The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-08
FOch Arranges for Foes
Delegates to BE Met at
Chimay-Guise Road.
EXPECTED AT 10 Z. Al.
Matthias Erzberger Heads
Mission. Other Members
Being Officers.
FARLEY PLACE A SECRET
Wireless From German Army
Headquarters Paves Way for
Plenipotentiarics.
FARLEY PLACE A SECRET.

PARIS, Nov. I'll p. M.-Germau
Grand Headquarters requested Allied
Grand Headquarters by wireless to
permit the passage Of the German del
egation for armistIcc negotiations
through the lines. The order was
given TO cease firing on this front at s
O'Clock In the afternoon 90 4. NJ. New
York time) until further orders.
The German wireless message ask
ing for m appointment to meet Mar
shal Foch says:
The German Government would
congratulate itself in the interests
of humanity IL the arrival Of the
German delegation on the Allies
front might bring about a provi-
slonal suspenaion\of hostilitleS.
A German wireless despatch re-
ceivcd November at / =. NJ. Snid.
German general headquarters to
the Allies general headquarters:
The German commander In CHEZ
to Marshal Foch The German
leave Spa to-day They will leave -.
here at noon and reach at , O'Clock
this afternoon the French ourposts
by the Chimay, Fourmies, La
Capclle ana Guisc rond. They will
he ten persons in all. headed by
Secretary of State Erzbergcr
Erxberger Heads Delegation.
The mission is headed by Matthias
Erzberger, Secretary OF State anG
head of the War Press D2uartment
and includes Gen. X. \. Won Winter
field, former Military Attnchc ut
Paris; Count Alfred von Oherndorr,
former Minister AZ Sofia; Gen. Won
Gruehcll and Naval Captain von
SalOw
Marsha, Foch, the allied CoiTtmande:
IN Chief, had notified the German
High Command that II the German ar
misticc delegation wishes to meet him
it should advance to the French lines
along the Chimay, FourmicS La Ca
pelle and Guise road.
y From the French outposts the pienl-
potentiaries will I've conducted to the
place decided upon for the interview
Tho name of this place is not given in
the official text of the note.
Foch's Note 10 Germans.
Marshal Foch's ncssas" reads az
follows:
To THE GERMAE HIGH CoA,MAsp
FROM MARSHAL FoCE: II the Ger
man plenipotentiaries wish to meet
Marshal FoCh to ask him for an ar
misticc they are 10 advance to tic
French outpusts by tho Chimay,
Fourmi"s, La Capeile ana Guise
road. orders have been given that
they are to be received ana cot.
dIctcG to the place fixed FOR til, .u
terview.
fThe route !ald OUT ny Marshal 'och
for the German euvUys through Ch!may
and La Capcllc to Guiss, passing Just TO
the uorfN"of IIirsUU, which l. shown on
the IGGp on page >. trayerses the re-
Eion In which the French made o. the
very same day tho" unprecedented gain
Of eight 10 ten miles on trout Of more
than forty miles.l
\ considerable crowd gathered
around the War Office to-day awaiting
news of the result Of Tho German ap
plication under rag Of truce for al
armistice, although it is generally be
iieved that several Gays will pass DC.
fore truce can be- arranged.
LoNpoN. Nov. THE British naval
representative At the armistice ncg0-
tiations will ne Sir Rosslyn Wemyss
First Sea Lord OF the Admiralty, it +,
officially announced.
AMRTERpAai Nov. :, - Chancellor
Maximiliau, says an official despatch
from Berlin, has issued an appeal 10
the German peop.c saying that IN or
der to make an end of the bloodshed
"a deputation has left for the front, ana
that "the negotiations will be seriously
endangered by disturbances and lach
Of discipline"