Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-11-15
ARMISTICE SIGNED;
WORLD WAR ENDED
GERMANY FINALLY ADMITS DE-
FEAT AND HosTILITlEs
HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED.
Kaiser Wilhelm Seeks Sanctuary IN
Holland After Being Convinced That
His Dream of World Dominion
Would ! nHga7r cqme True.

snington.-Deserted BY all her
allies, her great military machine In
process Of destruction by onslaughts
of the allies arples; her emperor
fugitive In Holland, with his dream Of
world dominion rndely shattered,
Germany mas at last conceded defeat,
and the world war which has ragged for
fo1r years i at an end.
The Huns have surrendered uncon-
ditionally to General Foch.
The war ended Monday morning, No
vember IL, mt o'clock, Washington
time IL O'Clock Paris time. The arm
istice wus signed by the German rep
resentatives ut $50 O'Clock Monday
morning and flashed all over The ccun-
try. The result was demonstration
i'm every section Of America that was
continued for hours.
The terms of the arinistice, it was
announced, will not be made public
until later. Military men here, how
! eyer, regard 1t as certain they IN
clude: -
Immediate retirement of the German
military forces from France, Belgium
and Alsace-Lorraine.
Disarming and rehabilitation OF the
German armies.
OCCUPATION by the allied and Amer
lean forces of such strategic points I'D
Germany as win make impossible a re-
newal Of hostllities.
Delivery of part of the German high
seas fleet and a certain number of sub
darines to the allied and American
! laval forces.
, Disarmament Of all other German
, warships under supervision OF the ali
! lied and American navies, which Will
/ guard them.
I Occupation of the principal German
a naval bases by sea forces of the vie
torlous nations
4 Release of allied and American sol
diers, sailors and civilians held pris
4 oners in Germany without such recip
:. rocaI action by the associated govern
/. ments.
= There was NO Information as TO tbs
n circumstances under which the arms
II tice was signed, but since the German
Y. courier did not reach German militar,
he headquarters until 10 O'clock Sunda,
mornin, French time, 1t was gen
orally assumed here that the German
- ENJOYS within the French lines ha
az been instructed by wireless to sign tn
tn terms.
re Forty-seven hours had been require
-. for the courier to reach German heat
,s. quarters, and unquestionably severf
ev hours were necessary for the exami
he aation of the terms and a decision.
i'm was regarded as possible, howeve
tie that the decision may have been mad
ed at Berlin and instructions tram
a. mitted from there by the new Germn
In government.
me Up to Sunday there we're four kin
yly doms In the German empire, namel
Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony an
led Wurttemberg. All but Saxony are no
Dr.. kingIess and throneless. The situate
nd in Saxony is not clear from the al
lily patches. Germany's total populate
ub is, roughly, 70,O0O,0OO.
he The populations of the three revol
uff tionized kingdoms are: Prussia,
100000; Bavaria, 100000; Wurttel
r berg, 5000 900; total, 51,000,000.
OF the remaining inhabitants of Il
empire, 1t is safe to say on t
fol. strength of ll,dispatches, that the m
jority has joined the revolt.
an Late dispatches report the king
ere Saxony is also about TO abdicate,
the he has not already done SO. He
Friedrich August II, whose person
rsv life was exposed some years ago
40 his divorced wife, the Princess LOU
lem of Tuscany.
and William Hohenzollern, the form
and emperor of Germany, who began {
world war, and who abdicated VIII
,in. he was convinced that Germany mi
fol. surrender to the victorious allies, h
,iu- arrived In Holland, and is now at
II town of Destieg, near Utreteh, wht
i'm he hopes to escape further punt:
emf ment ut the hands of the nations
ties has SO grieyously wronged.
ave Desteeg is on the Guelders Yssel,
Chi arm of the Rhine river, about fol
miles east of Utrecht and twelve mi
from the German border. The chate
Afiddachten, to which the former {
hey peror is reported to be proceeding,
az longs to Count William Freder
LIS Charles Henry Won Bentinck. He Ii
agh member of the Prussian guards, q
the before the war was attached to
nica German embassy in London and
best member of the English Turf and Ro
Ri Automobile clubs. He is 80 years {
gon- He belongs to the famous Anglo-Dut
German house of Bentinck. the c
o. tinentaI branch of the family of
Duke of Portland.
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