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Show SELECTED. Trie Text of trie Capitulation. The following is the text of the formal form-al act of capitulation signed at Sedan : ''Between the undesigned, the chief of the staff of King William, Commander-in-Chief of the G.-ruiau armies and General Commandant of the Fien :ii army, both being provided with full powers from their Majesties King William and the Emperor Napoleon, Na-poleon, the following convention has been concluded : "Article 1. The French army placed under the orders of General U'imp. fien, finding itself actually -urrounded by superior lbrjsis round Sedan, are prisoners of war. ''Article 2. Seeing the brave defense of this French army, exemption is made in respect of all the generals and oiheers, and also the Euperior employees em-ployees having the rank of ofneers, who pledge their word of honor in wiiting not to bear arms against Germany, Ger-many, nor to act in any manner against its interests until the close of the'pres-ent the'pres-ent war. The officers and employees who accept these conditions will retain their arms and personal effects. "Article 3. All arms, as well as the materiel of the army, consisting con-sisting of flags, eagles, cannon, ammunition, ammu-nition, &c, shall be immediately 3e-livered 3e-livered at Sedan to a military commission commis-sion appcinted by the . General-in-Chief, in order to be forthwith handed over to German commissaries. Art. 4. The town and fortified works of Sedan shall be given up in their present coudition at latest on the evening even-ing of the 2d of September, aud be i subject to the disposition of his Majesty ' King William. Art. 5. Those officers who shall not have accepted the engagements set forth in Article 2, together with the disarmed troops, thah be marched out, ranged according to their regiments or corps, in military order. This proceeding proceed-ing will commence on the 2d of September Sep-tember and will terminate on September Septem-ber 3. These detachments will be marched to the districts bordering upon up-on the Meuse, near Iges, to be handed over to German commissaries by their officers, who will then resign their commands com-mands to their sub-officers. The chief surgeons, without exceptiun, will remain re-main behind to attend to the wounded. Von Moltke, w impffen. Fke.nois, Sept. 2, 1870." |