Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-11-15
ARMIST|CE SIGNED;
WORLD WAR ENDED
GERMANY FINALLY ADMITS DE.
FEAT AND HoSTiLfTiEs
HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED.
Kaiser Wilhelm Seeks Sanctuary In
Holland After Being Convinced That
His Dream Of World Dominion
Would Never Come True.

Washington.---De by all her
allies, her great military machine In
process of destruction by onslaughts
fugitive In Holland. with his dream of
world dominion rudcly shattered,
Germany has at last conceded defeat
and the world war which has ragged for
for years l. at an end
The Huns have surrendered uncon-
ditionally To General Foch.
The war ended Monday morning, No
vember IL, ut o'clock. Washington
time. IL o'clock Paris time. The arm
istice was signed by the German rep
resentatlves at . 30 O'Clock Monday
morning and flashed all ovet he ccun-
try. The result was II demonstration
in every section of America that was
continued for hours.
The terms of the armlstice, II was
announced, will not be made public
until later. Military men here, HOW
ever. regard 1t as certain they In
clude:
Immediate retirement OF the German
lbINtS lTbIi iNiFiuh
and Alsace-Lorralne.
Disarming and rehabilitation of the
German armies.
Occupation by the allied and Amer
lean forces of such strategic points In
Germany as will make impossible re-
newal of hostilities.
| Delivery of part of the German high
seas fleet and certain number of sub
marines to the allied and American
naval forces.
| Disarmament of all other German
warships under supervision OF the al
lied and American navies, which will
guard them.
Occupation of the principal German
naval bases by sea forces of the vic
| torious nations.
Release of allied and American sol
diers sailors and civilians held pris'
oners in Germany without such recip'
rocal action by the associated govern
mcnts.
| There was no Information ms to the
circumstances under which the arms
tice was signed, but since the German
4 courier did not reach German military
Headquarters until 10 o'clock Sunday
mornin, French time, II was gen
orally assumed here that the German
ENJOYS within the French lines had
| been instructed By wireless to sign the
I rms.
| Forty-seven hours had been required
| iOr the courier to reach German head
quarters, and unquestionnbly several
hours were necessary for the eXaini-
nation of the terms and decision. II
was regarded as possible, however
! that the decision may have been made
| mt Berlin and instructions trans
| mitted from there by the new German
government.
Up to Sunday there were four king
doms In the German empire, namely
Prussia. Bavaria, SaXony and
Wurttemberg. All but Saxony are now
kingless and throneless. The situation
in Saxony Is nc: clear from the dis
patches. Germany's total population
Is, roughly, 70000,0O0.
The populations of the three revniu
tionized kingdoms are: Prussia, Al,
0Oo,O00; Bavaria. 100000; Wurttem
berg, 100000; total, 5l,000,000.
OF the remaining inhabitants of Tho
empire, II Is safe to say, on tho
strength of all dispatches, that the ma
jority has joined the revolt.
Late dispatches report the king o
SaXony Is also about to abdicate, Il
he has not already done so. He |!
Friedrich August III, whose persona
life was exposed some years ago b,
his divorced wife, the Princess Louise
of Tuscany.
William Hohenzollern, the forne
emperor OF Germany, who began tht
world war, and who abdicated wheI
he was convinced that Germany mus
surrender tn the victorious allies, hal
arrived In Holland, AMI is now at Thu
town of Destieg. near utretCh where
he hopes to escape further punish
ment at the hands of the nations h
has so grievously wronged.
Desteeg is on the Guelders Yssci. ~
arm of the Rhine river. about fort.
miles east of Utrecht and twelve mile
from the German border. The chateau
Middachten, to which the former en-
peror is reported to he proceeding, be
longs TO Count William Frederic
Charles Henry won Bentnck. He Is
member of the Prussian guards, nm,
before the war was attached to IN
German embassy in London and
member of the English Turf and Roya
Automobile clubs He Is 3S years old
He belongs to the famous Anglo-DItcl
German house Of Bentinck, the col
tincntal branch Of the family of III