[Sidenote:  Manufactured products to be admitted to Germany.]

[Sidenote:  Administration of Kehl and Strassbourg.]

For five years manufactured products of Alsace-Lorraine will be admitted to Germany free of duty to a total amount not exceeding in any year the average of the three years preceding the war and textile materials may be imported from Germany to Alsace-Lorraine and re-exported free of duty.  Contracts for electric power from the right bank must be continued for ten years.  For seven years, with possible extension to ten, the ports of Kehl and Strassbourg shall be administered as a single unit by a French administrator appointed and supervised by the Central Rhine Commission.  Property rights will be safeguarded in both ports and equality of treatment as respects traffic assured the nationals, vessels, and goods of every country.

[Sidenote:  Contracts, judgments of courts, political condemnations.]

Contracts between Alsace-Lorraine and Germany are maintained save for France’s right to annul on grounds of public interest.  Judgments of courts hold in certain classes of cases while in others a judicial exequatur is first required.  Political condemnations during the war are null and void and the obligation to repay war fines is established as in other parts of allied territory.

Various clauses adjust the general provisions of the treaty to the special conditions of Alsace-Lorraine, certain matters of execution being left to conventions to be made between France and Germany.

THE SARRE

[Sidenote:  To compensate for destruction of mines in France.]

In compensation for the destruction of coal mines in Northern France and as payment on account of reparation, Germany cedes to France full ownership of the coal mines of the Sarre Basin with their subsidiaries, accessories and facilities.  Their value will be estimated by the Separation Commission and credited against that account.  The French rights will be governed by German law in force at the armistice excepting war legislation, France replacing the present owners, whom Germany undertakes to indemnify.  France will continue to furnish the present proportion of coal for local needs and contribute in just proportion to local taxes.  The basin extends from the frontier of Lorraine as re-annexed to France north as far as St. Wendel including on the west the valley of the Sarre as far as Sarre Holzbach and on the east the town of Homburg.

[Sidenote:  To be governed by a commission.]

[Sidenote:  A local representative assembly to be organized.]