(f) will endeavor to take steps in matters of international concern for the prevention and control of disease.

Article XXIV. There shall be placed under the direction of the League all international bureaus already established by general treaties if the parties to such treaties consent. All such international bureaus and all commissions for the regulation of matters of international interest hereafter constituted shall be placed under the direction of the League. In all matters of international interest which are regulated by general conventions but which are not placed under the control of international bureaus or commissions, the secretariat of the League shall, subject to the consent of the Council and if desired by the parties, collect and distribute all relevant information and shall render any other assistance which may be necessary or desirable. The Council may include as part of the expenses of the secretariat the expenses of any bureau or commission which is placed under the direction of the League.

Article XXV. The members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment and cooperation of duly authorized voluntary national Red Cross organizations having as purposes the improvement of health, the prevention of disease, and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world.

Article XXVI. Amendments to this Covenant will take effect when ratified by the members of the League whose representatives compose the Council and by a majority of the members of the League whose representatives compose the Assembly. No such amendment shall bind any member of the League which signifies its dissent therefrom, but in that case it shall cease to be a member of the League.

THE TREATY WITH GERMANY

The Treaty is in fifteen parts of 440 articles, in French and English texts and opens with the Covenant of the League of Nations (Part I). Part II is devoted to the new geographical frontiers of Germany. Part III, in 14 sections, binds Germany to accept the political changes brought about by the Treaty; establishes the two new States of Czecho-Slovakia and Poland; revises the basis of Belgian sovereignty, and alters the boundaries of Belgium; establishes new system of government in Luxemburg and the Saar basin, and restores: Alsace-Lorraine to France; provides for possible additions of territory to Denmark; and binds Germany to recognize the independence of German Austria, and to accept conditions to be laid down as to States; created since the Russian revolution.

By Parts II and III Germany recognizes the full sovereignty of Belgium over the contested territory of Moresnet and over part of Prussian Moresnet; she also renounces all rights over Eupen and Malmédy, the inhabitants of which are to settle the future sovereignty by plebiscite.

Luxemburg passes from the sphere of German influence..

Germany is forbidden to maintain or construct any fortifications within a distance of less than 50 kilometres from the right bank of the Rhine.

As compensation for the destruction of the coal-mines in Northern France, and as part payment toward the total reparation due for war damage, Germany cedes to France in full and absolute possession the coal-mines in the Saar basin; the government of this territory is renounced in favor of the League of Nations as trustee for fifteen years, at the end of which time the inhabitants will decide the question of sovereignty by a plebiscite.

Alsace and Lorraine are returned to France in full sovereignty and free of all public debts by the restoration of the eastern frontier of France to its full limits as it ran before the war of 1870; citizenship is regulated by detailed provisions distinguishing those who are immediately restored to full French citizenship, those who have to make formal application, and those to whom nationalization is open after three years. France is substituted for Germany as regards ownership of the railroads and rights over tramways concessions, the Rhine bridges pass to France with the obligation for their upkeep. Manufactured products of Alsace-Lorraine to a total annual amount of not more than that of the average of the preceding three years are to be admitted to Germany free of duty. For seven years (possibly ten) the port of Kehl on the right bank is to be administered with Strasburg as a single unit by a French administrator appointed and supervised by the Central Rhine Commission.

Germany acknowledges and will strictly respect the independency of Austria.

Germany recognizes the entire independence of the Czecho-Slovak State, including the autonomous territory of the Ruthenians, south of the Carpathians, and accepts the frontiers of this State as they may be determined. These in the case of the German frontier follow the old Bohemian frontier of 1914. The southwestern extremity of Upper Silesia immediately eastward of Troppau is renounced by Germany in favor of Czecho-Slovakia. Within a period of two years habitual residents over eighteen years of age will be entitled to vote for other than Czecho-Slovakian nationality. A similar option is provided for Czechs living in foreign States and desirous of gaining Czech nationality.

Germany cedes to Poland the greater part of Upper Silesia, Posen, and the province of West Prussia on the west bank of the Vistula. In the portion of Upper Silesia about Oppelin, and in the upper reaches of the River Oder as far as the old German and Austro-Silesian frontier, the inhabitants are to decide by plebiscite either for Germany or Poland. German troops and officers to be withdrawn within ten days. Workmen's and Soldiers' Councils within the area are to be dissolved, and the interim Government, except in respect of legislation and taxation, is entrusted to an International Commission of four members, one to be nominated by each of the four Powers, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy.

The southern and the eastern frontiers of East Prussia facing Poland are to be fixt by plebiscites. Similar provisions in respect to the plebiscite areas in Upper Silesia concern the withdrawal of German troops and authorities, but the interim Government of the areas is placed under an International Commission of five members, appointed by the five Allied and Associated Powers with the particular duty of arranging for a fair, free, and secret vote. Prussia is assured full and equitable access to the Vistula, and provision is made for a subsequent Convention to be signed within one year between Poland, Germany, and Danzig; to assure suitable railroad, telegraphic, and telephonic communication across German territory on the right bank of the Vistula between Poland and Danzig, while Poland shall grant free passage from East Prussia into Germany.

The northeastern corner of East Prussia, about Memel, is ceded to the Associated Powers by Germany, who undertakes to accept their settlement particularly in so far as concerns the nationality of the inhabitants.

Danzig and the district immediately about it are constituted the Free City of Danzig under guarantee of the League of Nations. The actual area is to be delimited on the spot by a commission of three members, one (the President) appointed by the principal Allied Powers, one by Germany, and one by Poland. The principal Allied Powers undertake to negotiate a treaty between Poland and the Free City to effect its inclusion within the Polish customs frontier, tho with a free area in its port, and to ensure to Poland the unrestricted use of all the City's waterways, docks, and other port facilities, the control and administration of the Vistula, and the whole through railway system within the city, and postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communication between Poland and Danzig; provide against discrimination against Poles within the city; and place its foreign relations in charge of Poland.

The frontier between Germany and Denmark is to be fixt in conformity with the wishes of the population, who will vote in Northern Schleswig as a whole, and in portions of Central Schleswig by commission within ten days from the coming into force of the Treaty. The Commission is to take all steps which it thinks proper to ensure the freedom and fairness and secrecy of the vote; German and Danish technical advisers are to be chosen from the local population. Half the cost of the plebiscite is to be borne by Germany. The re sult of the plebiscite, which is to be decided by a majority among all adults over twenty years of age, will be immediately communicated by the Commission to the principal Allies and Associated Governments and proclaimed. If the vote result in favor of the reincorporation of this territory in the Kingdom of Denmark, the Danish Government in agreement with the Commission will be entitled to effect its occupation with their military and administrative authorities immediately after the proclamation. The plebiscite by communes in the southern section of the zone will be taken within five weeks of that in the northern parts.

The fortifications, military establishments, and harbors of the islands of Heligoland and Dune are to be destroyed, under supervision of the Allies, by German labor and at Germany's expense. They are not to be reconstructed, nor are any similar works to be constructed in the future.

Germany acknowledges, and agrees to respect as permanent and inalienable, the independence of all the territories which were part of the former Russian Empire on Aug. 1, 1914. She accepts definitely the abrogation of the Brest-Litovsk Treaties and of all Treaties, conventions and agreements entered into by her with the Maximalist Government in Russia. The Allies formally reserve the rights of Russia to obtain from Germany restitution and reparation based on the principle of the present Treaty. Germany undertakes to recognize all Treaties or agreements which may be entered into by the Allies with States now existing or coming into existence in the whole or part of the former Empire of Russia, and to recognize the frontiers as they may be determined therein.

Part IV. German Rights and Interests outside Germany (in 8 sections and 40 articles.) Outside Europe Germany renounces all rights, titles, and privileges as to her own or her allies' territories, and undertakes to accept whatever measures are taken by the principal Allied Powers in relation thereto.

Germany renounces in favor of the Allied Powers all her rights and titles over her overseas possessions. All movable and immovable property belonging to the German Empire or any German State pass to the Allied Government exercising authority therein. Germany undertakes to pay reparation for damage suffered by French nationals in the Cameroons or its frontier zone through the acts of German civil and military authorities and of German private individuals during the period from January 1, 1900, to August 1, 1914. Germany renounces all rights under the conventions with France of November 4, 1911, and September 28, 1912, relating to Equatorial Africa.

Germany renounces in favor of China all privileges and indemnities resulting from the Boxer protocol of 1901, all her public property other than diplomatic or consular buildings in the German concessions of Tientsin and Hankow (which China is to open to international trade) and in other Chinese territory except Shantung; agrees to restore all the astronomical instruments seized in 1900-1; renounces all claims against China or any of the Allies for the internment or repatriation of her citizens in China or for the liquidation of German interests there since Aug. 14, 1917; renounces in favor of Great Britain her state property in the British concession at Canton and of France and China jointly in the German school in the French concession at Shanghai.

China having declined to sign the Treaty, a mandate declaring the state of war with Germany to be ended was issued at Peking on Sept. 15.

All Treaties, conventions, and agreements between Germany and Siam, and all German rights in Siam, including that of extra-territor