Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-31
ARM|ST|CE TERMS
!. EXPECTED N WEEK
Preliminary Conversations in
Paris Have Been
Concluded.
CONDITIONS SUGGESTED
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, October 31.-The prelim-
mary conversations which lately have
occupied the allied representatives in
Paris have been concluded and more
ming, according to reports reaching
official quarters here.
To take part in the discussions An
drew Bonar Law, chancellor of the
exchequer, went to France yesterday.
crossing the channel in an airplane,
as he had done. on a previous occa-
sion.
the allied representatives has not
been announced and, although it Is
stated from a reliable source, some
official declaration of, armistice terms
possibly may be made before the end
of the present week. nothing definite
ly is known about them.
Some commentators believe thaat
the deliberations will be protracted
beyond the time originally intended.
Unofficial reports and speculations
on the armistice terms continue to
occupy a prominent place in the
newspapers.
Foch's Terms Reach Berlin.
LONDON, October 81. - Marshal
Foch's armistice terms arrived in
Berlin Tuesday night, the Vossische-
Zeitung of Berlin says it learns. ac-
cording to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen.
No information had reached Wash
ington today through either official or
diplomatic channels to indicate that
the American and allied military
representatives in France had COM
nj fn@ H@ IL k
upon which Germany might be
granted an armistice. 1t was as
sumed that the report of the arrival
of Marshal Foch's terms at Berlin
Tuesday, referred to in a Copenhagen
dispatch quoting the Berlin Vossische
leitung. was based upon press dis
patches of Tuesday from London
purporting to outline what would be
demanded of Germany.
To Secure Guarantees.
Suggestions put forward by the
British delegates, the Daily Express
says in an editorial, probably will be
adopted with some notifications by
the rest of the allies. The proposals
were put forward, it adds, with the
definite idea of preventing Germany
from resuming hostilities when once
an armistice is granted and also Of
securing adequate guarantees for the
signing of a peace treaty based on
President Wilson's fourteen points.
Armistice Terms Suggested.
PARIS. October SIN an editorial
discussing armistice terms, LInfor-
nation suggests the following condi-
tions:
Observation-Disclosures of the Bos-
nOrJS and the D3r62ne11eS
"The occupation of enemy ports on
the Adriatic.
1.-The surrender of Austrian war
ships.
'"The right to use eAustro-Hungarian
railway lines.
1.-THE evacuation of A1sace-Lorraine
and territories wrongly occupied in
the east and west.
''The surrender Of arms, munitions
and submarines.
The occupation of fortresses and
bridges along the Rhine and of Lux
1.-The occupation of Kie1 and Ham
burg.
The removal of mines from terri
torial waters.
"The delivery. as a preliminary COM
pensation for damages, of part of
the enemy merchant marine. r
The cessation of manufacturing
for war purposes"
Would Seize Enemy Fleets.
Georges Boussenot. a member of the
naval committee of the chamber of
deputies, writing on the same subject
in the Journal proposes the seizure of
the enemy fleet by the entente, the
delivery of enemy submarines dis
armed to neutral countries or the en-
tente, the occupation of Cuxhaven,
Helgoland, Pola and Cattaro, and the
replacement of lost tonnage by enemy
tonnage.
PARIS, October 80. pm. (by the
Associated Press).-The heads of the
allied governments and Col. E. NJ.
House. special representative of the
United States government, with the
military and naval advisers of the
respective countries. continued their
informal meetings today.
\ Differences Of view, natural to the
of the interests involved.
have arisen, but under friendly exami-
nation they have largely disappeared.
Although some points in President
Wilson's declarations may require mora
complete definition, an entire agree
ment is in immediate prospect
The supreme war council will not
meet formally until this full UNDER
standing has been reached.