Article 7. The administrative services the staff of which are neither officers, non-commissioned officers or men, shall have their effectives reduced for each category, to the fifth part of those provided for in the Budget of 1913. They are not included in the effectives indicated in Articles 1 and 2 of Chapter 1. Article 8 Public servants such as Gendarmes, Customs House Officials, Forest and Coast Guards, and local and Municipal Police Officials, shall never be assembled to take part in any military training. Article 9 Societies of retired soldiers, rifle, sporting or touring clubs and, in general, associations whether incorporated or not, whatever may be the age of their members, shall not concern themselves in any military question. They shall, in particular, be forbidden to instruct or exercise, or to allow to be instructed or exercised, their members in the vocation of war or use of weapons of war. The same rule applies to Schools or Universities not provided for in Article 7 of Chapter 1. These Societies, Associations or Schools shall have no connection with the Minister of War or any other Military Authority. They shall have no military instructors. Article 1. CHAPTER 4.-SUPERVISION The provisions of all Articles of Chapter 1 and of Articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, and 10 of Chapter 2, will be carried out under the supervision of a special Commission, delegated for that purpose by the Allied and Associated Powers. That Commission will work until the provisions of the Articles mentioned above are carried out by Germany within the prescribed period; if, for any reason, anyone of these provisions be not carried out within the allotted period, the delegates of that Commission will immediately bring those facts to the knowledge of their respective Governments, who will give them new instructions. This Commission shall be established at the seat of the Central German Government, but will be able to send Sub-Commissions or delegates to any other parts of German territory. Article 2. The German Government undertakes to facilitate so far as possible the exercise of this supervision, especially from the point of view of military and financial measures, and to communicate to the Commission in its entirety the War Budget. It undertakes also to communicate to the said Commission all orders given by it for the carrying out of the provisions of the present regulations and to furnish, moreover on questions which may be put to it, all information which may be asked. Article 3. The destruction and putting out of action provided for in Chapter 2 will be carried out by orders of the German authorities under the supervision of the delegates of the said Commission. Article 1. CHAPTER 5 (a) All the provisions of this Convention shall be applicable throughout all the territories constituting Germany as she shall be on the signing of the Treaty of Peace or as she may be constituted at any time thereafter. (b) Germany undertakes to respect all the Clauses of the present Convention and is responsible for their execution towards all the Powers who have signed this Convention with her. (c) The execution of these Clauses may continue in the future to be supervised by such means and by such organs as a League of Nations may see fit to employ or to create. TABLE NO. 1 STATE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ARMY CORPS STAFFS OF INFANTRY AND CAVALRY DIVISIONS (These tabular statements do not form a fixed establishment to be imposed on Germany, but the figures contained in them (number of units and strengths) represent maximum figures which should not in any case be exceeded.) TABLE No. 1-Continued STATE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ARMY CORPS STAFFS OF INFANTRY AND CAVALRY DIVISIONS-Continued |