Germany is to deliver annually for ten years to France coal equivalent to the difference between the annual pre-war output of Nord and Pas de Calais mines and the annual production during the above ten-year period.  Germany further gives options over ten years for delivery of 7,000,000 tons of coal per year to France in addition to the above, of 8,000,000 tons to Belgium and of an amount rising from 4,500,000 tons in 1919 to 1920 to 8,500,000 in 1923 to 1924 to Italy at prices to be fixed as prescribed in the treaty.  Coke may be taken in place of coal in the ratio of three tons to four.  Provision is also made for delivery to France over three years of benzol, coal tar, and of ammonia.  The Commission has powers to postpone or annul the above deliveries should they interfere unduly with the industrial requirements of Germany.

[Sidenote:  Koran of Caliph Othman and skull of Okwawa.]

Germany is to restore within six months the Koran of the Caliph Othman, formerly at Medina, to the King of the Hedjaz, and the skull of the Sultan Okwawa, formerly in German East Africa, to his Britannic Majesty’s Government.

[Sidenote:  Papers taken in 1870.]

The German Government is also to restore to the French Government certain papers taken by the German authorities in 1870, belonging then to M. Reuher, and to restore the French flags taken during the war of 1870 and 1871.

[Sidenote:  Reparations to the Louvain Library.]

As reparation for the destruction of the Library of Louvain Germany is to hand over manuscripts, early printed books, prints, &c., to the equivalent of those destroyed.

[Sidenote:  Belgian works of art.]

In addition to the above Germany is to hand over to Belgium wings, now in Berlin, belonging to the altar piece of “The Adoration of the Lamb,” by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, the center of which is now in the Church of St. Bavon at Ghent, and the wings, now in Berlin and Munich, of the altar piece of “The Last Supper,” by Dirk Bouts, the center of which belongs to the Church of St. Peter at Louvain.

FINANCE

[Sidenote:  The pre-war debts of Alsace.]

[Sidenote:  German debts not to be assumed by mandatory powers.]

Powers to which German territory is ceded will assume a certain portion of the German pre-war debt, the amount to be fixed by the Reparations Commission on the basis of the ratio between the revenue and of the ceded territory and Germany’s total revenues for the three years preceding the war.  In view, however, of the special circumstances under which Alsace-Lorraine was separated from France in 1871, when Germany refused to accept any part of the French public debt, France will not assume any part of Germany’s pre-war debt there, nor will Poland share in certain German debts incurred for the oppression of Poland.  If the value of the German public property in ceded territory exceeds the amount of debt assumed, the States to which property is ceded will give credit on reparation for the excess, with the exception of Alsace-Lorraine.  Mandatory powers will not assume any German debts or give any credit for German Government property.  Germany renounces all right of representation on, or control of, State banks, commissions, or other similar international financial and economic organizations.