and children, both in their own countries and in
all countries to which their commercial and
industrial relations extend, and for that purpose
will establish and maintain the necessary inter-
national organizations;

(b) undertake to secure just treatment of the native
inhabitants of territories under their control;
(c) will entrust the League with the general super-
vision over the execution of agreements with
regard to the traffic in women and children, and
the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs;
(d) will entrust the League with the general super-
vision of the trade in arms and ammunition with
the countries in which the control of this traffic
is necessary in the common interest;

(e) will make provision to secure and maintain
freedom of communications and of transit and
equitable treatment for the commerce of all
Members of the League. In this connection,
the special necessities of the regions devastated
during the war of 1914-1918 shall be borne in
mind;

(f) will endeavour to take steps in matters of international concern for the prevention and control

of disease.

ARTICLE 24.-There shall be placed under the direction of the League all international bureaux already established by general treaties if the parties to such treaties consent. All such international bureaux and all commissions for the regulation of matters of international interest hereafter constituted shall be placed under the direction of the League.

In all matters of international interest which are regulated by general conventions but which are not placed under the control of international bureaux or commissions, the Secretariat of the League shall, subject to the consent of the Council and if desired by the parties, collect and distribute all relevant information and shall render any other assistance which may be necessary or desirable.

The Council may include as part of the expenses of the Secretariat the expenses of any bureau or commission which is placed under the direction of the League.

ARTICLE 25.-The Members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment and coöperation of duly authorised voluntary national Red Cross organisations having as purposes the improvement of health, the prevention of disease and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world.

ARTICLE 26.-Amendments to this Covenant will take effect when ratified by the Members of the League whose Representatives compose the Council and by a majority of the Members of the League whose Representatives compose the Assembly.

No such amendment shall bind any Member of the League which signifies its dissent therefrom, but in that case it shall cease to be a Member of the League.

ANNEX.

I. ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

SIGNATORIES OF THE TREATY OF PEACE.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HEDJAZ

II. FIRST SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

The Honourable Sir James Eric Drummond,

K. C. M. G., C. B.

DOCUMENT 21.

Text of the so-called "Loucheur Report" from
Appendix B to Secret Minutes, Council of Ten,
February 7 (mimeograph).

APPENDIX B TO MINUTES OF COUNCIL OF TEN.

(Secret.)

1557.

February 7, 1919.

Report by the Committee appointed by the Su-
PREME WAR COUNCIL at the Meeting of the 24th
January, 1919. (Morning.)

The Committee consisting of

Monsieur Loucheur, as President

Marshal Foch, Commander-in-Chief

of the Allied Forces.

General Bliss

General Sir Henry Wilson

(acting for Mr. Winston Churchill)

General Sir Frederick Sykes

H. E. General Diaz, Chief of the
Staff, Italian Army.

(France)

(America)
(Great Britain)

(Royal Air Force)

Assembled on the 27th January, 2nd and 5th February.

From an examination of the Reports made by the SubCommittees and from the discussion which followed it appeared that—

1. There is some uncertainty regarding the strength of the existing German Army, and the resources in war material of all kinds at its disposal, but both are still considerable.

2. There is similar uncertainty regarding the war material and stocks of munitions in the interior of Germany,

both in proof and in course of manufacture, also regarding the means of production of such materials, but these stocks and the means of production also are certainly still considerable in quantity.

Any serious reduction in the effective strength of the Allied Army of Occupation must depend on the carrying out of certain necessary measures, the execution of which must be controlled. To this end the Committee recommends the following arrangements:

War material actually in possession of the German

Armies.

An approximate estimate of such war material is set forth in Annex No. 1.

The Committee therefore considers that the Allied Governments should fix definitely the number of troops and the amount of war material of certain categories to be left in the hands of the German Armies, which it proposes should be reduced to a strength of 25 Infantry Divisions and 5 Cavalry Divisions, and recommends that all material in excess should be handed over.

All the war material to be surrendered by the Germans, all stock of asphyxiating gas and gas masks, must be given up at places selected by agreement, to Committees of Allied officers who will carry out the removal, or the destruction, or the putting out of action of the surrendered war material, according to circumstances.

As regards destruction and putting out of action, certain detailed measures have been considered; these will be carried out by the above-mentioned Allied officers if the general principles are accepted.

Manufacture of war material.

Similarly it is necessary that the German Government should pledge itself not to continue the manufacture of war material during the period of the armistice, in order that she may not rearm in secrecy.

The most certain method of ensuring the correct execution of the above undertaking would consist in controlling certain German munition factories but not necessarily all