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A REVISION OF THE TREATY

by the Allied Forces on the Rhine in the contingencyprovided for in Paragraph (d) of this Note.

(b) In accordance with Article 233 of the Treaty to invite

the Reparation Commission to prescribe to the GermanGovernment without delay the time and manner forsecuring and discharging the entire obligation incumbentupon that Government, and to announce their decisionon this point to the German Government at latest onMay 6.

(c) To call upon the German Government categorically to

declare within a period of six days from the receipt ofthe above decision its resolve (1) to carry out withoutreserve or condition their obligations as defined bythe Reparation Commission; (2) to accept withoutreserve or condition the guarantees in respect of thoseobligations prescribed by the Reparation Commission ;(3) to carry out without reserve or delay the measuresof military, naval, and aerial disarmament notified tothe German Government by the Allied Powers in theirNote of January 29, 1921, those overdue being com-pleted at once, and the remainder by the prescribeddates ; (4) to carry out without reserve or delay thetrial of the war criminals and the other unfulfilledportions of the Treaty referred to in the first paragraphof this Note.

(d) Failing fulfilment by the German Government of the

above conditions by May 12, to proceed to the occupa-tion of the Valley of the Ruhr and to take all othermilitary and naval measures that may be required.Such occupation will continue so long as Germany failsto comply with the conditions summarised in Para-graph (c).

(Signed) Henri Jaspae.A. Briand.D. Lloyd George .C. Sforza.Hayashi.