The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-09
FORECAST OF TERMS.
GERMANS WILL BE TREATED
SAME AS TURKEY, BULGAR-
IA AND AUSTRIA.

GERMANS WILL BE TREATED
SAME AS TURKEY, BULGAR-
IA AND AUSTRIA.
Nothing VIII be Left to the Good
Faith and Honor Of the Huns Ws.
Have Violated all Laws OF CiviIza-
tion, Humanity and Dcccncy i'll
This Unjust War.
Washington, Nov 5.-Marshai
Foch has the terms of armistice for
Germany and awaits application for
them by the German military COM
mand in the field.
The government at Berlin was also
informed in note which Secrstary
Lansing handed to Minister Sulzer, OF
Switzerland, tonight, announcing that
the allies have declared their willing
ness to make peace on the principles
enunciated by President Wilson. The
note now is on the cables. In "a hours
it should be in the hands OF the Ger
mans; in 43 hours the world may
know whether an immediate end OF
the gar is at hand:
Publication Of details Of the armls-
tice terms still Is withheld. They may
not be made known until the Germans
have accepted Or rejected them, as
the course followed by the allies IN
dealing with Bulgaria, Turkey and
Austria Only the details are II
doubt, however, and no one questions
that acceptance means abject sur
render.
The statement has been authorized
that the drastic conditions under
which Austria passed out OF the war
have been followed closely and, in
answer to queries for further infor-
nation, officials said tonight the
statement of Premier Clemenceau
cabled from Paris by the Associated
Press told the story:
1.-The terms said M Clemenceau
ARE what President Wilson himself
recommended to US for the security o.!
our troops, the maintenance of ou
superiority, and Of the disarmament.
| of the enemy in so far as that is
necessary to prevent a resumption OF
hostilities.''
Secretary Lansing's note gives the
first hint Of what has been going on
in the monlentous conferences at Par
is between Col. House and the allies,
premiers. It quotes memorandum
of observations by the allied gov
ernments on the presidents CORE
spondence with the German authori-
ties disclosing the approval Of thu
presidents peace program, with res
ervation of freedom Of action in tbs
peace conference on the moot ques-
ton of freedom Of the seas and q
specific statement that by restoration
is meant that Germany must make
compensation for all damage done &c
civilian populations and their prop
erty "by land, by sea and from tn
air.
By this specification, in whic:1
President Wilson concurs, Germany
and cities destroyed and countryside
devastated, for ships: sunk by subna
rines and raiders. It means German
payment of damages to the fanilie,
and dependent Of civilians killed o:
! carried off in violation of the rules OF
war.
Thus much Of the real work OF a
peace conference has been done II
advance. The spokesmen of Germany
have accepted the presidents terms:
now they must accept the allied quail
| ifcations if they want to stop the ad
vance of the allied and American ar
mics. The guarantee that final peace
conditions will be dictated under in
terpretation Of principles by the vic
tors without undue argument by tbs
vanquished is provided in the armis-
tice terms.
In placing the matter Of an armis-
the same time informing the Germans
through President Wilson, the asso-
ciated nations have strictly observed
the diplomatic amenities while main
tanning the purpose to make the ar
mistice q purely military measure anc
which should afford no possibility Of
a misunderstanding Of the fact that
it is offered to a defeated army. Al
along there has been belief that tht
German high command has been 6es-
perately anxious to avoid admission
of the complete defeat Of the German
arms, hoping instead to make it ap-
pear when the inevitable collapse
came that the army was still in be-
ing, formidable and able to fight OF
indefinitely and that it ceased the
struggle, not at the demand Of It's en-
enlies on the front but solely because
Of orders TO Go so from the cIvi! gov
ernment now at least nouIiEaliy III
control.
For this reason the American anG
allied leaders determined that TO con-
vince the German people themselves
that their idolized and feared nlilitar.
machine had been crushed, the mill
tary leaders must be forced to capitu-
ate on the field of battle.
The important reservation by the
allies as to freedom Of the seas is
said here to be due largely to de-
sire to avoid a later protest OF de-
ception, since il is known that the
German idea Of freedom of the seas IS