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Show ALLIES DISPATCH NOTE Mil! ANNOUNCE TREATY WILL NOT BE EFFECTIVE UNTIL OBLIGATIONS OBLI-GATIONS ARE PERFORMED. Include Withdrawal of German Troops From Russian Territory and Replacement Re-placement of Vessels Destroyed at Scapa Flow by the Huns. Paris. Notice was served on Germany Ger-many by the allied and associated powers, in a note and accompanying protocol forwarded a few days ago, that the treaty of peace would not go into force until Germany executes to the satisfaction of the allied and associated as-sociated powers obligations assumed under the armistice convention and additional agreements. The note, made public on November 6, provides that the German government govern-ment shall -send representatives to Paris, November 10, to make final arrangements ar-rangements for the putting into effect of the treaty. But the note specifies that, before the treaty can be made effective through a process verbal of the deposit of the ratifications, the German representatives shall obligate their nation to carry out the terms of the protocol. The protocol contains a number of obligations assumed by Germany in the armistice convention and complementary comple-mentary agreements which have not been carried out and which have been the subject of urgent representations. These include the withdrawal of German Ger-man troops from Russian territory and the delivery of certain German tonnage. ton-nage. Most important, however, in the obligations ob-ligations Germany is asked to assume under the protocol is the replacing of vessels destroyed at Scapa Flow with five light cruisers, and to make up for the firstclass battleship sunk at Scapa Flow by turning over floating docks and cranes, tugs and dredges equivalent equiva-lent to a total displacement of 400,000 tons. The protocol concludes with the following fol-lowing paragraph : "In case Germany should not fulfill these obligations within the time specified, the allied and associated powers reserve the right to have recourse to any coercive measures meas-ures or other means which they may deem approDriate." |