The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-11-15
FUCH GIVES IEUI5
8 DAYS TO ANSWER
PLEA FOR IMMEDIATE susPEh-
SION OF HosTiLiTlEs
Is DENIED
MESSAGE CARRIED TO KAISER
Hun Arnnistice Delegation Takes Pro
posals Back TO German Great Head
uuarters.-America and Allies
Confidently Await Outcome

Washington. Nov. 9.-The question
OF whether Germany will surrender
Immediately or wait to be crushed be-
tween the advancing allied and Amer
lean armies on the west front and reVo-
mfion at home, rests today with an
extraordinary conference at German
great headquarters. Marshal Foch has
given until IL O'Clock Monday morn
ing. Paris time, for the answer.
AT the conference the kaiser is re-
ported to be, perhaps. appearing for
the last time as supreme war lord and
according to German wireless reports.
defying the civilians who are seeking
through submission to the inevitable
to save something out Of the wreck Of
an empire. A courier was due some
time last night with the text of the
American and allied armistice terms.
handed to the German ENJOYS behind
the allied lines yesterday morning by
General Foch. He carried the word
sent ahead by wireless. that the allied
commander-in-chiefh had refused pro
visional cessation Of hOstillties and
demanded an answer within T. hours.
Lansing 10 Advised.
The American government was adj
vlsed from Paris late yesterday of the
reception of the Germans by Marshal
Foch at 10: 30 o'clock In the morning,
and Its result. Secretary Lansing i'm
mediately made hte news public at the
state department. Later unofficial In
formation Of the movements of the
German courier and knowledge of the
difficult roads over which he must
travel for 100 miles after leaving the
allied lines led to the conclusion that
he could not get back with reply be-
fore today even IL not kept waiting
for decision.
America 10 Confident.
In the meantime the the result is
awaited here with entire confidence
and calm. American and allied mill
tary men say the end must come
quickly one way or the other; that IL
the Germans are unable to agree
among themselves an daccept the al
lied terms, the problem will be set
tied for them with no great delay.
Some believe that acceptance is as
snred and will be FASTENED now that a
final effort to bubble with hostilities
stopped Is ended. on the theory that
even the kaiser himself must realize
that unless peace Is made quickly
there will be no government In Ger
many to make 1t.
Revival In New York and elsewhere
yesterday OF the premature peace dem
onstrations started Thursday by the
false report OF the signing of the ar
nistice led President Wilson to direct
Secretary Lansing to announce that
as soon as any decision In regard to
the armistice was reached 1t would be
made public Immediately by the gov
eminent and that any statement that
news regarding this event was being
withheld was utterly false.
An interesting question was raised
by the statement In the report to the
American government on which see.
rotary Lansing based his statement
that the German envoys came with full
powers. Since the delegates did not
use full powers either to sign or re-
jeet the terms and instead referred
them to grand headquarters. 1t was
regarded here as certain that they
came with the hope Of ACCOMPLISHING
something more than the signature OF
an armistice. II was believed their
purpose WIS 10 inject matters which
can be considered only at the peace
conference.
II has been made clear. however.
and emphasized In official dispatches
from France that Marshal Foch's
powers were limited strictly to the
drastic military program prescribed by