Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-10
ARMls1lCE FABLES
 ARt NEARING END
Believed Here That Abdica- ton of Kaiser Bill Will
 Hasten End

Washington, Nov. 9.-The tre- mendous news from Germany that the Kaiser had decided to abdicate was heard in Washington with scarcely more than ripple of interest.
 Everywhere the question was ask ed "has the armistice been signed?" So far as the American government knew late tonight it had not been signed, and the prevailing belief was that the German answer to Marshal Foch not be expected before tomor- row.
 To members of the government and diplomats who few short weeks ago would have been amazed and gratified beyond belief, the announcement that William II had bowed before the will of the world was accepted as a thing to be expected. It was accepted as one of the acts in the great tragedy surprisingly now only, perhaps be- cause it was enacted before instead of after the equalization of the war machine about to be broken to pieces.
 Amsterdam, Nov. 9.-The German courier bearing Marshal Foch's. armis- tice terms had some difficulty in crossing the German lines. He was led to believe through the blowing up of an ammunition dump with series of explosions that the Germans had
 not ceased firing, but he was in- formed of the cause of the explosion bv wireless and instructed to pass the German lines without delay. The terms are expected to reach Berlin
 momentarily.
 London, Nov. 9. British Wireless Service. .)-The British press bureau issued the following announcement this afternoon:
 Owing to the heavy German bar
 rage and machine gun fire on the battle front the passage of the cour- fer from Marshal Foch's headquarters to Spa was so delayed that he is not expected to reach German headquar-
 ters until this afternoon. Consequent ly it is unlikely that any decision in regard to the armistice will be reach ed today"
 When the French command receiv- ed the German headquarterh wireless
 dispatch announcing the start of the armistice delegation, the delegates
 were directed to present themselves
 between 8 10 o'clock Thursday night at crtain point on La Capelle road ! The cross road was clearly marked by the beams of several searchlight. At the same time the order was given in the French lines that hostilities
 should be suspended over distance of several miles in the region of the meeting place.
 The three automobiles bearing the German delegates arrived at the cross roads at 9:15 p. m. They were preceded by a group of German pion- eers charged with making the shell damaged road passable. The German delegates were received by officers These officers got into the automo- piles, and with the window curtains drawn, proceeded to the Chateau Francfort, in Compiegne forest, be- i longing to the Marquis De L'Aigle. Owing to the lateness, of the hour, the delegates were conducted to the apartments assigned them where they took refreshments. The next morning they again entered the automobiles and were taken to the station at Reth-
 ondes, where they found Marshal Foch in a special train.
 There was no statement from White House or from other government sources President Wilson. whose de- mand "authocracy must go," has been blazoned upon every response to the
 German pleas for peace, was waiting.
 He wanted to know who follows the , Kaiser, and wanted something more than decree bv Prince Maxfmilian,
 sent broadcast by. wireless to prove that the Kaiser and his power actual ly have gone.
 The one thing that officials empha-
 sized was that whatever might hap pen within Germany at ths late date
 could make no difference in the mili-
 tary program of the allied and Ameri-
 con governments. There will be no modification of the surrender armis- tice terms which Marshal Foch has
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