned, and only in so far as those questions are concerned. II The Powers shall be represented by Plenipotentiary Delegates to the number of Five for the United States of America, the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan; Three for Belgium, Brazil, Serbia; Two for China, Greece, the Hedjaz, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Siam, and the Czecho-Slovak Republic; One for Cuba, Guatemala, Hayti, Honduras, Liberia, Nicaragua, and Panama; One for Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay. |