Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-11-20
ARMISTICE TERMS
LEAVE GERMANY
WITHOUT ARMS
President Wilson Gives Congress
and the Country Terms. and
Pledges Succor to Strick-
en- Nation.

SURRENDER is COMPLETE:
GREAT MACHINE WRECKED
Germans Must Evacuate Belgium,
France, Alsace-Lorraine and Lux
emburg Within IA Days, Surrender
5000 Big Guns, 10000 Machine
Guns, 5000 Flame Throwers, 1000
AirpIanes, 5000 Locomotives, 5o,-
600 Wagons, 10000 Motortrucks and
Her Warships.
Washington, Nov. 1.-THE terms of
the armistice with Germany were read
to congress by President Wilson. AS
sembled In the hall of the house where
nineteen months ago senators and rep
reSentatives heard the president ask
for the declaration of war, they heard
him speak the words which herald the
coming of peace.
The president spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress:
stupendous change it will in some de
gree tighten my sense of responsible
ity to perform in person the duty of
communicating to you some of the
larger circumstances of the situation
with which it is necessary to deal.
THE German authorities who have
at the invitation of the supreme war
council, been in communication with
Marshal Foch have accepted and
signed the terms of armistice which he
was authorized and instructed to com
municate to them
Military Clauses of Terms.
Those terms are as follows:
Il. Military clauses on western
front:
Il. A cessation of operations by
land and in the air six hours after the
signature of the armistice.
"2. Immediate evacuation of invad-
ed countries: Belgium, France, AL
Sace-Lorraine, Luxembourg, so ordered
as to be completed within fourteen
days from the signature of the armis-
tice. German troops, which have not
left the aforementioned territories
within the period fixed will become
prisoners of war Occupation by the
allies and United States forces Jointly
will keep pace with evacuation in
these areas. All movements of evac-
uation and occupation will be regulat-
ed in accordance with note annexed to
the stated terms.
''3. Repatriation beginning at once
and to be completed within fourteen
days of all inhabitants of the coun-
tries above mentioned, including hos
tages and persons under trial or con-
victed.
Must Surrender 5000 Guns.
II. Surrender in good condition by
the German armies of the following
equipment: Five thousand guns e.
500 heavy, $500 field, 10000 machine
guns, 5000 minnenwerfer 1000 air
planes Fighters, bombers, mostly D..
73's and night-bombing machines).
"5. Evacuation by German armies Of
the countries on the left bank Of the
Rhine.
These countries on the left bank of
the Rhine shall be administered by the
local authorities under the control of
the allies and United States armies of
occupation. The occupation of these
territories will be determined by al
lied and United States garrisons hold
ing the principal crossings of the Rhine
-Mayence, Coblenz, Cologne, together
with bridgeheads at these points-in
thirty-kilometer radius on the right
bank and by garrisons similarly holu-
ing the strategic points of the regions.
"a neutral zone shall be reserved on
the right of the Rhine between the
stream and line drawn parallel to it
40 kilometerS to the east from the
frontier of Holland to the parallel of
Gernsheim and as far as practicable a
distance of 80 kilometers from the east
of stream from this parallel upon
Swiss frontier. Evacuation by the
enemy of the Rhine lands shall be so
ordered as to be completed within q
further period of eleven days, in all
10 days after the signature of the arm
istice. All movements of evacuation
and occupation will be regulated ac-
cording to the note annexed.
&c. In all territory evacuated by
the enemy there shall be no evacuation
of inhabitants; no damage or harm
shall be done to the persons or prop
erty of the inhabitants, no destruction
of any kind be committed. Military
establishments of all kinds shall be de-
livered intact, as well as military
stores Of food, munitions, equipment
not removed during the periods fixed
for evacuation. Stores of food of all
kinds for the civil population, cattle,
etc, shQll be left in stu. Industrial
establishments shall not be impaired
In any way and their personnel shall