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THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD
VOLUME xxxxvm BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1918 12 PAGES NUMBER 187
REICHSTAG TO DECIDE ON ARMISTICE
Prince Maximilian, German Chancellor, Resigns
British Cross The
Scheldt and Enter
Town of Tournai
Avesnes Captured as British Press For
ward Both North and South of
Town, Passing Avesnes-Mau
beuge Road Line
London, November 8.—Prince Maximilian of Baden, the im
perial German chancellor, has resigned, according to a Germai
wireless dispatch picked up here tonight. The wireless says
that Prince Maximilian tendered his resignation in view of the
altered parliamentary situation, but that acceptance of it is
still outstanding.
TOURNAI PARTLY OCCUPIED
London, November 8.—The British forces have crossed the
Scheldt south of Tournai and occupied the western part of the
FRENCH CONTINUE PROGRESS
Paris, November 8.—The French troops are continuing tc
press the Germans, have driven the enemy from further large
areas on the southern part of the battle front, according to of
ficial communication issued tonight.
AVESNES IS CAPTURED
London, November 8.—The capture of the important town
of Avesnes and the occupation of the western portion ol
Tournai are reported in Field Marshal Haig’s official communi
cation tonight. Both north and south of Avesnes the British
troops have passed the lines of the Avesnes-Maubeuge road.
AUSTRALIAN DEAD NUMBER 54,890
Melbourne, Australia, November 8.—The latest figures on Australia’i
casualties show that the dead number 54,890 and the wounded 158,199
The significance of these figures will be realized when it is remembered tha<
the whole population of Australia is only 5,000,000.
FRENCH ADVANCE FIVE TO EIGHT MILES
With the French Army in France, November 8, 10 p. m.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—General Gouraud tonight holds the west bank of the Meuse
river from Sedan to the outskirts of Mezeries, his troops during; the day
having made an advance of from five to eight miles.
the French troops accomplished the sig
nal fept of bringing up artillery and
supplies over roads deep with mud and
cut at many places by immense mine
craters. The Germans showed more de
termined resistance as the river was
approached and appeared to hold the
east bank strongly with artillery and
machine guns. The advance of the
French continued also on the left wing,
increasing the menace to Hirson and
Maubeuge.
AMERICANS ADVANCE
With the American Forces on the
Meuse Front, November 8.—(By the As
sociated Press.)—The right wing of Gen
eral Pershing’s forces advanced today,
pushing into the western edge of JScurey
wood and in the Woevre forest.
In the Ecurcy wood region the whole
line advanced, cutting off the salient of
the Bois de LaMontague, Maraumont and
Brandeville.
In the Woevre forest sector, it was pa
trols who penetrated the edge of the for
est, and they met with resistance. This
section of the battle line contains vir
tually the last strong enemy defensive
positions. His withdrawal far to the rear
is practically certain.
On the balance of the front the day
continued to produce little activity, save
tillery.
SERBS ENTER HUNGARY
London, November S.—Serbian troope
have crossed the Danube into Hungary,
where they have been received with th€
greatest enthusiasm, says an official
statement, issued by the Serbian wai
office Thursday.
AMERICANS INACTIVE
With the American Forces on the Se
dan Front, November 8,—(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—The American front con
tinued inactive this afternoon, so far as
the infantry was concerned, and the en
emy was taking advantage of the lull to
remove as many of his units and pieces
of artillery as possible.
The roads leading eastward from Sedan,
Stenay, Conflans and 'Longupeon are re
ported by the American aviators to be
packed to repletiaon with cannon and
various vehicles, making in the direction
of Metz. Vehicles are laden with every
thing portable.
The southern portion of Sedan and the
towns of Stenay and Mouzon are reported
on fire.
Artillery fire on both sides continues
fairly active, and an American division
east of the Meuse reports a gas and high
explosive bombardment of unusual in
tensity.
Kaiser Refuses to Accede
to Abdication Demands
\
Amsterdam, November 8.— (By the Associated Press.)—Em
peror William of Germany has declined to accede to the de
mands that he abdicate, says a German wireless dispatch picked
up here tonight.
the Emperor replied through Minister
of the Interior Drews that he refused
to abdicate voluntarily on the ground
that he could not at the moment of
peace undertake the terrible responsi
bility of handing Germany to the en
tente and delivering up the country
to an anarchy.
WITTELSBACH DEPOSED
Basfl, .November b.—During ihe
sitting at the Diet palace today a
decree wo k passed deposing the
Wtttelabach dynasty, according to
■ dispatch received here tonight
from 31unich, Bavaria.
Ludwig III, King of Bavaria, is head
of the house of Wittelsbaeh. He be
came regent in succession to his father.
Prince Luitpold, in 1912. Ludwig was
proclaimed King in 1913 in succession
to his cousin, King Otto( known as
the “mad King of Bavaria.” Otto was
declared incapable of ruling owing to
his mental infirmity.
Ludwig 111 was born i iff; 1845 and
married Arch-Duchess Ma’tffa Theresa
of Austria-Este. Of thir uiji#n .weiy».
born three sons and six daughters/'
Prince Rupprecht, the crown pritjtco,
has been one of the leading' T&ittyajg
allied generals on the western front*
during tHe war.
ULTIMATUM SENT
Basel, Switzerland, November S.
The abdication of Emperor William
and the renunciation of the throne by
Crown Prince f'rederick William, oe
fore noon today, were demanded in
an ultimatum sent by the managing
committee of the German socialist par
ty at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon to
Prince Maximilian of Baden, the im
perial chancellor, according to the Cor
respondence Socialiste, the official or
gan of the socialist party of Ger
many.
The managing committee of the so
cialist party considered the entire po
litical situation and its decisions wero
embodied in thy ultimatum which
of the German cabinet without port
folio, sent to Chancellor Maximilian.
These decisions were:
1. The right of public assembly.
2. The military and police must be
ordered to exercise great reserve.
3. The immediate transformation of
the Prussian government in conformi
ty with the views of the majority in
the Reichstag.
4. Greater socialist influence in the
Reichstag.
The abdication of Emperor Wil
liam and the renunciation of throne by
the crown prince.
The imperial chancellor was asked
to reply before noon today, accepting
the conditions. Otherwise the social
ists declared they would withdraw
from the government.
A Munich dispatch gives additional
details of the meeting at which the re
public was proclaimed. Several thou
sand persons were present, having come
by invitation of the socialist party.
After fiery speeches by numerous ora
tors the crowd adopted a resolution de
manding the abdication of the Kaiser,
renunciation of right to succession by
the crown prince; the introduction of a
democratic reign in Germany, accept
iHCe of an armistice, no future wars,
•«pt for national defense, social re
and an eight-hour day for work*
TOSfcfctT8 were received with great
ontW|iaMi^i'They affairmed that the
soctal.Yt party urged neither a strike
nor desired only com
plete reform*.
In a proces^awvhith was formed
and which lWl|f were many
soldiers of all WtM*# by a band.
The procession matched to the royal
palace and the ™*"^TMrlMin TnlifTT the
government hurriedly\~
for the populace to remal
REPUBLIC PROCLAIMED^ *
Basel, Switzerland, November 8.% A
republic has been proclaimed in Ba
varia at the conclusion of a great pop
ular procession yesterday, says a tel
egram from Munich under todav’a dai«
RepublicJfts Win Majority
In fP/th Home and Senate
A
DEFENDANTS IN
RAINCOAT CASE
ARE ACQUITTED
The Jury Deliberates Eight
Hours Before Returning
Verdict for Firm and
Six Individuals
1 _
New York, November 8.— C.
Kenyon & Co. and six indi
vidual defendants were ac
quitted bv a jury in federal
court here tonight on charges
of conspiracy to defraud the
government in the manufae
| ture of raincoats for the United
States army. The jury de
liberated eight hours before re
turning its verdict.
The individual defendants were Ber
nard Wolf, superintendent of the com
pany’s factory, and five other employes.
They were charged with having con
! spired with the company to pass off
'on the government defective raincoats.
! It was asserted that some of thecoats
•had been rejected by government in
spectors.
The jury came in at 6 o’clock and
asked the court if conspiracy had to be
premeditated in order to constitute a
'criminal act. When instructions had
i been given on this point the jurors
! resumed their deliberations.
NO CANCELLATION
OF WAR CONTRACTS
AS RESULT PEACE
Baruch Says Contracts Will
Be Cancelled Gradually as
Requirements Are
Reduced
Washington. November 8.—Chairman
Baruch of the war industries board
authorized the statement tonight that
the coming of peace will not result in
immediate cancellation of war supply
contracts, but that contracts will be
cancelled gradually as requirements
are reduced, making it possible to lift
curtailments and restrictions upon or
dinary Industrial activities.
“For sometime to come,'* said Mr
Baruch, “assuming the armistice will
be signed, for a period to be deter
mined by the war making agencies of
the government, government contracts
must continue on a wide scale. This
circumstance applies to a considerable
share of present contracts.
“As the demand for raw materials
is lessened by the reduction of war ie
quirements and the cancellation of war
contracts, and when such cancellations
be made, the raw materials so made
available will be released and allocated
by the war industries hoard, for use
in supplying civilian and export de
mands, which through curtailment
have been held In check during the
war In addition to the ordinary com
mercial requirement there will be a
heavy overflow of materials thus re
leased to supply the demand for the
great reconstructional work required
by the European countries.
GRADUAL LIFTING
"At the same time there is to be a
gradual lifting of the restrictions and
curtailments that have been imposed
upon industry by the exigency of toe
war so as to allow as promptly as pos
sible free flow' of all supplies into
peace channels.
"The war industries board will con
tinue to exercise its functions until
the peace treaty is signed, to the end
that the readjustment of the matters
on which it has been acting may be
made in as orderly a manner as pos
sible. i
"A committee named by the Presi
dent has been and is now at work to
devise the best mechanism of bring
ing about the readjustments from a
war to a peace basis. The report of
the committee may take the form of
suggested legislation.
The whole effect of the readjust
ment plans will he to the end of bring
ing about necessary changes with as
little dislocation as possible and the
full opportunity for all to benefit as
in the past by individual Ingenuity, vi
sion and fair dealing.’
Franco-American Draft
Treaty Is Ratified
Washington, November 8_Rati
fication of the draft treaty be
tween F’rance aad the I'nitcd
Staten
Secretory
.liinncraiid.
were exchanged today by
try l.annlna and Ambassador
^Hop earw 9
Senate Majority of at Least
Two and Not Less Than
Forty-Three in„the House
Is Assured
Washington, November 8.
A republican majority in the
next Congress of at least two
in the Senate and of not less
than 43 in the House was as
sured from returns today from
the scattering doubtful districts
of last Tuesday’s elections.
Word from Detroit of the elec
tion in Michigan, upon almost
complete unofficial returns, of
Truman H. Newberry, repub
lican candidate for the Sen
ate, over' Henry Ford, democrat,
increased the republican Sen
ate roll to 49, a bare majority.
The democrats have 46, with
the Idaho contest between
Senator Nugent, democrat, and
former Governor Gooding still
in doubt on the face of almost
complete unofficial returns.
Nugent has a majority of
nearly 500, hut Gooding has
demanded an official count,
which will be made Novem
ber 15.
Returns from the last missing House
district—the Second Montana, where a re
publican was elected to the seat now’ held
by Representative Jeannette Rankin, un
successful independent candidate for the
Senate—were received today.
HOUSE LINE-UP
On the face of the now complete un
official returns the politital lineup of the
next Hou*^ is ae follows: Republicans,
democrats, 194: independerit. 1; so
cialist, 1.
Prospect of holding not less than 49
seats in the Senate regardless of the out
come of the Idaho contest, place the re
publicans in a position to take control
of the Senate from the democrats and
reorganize it. With 49 votes necessary
to control, however, republican leaders
realize that organization will depend upon
unbroken partisan alignment. They re
call that, even before the democrats
swept into control of the Senate with
President Wilson's inauguration in 1913,
they had a majority of the Senate but
were unable, because of republican fac
tional defection, to elect former Senator
Gallinger president pro tempore. When
the new Senate convenes March 1 next,
however, such difficulties, according to re
publican leaders, are not expected.
Republican contfol of both Senate and
House and harmony of action between the
republicans of -both bodies are expected
to have much effect on legislative pol
icies.
SENIORITY IS PRECEDENT
Like the reorganization of the House,
most unbroken precedent In the Senate
principally affects chairmanship and ma
jority control of committes, besides leg
islation. Seniority of "Service is the al
most unbroken precendent in the Senate
as in the House, of electing committee
chairmen.
With the republicans holding intact
their majority to organize the Senate,
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, under
the seniority rib*, would succeed Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska as head of the
frroP'n relations committee. Although
the belief here now is that the peace
treaty wi!! he ratified before democratic
control ends, this committee will have
many Important after-the-war problems.
heading the powerfdl Senate financ®
committee, with its jurisdiction over bond
and tax legislation, would be Senator
Penrose of Pennsylvania, in place of Sen
ator Simmons of North Carolina.
Senator Warren of Wyoming is expect
ed to head the appropriations committee,
of which Senator Martin of Virginia,
now’ democratic leader, is chairman. Mr.
Warren Is senior member of the mili
tary and agriculture committees, but is
expected to prefer the finance committee
charmanship.
The military affairs committee, of
which Senator Chamberlain of Oregon
is chairman, is expected to go to Senator
Wadsworth of New York, next in line
after Senator Warren to secure the chair
manship.
RANKING REPUBLICANS
The naval committee chairmanship, held
by Senator Swanson of Virginia, is re
garded in doubt. Ranking republican
members are, in order, Senators Penrose,
Lodge, Smith of Michigan. Page of Ver
mont and Poindexter. With Senator Pen
rose and Lodge heading the finance and
foreign relations committees and Sen
ator Smith retiring. Mr. l’age is next in
line for the chairmanship, but is expected
to prefer the agriculture committee chair
manship. leaving Senator Poindexter to
take naval affairs.
The judiciary and commerce commit
tee chairmanships also rest upon pref
erences finally made by ranking repub
licans. Senator Nelson of Minnesota is
senior on both- If h<4 should choose the
latter, of which he was once chairman.
Senator Dillingham of Vermont, who
once headed the immigration committee,
would be in line for the judiciary body,
and if Senator Dillingham should prefer
his old committee. Senator Brandesee
of Connecticut ranks first for the judi
ciary leadership.
Preferment by Senator Nelson for the
judiciary committee would leave Senator
Jones of Washington in line to take the
commerce committee.
The interstate commerce committee,
with its jurisdiction over legislation af
fecting government control of the rail
roads. telegraph and telephone wires,
falls to Senator Cummings of Iowa, as
successor to Senator Smith of South Caro
lina.
OTHER PROSPECTIVE CHAIRMEN
jje.iliic< these pre-eminent committee
1-airmanships, prospective chairmen of
;ther important committees follow:
Banking and currency. Senator McLean’
(Continued on I’age Two)
TARDIEU ASKS FOR
AMERICAN AIO FOR
FRANCE AFTER WAR
Says Ten Billions Will Be
i Required to Finance the
Restoration of Country
After War Is Over
New York, November 8.
An appeal to America to assist
France in her reconstruction,
with men, money, materials
and ships, was made here to
night by Andre Tardieu, gen
eral commissioner for Franco
American war affairs.
Declaring: that the war has reduced
by onc-fifteenth the effective population
of the repulic, that 350,000 homes have
been destroyed, that agriculture, com
merce and industry in the invaded re
gions virtually have been wiped out. that
French shipping and foreign trade have
been reduced almost to nonexistence,
I Mr. Tardieu said that approximately 50,
1000,000,000 fraiK'S, (J10,000,00u,000) will be re
quired to finance the process of restora
tion. While France, “for many months
the main battlefield of liberty and right,”
will draw upon her every resource and
these of her colonies to mobilize this vast
sum, the commissioner stated, she confi
dently looks for assistance from the allies.
ASKS FOR LABOR
From America., Mr. Tardieu continued,
making public, as he said, representa
tions which he had presented to the ad
ministration at Washington, France asks
for a contribution of labor by Ameri
can troops now on her soil; for credits
to the extent 6l fifty per cent ot her
reconstruction purchases in this country
for raw materials, railroad rolling stock
and agricultural and industrial tools, and
for diversion of part of the emergency
fleet to the uses of French commerce. In
explaining these needs to the America*
government, the commissioner said, he
was given a 'welcome by which I was
deeply moved."
While France will exact, restitution
for German depredations, Mr. Tardif u
asserted, speed in the reconstruction is
Imperative and “America, on account of
her immense capability for production,
ought to give the first help."
The French commissioner’s appeal to
Americans was made in an address before
the Association of Foreign Press corres
pondents. Introduced by Frank Dilmot of
London, president of the organization,
Mi. Tardieu attributed the allied victory
to "the work of our soldiers and civilian
populations," and to the “loyal, wise and
skillful policy by means of which Presi
dent Wilson enabled the allies and Amer
ica, in answer to the German request,
to determine in full our conditions of
armistice." He continued:
HAS LOST 2,500,000 MEN
I France has V)st 2,500,<H)0 men. Some are
j dead, some monied, some have returned
, sick and incapacitated from German
prisons. Whether they be lost altogether,
or whether their working capacity be
permanently reduced, they will not parti
cipate in this reconstruction.
"The fifteenth part of our people is
missing at the very time we need all our
material and moral forces in order to
| build up our life again,
j “The younger, stronger part of our
I nation, the flower of P’rance, has died
j on the battlefields. Our country has been
bereft of its most precious resources.
"Our war expenses, 120,000,000,000 francs,
arc weighing heavily on our shoulders.
To paa off this debt there are at hand
only smeh limited resources as Invasion
has left us. The territories which have
been under German occupation for four
years were the wealthiest part of France.
Their area did not exceed six per cent
of the whole country. They paid, how
ever, 25 per cent of the sum total of
our taxes.
"The industrial disaster is complete The
districts occupied by the Germans and
[ whose machinery has been methodically
! destroyed or taken away by the enemy,
! were, industrially speaking, the very heart
i of France. They were the very back
I bone of our production. Plants, ma
chinery, engines—nothing left. Everything
has been tarried away or destroyed by
th? enemy. So complete is the destruction 1
that, in the case of our great coal mines j
in the north, two years of work will be !
needed before a single ton of coal can be I
extracted and ten years before the out- i
put is brought back to the figures of 1913. !
“France will be equal to the effort. But j
resolute as she is to do by herself every- j
thing she herself can do, France also 1
deems it fair that after having been for
so many months the main battlefield of ,
liberty and right she should now be |
helped in her effort, and she prides her- i
self in trusting fully the spirit of solid- !
arlty of those of her allies who have not
been Invaded.
LABOR FIRST NEED *
. “To you, Americans, let me say that we
want first assistance in the matter of
labor. We hope that, during the prepa
ration and the carrying out of the trans
portation of your troops back to Ameri
ca. your technical as well as other units
with their equipment will be able to co
operate in that effort.
“We soon will have to carry out a j
colossal work of transportation in view
of the supplying of the regions avacu- |
ated by the enemy, of the recovering of
the railroads in northern and eastern
France and in Alsace-Lorraine.
Speaking “to 9Amerlca" Mr. Tardieu
said:
"For more than 100 years our liberties
and yours have developed fraternally and
today, wfe. united, offer to the world th#
startling lesson of victory and democracy.
"Today I have told you where we are
standing; I have told you of our will
to live again; I have told you of our needs
and of our wounds; I have told you of
what we intend to do and what we will
do, and I nerd not wait for your anawtv*
I know it because l know you,"
Kaiser on Hand
To Receive Terms
From the Allies
Courier Crossed Lines Early Last Night
Bearing Fateful Document, Accept
ance of Which Will Mean End
of the War
Paris, November 8, 4:20 p. m.—Leaders of the various par
ties in the Reichstag will meet tonight to determine the course
to be taken on the conditions of the armistice, says a dispatch
from Berlin to Berne, printed in the Paris Temps this afternoon.
COURIER DEPARTS WITH TERMS
London, November 8, 5:45 p. m.—The French wireless serv
ice has given out a dispatch sent by General Winterfield of the
German armistice delegation to the German high command, an
nouncing that a courier, Captain Helldorff, will cross the lines
between 6 and 8 o’clock tonight and that the French command
has taken measures for his safety.
KAISER ATTENDING CONFERENCE
Washington, November 8.—The question of whether Ger
many will surrender immediately or wait to be crushed between
the advancing allied and American armies on the west front
and revolution at home, rested tonight with an extraordinary
conference at German great headquarters. Marshal Foch has
given until 11 o’clock Monday morning, Paris time, for the
answer.
I
nie conference fhe Kaiser is
reported to lie, perhaps appearing
for the iaNt time as supreme war
lord, and, according to German
wireless reports, defying <he civil
ians who are scekina through sub
mission to the Inevitable to save
somethina o»*t of the wreck of an
empire. A courier was due some
time during the night with the
text of the American and allied
armistice terms, handed to the
German envoys behind the allied
lines this morninR by Marshal
Foeh. He carried the word, sent
ahead by wireless, that the allied
commander-ln-chlef had refused a
provisional cessation at hostilities
and demanded an answer within
7‘2, hours.
The American government was ad
vised from Paris late today of the re
ception of the Germans by Marshal
Foch at 10:35 o'clock in the morning
and its result. Secretary Lansing im
mediately made the news public at the
state department. Later unofficial In
formation of the movements of the
German courier and knowledge of the
difficult roads over which he must
travel for 100 miles after leaving the
allied lines, led to the conclusion that
he could not get back with a reply
before tomorrow even if not kept wait
ing for a decision.
AMERICA CONFIDENT
In the meantime the result is waited
here with entire confidence and calm.
American and allied military men say
the end must come quickly one way
or the other: that if the Germans are
unable to agree among themselves and
accept the allied terms the problem
will be settled for them with no great
delay. Some believe that acceptance
is assured and will he hastened now
that a final effort to quibble with hos
tilities stopped is ended, on the theo
ry that even the Kaiser himself must
realize that unless peace is made
quickly there will he no government
in Germany to make it.
Revival in New York and elsewhere
today of the premature peace demon
strations started yesterday by the false
report of the signing of the armistice
led President Wilson to direct Sec
retary Lansing to announce that as
soon as any decision in regard to the
armistice was reached it would be
made public immediately by the gov
ernment and that any statement that
news regarding this event was being
withheld was utterly false.
FOOTS POWER LIMITED
An interesting question was raised by
the statement in the report to the Amer
ican government on which Secretary
Lansing based his statemenOt that the
German envoys came with full powers.
Since the delegates did not use the full
powers, either to sign or reject the terms,
and. instead, referred them to grand
headquarters, it was regarded here as
certain that they came with the hope
of acomplishing something more than
the signature of an armistice. It was
believed their purpose was to inject mat
ters which can be considered only at the
peace conference.
It has been made very clear, how
ever. and emphasized today in official
dispatches from France, that Marshal
Foch’s powers were limited strictly to
the drastic military programme pre
scribed by the supreme war council at
Versailles.
PLEA REJECTED
Washington, November 8.—Secretary
Lansing announced late today that he
had been advised that Marshal Foch
reported to Paris at 10:25 o’clock this
morning, Paris time, that he had re
jected a formal request from the Ger
man armistice delegates for an immedi
ate suspension of hostilities, and that
the 72 hours in which the Germans
must answer the allies' terms delivered
to them began at 11a. m„ Paris time.
Marshal Foch reported that the Ger
man plenipotentiaries arrived at his
headquarters with full powers from the
chancellor.
AUTOS CARRIED WHITE FLAGS
Paris, November S, 4 p. m.—Describ
ing the arrival of the German envoys
at the French lines the intransigeant
says the automobiles carried white
flags and were preceded by a trumpeter.
Borne French soldiers, under an of
ficer, approached them on the road just
outside the lines.
The delegates established their iden
tity and showed their credentials. The
eyes of the members of the German
party were then blindfolded and the
delegates proceeded to the place where
they spent the night.
The company of German road mend
ers, which accompanied the envoys,
did not croaw the lines. The party
started early In the morning for the
French headquarters. General Winter
feld and General Von Gurennel wore
uniforms of the rank of general. Von
8aV«»\y wm in fh« uniform of an »d
/iuiiisuce i>ews win
Be Given to Public
Without Any Delay
Washington. November s.— (By
the Associated Pren>».)—At President
Wilson's direction Seeretnry l.umiiii^
Issued a statement shortly after noon
today that any (statement that news
reaching the government concerning
armistice negotiations has been
withheld Ik utterly (nine and that
a* soon ns a decision In regard to
the armistice was reached It would
be made public Immediately by the
government.
Mr. l anNliift’N statement follow*:
“I am requested, and Authorized,
by the President to state that no In
formation reaching thin government
concerning the- armistice neuotin
tlonn In France has been withheld;
that any statement to the contrary
in utterly false, and that a* soon
oh a definite dedNion In regard to
the armlMtlce ha« been reached It
will Immediately be made public by
the government.” .
! miral of the fleet. Mathias Erzberger
and Count Von Oberndorff were in plain
civilian dress.
HAVE 72 HOURS TIME
London, November 8.—At allied gen
eral headquarters Friday morning th«
German plenipotentiaries, according to
a French wireless message received
here, received the conditions of the ar
mistice as well as a formal demand
that they should be accepted or refused
within 72 hours, expiring on Monday
morning at 11 o’clock, French time.
The wireless message picked up here Is
from the (german delegates to the im
perial chancellor and the German high
command. It concludes by asking that
a courier be sent back as soon as pos
sible with instructions.
The message of the German delegates
reads:
“From the German plenipotentiaries
for an armistice to the imperial chan
cellor, and the German high command:
Friday morning at allied general head
quarters, the plenipotentiaries received
the conditions of an armistice, as well
as a formal demand that they be ac
cepted or refused w'ithin 72 hours, ex
piring on Monday morning at 11 o’clock.
French time.
“The German proposal for an immedi
ate conclusion of a provisional sus
pension of hostilities was rejected by
Marshal Foch.
“A German courier bearing the text
of the conditions of the armistice has
been sent to Spa. no other means of
communication being practicable.
“Please acknowledge receipt, and
send back courier as soon as possible
with your latest Instructions. Send
ing of fresh delegates is not necessary
for the moment.”
Spa apparently is the headquarters of
the German high command. The town
is in Belgium, about 100 miles northeast
of LaCupelle, near where the German
emissaries entered the French lines.
REPLY WILL BE DELAYED
Paris, November 8.—The journey of
the German courier to Spa and return
will require far more time than the dis
tance indicates, because of the diffi
culties of the road under present eon-*
ditions. Therefore, the receipt of the
German reply is likely to be delayed
a number of hours beyond the time pos
sible under normal conditions.
KAISER AT SPA
Paiis. November 8, 4:22 p. in.—Stress
is laid by the Temps on the nresence
of Emperor William at Spa, where the
I terms of the armistice are being ex
amined by the Germans.
Summary of the News
1—llelchstag to decide on armlmier;
Kaiser on hand to receive term*.
Prince V axlmlllun, German chan
cellor, resign*.
British cron* Scheldt and enter
Tournal.
Kaiser refuse* to accede to abdi
cation demand.
3— -October weniher bring* Increased
crop yield.
8—-Casualty lint.
4— Editorial.
5— Plan* for united war work drive
rapidly being completed.
Republicans made poor showing i*
recent election
b—Society.
T—A iiburn football team composed of
last year's suhs.
is*—French musicians who come here
have suffered.
If —-Market.*.