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Show Germany of tlie tola; damuge claims to be flied against her by her late enemies. Neither is a date fixed for the appointment appoint-ment of the reparations commission, but t.-.e presumption Is that It will begin work Immediately. Dispatches have indicated thai ;t has been doing business unofficially unofficial-ly for some weeks. Other sweeping provisions are definitely eel forth as becoming effective on tr.e date of the exchange of ratifications. Germany Immediately loses legal title to alt her colonies and Is to hand over aM. her aurfa.ee warsliirs not In home ports-Shantung ports-Shantung passes formally to Japan and Great Britain's protectoiate over Egypt 16 legalized. Accepted Hinding. Germany Immediately accepts as binding bind-ing upon her some fifty treaties relating to many subjects, and agrees to accept in the f'jture many ether treaties yet to be negotiated by the allies. Prisoners of war are to be repatriated, the treaty bays, "as soon as possible" after the date of effective ef-fective peace. German troops must be withdrawn from various sections within fifteen days. Coal deliveries to Belgiun. and France must begin at once. To meet all of her obligations within the period to be reckoned from December Decem-ber 1, Germany will be compelled to set up a multitudinous and detailed system of accounting. Among other things, she must turn over to Belgium within three months tO.OOQ goats. Within one mor.tr. she must replace the gold which was in the Reie'.-.sbank when the war bega to the credit of the Ottoman public debt. She has only six months to restore to the British empire tht skull of Saltan Mkwawa. which was stolen years ago from South Africa. SUPREME COUNCIL ACTION DOES NOT SURPRISE CAPITAL WASHINGTON. Nov. 21 Action by the supreme council at Paris In fixing December 1 as the date for formal proclamation procla-mation of a state of peace between tlie powers ratifying the treaty fulfilled the expectations of administration officials. After the senate had ended its special session without ratifying the treaty, the general feeling here was that Europe would not wait longer lor this country's decision. Under the treaty's provisions the exchange ex-change o: ratifications could have heen made as soon as three of the great powers pow-ers had ratified, but the date was decayed, it was announced, largely because It was desired to have the United States a party from the first. All four of the other great powers. Great Britain. France, Italy ad Japan, now have ratified. The effect of the promulgation of peace i will not, it Is held by tne state depart-1 men:, directiy affect the legal status of the war existing between the United States and Germany, but It will mean that the work of rehabilitating Europe will begin without tho participation of Cilfl ! country. Besides bringing the league of nation formally into existence, the event will bring into force a prodigious list of obligations obli-gations which must be performed by Germany. Ger-many. They touch upon great and small matters in many parts of the world, and are subject to time limits ranging from fifteen days to fifteen years. No Definite Time. For the establishment of the league no definite time is stipulated in the treaty, but the Inference generally drawn Is that it will be set up at once. There are many references to subjects upon which it must pass within a few weeks of the coming into force of the treaty. Definite time limits, to be reckoned from that date, are stipulated, however, for the execution of a great many of the treaty provisions. Thus various commissions, commis-sions, including that which is to take charge of the Saar basin and that which Is to delimit the Polish-German frontier, are to be set up w'ithln fifteen days of the establishment of peace. Within three months the German army must be reduced to 200,000 effectives; all unauthorized munition plants must be closed; Germany must hand over all of her militarv and naval aeronautical equipment equip-ment including the remnants of her proud Zeppelin rieet. and must modify her laws to conform to various treaty provisions- The time limit for reduction of the German Ger-man navy personnel to its prescribed strength is two months, and by the same date the German warships named In the treatv must be delivered to the allies. One month is the limit for delivery of tr.e last scrap of submarine equipment, and the German forts which the treaty names must be disarmed within two months ana dismantled within six months. Status of Reparations. In matters relating to finance and financial finan-cial reparation, the dates, for t.-.e r.-.os. part are fixed on the calendar and tne lime of coming Into force of the treaty does not affect them. Tne date of -May .. 1921 is stipulated as tne lin-.,'- for Germany's Ger-many's delivery to the reparations eom-n-i-slon of. her initial reparation pa,ment of 20,000.do0,000 marks, and tne comm s-1 s-1 sion is required by May 1. 1921, to noUfy |
