Appendix "A" Draft Regulations Concerning a Definite Military Status of Germany CHAPTER 1.-LIMITATION OF EFFECTIVES Article 1. The German Military Forces will be demobilised within the period mentioned in Article 9, and to the extent required in Articles 2 and 3. Article 2. The total effectives of the Land Army of all the States both present and future, constituting Germany, fixed so that Germany can ensure order and police control within her territory, shall not exceed 140,000 men, including officers. Article 3. The total effectives of Officers shall not exceed 6,000 including all staffs however constituted. Article 4. Germany is permitted to commence forthwith, recruiting on a voluntary basis of 12 years colour service for Non-Commissioned Officers and men, of an army which shall not exceed the establishment of Article 5. 11 Infantry Divisions These divisions may be formed with not more than 4 Army Corps Staffs and 1 Army Staff. The formation of forces differently grouped and of other organisations of command is forbidden. Article 6. The composition of the divisions and that of Army or Army Corps Staffs is given in Table No. 1. The number of small units of infantry, artillery and engineers, and of technical services and troops, provided for the divisions, as well as the effectives allowed for these small units, technical services of troops, must not be exceeded: Article 7. As the German Army can have no other duty than the maintenance of internal order, and, in case of necessity, the police control of the frontiers, the High Command of the Army is confined to functions of an administrative character. The Staff of Officers of the Ministries of War of all the German States and of the Administrations directly attached to them, shall be included in the total effectives given in Article 2, and shall not exceed 300 officers. No organisation shall exist intended to prepare troops for employment in any warlike operations, and in particular, the German Great General Staff or similar formation shall be dissolved and cannot be reconstituted in any other form. Article 8. Only the number of military schools strictly indispensable to the recruitment of the officers of the units to be maintained shall continue to exist. In consequence, the War academies or similar institutions of the German States and the different schools of officers, officer-students, cadets, non-commissioned officers, and non-commissioned officer students, shall be suppressed; the only schools authorised shall be those intended for the recruitment of the officers of each arm in the proportion of one school for each arm. The number of students admitted to attend the lectures in these schools shall be strictly in proportion to the vacancies to be filled up in the cadres of officers, students and cadres being included in the effectives mentioned in Article 1. Article 9. All the measures prescribed in the present chapter must be carried out within two months at the most. Article 1. CHAPTER 2.-LIMITATION OF ARMAMENTS The units forming the German Army shall have an armament the total amount of which shall not exceed that stated in Table No. 2. Article 2. The German Army may have besides, at its disposal, to provide for eventual replacements, an amount of material equal to 1/25th part for small arms and to 1/50th part for guns of the quantity provided for in the preceding Article. Article 3. The German Army may have at its disposal stocks of munitions the amount of which shall not exceed that fixed by Table No. 3. Article 4. These stocks of munitions shall be stored at points fixed by the German Government of which it shall inform the Allied and Associated Powers. Apart from these depots it shall be forbidden to form stocks, depots or reserves of munitions. Article 5. Production or use of asphyxiating, poisonous or similar gases, any liquid, any material and any similar device capable of use in war are forbidden. Article 6. The manufacture of armoured cars, tanks, or of any similar machines which can be used for military objects is forbidden. Article 7. The manufacture of arms, munitions, or any war material shall be permitted only in a very limited number of factories, the exact names of which shall be communicated to the Allied and Associated Powers with a statement of the amount of material ordered. No other establishment having for its object the design, preparation, manufacture or storage of munitions or any war material whatever shall exist. In particular, the arsenals shall be suppressed, unless they are used as depots for the authorised stocks of munitions. The personnel of the suppressed arsenals shall be dismissed. Article 8. (a) All fortified works, fortresses and land forts, which are situated in German territory West of a line traced 50 kilometres East of the Rhine, shall be disarmed and dismantled. The construction of any new fortifications, of whatever importance or nature, within this zone is forbidden. (b) The status quo is and shall be preserved as regards fortified works on the southern and eastern frontiers of Germany. (c) The armament of the fortified works, fortresses and land or coast forts which Germany is allowed to retain shall never exceed, as regards the number and calibre of guns, those existing at the date of the signature of the present convention, which number and calibres shall at once be communicated by the German Government to the Allied and Associated Powers. The stocks of ammunition for these guns shall be maintained at the following uniform rates: 3,000 rounds apiece for those the calibre of which is 10.5 cm. and under: 1,000 rounds apiece for those of higher calibre. Article 9. All territory on the left bank of the Rhine which may remain as part of Germany after the ratification of the Treaty of Peace will be "demilitarized". That is to say, the inhabitants of this territory will not be permitted to bear arms or receive any military training or to be incorporated in any military organization either on a voluntary or compulsory basis, and no fortifications, depots, establish ments, railway construction or works of any kind adapted to military purposes will be permitted to exist within the area. Nor will this territory be allowed to contribute directly or indirectly in money or in material of any description towards the armies of Germany. Article 10. All German arms, munitions and war material, including all antiaircraft guns, ammunition and projectors, etc., existing in Germany, including those mentioned in Articles 5, 6 and 7, in excess of the quantities allowed by the present regulations shall be surrendered to the Allied and Associated Powers at points to be fixed in German territory, with a view to their being destroyed or rendered useless. The same shall be done in the case of special machinery intended for the manufacture of war material in excess of that recognised as necessary for the manufacture authorised. War material of all sorts, even if not in working order, of origin other than German, shall be sequestrated; the Allied and Associated Powers shall decide as to its disposal. Article 11. Germany is forbidden to manufacture war material, including aircraft and engines, equipment and armament for aircraft for other countries. The German State or States or German private individuals shall not receive by purchase, exchange or cession of any sort war material coming from abroad. Article 12. The measures prescribed by Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, and 10 of the present chapter shall be carried out within one month. The measures prescribed by Articles 7 and 8 of the present chapter shall be carried out within 3 months. CHAPTER 3.-LIMITING CLAUSES CONCERNING GERMAN MILITARY LAWS Article 1. The Universal Service Law shall be removed from the Statute Book of the German Constitution. Article 2. Clauses of the following Articles shall form an integral part of the German Military Laws. These laws moreover shall not include any provision in contradiction of the clauses contained in the different chapters of the regulations. They shall on the contrary prescribe the abrogation of all previous legislative, financial or administrative measures which may be in contradiction with these clauses. These laws shall be enforced in all German territory and promulgated within three months. Article 3. All non-commissioned officers and privates shall be voluntarily enlisted for 12 years continuous service only. Within this time they may not leave the Army except under the conditions laid down for officers in Article 4. Beyond this number of voluntarily enlisted men, no military force shall be raised in Germany either in the form of a militia or in any other form. Article 4. Officers who have previously belonged to any military formations and who are not included in the units, the maintenance of which is authorised, shall not participate in any military exercise, whether theoretical or practical, and shall not be liable to any military obligation. Officers kept in the Army shall serve at least till the age of 45 years. Officers newly commissioned shall sign an engagement to serve on the active list for at least 25 years. No officer shall leave the army without being pronounced unfit on grounds of health. If by an exception, he is authorised to do so, his place shall not be filled before he has reached the age of 45 years or the period of service of 25 years provided for is ended. The proportion of officers thus pronounced unfit on grounds of health shall not exceed in any one year 5% of the total effectives of officers provided for in Article 2 of Chapter 1. Article 5. No measure of mobilisation shall be provided for. In no case shall troops, services, or staffs include supplementary cadres. Article 6. The following units may have a depot of their own: A regiment of Infantry, A regiment of Cavalry, A regiment of Field Artillery, A brigade of Horse Artillery, A battalion of Pioneers. The effectives of the depots of the German Army are included in the total figure given in Article 1 of Chapter 1. |