St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-11-16

lighters, cranes and all other harbor
materials, materials for inland navi-
cation, all aircraft and all materials
and stores, all arms and ornaments,
all stores and apparatus of all kinds.
Twenty-nine-All Black Sea ports
to be evacuated by Germany; all Rus
sian war vessels of all descriptions
seized by Germany in the Black Sea
are to be handed over to the Allies
and the United States of America; all
neutral merchant vessels seized are
to be released; all warlike and other
materials of all kinds seized In those
ports are to be returned and German
materials specified in clause twenty
eight are to be abandoned.
Thirty-All merchant vessels in
German lands belonging to the Al
lied and associated powers are to he
restored in ports to be specified by
the Allies and the United States of
America without reciprocity.
Thirty-)ne-No destruction OF
ships or of materials to be permitted
before evacuation, surrender or res
toration.
Thirty-two-The German govern
ment shall formally notify the neu-
trail governments of the world ana
particularly the governments or Nor
way, Sweden, Denmark and Holland,
that all restrictions placed on the
trading of their vessels with the&Al-
lied and associated countries, wheth-
er by the German government or by
private German interests, and wheth-
er in return for specific concessions
such as the export of shipbuilding
materials or not, are Immediately
cancelled.
Thirty-three-No transfers OF Ger
man merchant shipping of any de-
scription to any neutral flag are TO
take place after signature of the
armistice.
6. Duration of armistice:
Thirty-four-The duartion OF the
armistice is to be thirty days. with
option to extend. Durion this pG9d
on failure of execution of any - che
above clauess, the armistice may be
denounced by one of the contracting
parties, on forty-eight hours pre-
vious notice.
Z. Time limit for reply:
irty-five-This armistice to be
accepted or refused by Germany in
seventy-two hours of notification.
The President then continued:
"The war thus comes to an end !;
for, having accepted these terms OF
armistice, it will be impossible for
the German command to renew It.
1t is now possible to assess the con-
sequence of this great consumma-
ton. We know only that this tragi-
cal war, whose consuming fame
swept from one nation to another
until all the world was on fire, Is at
an end, and that is was the privilege
of our own people to enter 1t at Its
most critical juncture in such fashion
and in such force as to contribute In
a way of which we are all deeply
proud to the great result. We know
that the object of the war is attain
ed; the object upon which all free
men had set their hearts; and at
tanned with sweeping complete
ness which now we do not realize.
Armed imperialism such as the men
conceived who were but yesterday
the masters of Germany is at an END,
it's illicit ambitions engulfed in black
disaster. Who will seek to revive it?
The arbitrary power of the military
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secretly and of its own single choice
disturb the peace of the world, is dis
credited and destroyed. And more
than that-much more than that
has been accomplished. The great
nations which associated themselves
to destroy it have now definitely
united in the common purpose to
set up such a peace as will satisfy
the longing of the whole world for
disinterested justice, embodied in
settlements which are based upon
something much better and much
more lasting than the selfish COM
petitive interests of powerful states.
There is no longer conjecture as to
the objects the victors have in mind.
They have in mind the matter, not
only, but a heart also. Their avow-
ed and concerted purpose is to sat-
isfy and protect the weak as we'll as
to accord their just rights to the
strong.
''The human temper and intention
of the victorious governments has al
ready been manifested in a very prac-
teal way. Their representatives in
the supreme war council at Versailles
have by unanimous resolution assur-
ed the peoples of the Central En-
pires that everything that is possible
in the circumstance will be done to
supply them with food and relieve
the distressing want that is in so
many places threatening their very
lives: and steps are to be taken i'm
mediately to organize these efforts at
relief in the same systematic manner
that they were organized in the case
of Belgium: BY the use of the idle
tonnage of the Central Empires, It
ought presently to be possible to lift
the fear Of utter misery from their
oppressed populations and set their