The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-11-08

ht HGNC IAU NOhAl lhAtiDils oU tdl
as the War Department is concerned,
we are wholly without confirmation
on the subject. and the information
that we have is that the Commissions
ers. when. we last heard Of them were
on their way to Marshal Foch's head
quarters, and it would seem hardly
probable that the meeting could have
takens place at the time the announce
ment was FIRST made. The minute the
War Department has any authorita-
tive news on this subject will biye it
out at once
BY these denials, the Secretary OF
State and the Secretary Of War Off
cially disposed of the false report
No indication was at hand in Wash
ington tonight the German parle-
mentaires had met General Foch and
had received from him the terms of
armistice
Here follows a copy of the cable
gram received by the United Press at
its New York Office:
@Unipress, New York
Paris: Armistice allies signed
eleven morning: hostilities seased
two afternoon, Sedan taken morn
ing by Americans
Howard
Sins.
"Unipress7 is the cable code ad-
dress for United Press: Howard is
Roy w Howard, president OF the Uni.
ted Press, and Simms is Williams
Philip Simms. Paris correspondent of
the United Press
TO grasp the situation. il should be
borne in mind that Paris being to the
east of the United States, IS about six
hours ahead Of New York time. Al.
though 1t had been announced that the
armistice was signed at II o'clock and
that fighting had ceased at 2 o'clock,
it was fact that the German com
missioners were not to be received
by Marshal Foch until 5 o'clock. three
hours after the hour reported as the
end Of the fighting.
The state departments cable of in
gulry to France was not dispatched
until after the report had been called
70 the departments attention and
when reply came saying the armis.
tice had not been signed and the fight
ing had not ceased, more time had
elapsed.
AT 3.S5 o'clock in Paris it was Off
cially announced that four German Of
ficers bearing a white flag probably
would arrive at Marshal Foch's head.
quarters some time tonight That
announcement was one hour and thir-
ty-flye minutes after the hour report.
ed as the end of the fighting and As.
sociated Press dispatches filed with
the American army on the Sedon
front at $50 o'clock tonight showed
that an hour and half after the Ger.
man commissioners had been expect.
ed the troops were still lighting their
way forward This dispatch said
clearing that the American army was
consolidating its positions and prepar
ing for a further advance.
When it was $50 o'clock tonight N
London. the foreign office pronounced
unfounded the rumor that the GTmis-
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no word had been received irr the Brit
ish capital that the German delegation
had crossed the French lines. Il should
be borne in mind that it was then
four and a half hours after the hour
reported as set for the cessation Of
hostilities and more than seven hours
after the hour reported as the signing
OF the armistice Government tele-
sraph lines connect London and the
British headquarters, not far from the
place fixed for the meeting Of the
German commissioners with Marshal
Foch, and London, therefore. Is Ger.
tain to receive promp, reports when
a truce is arranged
Tonight as the clocks in France
were turning toward midnight there
still was no word that the German
commissioners had appeared at Mar
shal Fochs headquarters and much
less affixed their signatures to an ar.
misticc
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