The Versailles Treaty June 28, 1919 # The Versailles Treaty June 28, 1919 The following document is courtesy of Encyclopaedia Britannica's publishing partnership with the Lillian Goldman Law Library's Avalon Project at Yale Law School. The Versailles Treaty June 28, 1919 : Part XIV ## PART XIV. GUARANTEES. ## SECTION I. ## WESTERN EUROPE. ARTICLE 428. As a guarantee for the execution of the present Treaty by Germany, the German territory situated to the west of the Rhine, together with the bridgeheads, will be occupied by Allied and Associated troops for a period of fifteen years from the coming into force of the present Treaty. ARTICLE 429. If the conditions of the present Treaty are faithfully carried out by Germany, the occupation referred to in Article 428 will be successively restricted as follows: At the expiration of five years there will be evacuated: the bridgehead of Cologne and the territories north of a line running along the Ruhr, then along the railway Julich, Duren, Euskirchen, Rheinbach, thence along the road Rheinbach to Sinzig, and reaching the Rhine at the confluence with the Ahr; the roads, railways and places mentioned above being excluded from the a