The Elbert County tribune., 1918-11-15
GERMANY IN CHAOS AS MUTlNY
SPREADS AND PEOPLE
DEMAND PEACE.
YANKSSMASH TO SEDAN
PEACE REPORT SETS NATION
WILD-DENiALS FAIL TO
CHECK JOY OF U. S.

wester,, Newspaper Union News Service.
London.-Two hundred thousand
prisoners were taken by the British on
the western front from Jan. to Nov.
5, inclusive, according to an official
announcement made in the House Of
Commons. In the same period the
French captured 100000, the Ameri-
cans $4,000 and the Belgians $4,000.
London, Nov. 10.-In a sweeping ad-
vance Saturday the British armies
captured Journal and Antoing, Field
Marshal Haig reports. The Second
British army is approaching Renaix,
which lies about twelve miles north
east OF Tournai. "On the whole Brit
ish front our troops are moving for
ward and the enemy Is retreating rap
idly before them" says Field Marshal
Haig in his report from headquarters.
With the American Forces on the
Meuse Front, Nov. 10, Sunday.-Gen-
eral Pershing's troops this afternoon
captured Stenay. on the east bank OF
the Meuse, Notwithstanding terrific
opposition.
London, Nov. 7.-Mutinous German
sailors at Kiel have seized the battle-
ship Kaiser and Schleswig- -Holstein
and refused to return to their duties
until a treaty of peace with the allies
is signed.
Washington, Nov. S.-No informa-
ton had come to waiting officials OF
the State and War Departments at 4
O'Clock this morning that the German
ENJOYS sent to meet Marshal Foch
had signed the armistice terms. At
that hour even their passage through
the French lines had not been re-
ported
| Publication of flat statement that
the Germans had signed the armistice
terms of Gen. Foch, sent the whole
United States into a delirious celebra-
tion Thursday The cablegram an
nouncing the settlement was carried
| by the United Press, which still holds
that 1t is correct, while the Associated
Press, the other of the two big news
services of the country. declares the
story false. basing its assertion upon
official statements that no such infor-
nation had reached Washington. Lon
don says the report is unfounded.
Paris tells of armistice developments
and reports fighting.
New York. = Sophisticated New
York became delirious with joy Thurs
day over the unfounded report that
Germany had agreed to armistice
terms which meant unconditional sur
render. The celebration seemed a
combination of Fourth of July. cleo
| tion night, New Year. eve, Thanksgiv-
ing day and Christmas.
London, Nov. deserted by all
her former allies her great military
machine in process of destruction by
onslaughts of the entente allied
armies; her dream of world domination
rudely dissipated, Germany begs for
cessation of hostilities notwithstand-
ing the hard terms she knows she
must face.
Forced to a realization of impend-
ing peril by the progress of the Brit
ish southeast of Valenciennes and the
French and Americans south of Sedan.
Germany's shattered armies are in
rapid retreat from the Belgian from
tier to the Aisne river. So rapid is
the retirement that it is very difficult
to determine the exact location of the
contending forces along this eighty
five miles of front.
Thousands more of Germans have
been taken prisoner on all the sectors