10 MAY 1919, Page 2

The Treaty contains important provisions for the inter- nationalizing of

the Elbe, the Niemen, and the Danube, and for the control of the Rhine. The Allies are to be accorded rights of transport over the German railways, and Bohemia, the inland State, is to have her own " free zones " in the harbours of Hamburg and Stettin. The Labour Convention completes the Treaty proper. As a guarantee for its execution, the Allies are to occupy the Rhineland for fifteen years, but will evacuate the Cologne bridgehead after five years, Coblenz after ten, and Mainz after fifteen years if Germany observes the Treaty in good faith—or sooner if she complies with all her undertakings.