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to announce officially to President Poin-
care that the armistice had been signed
He attempted to avoid the crowds and
returned to headquarters as inconspicu-
ously as possible
The Marshal was recognized by a
automobile from the ground. meanwhile
cheering at the top of their voices.
Premier Clemenceau received news Of
the signing of the protocol after an all
night wait. His first public appearance
afterwards was marked by the firing of
a salute of 1O1 guns by submarine in
the Seine River, while he was crossing
the Concorde Bridge.
As news of the signing of the armi-
stice began to spread among the popu-
lace Of the city, crowds swarmed to-
wards the war ministry almost over
coming the proud platoon of old Colon
ials on guard duty. AS the soldiers
presented arms il could be seen that
the Prime Minister was deeply affect
ed. Tears filled his eyes and his mouth
twitched nervously.
There were more touching scenes when
the Prime Minister received the other
members of the Cabinet, embracing them
as they rendered their congratulations.
1t was the final attainment of a long
life Of constructive craftsmanship.
New Parlementaires Sign
DIR. Frederick Ebert, the new Ger
man Chancellor sent out a wireless
message Sunday night informing the
the German parlementaires in France
that the new plenipotentiaries were on
their way into the Allied lines and that
an order for the signing Of the arm
istice was coming, The new delegates
arrived at o'clock Monday morning
and were Immediately met by the en-
loys already on the ground. They
placed their signatures upon the mo.
mentous document at o'clock. being
followed by Marshal Foch. The Gov
ernment was Informed of the signatures
at six o'clock.
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SENT ACCEPTANCE BY PHONE
New German Government Au-
thorized Signing of Armistice
By the Associated Press

Paris, Nov. 12.-The new German
Government. it appears, considered the
Frmistice conditions at a sitting late on
Sunday at Berlin Having decided to
accept them, 1t telephoned instructions
from Berlin to Spa, German head
quarters, authorizing the delegates to
affix their signatures TO the agreement.
The courier, who was waiting at Spa.
left Immediately for the lines and
crossed them without incident, north Of
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HOUSE LAUDS LLOYD GEORGE
Congratulatcs British Premier on
Part i'm Victory

London. Nov 12.--CBy y. 81
Premier Lloyd George received the fol-
lowing telegram from colonel r. VI.
House, President Wilson's personal rep
reSoutatiyc at the Paris conference:
Accept my sincere CongratuiG tions
No one has done moro - bring about
the splendid victory than you.
EDWARD House
In reply the British Premier sent the
following message to Colonel House.
Thanks for your generous telegram
Nothing contributed moro {, victory
than the response of President Wilson
to the appeal I made 20 him for Amer
ica's help i'm those critical days
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tunate exceptions. The great majority
were compelled 10 submit TO martyrdoni
final testimony that civilization is a
thing apart from the unclean barbarism
OF the boche.
tility Of a belief In a German change
of heart. Of the professions of universal
lovingkindness and democratic nobility
spread broadcast by the new rulers. who
few months ago. were cchoing their
then masters chorus of triumph over
Allied disaster and expected collapse
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members of the several war missions
now in Washington. French, British and
Italian. with personal friends of the
hosts from both official and resident So
ciety.
The army camps around Washington
turned thousands of soldiers loose for
the celebration In the capital The
carnival spirit which is novel in Wash
ington, swept the city. No inaugural
gayety ever approached it..
At the height of Washington's cele-
bration a llfe-size effigy of the ex-
Kaiser was hanged TO the historic old
tree in front of the Willard Hotel. The
execution" was witnessed by thousands
of cheering people.
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GOMPERS AT LAREDO
A. I. L. Executive Committee Will At
tend Pan.American Conference

Laredo, Tex. Nov. 12.--The entire
executive committee OF the American
Federation of Labor. headed by Samuel
Gompers. president, arrived today and
began sessions preliminary to the Pam
American laboW conferences, which
open Wednesday.
Secretary of Labor Wilson is due TO
arrive today.
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ENJOYS, SOBBING,
SIGN ARMISTICE
German Delegates Break
Into Tears When Informed
of Allied Terms
FOCH TELLS POINCARE
Paris. Nov. 12.-CBy ]. y. 81.

farls, NOV. l-.--Nby !. y. -
German armistice envoys sobbed when
they heard the terms OF the truce. ac-
cording to details received here today
concerning this momentCus event.
DIR. Matthias Erzberger, a Clerical
leader, was one of the first speakers in
the armlstice conference. Addressing
Marshal Foch he said:
Marshal, have you any sympathy for
the German population" We want
peace"
Marshal Foch replied. "Sir, / have the
terms OF the protocol. which, being
signed, will bring peace"
Immediately the generalissmo began
reading As he proceeded the Germans
broke into tears.
The signatures were finally affixed to
this momentous document aboard a
private train used by Marshal Foch
as his headquarters.
~ Instruction by Wireless
The German courier failed To arrive
from Spa, but a wireless message was
sent the ENJOYS in France, authorizing
them TO sign.
The German parlementaires who re-
mainei In France stayed up all Sunday
night awaiting word from Spa.
When news arrived that the condi-
tions were accepted. they fastened TO
Marshal Foch's private train and the
genoralissmo was aroused. The famous
French soldier formally received word
that the Germans had come TO sign.
Erzberger was the first of the Ger
mans to put his name to the world
famous document.
The othfr parlementaires followed
and then they returned to the chateau,
where they had been stopping, for
breakfast. In the meantime. news Of
the suspension OF hostilities was being
flashed up aud down the battlefront.
Marshal Foch called st the Elysee
Palace shortly before noon an Monday
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Eighteenth. Repatriation, without
reciprocity, of all civilians interned or
depOrted who may be citizens of other
Allied or associated States than those
previously mentioned.
Nineteenth. ReparatiOn for damage
done. Immediate restitution of secu.
rites and money.
Twentieth. Immediate cessation Of
all hOstilities at sea. Freedom Of navi-
CATION for Allied ships, all questions
OF neutrality to he waived.
Twenty first. Return by Germany
Of all naval and marine prisoners.
Twenty-secOnd. Surrender OF 160
submarines and disarming OF all
others.
Twenty.third. Disarmament and in
ternment In neutral or Allied ports Of
specified warships. All other surface
warships to be disarmed.
Twenty.fOurth. The Allies shall
have right to sweep up all mine fields
outside German waters.
Twenty-fifth. Freedom Of access to
the Baltic. Allies are empowered TO
occupy all forts and defenses i'm the
entrances from the Cattegat to the
Baltic.
Twenty-sixtlI. Allied blockade to re-
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main unchanged. All German ships at
sea remain liable to capture.
Twenty-seventh. All naval aircraft
to be inmobilized in German bases.
Twenty eighth. In evacuating the
Belgian coasts and ports Germany
shall abandon ships, arms and mate
riaIs.
Twenty ninth. All Black Sea ports
are to be evacuated by Germany. All
seized Russian war vessels to be
handed over 10 the Allies.
Thirtieth. All merchant vessels in
German hands belonging TO the Allies
to be restored.
Thirty-first. No destruction of ships
before evacuation, surrender or res
tOratiOn.
Thirty second. Germany will notify
neutrals that all restrictions placed
on trading of their vessels with the
Allies are cancelled.
Thirty.third. No transfers of Ger
man merchant shipping to any neu-
trail flags are to take place.
Thirty fourth. The duration Of the
armistice is to be thirty days.
Thirty.fifth. The arrnistice to be ac.
cepted or refused by Germany within
seventy-twO hours Of notification.
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Chimay He reached the Chateau de
FRANKFORT at about o'clock in the
potentlares waiting for him. They asked
after they had read their Instructions,
to see Marshal Foch, who was in his
special train In switch near the
Chateau.
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3.764,677 In u. S. Army
as Great Var Ceases
Washington, Nov. II,

The American army had reached
a total strength of 3,764,677 men
when hostllities ceased, according to
official figures at the War Depart
ment. OF that number 100000
had been sent to France, Italy or
Russia. The remainder were under
arms in camps In this country.
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snirtrs. and they were dressed in grass
suits The only way you could see then,
was when they would move Every now
shc then you would see a sniper dror
out or the trees. ON top of a church
near here in the German lines was a
Red tress flag. but instead of being d
Red Cross station II was machine CUR
nest The whole top of the place was
mass of guns.
Things are going fine with the old
Third Regiment. We have more than
been doing our share. | don't know
exactly how many Germans have to
my credit. / know | got eight and
perhaps there were some more. Any
way hope war will be over soon so that
we can come back TO the good old y.
S. A."
Private Spry Arthur Sparks. who is a
wireless operator in the Headquarters
Company, 109th Infantry. has been un-
officially reported wounded in action
His mother, Mrs. Emma Sparks. BIS
Thompson street. received card from
him from base hospital. No details
We're given as to ;he nature of the wound
or when it was received.
Sparks tried to enlist in the National
Guard in July, 1916, during the Mex
lean trouble, but was rejected. When war
was declared he succeeded in enlistins
in the First Regiment and was sent to
Camp Hancock. Thence he was sent to
special school for wireless operator
Later he was transferred to Camp Up
ton and sailed for France last May.
His last letter was dated July g. In 1t
he said his company was stringing wires
between the generals headquarters and
the front-line trenches. He said his ex-
tpln 1rat nj hld
given him the position of an observer in
the trenches.
Private Sparks. who is nineteen years
old, lived with his mother. His father
died five years ago. He was graduated
from the West Philadelphia High School
last year.
Private George NJ. Weaver. of Wayne,
appears in the list as having been
wounded in action. A sketch of Private
Weaver was published "A few days ago,
when an official report of his wound
was received.
Private Andrew J. Chester. reported
as wounded and a prisoner in Ger
man camp. is one of the survivors of
Company e. of the 10th Infantry. He
was reported missing in action following
the engagement along the Marne when
G Company was almost wiped out Word
that' he was a prisoner came through
the American Red Cross to his parents at
62ll Dicks avenue. Chester had been a
member of Company of the old Third
Regiment for several years before the
war.
Memorial services for Corporal
Thomas Paul Grinnan. 55l6 Cedar ave-
nue., who was killed in action in France
on July 10, will be held on Monday
night. Solemn high mass of requiem
will he celebrated in his memory in the
Church of the TRANSPORTATION, Fifty
fifth street and Cedar avenue.
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OIL NEED MENACE
TO WAR PROGRAM
Senate Committee Told of
Daily Shortage of co..
600 Barrels
PENROSE FOR PROBE
Will Quiz Fuel Administrations
Officials on ''Casless
Sunday" Order
PENROSE FOR PROBE
BY the United Press


The country Is facing crisis In oil
production which threatens seriously ia
interfere with the war program. Judge
Harry Covington told the Senate Finance
Committee today in discussion of the
$4,000, 900, 900 war tax bill
Covington declared the reserve of
crude oil is being depleted at the rate
of $4,000 barrels daily. Development OF
new fields is hampered by refusal of the
Government to allow private capital to
develop oil deposits in the public do.
main. he said.
Senator Lodge, author of two resol,-
tons aimed at discovering the reason
Tor the recent 'gasless Sunday order of
the fuel administration asked Covine-
ton whether the fuel administrators
hgures on the gasoline situation are
correct. "a
Il know who gathered those figures
ana can't vouch for their accuracy"
SAID Covington But figures carefully
compiled by the oil men show a very
substantial shortage in crude oil. The
only reason the oil industry has been
aple to meet the diversified demands on
IL has been the presence Of a huge
reserve -
Senator Penrose Pa.) announced that
he would ask the presence of fuel ad-
ministration officials soon. He declared
that as result of the Garfield order
forbidding the use of gasoline on Sun
DAY the Pennsylvania coal mines were
losing one days work week from the
miners because of their inability to
travel by automobile Sunday to visit
friends and relatives.
Many of the miners have been in the
habit of using small cars in returning
to their homes ever the weekend, PEN
rose explained. Inability to drive them
on Sunday has necesstated their re-
turning on Monday. using much yalua-
BILE time that would ordinarily be spent
at work. he said.
Penrose also asked why the Missis:
sppi River should be the border line
separating gasolneless Sunday from the
rest of the country.
Judge Covington said he was unable
to answer the question.
Penrose questioned the inability of OBJ
tanning the right kind Of an admnistra-
tive board suggested by Judge Coving-
ton.
Would you select professor of
Latin and Greek in some college as the
right man to regulate the oil business ?"
he asked.
Covington said that while no protest
had been made he believed that classi-
Tying the tax on gasoline as a luxury
was most unjust,
1T is simply consumption tax" he
declared, Gasoline is- as necessary az
coal. Only one-fourth of the gasoline
consumption is used for pleasure pur-
poses"
Former Representative Fitzgerald
asked the committee to eliminate from
the bill the per cent tax on gross in
come of concerns operating more than
three automobiles and suggested fiat
hire. ~
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START FUND TONIGHT
FOR BLIND SOLDIERS
Campaign to Raise Sl5O,OOO
to Be Launched at Dinner
in Adelphia

Give the blind soldier chance" is
the slogan of the campaign to raise
Sl5O,oO0 which will be launched tonigh,
at banquet in the Adelphia Hotel
The money will be used to prepare the
Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind
Men. Thirty-sixth street and Lancaster
avenue, to accommodate hundred more
inmates when the victims of bcche poison
gases arrive home.
The spacious broom and rug factory
and large dormitories of the institution,
have already been placed at the dis
Dosal of the nation. The Government
has announced a policy of using existing
facilities for re-education and rehabii-
tation of sightless soldiers instead of
eXpending precious time On new organ
izations
More than 400 persons will attend to-
nights dinner. Alba Johnson chairman
of the general committee will preside
Final instruction will be given the meui-
bers of the teams of workers. There are
twenty-five teams of eight men each and
ten womens teams. Mrs. Clarence =.
Wynne is chairman of the women work
ers.
Actual soliciting will begin Monday
The first report of contributions will be
made at a luncheon at the campaign
headquarters in the Adelpha on that
day. Throughout the week of the cam
paign daily luncheons will be held, at
which the progress of the work will be
made known.
The home, founded by blind man.
has operated successfully for more than
forty years. 1t does a business of S30.-
600 monthly and is the sixth largest
broom factory in the country. A CON
tract now being filled for the United
States Government is the largest single
sale of brooms ever negotiated.
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CHURCH WILL RAISE FLAGS
Holy Angels, Oak Lane, to Have
Ceremonies Sunday Afternoon

Oak Lane will be the scene of a big
patriotic demonstration Sunday after
noon. when service flag will be raised
on the grounds of the Church Of the
Holy Angels, of which the Rev. Daniel
A. Morrissey is rector . ..
Father Morrissey will bless the ma
tional banner and the remembrance
emblem Addresses will be made by the
Rev William j. Garrigan, DIR, joseph
X. Dixon, Dr. Herbert l.. Northrop and
George c. Small. t.r.
The American flag is the gift Of
Carles e. Dreuding. while sydney J..
Burgoyne has presented the service flag
to the parish. Both will be unfurled
from new steel pole. sixty-six feet in
height, which has been donated by A.
Raymond Raff.
In connection with the exercises a
Liberty Sing will be conducted by Albert
y. Hoxie, director of music at the Phil
adelphia Navy Yard. He will be accom-
panied by the Marine Band from League
Island and large delegation Of ma
rines and sailors.
Benediction of the most blessed sac
rament will conclude the exercises.
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CITY WILL TEACH
CRIPPLED HEROES
Krusen Will Train Men to
Instruct Partly Dis.
abled Soldiers
SCHOOLS AT BYBERRY
Elaborate System Will Coop.
crate With Government in
Reconstruction Work

Tentative plans for a school of teach
considered by Director Krusen. of the
Department OF Health and Charities
and officers of Surgeon General Gorgas's
stan as part of rhiladelphias wal
reconstruction work
The plan provides for the teachins
of corps of workers in those occupa
tions best fitted for soldiers sufferine
from partly disabling wounds and in
juries.
A suitable building will be selected
and equipped and STAFF of teacher.
chosen ranging from agricultural ex.
perts to teachers OF technical bra nche.
OF many Industries.
Details are being worked out ant
provision for the school will probabl,
be included in the 1919 budget of the
Departme-t of Health and Charities
According to the plans as discussed
at city cabinet meetings, the classes OF
instructors will later be detailed to train
the returning soldiers and to aid them
in so far as possible. in securing lucra
tive occupations.
Up until the present no announcement
of the city's plans has been made. as all
arrangements are subject to the ap-
proval Of the surgeon general.
All that has been done to date Is in
line with the recent action of the city
in turning its nearly completed hospital
buildings at Byberry over to the Gov
ernment as reconstruction hospital.
The buildings when completed. will cost
the city $l.5o0,o0O and will have ca
pacity of 1900 men.
Teachers trained by the city will take
over the instruction of wounded SOL
diers at Byberry and later. if conditions
demand. soldiers from other reconstruc-
ton hospitals in this section of the
country.
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LIEUT.. JALUUES SWAAB
LIEUT.. JACQUES SWAAB
DOWNS FOUR FOKkERS
Philadelphia Airman Achieves
Record in One Days Flight
in France
LIEUT.. JACQUES SWAAB

Three German Fokker planes shot
down IN one day is the record of Lien
tenant Jacques NJ Swaab. University of
Pennsylvania graduate and son of MAYER
Swaab. formerly of Eighteenth and
Berks streets. this city. The latter now
lives IN New York
Lieutenant Swaab achieved his triple
victory on Tuesday, according to report ).
from France, while returning from n
fight over the enemy lines. Two of the
German flyers crashed earthward from A
German squadron. which attacked the
Philadelphian after he had encountered
a single enemy airman and had brought
him down
he made for his own lines. Lieutenant
Swaab was twice forced to fight. and
both times he was victorious. He reach
cd tie Allied line safely
Graduating from the Wharton School
of Finance in 1916. Lieutenant Swaab
enlisted Immediately upon the President 8
declaration of state of war with Ger
many. He trained AT Essington for
time Later, at Dayton. he received con-
siderable personal instruction from Will
bur Wright on the theory of fight. He
sailed for France last December.
On July 4. after he had been sent to
the Italian front, Lieutenant Swaab made
a flight over the city of Rome during the
celebration there of our Independence
Day.
Official confirmation of Lieutenant
Swaabs feat has not vet been made.
Press reports. however, say he shot down
two of the German machines in flames
and sent the third down out of con-
troll.
Lieutenant Swaab was a member of
many clubs here, among them the Aero
club of America, the Mercantile Club
and the Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity. He
Is twenty-four years old. His father Is
well-known business man and is a
tile and Poor Richard Clubs
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Good Nelus for Home Folk
From Boys in the Service

some awful fight ! have seen since
July 15 for one month straight.
| received your letters dated July
2, l3 and 22. but no Ledger since
Well. mother. just about two hours
ago | took the eats up to the boys
and I bet there were about 200 shells
dropped all around my wagon. They
were trying to stop me from getting
the eats to the boys, but God was
with me and not even a scratch was
made; SO you see what one will do.
We have God always with us wher-
ever we go, so please, mother. keep
on praying for us boys and we'll come
out o. X. All the boys are in good
health; that is, what IL left of them.
/ hope they don't take any more away.
1t has been awfully hot the last
couple of days, but nice and clear.
Il guess 1 shall see the old town be-
fore long. We get about ten minutes
TO wash shave and write letters each
day, SO you see we are giving them
h. Now, today Is the first time
took a shave in two weeks and three
days and l haven't had bath for one
week and four days, so you can see
we have them on the run.
II you could see the place where l
am writing this letter-all mud and
smoke around me and fireworks over
head. So you can see how soft 1t is
/ guess this .s ali this time wish
you could see this country now,
hope this andr you 10 good health.
Love 70 I'll ~ ~ - prayleE.
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