THE COUNCIL OF FOUR


N. B. If this draft is approved, the treaty articles submitted by the
Committee on Polish Affairs, and concurred in by the Central Com-
mittee, will have to be revised accordingly.
ARTICLE 1. The German Government renounces all rights and title
over the following territory in favor of the Five Allied and Associated
Great Powers:
Take a line from-
(a) position latitude 540 22' 25" N; longitude 190 22' 05" E:
b) in a direction 1590 for a distance of one sea mile;
(c) thence to the Light Beacon at the bend of the Elbinger
Channel approximately in latitude 540 191/2' N. longitude
19° 26' E.
(d) from this Light Beacon to the easternmost mouth of the
Nogat River bearing approximately 2090.
Keep to the thalweg of this river up to its junction with the main
stream of the Vistula north of Pieckel, and thence follow the thalweg
of the main stream northward to a point 5 miles below the railway
bridge at Dirschau. Thence continue in a general westerly direction
leaving the village of MUhlbanz on the south, and Rambeltsch on the
north, and touching at Klein Golmkau the tip of the salient formed by
the boundary of Kreis Dirschau. Thence westwards along that
boundary to the salient formed west of Boschpohl.
From the tip of the salient west of Boschpohl continue westward,
leaving the villages of Neu Fietz and Schatarpi on the south. At
a point north of Schatarpi turn north-west to the mid-point of the
lake west of Lonken leaving the village of Lonken to the north.
Thence continue north and northwest to the northern end of the lake.
From there continue almost due north to the southern end of the
lake. From there continue almost due north to the southern end of
the lake immediately north-east of Pollenschin. Thence pass north-
east along the median line of the lake to the northern end of it.
From this point continue north to the Stangenwalder forest leaving
the village of Kamehlen on the west and Neuendorf on the east.
Where the line reaches a point due north-west of the village of Neuen-
dorf turn north-eastward to the Lappinet lake north of Gross Cza-
pielken leaving Krissau on the northwest and Marschau on the south-
east. Thence continue to the north-eastern end of the lake and
from there north-eastwards as far as the westernmost point of Lake
Ottomin leaving the village of Fidlin on the north-west. Thence
continue in a north-north-easterly direction between the villages of
Klein Kelpin and Mattern. Thence continue northward through the
Olivaer forest leaving the villages of Pelonken, Pulver MUhl and
Renneberg on the east to a point one kilometre north of the road be-
tween Renneberg and Wittstock. From this point continue north-


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