Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-09
GERMANY HALTS
TO HAGGLE FOR
BETTER TERMS
Kaiser Perhaps Appearing
For Last Time as Hun Su-
preme War Lord

Washington, Nov. 9.-The ques-
ton of whether Germany will sur
render Immediately, or wait to be
crushed between the advancing al
lied and American armies on the
west front and revolution at home,
rested late last night with an extra
ordinary conference at German great
headquarters. Marshal Foch has
given until IL o'clock Monday morn
ing, Paris time, for the answer.
Kaiser Dciics Civilians
At the conference the Kaiser is
reported to be, perhaps appearing
for the last time as supreme war
lord and, according to German wire-
less 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 during
the night with the text of the Amer
lean and Allied armistice terms,
handed to the German ENJOYS be-
hind the Allied lines by Marshal
Foch. He earned the word, sent
ahead by wireless, that the Allied
commander-in-chief had refused a
provisional cessation of hostilities
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and demanded an answer within
seventy-two hours.
The American goV0rnment was
advised from Paris late yesterday OF
the reception of the Germans by
Marshall Foch at 1875 o'clock in the
morning and its result Secretary
Lansing Immediately made the news
public at the State Department.
Later unofficial information of the
movements of the German courier
and knowledge of the difficult roads
over which he must travel for one
hundred miles after leaving the AL
lied lines, led to the conclusion that
he could not get back with a reply
before tomorrow even if not kept
waiting for a decision.
End Must Come Quickly
In the meantime tho result is
waited here with entire confidence
and calm. American and Allied mill
tary men say the end must come
quickly one way or the other; that
if the Germans are unable to agree
among themselves and accept the
Allied terms the problem will be
settled for them with no great de-
that a final effort to quibble with
hostlities stopped is ended, on the
theory that even the Kaiser himself
must realize that unless peace is
made quickly there will be no gov
ernment in Germany to make it.
Revival in New York and else
where of the premature peace dem
onstrations started by the false re-
port of the signing of the armistice
led President Wilson to direct Secre-
tary Lansing to announce that as
soon as any decision in regard to
the armistiCe was reached it WOULD
be made public Immediately by the
government and that any statement
that news regarding this event was
being withheld was utterly false.
Envoys Have Full Power
An interesting question was raised
by the statement IN the report to the
American government on which Sec
retary Lansing based his statement
that the German ENJOYS came with
full powers. Since the delegates did
not use tull powers either to sign
or reject the terms and instead re-
ferred them to Grand headquarters,
it was regarded here as certain that
they came with the hope of accom-
plishing something more than the
signature of an armistice. 1t was be-
lieved their purpose was to inject
matters which can be considered
only at the peace conference.
1t has been made very clear, how
ever, and emphasized in official dis
patches from France that Marshal
Foch's powers were limited strictly
to the drastic military program pre-
scribed by the Supreme War Coun-
Gil at Versailles.