The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-11-05

which is being made fast that newspapers can hardly
keep up with it
The sweet singer Of Israel wrote the fifteenth
of his Seventh psalm:
He made pitt and disssd it, and is fallen into the ditch
VIII he
No digger ever worked more industriously than EN-
porer Charles OF Austria No poentate
pletey ditched than he by the of the armisce
which his representatives in such hurry to sign that
they got ink all over their fingers.
In modest apartment in Paris, rented by a plain
American citizen Colonel House. the representatives of the
allied nations received word that the conditions which they
had imposed the price Of peace negotiations had been
accepted by the Austro Hungarian authorities and that
so far as that particular nation concerned fighting
finished.
And what excellent terms they are for the purpose of
making the victory over Germany overwhelming.
By the provisions of the armstice the allies to
have possession and of every military road and rail
road in Austria; all Austrans to be withdrawn from
German forces and all German soldiers in Austria
must be either expelled or interned
you will look at a map of Austria and Germany
you viii what this means in providing way for at
tack from the south the Kaiser and his advisers decide
to fight it out to the bitter end.
Germany has not provided for this attack
With Austria her ally there was no nee6 OF great
Notifications her southern border need Of prepare
tions for defenses against an invading army.
And is too late and she is being kept too busy
her western front to spare either guns ammu
ton for her threatened frontier.
The most interesting feature of the terms of the Aus
tan document is that they give good basis for judgment
as to the terms of the German armsce provisions which
the cables say have been decided upon In that same little
apartment in Paris.
If the reasoning is correct that the terms offered Ger
many will be drastic the provisions promptly
" accepted by Austria then may Judge that they will
require that the German army be withdrawn to at least
the bank of the Rhine leaving Belgium and north
France rid of the hordes which have invested and in
tested that territory for four years
Austria has been required to give up military equip
ment of all kinds including coal and the attitude
toward Germany will the surrendering of all
teria not only in foreign territory occupied by her
troops but also that which has been massed along the Ger
man frontier
The coal and iron stores of Asace Lorraine would be
taken matter of course.
As to the German navy which England has kept safely
bottled up for the whole period of the war the allied de-
mands are likely to be especially stringent probably even
drastic than in the of Austria because of the
greater number of the Kaiser ships and the greater
menace they offer to a continued world peace.
The occupation by allied forces of Helgoland, the
great German naval base may very well be part Of the
demands applicable the forces of the Kaiser and
the requirement for the turning over of all submarine
craft is looked upon as a certainty.
The Kaiser sees all this. He reads the immediate
future with keen eye and he his people deserving
him, his war cabinet demanding his abdicatOn his one
time supporters turning their backs him and his
gram he recites from David's thirty eighth psalm:
My painted, my strength
Ny friends stand aIOOf ard knsmen
They life lay
4" ready halt me O.,
And in the little apartment in Paris where House and
Cemenceau and Lloyd George sit down together the spirit
Of the conferences expressed in the tenth of
thirty seventh of David's psalms:
For yet a little while, the wicked yea
thou shalt diligently consider his
Today in this country nation is to voice in votes its
opinion Of the whose wisdom and patience statesman
ship and influence has been most potent in bringing about
the downfall of the Teuton alliance.
How great and wise proceeding it would be were
ALL the voters today cast their ballots make the
Endorsement of the President and his Administration com
pete and unanimous closing the polls without dissenting
having been registered thus saying enemies and
allies alike 1--WE in support of Pres