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The German Navy, after two months from peace, must not

exceed six battleships of the Deutschland' type, six light cruisers, twelve destroyers, and twelve torpedo-boats, with a total strength of fifteen thousand officers and men recruited on a voluntary basis. Germany must surrender all her interned warships and certain others now in German ports, as well as all submarines. She is forbidden to build or to purchase any ' U '- boats. Further, she must demolish the forts commanding mari- time routes between the North Sea and the Baltic," rope jelly the Kiel Canal, and must cede fourteen of her submarine cables

to the Alliee. A most important clause provides that Germany shall not maintain any military or naval air forces, and must deliver up all her aircraft within three months.

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