Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-11-12
TRUCE TERMS GIVEN
TO GERMAN CHIEFS
i BY GENERAL F0CH
Hun Generals Get Conditions for
an ITmiStiCe.
ENEMY WILL BE DIsARMED
Demands Made on Foe Are Announced
in the Chamber of Deputies by
Premier CIemenceau - Says
the War Is Won.


Amsterdam. Nov. 6-Germanla of
Berlin says that Gen Won Winterfeldt,
former German military attache at
Paris, Will conduct the armistice nego-
tiationS for Germany ON the western
front.
Paris, Nov. 6.--Premier Clemenceau
announced in the chamber of deputies
that Marshal FOch has laid down con-
ditions for an armistice with Germany,
and that the terms are based upon
those of the armistice with Turkey,
Bulgaria and Austria. The premier
gave this outline of the conditions
transmitted to Germany through Pres
ident Wilson:
l. The security of the allies troops
must be assured by military guaran-
tees.
,. Allied supremacy must be main
tanned and guaranteed for the event
hostilities are resumed.
3. The enemy must be disarmed to
degree that he cannot renew HOSTILE
ties.
Premier CIemenceau's announce
ment was greeted with thunderous
cheers. He concluded his speech by
saying:
I'VE have won the war, though we
may have to wait"
Foch Is Spokesman.
Washington, March 6.-Marshal
FOch has been authorized by the Uni
ted States and it's allies to receive rep
resentatives of the German govern
ment and to communicate to them the
terms of an armistice.
The German government is so In
formed in note handed to the Swiss
minister here today by Secretary Lam
sing. The note announces that the
allies have declared their willingness
to make peace with the German gov
eminent on the terms laid down in
President Wilson's address to con-
greSS last January and on the princi-
pies of settlement enunciated in his
subsequent addresses.
The allies reserve to themselves,
however, complete freedom OF action
when they enter the peace conference
on the subject of freedom of the seas.
1t was further stated with reference
10 restoration of invaded territory
that the allied governments under
stand that compensation will be made
by Germany for all damage to the
civilian population of the allies and
Of
greSsion of Germany ''by land, by sea
and from air.
Text of Reply.
The text of Secretary LansIngs note
in reply to Germany's request for arm
istice terms follows:
81 have the honor to request you to
transmit the following communication
to the German government:
"In my note OF October %, 1918, /
advised you that the president had
transmitted his correspondence with
the German authorities to the govern
snents with which the government of
the United States is associated as a
belligerent, with the suggestion that, If
those governments were disposed to
accept peace upon the terms and prin-
cipleS indicated, their military advis-
ers and the military advisers of the
United States be asked to submit to
the government associated against
Germany the necessary terms of such
an armistice as would fully protect
the interests of the peoples involved
and insure 70 the associated govern
mentS the unrestricted power to safe
guard and enforce the details of the
peace to which the German govern.
ment had agreed, provided they deem
such an armistice possible from the
military point of view.
Quoted Reply of Allies.
1.-The president is now in receipt OF
a memorandum of observations by the
allied governments on this correspond.
ence, which is as follows:
1.-THE allied governments have
given careful consideration to the cor
respondance which has passed be
tween TIE president of the United
States ana the German government
Subject to The qualifications which fol
low they declare their willingness t
make peace with the government OF
Germany ON the terms of peace laiC
clown in the Presidents address to con
creSs of January, 1913, and the prin
ciples of settlement enunciated in hi:
subsequent address.
"'"rhey must point out, however
that clause relating to what is usu
ally described as the freedom of tn,
seas, is open to various interpreta
lions, some of which they could no
accept. They must, therefore, reserv,
to themselves complete freedom OF
this subject when they enter the peac,
conference
Restoration Is DEMANDED
Furthermore, in the eOndi, ons o
peace laid down in his address to con
greSS of January s, 1918, the presiden
declared that invaded territories mus
he restored, as well as evacuated an,
freed; the allied governments fee
that no doubt ought to be allowed t,
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