Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-11-15
ARM|ST|CE TERMS
SIGNED BY GERMANY
HUNS HELPLESS ON LAND AND
SEA AS RESULT OF ACCEPT.
ANcE OF TERMS.
Must Immediately Evacuate French
and Belgian Territory or Become
Prisoners Of War-AIi Of Will
sons Terms Accepted.

Woshington.--The terms Of the arm
istice with Germany were read to con-
gress by President Wilson Monday
afternoon.
Assembled In the hall OF the house,
where nineteen months ago senators
and representatives heard the presi-
dent ask for the declaration Of war,
they on Monday heard him speak the
words which herald the coming OF
| peace.
The strictly military terms Of the
arnistice are embraced in eleven
specifications which include the
evacuation of all invaded territories,
the withdrawal of the German troops
from the left bank of the Rhine and
the surrender of all supplies of war.
The terms also provide for the
abandonment by Germany of the
treaties Of Bucharest and Brest-
| Liiovsk
| The naval terms provide for the sur
render of 160 submarines, 80 destroy
ers q battle cruisers. 10 battleships. 8
| light cruisers. and other miscellaneous
| ships
All allied vessels in German hands
| are to be surrendered and Germany il
7 to notify neutrals that they are free
! to trade on the seas with the allied
| countries.
Among the financial terms included
are restitution for damage done by
| the German armies restitution of the
cash taken from the national bank of
Belgium and return of gold taken
| from Russia and Rumania.
| The military terms include the sur
render of 5000 guns, half field and half
light artillery; 10000 machine guns,
5000 flame thrOwers and 1000 air.
planes.
| The surrender of 5000 locomotives.
$4,000 wagons. 10000 motor lorries,
the railways of AlsaceLorraine for
use by the allies and stores of coal
and iron also are included.
The immediate repatriation of all al
lied and American prisoners without
reciprocal action by the allies also Is
included.
In connection with the evacuation of
the left bank of the Rhine 1t Is pro-
vided that the allies shall hold the
crossings of the river ut COblentz, Co
logne and Mayence, together with
bridgeheads in n thirty-kllometer
| radius.
| German troops are to retire at once
from any territory held by Russia. Ru-
mania and Turkey before the war.
! The right bank of the Rhineland,
that occupied by the allies, is to be-
| come Il neutral zone and the bank held
| by the Germans is to be evacuated
In nineteen days. The armistice Is
for thirty days, but the president spoke
of the war as coming to an end"
The allied forces are to have access
to the evacuated territory, either
| through Dantzig or by the river Wis
| tula The unconditional equalization
| of all German forces in East Africa
| within one month Is provided.
Deserted by her allies, Germany, on
! her knees, is accepting terms of capt.
| tulation which amount virtually to alb
ject surrender. Except for actual hos
| tile military invasion. the once great
European power, whose monarch's am
! bition was to dominate over all, Is In
| complete defeat.
Beaten on the field of battle, the
| edict of the allied chief command Is
| that the German armies shn!l retire in
| to their own homeland from all invad-
! ed territory. Impotent rs the German
/ hal Ian, A N
be the German fleet Colonies are lost.
and the hand that sought To reach out
and attain addition II territory Is with
cred by the ruling of the supreme war
council mt Versailles.
Reparation and restitution in fact
/ full compensation of all kinds, Is to be
made by Germany for all the disaster
that has followed her armies and
those of her allies throughout the
world war
! The handwriting was on the wall for
Germany. Her troops had fought val
iantly throughout the more than four
years of warfare But what had been
considered In Germany as an invincible
army was beaten In feats of arms by
the allied powers Even before Ger
many's allies deserted her, the strength
of the entente allies had become APP
parent. Unprepared, they had resist
| ed for more than three years the as
| saults of an enemy who had been pre-
pairing for combat since the Franco
Prussian war
| Tie hostlhties ended on the eleventh
hour of the eleventh day of the elev-
enth month of 1913.