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New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
Gerrnany's Surrender

Germany is out Of the war Her sur
render is complete. Her defeat has been
so overwhelming that she has neither
physical vigor nor moral stamina left
10 question the verdict The good old
Gott Of the Hohenzollerns has deserted
her. And her people, in the bitterness
of disillusionment, have cast into outer
darkness the Hohenzollerns and their
barbarcus tribal divinity.
The terms Of the armistice imposed
by Foch leave nothing to be desired.
Nleysare severe and sweeping. They
reduee Germany to impotence, But
their harshness only family measures
the cnornity of Germany's offending
Germany entered the war with the cold
malevolence Of the bravado seeking his
victims. She began it with an act of
perhdy-the violation Of Belgian neu-
crality. She set the world abla2e in a
quarrel not her own. She fought ac-
cording to the code Of the savage She
enCed the battle in fear and trembling.
While her armies were still on enemy
SOIL she subscribed to a peace as hu-
initiating as that of Tilsit It was a
moral debacle, even more than mill
tary one. IL was the case Of a Grim
NAL accepting in advance sentence
fhich will stand as everlastingly iusti-
ned at the bar of history.
Germany surrenders outright 5000
guns. $4,000 machine guns and 1000
airplanes-the best part Of her present
military equipment. She delivers over
her navy and merchant marine, part of
1t TO go at once into the hands of the
Allies, the rest to be dsmantled and
interned under guard She evacuates
all invaded territory ON the East and
West fronts. She also abandons Alsace
Lorraine and all German provinces on
the west barl; of the Rhine. Until peace
IS concluded the Allied armies are to
remain in Western Germany and Prus
sia is to be cut off from the great indus
trial districts Of the Rhineland. which
have furnished her with the bulk Of
her military supplies. In a military
way the Prussia Of to-day becomes rela-
lively as powerlesa as was the Prussia
Of Frederick William III after Auer-
stadt and Jena
The Allied armies will take possession
Of the three great German military
bases on the west banl; Of the Rhine
Cologne, Coblenz and Mainz. They arc
to have bridgeheads opposite these
cities, each with radius of twenty
miles. Moreover, the east bank of the
Rhine, to depth of about twenty y-seven
miles on the lover strean, and of about
twenty miles on the upper stream, is TO
be made neutral zone In this neutral
zone will lie the great manufacturing
district Of Dusseldorf, Essen, Eberfeld
and Barmen. Further south the neutral
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

Albert Ballin, one Of the creators of
Germany's mercantile marine, died two
days before the public announcement of
the armistce terms under which that
marine becomes, practically in it's en-
tirety. pledged security for the dis
charge of Germany's sea-warfare debts
to the Allied nations and neutrals. Herr
Balm foresaw this calamity. A wear
or two ago he sacrificed the good will of
the kaiser--his patron and one of the
largest stockholders in the Hamburg
American company-by arguing that
only peace Of concession could save
German overseas commerce. His worst
Tears are now realized. Happily, he died
before the death sentence on the great
enterprises Of which he was the guiding
spirit was formally executed.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

wv TITH the signing of the armistice
wv terms the third Of the great
wars in the period which is des-
ignated as Modern History comes to an
end. With the struggles of the Refor
nation ana the wars OF the French Rev
outicn and the Napoleonic era this
World War must hereafter be reckoned.
Like the two preceding convulsions, it
was struggle against tyranny which
has terminated in the triumph of the
forces Of liberalism and progress.
In the wars Of the Reformation man
kind won religious freedom. In the up
heaval Of the French Revolution the
civil liberties Of men We're established
In the present conflict the rights of peo-
pies. large and small, to live their own
lives, to preserve their own ideas, to fol-
low their own destinies, have been vindi-
Gated.
The German said in his heart There
is no God but the god of violence. There
is no law but the law of the sword
There is no people but the German peo-
pie, who because they are strong shall
rule the world.'
AS consequence for more than four
years mankind has fought. Asia, Africa
and Europe have been the scenes of
gigantic struggles while America has
sent her millions to q foreign field to
fight for American ideals and American
liberties. Millions Of men have died, cities
have been wrecked, provinces ravaged: :
since the other barbarians burst in upon
the Roman Empire and scattered its
treasures, wrecked its temples and de-
stroyed its civilization. the earth has
seen no such period of devastation and
ruin. To-day the pathway OF German
armies in Europe can be traced by the
smoking ruins CT recent fires and the
cold ashes Of towns dead these four wears
Unlike the armies of the French Revo-
luton the Germans have brought moth
ing but the sterile doctrine of force to
the regions they temporarily overran.
They have enslaved the people, wasted
the fields, wrecked the monuments No
consideration oa humanity. Of interna-
tional law. of what we once called Chris
tian sympathy, has tempered their vio-
lence or moderated their barbarity. In
all that they have done for four long
years they have shown only one spirit
We call them Huns, not in anger, not
in passion-neithcr anger nor passion
has place now-but because no other
name expresses the ideals which they
have disclosed
And after more than four years of
effort uncrganlyed civilization has CON
quered organized barbarism. The citi-
zens of free nations had to choose be-
tween being slaves and becoming SOL
diers. They have become not merely sol
dicrs, but victorious soldiers. To mere
force they have opposed the invinc;ble
spirit Of force controlled and mpelled
by justice, by the love of liberty and
the respect for humanity. Long para
lyzed by lack of preparation and weak
ness of organization, the men of the free
nations have in the end conquered
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

There shall be glory enough for all.
Let US not forget one whose undeserved
humiliation would have consumed any
heart less courageous. The news of the
last few days must have been both bit
ter and sweet to General Leonard Wood.
and tardy, also, for Kansas training
camp is not the most accessible place in
the world. Our compliments to the man
who emotionally prepared this unpre-
pared country, who gave US Plattsburg,
who saw the war beforetime and who.
when we had got into it. visualized it's
proportions truly and was lynched for
casting the truth upon unready ears.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

zone will stretch as far east as Frank
fort-on-the-M Main. A great part Of Hesse-
Darmstadt. practically all Of Baden and
nearly all Of Rhenish Bavaria will be
included in the occupied and neutral
zones.
The fulhlnent Of the requirements Of
the armistice will impose an enormous
task on the German military admins
tration. The German War Office will
have to work day and night for the next
nineteen days in order to evacuate the
territory, East front and West front, in
cluded in the Allied terms; 70 accom-
plish the delivery Of guns. munitions,
supplies, warships and merchant ships;
the return Of prisoners and the repatria-
ton of the civilian inhabitants Of France,
Belgium and Alsace Lorraine, and the
restoration Of the gold stocks stolen from
Belgium and Russia. Possibly the term
OF fulfilment will have to be extended.
1t certainly will have to be if the new
revolutionary government fails to func-
ton smoothly.
Field Marshal Hindenburg has Loyalty
accepted the responsibility Of executing
the conditions subscribed to by the Ger
man High Command under orders from
Berlin lie has asked the Socialist ad-
ninistration to send representatives to
Grand Headquarters to facilitate evacu-
alton and transfers Of military booty.
He has thereby exhibited tirmness Of
character strikingly lacking in his late
associate. First Quartermaster General
Ludendorhf. Ludendorff has been in a
way an understudy Of the Kaiser-arro-
giant, petulant and pitifully unheroic in
defeat
Ludendorff vas the main author Of
the great offensive Of 1918. whose fail
ure brought on the German collapse. He
apparently overruled Hindenburg. who
preferred the saner policy of a continued
defensive on the West front. Having
gambled and lost, Ludendorff funked.
He was without the mental and moral
equipment of the true soldier. He skunk
away from the scene of defeat by re-
signing, just as the Kaiser skunk away
from it after abdicating.
r. Hindenburg at least had the grace to
stay behind with his beaten armies. He
was willing to surrender his sword when
destiny compelled him to do so. 1t is
not much to say of any one that he stood
out in soldierly virtues among the Ger
man generals Of the Great War. But
Hlndenburg's readiness to face the con-
sequences Of Monumental disaster-not
OF his making-must be put down to his
credit as man and an officer. He has
proven himself much the less ignoble
partner CT the once semi-deified Hinden-
burg -Ludcndorff firm.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
Viistas
We enter a new time

We enter new time.
On this threshold it is diverting to
speculate on what human revisions will
take place. 1t will be a time of new
prophets, new fevers, new devotions and
new skepticisms. After all, change is a
slow and tedious process in the main;
1t is an engrossing and engulfing object
OF interest and attention in particular
Man is preoccupied by what at the
moment he deems the considerable spa-
tiallty of it, but in the end his ac
complishments are few, over thousands
OF years; they are localized and made
measurable by only few great leaps
in time.
The human flavor will pervade all
these affairs, and that will be consola-
tory. The tremendous spectacle never
lags. The color burns with greater con-
centration at times; it does not ever
grow cold or pallid. There will be
sweats and passions, angers and i'm
notation, cynicism, revolt, generosity
and surrender. Old names will die {:
new names will he born.
But the essences will remain the same.
The innate and inexpungable urgency
toward realization will continue it's tes-
tlmony to what is moro than mortal in
man.
The stars in their illimit2ble distances
will not come nearer. But man by his
own vision will ever seem to be lifting
himself toward them
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
Read Ads. Then Wed

,Fro,e Tae Cambridge fN.l c''Te''' d
The bride was beautifully gown
draped tulle over white charineuse ~.
with pearls and carried shower .any
of Killarney roses. grown in the s'l s',;.al
garden, The groom wore the coh''@d .;.d
black with stand-up collar and es'.s .r,,
pocket full of Little Toms. lie 'a':s .,,sn
the popular BLACK Cat" brand "
inside pair OF Douglas shoes
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
The End
(Copyright, 1918, Nec York.Tri5uuc 1,sc.)
By Frank II. Sirnonds

The results of this war viii be esti-
mated by those who come centuries
hence and see what is hidden from the
contemporary eye. We only know that
we have escaped from Il bitter menace;
the horror Of the German threat is still
over us. The agony imposed b. the
Teuton!c race upon all other races for
these years is still in our minds and
our hearts. We have been delivered, but
even in the hour of deliverance the mag
nitude Of the curse which overhung us
remains.
Yet no defeat in all human history
was more complete than the present
and never was a faith in ultimate ius-
tee more completely vindicated. The
German began his war with every ad-
vantage that long preparation. skilful
leadership, infinite organization could be-
stow. He had the weapons, the machin-
cry; he was halted by no regard for laws
human or divine. He had power and un-
limited Willingness to employ power. He
has employed it for four long years, but
in the end he has failed and it is his
machine which is falling into ruin. his
nation which is sinking into chaos. Bel
gum, Serbia, Rumania, the little states
he abolished. have returned to the sun
light Ct the world. Only the Germans
allies have been ruined, ONLY his own
people have come to the brink Of utter
chaos
And IN four years all his armies have
been beaten and his generals mastered.
all his preparations surpassed. all his
machinery distanced His Kultur has
been exposed as the mere folly of tie
brute, poWerless when intelligence should
be aroused, armed and organized.
The German has been beaten on the
battlefield, and with defeat his whole
doctrine disappears. No preparation of
barbarism, however scientific. can con-
quer civilization; no chains of tyranny.
however heavy, can permanently fetter
freedom. The sword in the hand of the
brute may long prevail, but it falls from
hand struck helpless in the end We
have been liberated from the German
nightmare; new tyrannies may come.
bringing new doctrines of slavery. bat
those whose task it is to destroy them
will be heartened and fortified hv the
history of our own time.
Millions Of men and women are TODAY
rising to liberty amid the ruins of the
Teutonic world empire The evil tradi-
ton of the absolute monarch is finally
relegated to the past. The triumphs
OF the French Revolution, lost for the
moment in the reactions of 1915 and
l84S, have been proclaimed anew. The
German would have made us German
as condition to permitting us freedom,
but henceforth he can only be German
in free world. The last stronghold
of the infinitely evil gospel of human
inequality, of the superior race" of
the privileged class. has been stormed.
"A red flag is to-day flying from the
ramparts of the last and inner citadel of
tyranny. Marathon and valmy now
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
Work fortheA.PL

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The inclosed communication sr's
the chief of the bureau Of investigates
Department OF Justice, is brought TO y's'
attention for two reasons. It's pubes'Ha
will be of material assistance to the s"S
of the league. The thought expressd u
the third paragraph is worthy OF edls'Fa
comment.
American Protective League, Commits
Public Information.
B. PAGE. Chairnsa
New York. Nov. 9. 1918
Enclosure
E. II. Rushmore. Esq, 80 Nassau si's'7
New York, n. Y.
Dear Sir: The need for "
American Protective League is as great ~
as it has been in the past, and ! an 'F
tirely satisfied that the need for 'nis -.
ganization will continue for some tiins :
come entirely without regard 70 the p'ss
ress OF the peace negotiations iae ~
mendous machines which have been 0'ssr
lied by the government for the pr0ses's',,
of this war cannot be stopped abruptly =.
must continue to operate FOR man; n0-'''
under any circumstances.
The necessity and importance 'oF =.
tectine from espionsge the arm! =.
property of the United States VIII y.
tinue for some time to come. and the ~.
for the vigorous enforcement Of see''ss
II and II OF the selectiye service aes I,
for watchtulness for enemy propsganos =
financial activity Will probably incressS
To achieve the greatest success :.
sential that every war activity be hsf, ..
its highest pitch at this time UNI"
full fruits of the efforts of our srm's, :.
those Of our allies are no- only in sisA'
actually realized.
! am sure tina. the New lorK on~ 4,
Will continue to play its par; un'" :.
department is willing 10 say tha' -,
no further need for its greatest cnces's
A. B. BIELAsKi, chi'i
Washington, Nov. 2. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
Free Advertisement
fro1L Punchl

Fro7L Punch}
Well known war lord, disengaged at pres
ent' Is open to undertake the training Of
amateur conGuerors. Expert tuition: wars
declared on the slightest provocation.
Countries waited on daily. Weakened
monarchs taken in and done for. No order
TOO small; no order too large (Foch and
ha'g excepted Wire terms and bring own
a-my.- Wilhelm. Potsdam.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

Always theatrical; never heroic What
a. picture he makes-a fugitive Caesar in
Holland. waiting in railroad carriage
for the Dutch to say what they will do
with their unlimited guest! And with
his own precious skin he brought his
own regal food. He, too, was a coward.
All the Huns are.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
We WPlaythe Tune
the Editor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Perhaps you may like to reprint the
inclosed lines, by a Scotch lady, which ap-
peared in "The London Times" in the
autumn OF 1914. I believe them to be
parody Of an old jingle. do not, however,
know the original. Their grim steadfast-
ness has been an anchor to me in many
dark times through the last four years, and
they were never more pertinent than now,
when We approach the end of the tragedy.
II. P. LOEW.
Forest Hills n. Y, Nov. 10, 1918.
Dance, since you're dancing, William,
Dance up and doun;
Set 20 your partners, William,
IreW play the tune.
See, make bow to Paris,
Here's Antwerp toun,
OF to the Gulf of Riga,
Back to Ne!dun-~
Aye, but Pm thinkin', laddic,
Yell use your shoon!
Dance, since you're dancing, William,
Dance up and doun;
Set to your partners, William,
Ne'U play the tune.
What, wad ye stop the pipers?
Nay, It's over soon.
Dance, since you're dancing. William.
Dance, ye puir loon!
Dance till you're dizzy William.
Dance till you're swoon.
Dance till you're dead, my laddie--
lTcW play the tune!
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
Old Stuff
10 the Editor Of The Tribuno
r p"o''Slsed il TIE Tri6une, JaAuary
94, 1891


Sir: Upon reading your article on IN. i,-
Nuenza 100 years ago in last Sundays
tribune it occurred to ME that you MIGHT
be interested in the copy of an old letter
have lately found in looking over some
1amlly papers Of the Townsends. Of Lonr
island Il. Coles
Oyster Bay, L. l., Jan. 81, 1890.
Copy OF a letter from John Lloyd to his
uncle, Henry Lloyd, in London. dated a.
Queens Village, now Lloyd's Neck. Lone.
Island, May 90, 1900
IL wish I could inform YOU that at this
time the influenza was known onlv hv IFS
name. When I wrote last it was general
rs tar as could learn, throughout Amer.
lea, and from that time to about the last
or March or some time in April it was
no more heard of when it attacked persons
OF all ages and has proved in a great num-
Der OF instances mortal-we are told very
much so in New York, also in sundry towns
IN Connecticut. By letter from fr;end
OF mine in Danbury 7 am informed that
lately, in the town Of Litchfeld. six persona
were buried at the same time. who had
died OF this alarming and distressing sick
ness. At Jericho, in this island, in the
family Of DR.. James Townsend, within about
a fortnight, have died three daughters and
d son, himself now despaired of by his
Physicians His death viii! be general
loss, being greatly esteemed in his pro-
fession.'
NEStracts from "Griffith's Annals Of Bal
ti.uore," published in 1920.
oil
there ragged throughout the country. COM
menc'ng at the South, an epidemic called
influenza. The summer of the former wear
had been uncommonly warm, the mean
temperature at Philadelphia for Septem-
Der being IS and for October 63, with great
drouth, and that, like the yellow fever
which followed it, was contagious in the
atmosphere. 1t was called by some an
epidemic putrid cold, and was said to be
produced by sudden vegetable putrafaction. :"
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

that bigger victory for human freedom
now unfolding without which the war
could never have justified itself to
America
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

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& H.s .fo.s Cooperation Osden Reid. President: u
s.es Hosers President: Richard H. Lee Secretary
=. g. suier Tcssu-e- Address. Trbun' bulcia., Lon
N,ssau s:r.e.. New YORK. Telephone. Bsramah oooV'
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New-York tribune., 1918-11-12
We Win

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SUBSCRIPTION RArEs-Ry Nail. including post.le
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Germany's greatest work OF art is that
final 'bust" of the Kaiser.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-12

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Holland couldn't escape the horrors Of
var. Wilhelm and son are now there.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-01
EAST CALAIS

Mrs. Nina Taylor and Miss Edna Jack
man have bought of Cora Cristy tn,
place known as the Dutton place and are
moving to same.
Delbert Dwinell and daughter, Esther
were visitors in Montpelier Friday and
Saturday.
Nathan Brown of Montpelier is visit.
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. d. r
Brown.
Mrs. A. l.. Persons is entertaining the
Liberty measles.
Ed LaCount is moving his family into
the Bancroft house
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Burnham, Miss
Marian Leonard Wayne Burnham, Mrs.
Eta Burnham, Mrs. Maynard King. Mrs.
Allen Scott and Oscar Emery. were bust.
ness visitors in Barre and MONTPELIER
Saturday.
Mrs. Myrtle brennan is visiting a few
days in Montpelier with friends and rela-
tives.
Clarabell Brown of Montpelier sem.
mary spent the week end at her home.
There will be a patriotic meeting in
East Calais, in the church. on Friday
evening, when it is expected that MI.
Lowe of Montpelier and o. l.. Martin
of Plainfield will speak A special in
vitation is extended to farmers because
the meeting will be an appeal for the
Liberty loan.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-01
SOUTH CABOT

DR.. and Mrs. Watt of Danville were
guests at A. G. Cassady's Sunday.
Mrs. H. w. Bassett and daughter were
In Barre from Friday till Monday visit
Ing friends
Mrs. OrvilIe Smith of Danville was at
her fathers, L. 0. Houghton, Saturday
and Sunday.
Elsie Bove. went to Montpelier Mon
day to stay for a week with her brother.
&c. T. Scribner and family of Montpel-
Ter were in the place Sunday
Ray Peck of Cabot was the guest OF
Elmer Clark Sunday.
George Gee was in st. Johnsbury Sat
nrday on business.
C. N.'Plumley was in Montpelier and
Barre Monday.
Fred iNeedham was in Peacham Sun
iay with friends.
., L. NJ Putnam and two children visit
I'd in Lanesboro Sunday.
,Mertie Bemis of Marshfield visited at
Avon Halls Sunday.
Lizzie Drew returned Thursday from
Michigan, where she spent the winter
with her daughter.
Mrs. Frank Walbridge of Woodsville
n. H.. is visiting Mrs. S. +. HoughtoE
Tor a few days.
MARY Kelley of East Montpelier was
II her fathers over Saturday and Sun
aay,