Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-08
Were Due to Meet Marshal
Foch at Eight or Ten O'Clock
Last Night for Their First
Conference,
FIRING CEASES AS
ENJOYS CROSS LINE
Assumed That Delegation Is
Empowered to Sign Terms,
but Matter May Be Referred
to Berlin as to Form.

/ Paris, Nov. HERMAN grand
headquarters tonight requested allied
grand headquarters T.. wireless to
permit the passage o. the German
= delegation for armlst.c negotiations
through the lines. The order was
! given to cease firing at the front at
o'clock in the afternoon until fur
ther orders. The German wireless
message asking for an appointment to
meet Marshal Foch says:
THE German government would
congratulate itself in the interests of
| humanity if the arrival of the German
delegation on the allies front might
Bring about n provisional suspension
of hoStilities.'
The message announced that the
German plenipotentiaries would ar
rive at the French outposts on the
Chimay-Guse road on Thursday be
tween and o o'clock IN the evening.
The official Documents.
The documents published tonight
follow:
There was received the seventh Of
| November at 1890 a. m the follow
ling from the German high command
by order of the German government
to Marshal Eoch:
'Fhe German government, having
been informed through the president
of the United States that Marshal
Foch had received powers to receive
accredited represe natives of the Ger
man government and communicate 20
them conditions of an armistice, the
following plenipotentiaries have been
named by it:
Matthias Erzberger, General II.
X. A. Winterfeldt, Count Alfred Won
> n o NJ
Naval Captain Won Salow.
The plenipotentaries request
that they be informed by wireless of
the place where they can meet Mar
shall Foch. They will proceed by ap-
tomobile with subordinates of the
staff to the place thus appointed
"Orders were given to cease firing
on the front at 3 o'clock p. m. until
further orders.
"On November ! at 1:25 a m. MAJ
shat FoCh sent the following to the
German command:
If the German plenip ipotentlries
, dcs ire to meet Marshal F'och and ask
; him for an armistice they will present.
, themselves to the French outposts BY
the Chimay- -Fourmies-La Capelle-
, Guise road. orders have been given
G to receive them and conduct them to
- the gnOt 1lSeu 1Dl tDe meeting
"a German wireless dispatch re-
G ceived November at 1 y. IN. said:
"'German general headquarters to
the allied general headquarters: The
a German commander-in-c chief to Mar
h shal Foch: The German plenipo-
a tentiaries) for an armistice leave Spa
: today They will leave here at moor
: and reach at o'clock this afternoon
A the French outposts by the Chimay
a Fourmies, La Chapelle and Guist
road. There will be ten persons il
If all, headed by Secretary of STATE
IS Erzeberger.'
70 Met at Night.
8 Washington. Nov. Just before
10 midnight the American government
10 was Informed by cable from Pari
10 that the German armistice envoy
q had approached the French lines ant
70 were due to arrive for their meetin!
with Marshal Foch between s and /
n o'clock tonight, Paris time.
~ The statement was authorized a
No. the state department that no inform
a alton had been received of the sign
!. ing of armistice terms. or even of tn
"a actual arrival of the Germans within
the French lines.
on the question of whether tn
German delegation is empowered t,
act without communication from Ber
n lin. regardless of what demands ar
y made in the terms offered by Marsha
Foch, depends whether an immedi
ate cessation Of hostilities may be il
,e sight
g. Marshal Foch is fully empowered t
or act for the entente allies and Americ
as for the supreme war council at Yer
\ sailles already has laid down tn
a terms and no changes are to be tol
tn Grated. 1t has been assumed, base
ri on the usual practice of ne~otiation
4: in agreeing upon an armistice, tina
al the Germans also are fully er'powere
,g TO sign for their govarnmont
ly Nav Wat on Berlin.
II is regarded as possible that sine
the German delegates did not kno,
the terms of the armistice until the
met Marshal Foch. they might hav
Nj MANNED to await at least a perfume
" tory word from Berlin before closin
the negotiations. With military tele
qraDhs and wireless at their dispos;
ms, little time would be consumed in tn
"a case.
er- There is reason to believe that
IN, a despairing hone of retaining SON
,ut shadow of control over the future GO
lly ernment of Germany, no matter VIII.
sss sn form that may take, the kaiser ar
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