Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-20

British and French armies by rcachinS
the Channel ports AT the mouth or the
Somme and then defeatins each army
In turn and occupying Paris. Between
March q and July Is her Offensive
had passed through four phases, CIV
Ing her Lys, the Picardy. and the
Marine sal!ents. She had stretched
l95-mIle front TO one OF $50. However.
the a lies held the sectors which bound
the salients and also strategic posi-
tons on their perlmeters. Germany
huge losses prevented her from pro-
cecding further unless at a given point
she could break the allies line. This
In a desperate effort she attempted 70
do on July Is by driving across the
Marine. She failed and began highly
organized strategic retreat to save her
armies.
Meanwhile the allies had decided, in
April. on unity OF command and had
placed the conduct Of the war In the
hands OF Gen eral Foch. The arrival OF
nearly 100000 American bayonets IN
France gave him the opportunity to
orsanye and army Of vancouver. His
attacks begun between SCISSORS ana
Chateau Thierry against the Marne
salient on July Is have been unceasins
down to the time OF the armistice'
steadily pushing the German armies
east through Belgium and north to the
French frontier, a series of battles In
which the First American army played
it's full part west Of the Mouse.
The series OF sledge- hammer blows
administered by Foch's army began to
have their effect not only on the battle
front, but in Berlin and Vienna, Ill
Sofia and Coustantinopic. The enemy
was not reaping the material BENEFITS
he had expected to derive from Boil
shevist Russia. There the Czecho-Slo-
yak armies-tormer prisoners OF war
released by the provisional government
were fighting against the Germans
and Bolsheviki and were soon joined
by contingents of the allies and Rus
sians of the educated class. The allies
recognized the belligerency Of the
Czecho- Slovak's country - Bohemia
and the national aspirations of the
Slavonic subjects of Austria Hungary.
On Sept IA the allied armies in Ma
cedonia under Franchet dEsperey
made an attack which on the last day
of the month drove Bulgaria to seek
unconditional surrender.
On Sept 10 the forces under Cen
eral Allenby IN Palestine annihilated
three Turkish armies, which forced the
Turks out of the war; en- the same
terms Oct. 81.
On Nov. 4, Austria Hungary, whose
note to President Wilson on Oct. o.
asking for peace parlcy. had been
rejected on Oct. 10, and who was pe-
ing severely punished by an Italian
Ioffensve began on Oc-. q. accepted
an armistice which LEFT her helpless,
with revolutionary movements In
Vienna, Prague, and elsewhere tending
toward the complete dissolution of the
dual monarchy of the Hapsburgs. AS
far back as Sept. IA Austria Hungary
had attempted to, have all the belli-
serents meet Vim conference and the
President had rejected the proposal
SPIT. II.
On Oct the new German chancellor
Prince Max Of Baden, prepared peace
parley on the basis of the Presidents
IA articles Of Jan. and subsequent
utterances of formulate for permanent
peace.
On Oct President Wilson asked for
the chancellors mandate did it come
from the authorities who had begun
and carried on the war or from the
people?
Germany on Oct. IL pointed out the
reforms that we're going on in the
empire and asked for a mixed commits
sion on the, evacuation Of the occu-
pied territory Of Belgium and France.
To this note President Wilson re-
piled the next day. defining the pro-
cess by which Germany might receive
terms of an armistice, but insisting
that the mandate must come from the
German people and be preceded by an
evacuation Of occupied territory.
Other notes were exchanged, Ger
many answering on Oct. 81 and the
President on Oct. %; and. respectively
On the eth and Nov. 5, when the Pres
ident sent to Germany a memorandum
saying that the military advisers Of the
associated governments were prepared
to subnrfr to Germany the terms on
which an armistice might be secured.
On Nov. the German commissioners
received the terms Of the armistice at
General Foch's headquarters and sew
enty- two hours were allowed them in
| which to make the answer.