Evening star., 1918-11-10
No Equivocation or Qualifica-
ton Permitted in Sweeping
Allied Terms.
NEITHER WILL HUNS
GET CHANCE TO PARLEY
Kaiser's Abdication Makes More
Certain Full Capitulation.
JUNKER SCHEMES REACT
Internal Conditions in Germany
Have Foced Militarists to Go
JUNKER SCHEMES REACT
Internal Conditions in Germany
Have Foced Militarists to Go
Against Wishes.
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.


ever the just cause of democ-
racy and international square
dealing have been placed in the
hands of Germany.
There is no equivocation or
qualification in what the allies
demand of the enemy in the way
of reparation for the devilish
deeds of the war-mad Hun.
There is no sign of temporizing
in the erection of safeguards
which forever shall remove the
menace of vaunted German
militarism.
The terms went forward to the
kaiser and his high military COM
mand and to
But Two Courses the purported
Left to Germany. trol,ed Govern
nent in Berlin, with refusal to dicker
or negotiate in any respect. Ger
many must accept or not accept.
There can be no middle course. And
the hour swiftly approaches when
defeat and the Illustration of her
rosedte dreams of world conquest, or
must elect to continue the struggle
from which she can never emerge at
any moment undefeated. and the re-
ported abdication of the kaiser makes it
dOubly certain there will be capitulation.
German plenipotentiaries advanced
through the French battle lines early
Friday morning, and were escorted to
Marshal Foch's headquarters. The
and approved during the week by all
allied representatives in Paris and
Versailles were handed to the Teu-
tons. They asked immediate sus-
pension of hostilities, but Marshal
Foch said no, and possibly emphat-
ically. The terms then were dis
patched back to the German general
headquarters for the approval of the
kaiser and his. military advisers or
their rejection.t The courier is ex-
pec1ed. as this is written, to return
to Marshal Foch's headquarters with
the fateful decision much before the
expiration of the time limit which
Marshal Foch has placed upon Ger
manys deliberations-11 o'clock Mon
day morning.
drafted by the representatives of the
allied governments the imposition of
these provisions will Immediately
place Germany without power to con-
break armistice conditions at later
date. If Germany elects to go on.
finding the terms too stringent, then
the allied armies, which have not
ceased their activities for a moment,
will keep hammering ton and on. over
enemy has been completely crushed
by the preponderant military power.
In Paris and London, as well as
Washington. there has been MT ch
to Germany's possible course. 1t gen.
orally has been believed that the
kaiser would be forced to capitulate
at once in order to preserve his
crumbling nation; that the disaffec-
tion of Austria, Bulgaria and Turkey
continue the war.
X X
If the hands of the militarists of
Germany have been forced and they
have been COM
People Force PEELED to enter
into armistice
Germanys Hand. atoms
of long-suffering peoples to further
bear the cross placed upon their
shoulders by the Hohenzollerns is
the chief cause. The apparent crum-
bling of the home front. inspired
chiefly by the keen realization that
Germany faces invasion and armies
cannot win ever. is responsible for the
dilemma in which the German gov
ernmeHt today finds itself. The peo-
pies have failed to respond to the po-
litical drugs so carefully compounded
and administered by officia1dom OF
Berlin. narcotics which heretofore have
Kept them subservient to junker whims-
On several occasions there have been
open demonstrations OF disapprova! OF
the German governments actions
Everywhere the people have become
imbued with the idea that the gov
ernment has tricked them. not only
in claims as to the start of the war.
hut many times during it's course.
however. the people did not dare to
generally voice their will or wishes
publicly, coupling with their demands
a change of affairs in Berlin They
constantly were subject to the sharp
CAD of pan-German interests which
have held all means of successfully
furnishing and crushing elements op-
posing it.
At various junctures the govern
ment has sought to stay the slowly
rising popular tide of disapproval
by promises of reform and by
tricklng the people into the be-
lief that they were fighting a de-
fensive war and not one based upon
principles of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. As
often the German government has
won its case. At least it has obtained
some assurance of continued support
from the home front. II never, how
ever. achieved its purpose of divid-
ing the allies. in any sense of the
word or hindering their combined ef-
fort to grind Germany and her un-
scrupulous principles into the dust.
But. Notwithstanding the fact that
the junkers have hung on in Berlin,
there has been slowly growing re-
sentiment against the methods Of the
nouncements that Germany was to be
der,ocratized and the suffering peo-
Piles were to decide their own fate
and future through the medium of
fair and square elective franchise
and representation in the govern
ment
When the German government fall
I'd in 1917 to put into actual effect
internal reform
Junkers Made measures, in
Blunder in 1917. .1ara,.'au stead Of merely ses;v
i1ation After the conclusion Of the
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