The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-11-09
News of The World
&C. B. W.
SUPREME COUNCIL AT VERSAILLES
SUBMITS TERMS OF ARMISTICE
TO GERMANY
World Awaits Answer With
Deepest Interest

1t is the consensus OF general opinion that the
closing chapters in the present great world war
are being written. In rapid succession, Bull
garia, Turkey and Austria have surrendered,
and Germany, shaken and depressed by contin-
uous defeat, remains standing alone
However, Premier Clemenceau, Of France, has
issued a warning, in the Chamber of Deputies,
that peace may not be so near as some think.
4 naS given surprises before, and one
cannot be absolutely sure of the next move on
the international checkerboard until her reply
to General FOch, which the world is now await
ing with intense interest, has been received
Perhaps ere these lines pass into print, an
armistice will have been arranged and hostil-
tiles brought to an end That Germany will
yield to the conditions laid down by the entente
nations, however binding and onerous they may
be, scarcely any one doubts for a moment; to
refuse, apparently, would be national suicide
1t would mean the invasion Of her soil, not only
from the western front, but from the SOUTH
since Austria s fall
Germany s one remote chance of holding out
has been the organization Of the vast undevel-
oped resources Of Russia and under the present
rule of terrorism and lawlessness in that sorely
stricken country, this appears impossible In
short, it would appear that the world at last has
Germany in a corner in which it is either sur
render or stand fighting to the death in defense
of the fatherland and that intangible thing
which men call "hOnor'
Should the rulers of Germany decide upon the
latter course, the question arises How long
would the socialists and the toiling masses, the
Sufferings of which in the last twelve months
have been beyond conception, stand for it?
Would they not rise up in a resistless fury OF
anarchy and bloodshed and trample the govern
ment under their feet?
On October 81, Turkey laid down her arms.
Nv terms of oISt1
tically to unconditional surrender she agreed,
among other things, to open up the Dardanelles
and the BOspOrus to the allied fleets; to hand
over all allied prisoners of war; to demobiliZe
her armies Immediately except those needed for
frontier surveillance or the maintenance of in
ternal order to surrender all war vessels in
Turkish waters; to allow free use by allied ves-
sells Of Turkish ports and denial Of their use by
the enemy.
On November 3, an armistice with Austria
was signed by General Diaz, the Italian com
mander-in-chief. 1t went into operation at 3
p. m. of the following day, at which time fight
ing ceased on the Austro-Italian frontier. The
terms not only accomplished the surrender Of
the land and sea forces Of what was but recently
the Austro-Hungarian Empire but opened up
the territory Of that country for American and
allied operations against Germany The chief
points covered were:
CESSATION Of all hostilities.
DECENTRALIZATION, including withdrawal of
all Austro- Hungarian troops from all fronts
in the war.
SURRENDER of half Of Austria s divisional
corps and army artillery and equipment.
WITHDRAWAL from all invaded territories
ALLIED occupation Of strategic points within
Austria-Hungary
SURRENDER Of stipulated numbers Of sub