30      THE PARIS PEACE OONFERENCE, 1919, VOLUME V


April 2, 1919.
INTERPRETATION OF CLAuSE 2
Compensation may be claimed under Clause 2 under the following
categories of damage.
I
(a) Damage caused to civilian victims of acts of war (including
bombardments ar other attacks on land, on sea or from the air, and
all the direct consequences thereof, and of all operations of war, by
the two groups of belligerents wherever arising) and to the surviving
dependents of such victims.
(b) Damage caused to civilian victims of acts, cruelties, violence
or maltreatment (including injuries to life or health as a consequence
of imprisonment, deportation, internment or evacuation, of exposure
at sea, or of being forced to labour by the enemy) committed or
ordered by the enemy wherever arising and to the surviving dependents
of such victims.
(c) Damage caused to civilian victims of all acts of the enemy in
occupied, invaded or enemy territory, injurious to health or capacity
for work or to honour and to the surviving dependents of such victims.
II
(a) All pensions and compensations in the nature of pensions to
naval and military victims of war, whether mutilated, wounded, sick
or invalided, and to the dependents of such victims.
(b) Cost of assistance by the State to prisoners of war and to their
families and dependents.
(¢) Allowances by the State to the families and dependents of
mobilised persons, or persons serving with the forces.
III
Damage in respect of all property belonging to any of the Allied
and Associated States or to any of their subjects, with the exception
of military works or material, which has been carried off, seized,
injured or destroyed, by the acts of the enemy on land, on sea, or from
the air, or damaged directly in consequence of hostilities or any opera-
tions of war.