The commission shall insure a free and secret vote in three zones.  That between the German-Danish frontier and a line running south of the Island of Alsen, north of Flensburg, and south of Tondern to the North Sea, north of the Island of Sylt, will vote as a unit within three weeks after the evacuation.  Within five weeks after this vote the second zone, whose southern boundary runs from the North Sea south of the Island of Fehr to the Baltic south of Sygum, will vote by communes.  Two weeks after that vote the third zone running to the limit of evacuation will also vote by communes.  The international commission will then draw a new frontier on the basis of these plebiscites and with due regard for geographical and economic conditions.  Germany will renounce all sovereignty over territories north of this line in favor of the Associated Governments, who will hand them over to Denmark.

HELIGOLAND

[Sidenote:  Fortifications to be destroyed.]

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

RUSSIA

[Sidenote:  Brest-Litovsk treaty to be abrogated.]

Germany agrees to respect as permanent and inalienable the independency of all territories which were part of the former Russian Empire, to accept the abrogation of the Brest-Litovsk and other treaties entered into with the Maximalist Government of Russia, to recognize the full force of all treaties entered into by the allied and associated powers with States which were a part of the former Russian Empire, and to recognize the frontiers as determined thereon.  The allied and associated powers formally reserve the right of Russia to obtain restitution and reparation on the principles of the present treaty.

SECTION V

GERMAN RIGHTS OUTSIDE EUROPE

[Sidenote:  Germany to renounce rights.]

Outside Europe, Germany renounces all rights, titles, and privileges as to her own or her allies’ territories to all the allied and associated powers, and undertakes to accept whatever measures are taken by the five allied powers in relation thereto.

COLONIES AND OVERSEAS POSSESSIONS

[Sidenote:  Property of German Empire to be transferred to new governments.]