Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-05
UNCONDITIONAL SUR
RENDER IS ONLY TERMS
ALLIES HAVE FOR HUNS
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| lin civil government claims absolute
! authority over the army
! The Versailles conferees evidently
| did not reach final draft of the ar
mistice terms until late today Just
| before G p. m. it was stated at the
state department the work had not
been completed An hour later word
went out from the department that an
important statement would be forth
coming at . p m.
Lessons From Austria.
An attempt to apply the lessons of
the Austrian armistice to Germany's
situation brings out several points
upon which military men based their
forecast of the German terms. For
one thing, it is regarded as certain
hat complete evacuation of Alsace-
Lorraine will be insisted upon as well
as the occupation Of the Rhine fort
resses by allied garrisons. Surrender
of the German submarines and a SUBJ
stantial part of the high seas fleet and
the occupation CT land defenses that
protect German naval bases also is
implied
So far as the German army is con-
cerned, it must go back into Germany
probably without the whole vast me-
ohanism of war whiGh it carried into
France and Belgium. All the big
guns, tanks, and aircraft under the
Austrian precedent, would he con-
centrated and left under the direct
control of the allied and American
armies. 1t was pointed out, however,
that since Germany is the last of the
central powers, when she Surrenders,
there will be no need to provide for
the employment of her military
equipment by Marshal Noch. There
will be no one left against whom to
turn the guns. The terms for Ger
many, therefore, probably will show
that variation from the Austrian con-
ditions.
One feature Of the Austrian surren.
der conditions which ts thought here
to have been duplicated in the Ger
man terms, is the entrusting to Mar
shall Foch Of the carrying out of the
program of rehabilitation and dis
Political Questions Next.
Attention already is being given
here to the next phase after Germany
ceases fighting. Officials have not
lost sight of the fact that armistices
are only stepping stones to the perm
anent settlement of all the issues of
the war. Political questions, bound !
aries, even commercial rights and
privileges all remain 20 he defined.
Both in the United States and in the
allied countries it is said the necessity
is recognized of setting in motion the
wheels of peace time industry ut the
earliest possible moment in order to
afford employment and support to
the millions of discharged soldiers
This Is expected to hasten the peace
conference once the Germans sur
render 1t is recalled that whereas
the armistice which stopped the
Spanish American war was signed in
August l., 1898, it provided in terms
for meeting of the peace plenipo-
tentiaries in Paris before October r,
following. The purpose was to as
semble the Gonferees at the earliest
practical moment.
Probably the same purpose will gov
ern in the present instance, allowing
only sufficient time to eapse to carry
out the conditions looking TO the de-
mobilization of the central powers
armiesi assembly and control of mill
tary supplies and establishments OF
garrisons
The entente allies and America ex-
pect to go into the conference only
after they have reached a perfect I'M
derstandlng among themselves. They
will lay down these terms and while
they may choose to permit the latter
20 make arguments ami pleas in
abatement the result in the end must
he what the victors choose to make it,
Deprived of any power Of resist
ance, it is pointed out, the Teutons
will be obliged to submit, even though
they might refuse to sign treaties, in
which case the military occupation of
their countries by the allies might |
continue indefinfteiy