10 MAY 1919, Page 2

Germany, moreover, is required to assist in restoring the devastated

areas of France, Belgium, Serbia, and other Allied States, by supplying cattle, machinery, and so forth. She is to deliver coal to France equal to the output of the wrecked mines round Lens and Douai for ten years. An interesting clause provides for the reconstitution of the Louvain Library by taking manuscripts, rare books, and prints from the German libraries, for the transfer to Belgium of the wings (now at Berlin) of Hubert and Jan van Eyek's famous altarpiece at Ghent, and for the restoration to Medina of the Caliph Othman's Koran. These are small but very significant matters.