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- <l:h1>PART XIV.<l:/h1>
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- GUARANTEES.
- <p>
- <l:h1>SECTION I.<l:/h1>
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- WESTERN EUROPE.
- <p>
- <i>ARTICLE 428.</i>
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- As a guarantee for the execution of the present Treaty by Germany, the German
- territory situated to the west of the Rhine, together with the bridgeheads, will
- be occupied by Allied and Associated troops for a period of fifteen years from
- the coming into force of the present Treaty.
- <p>
- <i>ARTICLE 429.</i>
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- If the conditions of the present Treaty are faithfully carried out by Germany,
- the occupation referred to in Article 428 will be successively restricted as
- follows:
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- (1) At the expiration of five years there will be evacuated: the bridgehead of
- Cologne and the territories north of a line running along the Ruhr, then along
- the railway Julich, Duren, Euskirchen, Rheinbach, thence along the road Rheinbach
- to Sinzig, and reaching the Rhine at the confluence with the Ahr; the roads,
- railways and places mentioned above being excluded from the area evacuated.
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- (2) At the expiration of ten years there will be evacuated: the bridgehead of
- Coblenz and the territories north of a line to be drawn from the intersection
- between the frontiers of Belgium, Germany and Holland, running about from 4
- kilometres south of Aix-la-Chapelle, then to and following the crest of Forst
- Gemund, then east of the railway of the Urft valley, then along Blankenheim,
- Valdorf, Dreis, Ulmen to and following the Moselle from Bremm to Nehren, then
- passing by Kappel and Simmern, then following the ridge of the heights between
- Simmern and the Rhine and reaching this river at Bacharach; all the places
- valleys, roads and railways mentioned above being excluded from the area
- evacuated.
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- (3) At the expiration of fifteen years there will be evacuated: the bridgehead of
- Mainz, the bridgehead of Kehl and the remainder of the German territory under
- occupation.
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- If at that date the guarantees against unprovoked aggression by Germany are not
- considered sufficient by the Allied and Associated Governments, the evacuation of
- the occupying troops may be delayed to the extent regarded as necessary for the
- purpose of obtaining the required guarantees.
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- <i>ARTICLE 430.</i>
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- In case either during the occupation or after the expiration of the fifteen years
- referred to above the Reparation Commission finds that Germany refuses to observe
- the whole or part of her obligations under the present Treaty with regard to
- reparation, the whole or part of the areas specified in Article 429 will be
- reoccupied immediately by the Allied and Associated forces.
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- <i>ARTICLE 431.</i>
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- If before the expiration of the period of fifteen years Germany complies with all
- the undertakings resulting from the present Treaty, the occupying forces will be
- withdrawn immediately.
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- <i>ARTICLE 432.</i>
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- All matters relating to the occupation and not provided for by the present Treaty
- shall be regulated by subsequent agreements, which Germany hereby undertakes to
- observe.
- <p>
- <l:h1>SECTION II.<l:/h1>
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- EASTERN EUROPE.
- <p>
- <i>ARTICLE 433.</i>
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- As a guarantee for the execution of the provisions of the present Treaty, by
- which Germany accepts definitely the abrogation of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, and
- of all treaties, conventions and agreements entered into by her with the
- Maximalist Government in Russia, and in order to ensure the restoration of peace
- and good government in the Baltic Provinces and Lithuania, all German troops at
- present in the said territories shall return to within the frontiers of Germany
- as soon as the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers shall
- think the moment suitable, having regard to the internal situation of these
- territories. These troops shall abstain from all requisitions and seizures and
- from any other coercive measures, with a view to obtaining supplies intended for
- Germany, and shall in no way interfere with such measures for national defence as
- may be adopted by the Provisional Governments of Esthonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
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- No other German troops shall, pending the evacuation or after the evacuation is
- complete, be admitted to the said territories.
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