DEVASTATED AREAS Germany undertakes to devote her eco nomic resources directly to the physical restoration of the invaded areas. The Reparations Commission is authorized to require Germany to replace the de stroyed articles by the delivery of ani mals, machinery, etc., existing in Ger many, and to manufacture materials re quired for reconstruction purposes; all with due consideration for Germany's es sential domestic requirements.
Germany is to deliver annually for ten years to France coal equivalent to the difference between the annual pre-war output of Nord and Pas de Calais mines and the annual production during the above ten-year period. Germany further gives options over ten years for delivery of 7,000,000 tons of coal per year to France, in addition to the above; of 8,000,000 tons to Belgium, and of an amount rising from 4,500,000 tons in 1919 to 1920 to 8,500,000 in 1923 to 1924 to Italy at prices to be fixed as pre scribed in the treaty. Coke may be taken in place of coal in the ratio of three tons to four. Provision is also made for de livery to France over three years of ben zol, coal tar, and of ammonia. The com mission has powers to postpone or annul the above deliveries, should they interfere unduly with the industrial requirements of Germany.
Germany is to restore within six months the Koran of the Caliph Othman, formerly at Medina, to the king of the Hedjaz, and the skull of the Sultan Ok wawa, formerly in German East Africa, to his Britannic Majesty's government.
The German government is also to re store to the French government certain papers taken by the German authorities in 1870, belonging then to M. Reuher, and to restore the French flags taken during the war of 1870 and 1871.
As reparation for the destruction of the Library of Louvain, Germany is to hand over manuscripts, early printed books, prints, &c., to the equivalent of those destroyed.
In addition to the above, Germany is to hand over to Belgium wings, now in Berlin, belonging to the altar piece of "The Adoration of the Lamb," by Hubert and Jan van Eyck, the center of which is now in the Church of St. Bavon at Ghent, and the wings, now in Berlin and Munich, of the altar piece of "The Last Supper," by Dirk Bouts, the center of which belongs to the Church of St. Peter at Louvain.