The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1918-11-07
GERMANY SIGNED
ARM|ST|CE TODAY
CHICAGO TElEGRAPHS BROOK
lNGS THAT ARMiSTIcE TERMS
NOW IN EFFECT
ALL FIGHTING CEASED At TWO OOcLOCK
Bookings Celebrates In The Midst OF
Niue And Rain The Coming OF
Long Hoped For Peace

A little past noon today the
chief dispatcher Of the c. G. N. w.
railway notified the local depot
that Germany had signed an ar
mistice and that the terms went
into effect at two o'clock this af-
ternoon. On receipt Of this the
Mayor ordered the whistle blown
and pandimonium broke loose and
kept up for over. an hour and
Bookings celebrated in the midst
of rain and mud. At three o'clock
this afternoon this report was
confirmed by a dispatch from the
Western Newspaper Union at
Minneapolis, as foIIows:
London-German armistice has
been signed. Hostilities will
cease at two o'clock this after
noon
other reports from Sioux Falls
and Watertown, received by the
Register a little earlier, an
nounced that the ENJOYS of Ger
many we're received by Marshal
Foch at eleven o'clock this
morning.
A message from the Public
Opinion at $50 states that Secre-
tary Lansing has issued a state
ment in Washington that the en-
voys have not yet been received
and that nothing has been done
toward signing an armistice.
The allied war council has met and
adjourned. Dispatches from Paris
that the proposed terms for ar
,rmistice have been agreed upon, thai
hey have been transmitted to Presi
lent Wilson to be handed on to the
government through the Swiss
minister at Washington. This has
been done, and they are now on theil
he enemy can obtain the privileges
Of these terms is to apply to Marshal
Foch in the regular military way and
form, as such procedure is provided
Tor in the military code OF the world
The terms for this armistice have not
yet been made public, but the prem
ers of France and Great Britain as,
their people that they are suf
fciently strong to safeguard the world
Clemenceau stated in the
house of deputies, peace may
not be so near as some might think
but the fate of the peoples of the
world was henceforth fixed" From
his statement there al be no doubt
but what France is satisfied that the
are sufficient. II France is
with these terms, then the
rest of the world can be assured that
hey owe the ground completely
The cessation of hostilities would lead
o the converting of a peace conference
md we are told that the terms are
such as leave to the Allies full con
.rol of this and place Germany at the
BAR Of the world as a supplicant. The
OF Austria is being proceeded
with by the allies and the proper pre-
cautions r being taken for the main
,enance Of power in the proper hands
all fronts and in all sections OF
he surrendered territory. There
seems little doubt but what the Ger
part of Austria will side with the
German nation. 1t may be that Wen
IA and its contiguous territory will
yet remain in the hands of the enemy
but the greatest part of the dual mon
archy will soon be in the hands OF
allied soldiers, and the freed peoples
here will be holding conventions to
their forms Of government
The armies on the west front are Civ.
no peace thoughts to the soldiers
before them, and are hammering away
with success in ~battering into the
defenses. The American
armies, especially, are gaining ground
and by their advance are threatening
a division Of the German front that
would open a way to the frontier fol-
an invasion. British, Belgians and
Frer oh m all progressing on their
each doing the work that has
been planned by Foch in his bis
scheme Of offensive. Team work il
being done on the fronts as never be
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