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Annex No. 1
I. The evacuation of the invaded territories,
Belgium, France, and Luxemburg, and also of Alsace-Lorraine, shall be carried
out in three successive stages according to the following conditions:
First Stage--Evacuation of the territories
situated between the existing front and line No. 1 on the inclosed map,
to be completed within 5 days after the signature of the armistice.
Second Stage--Evacuation of territories
situated between line No. 1 and line No. 2, to be carried out within 4
further days (9 days in all after the signing of the armistice).
Third Stage--Evacuation of the territories
situated between line No. 2 and line No. 3, to be completed within 6 further
days (15 days in all after the signing of the armistice).
Allied and United States troops shall enter
these various territories on the expiration of the period allowed to the
German troops for the evacuation of each.
In consequence, the allied troops will
cross the present German front as from the 6th day following the signing
of the armistice, line No. 1 as from the 10th day, and line No. 2 as from
the 16th day.
II. Evacuation of the Rhine district.--This
evacuation shall also be carried out in several successive stakes:
(1) Evacuation of territories situated
between lines 2 and 3 and line 4, to be completed within 4 further days
(19 days in all after the signing of the armistice).
(2) Evacuation of territories situated
between lines 4 and 5 to be completed within 4 further days (23 days in
all after the signing of the armistice).
(3) Evacuation of territories situated
between lines 5 and 6 (line of the Rhine) to be completed within 4 further
days (27 days in all after the signing of the armistice).
(4) Evacuation of the bridgeheads and of
the neutral zone on the right bank of the Rhine to be completed within
4 further days (31 days in all after the signing of the armistice).
The allied and United States army of occupation
shall enter these various territories after the expiration of the period
allowed to the German troops for the evacuation of each; consequently the
army will cross line No. 3, 20 days after the signing of the armistice.
It will cross line No. 4 as from the twenty-fourth day after the signing
of the armistice; line No. 5 as from the twenty-eighth day; line No. 6
(Rhine) the thirty-second day, in order to occupy the bridgeheads.
III. Surrender by the German armies of
war material specified by the armistice.--This war material shall be surrendered
according to the following conditions: The first half before the tenth
day, the second half before the twentieth day. This material shall be handed
over to each of the allied and United States armies by each larger tactical
group of the German armies in the proportions which may be fixed by the
permanent International Armistice Commission.
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