The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-11-14
ARM|ST|CE WAS
SIGNED AND WAR
PRACTICALLY ENDS
German Emmisaries Receive Word By
Wireless-Accept Terms of Armis-
tice Laid Down by Allies-Fight-
ing Has Ceased.

Events of great moment have trans
pired since the last publication Of this
paer.
The four German officers sent by
the Kaiser to consider the terms Of
arnllstice as agreed upon by the Al
lies, arrived within the Allies lines at
10 o'clock last Thursday night and the
following morning were received by
Marshal Foch at his headquarters
which were located in railway car.
The Marshal in loud voice, the re-
ports say, announced the terms which
had to be agreeable in the main to the
representatives of the German gov
ernment, some points in the manner of
carrying them out being discussed.
The representatives sent a courier
back thru the Allied lines with the
terms. The Kaiser and the members
of the military staff were located at
Spa. The Germans were given 72
hours in which to accept the terms and
wireless was received saying the
German government had accepted the
terms. The armistice was signed at
5 o'clock in the morning of Nov. II,
Paris time, and the fighting ceased at
II o'clock in the forenoon, Paris
time, or five o'clock in the morning,
Minot time. The fighting continued
with fury right up to the very last
minutes, the Yankees especially send
ing over hundreds of thousands Of
shells. The Americans captured Ste-
nay just before eleven o'clock and the
British captured Mons. The Ameri-
cans have saved for souvenirs the
cases from the last shells that were
fired. AS the word was sent up and
down the line that firing was to cease,
the doughboys went wild with joy, al
though there was some disappointment
expressed that the U. S. troops could
not expect to march on Berlin.
The armistice terms are good for
80 days only and if the Huns do not
carry out the provisions to the very
letter, fighting will be resumed. The
Allied soldiers have been warned to
be in readiness to resume fighting if
Germany tries any trckery. The
terms Of the armstice have not been
violated so far and everything ree-
mains quiet along the entire front
with the exception of the noise made
by the movement of trucks and
troops. The Huns, true to form, con-
tnued to fire gas shells up to the very
last minute. In the town Of Mezieres,
where 10000 defenseless French wo-
men and children had taken refuge,
the German batteries poured deluge
of high explosives and poison gas un-
til II a. M, causing the death Of
many. The population were without
masks and the suffering was horri-
BILE.
There have been some changes in
nineteen terms of the armistice. The
Grmans must Civ up their entire sub
marine fleet of 160 of, the submarines.
The Germans instead of getting out Of
Russia at once are to remain until the
internal situation is cleared up. 150,-
600 railway cars instead of 10000 must
be given up, and $4,000 machine guns
instead of 10000 and 1,700 airplanes
| instead of 1000 are to be surrender
ed
The complete terms of the armis-
| tice as originally drafted are given
below:
1-Cessation Of operations by land
and in the air six hours after the sig
nature of the arnistice.
Evacuate invaded Territory.
| 2-1mmediate evacuation of invaded
countries-Belgium, France, Alsace-
Lorraine, Luxemburg, SO ordered as
to be completed within ID DAYS Of the
signing of the armistice. German
troops which have not left the above
mentioned territories within the per-
iod fixed will become prisoners of
war. Occupation by the Allied and
United States forces jointly will keep
pace with evacuation in these areas.
All movements Of evacuation and oe-
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