811.348 Z 4/11
The Chargé in France (Whitehouse) to
the Secretary of State
Paris, July 8,
1921.
[Received July 20.]
No. 2744
Sir: Referring to my despatch No. 2721 of July
1, 1921,45 I have the
honor to forward herewith three copies, one of which is certified, of
the Protocol signed on June 30, 1921, by the President of the Conference
of Ambassadors and the German Ambassador in Paris relative to
compensation for destroyed Zeppelins.
I have [etc.]
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[Enclosure—Translation]
Protocol of Agreement between the Principal
Allied and Associated Powers and Germany Regarding Compensation
for Destroyed Zeppelins, Signed June 30, 1921
As compensation for the seven dirigibles which Germany, by virtue of
Article 202 of the Treaty of Versailles, should have delivered to
the Principal Allied and Associated Powers and which were destroyed
on June 23 and July 26, 1919, respectively, the undersigned, having
been duly authorized:
Mr. Jules Cambon, Ambassador of France, President of the Conference
of Ambassadors, in the name of the Principal Allied and Associated
Powers, of the one part
and
Doctor Mayer, Ambassador of Germany at Paris, in the name of the
German Government, of the other part,
Have agreed on the following:
- 1
- —Germany shall deliver, in good airworthy condition to the
Inter-Allied Aeronautic Commission of Control, the German
diriggibles, Bodensee and Nordstern, to replace two of the
dirigibles destroyed;
- 2
- —The plans of all the dirigibles destroyed shall be
delivered to the Inter-Allied Aeronautic Commission of
Control, which shall determine, in accordance with the said
plans, the value of the five dirigibles which are not
replaced as above. The Allied and Associated Powers shall
proceed to divide among themselves this sum which the German
Government undertakes to pay them in gold marks. The German
Government, nevertheless, shall have the right with respect
to each one of the Allied and Associated Powers, but on
condition that such Power consent thereto, to substitute,
under conditions accepted by the Power concerned, instead of
the payment in cash, the delivery either of a civil type of
dirigible to be constructed or any aeronautical material
which the said Power may indicate to the German
Government.
Done in a single copy at
Paris, June 30, 1921.
