Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-11-15
ARM|ST|CE SIGNED;
WORLD WAR ENDED
GERMANY FINALLY ADMITS DE.
FEAT AND HoSTILIT1ES
HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED.
Kaiser Wilhelm Seeks Sanctuary in
Holland After Being Convinced That
His Dream of World Dominion
Would Never Come True,

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allies, her great military machine
process of destruction by onslaught
of the allies armies; her emperor
frc,,,v. rr''and. with his dream {
world dominion rnndeiy shaftere'
Germany has at last conceded defea
and the world war which has ragged 70
for, gears l. at an end.
The Huns have surrendered uncOr
ditionally to General Foch.
The war ended Monday morning, Nc
vember IL, at o'clock, Washington
time, IL o'clock Paris time. The arm
istice was signed by the German req
resentatiyes at $50 O'Clock Monica.
morning and flashed all owe: The coun
try. The result was a demonstration
In every section of America that wal
continued for hours.
The terms of the armistice, it wa:
| announced, will not be made public
until later. Military men here, now
ever, regard it as certain they III
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 III
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
ments.
There was no information as TO the
under which the armis-
tice was signed, but since the German
courier did not reach German military
headquarters until 10 o'clock Sunday
French time, it was gen.
orally assumed here that the German
ENJOYS within the French lines had
been instructed by wireless to sign the
terms
Forty-seven hours had been required
For the courier to reach German head
quarters, and unquestionably several
hours were necessary for the exami
lation of the terms and decision. 1t
vas regarded as possible, however,
hat the decision may have been made
It Berlin and instructions trans
nitted from there by the new German
government.
Up TO Sunday there were four king
IONS in the German empire, namely, |
russia, Bavaria, Saxony and |
All but Saxony are now |
ingless and throneless. The situation
n Saxony is not clear from the dis |
atches. Germanys total population
), roughly, 70000,0O0
The populations of the three revoiu-
ionized kingdoms are: Prussia, A.
OO,000 Bavaria, 100000: Wurttem-
erg, 100000; total, 51,000,000.
OF the remaining inhabitants of the
mpire. it is safe TO say, on the
rength of all dispatches, that the ma
,rity has Joined the revolt.
ha L-inn Of |
axony is also about to abdicate, ii
e has not already done so. He is
August II, whose personal
fe was exposed some years ago by
is divorced wife, the Princess Louise
{ Tuscany.
William Hohenzollern, the. former
nperor of Germany, who began the
orld war, and who abdicated when
: was convinced that Germany must
lrrender to the victorious allies, has
rived In Holland, ana is now at the
wn of Destieg. near .Utretch. where
: hopes to escape further punish
ent at the hands of the nations he
IS so grievously wronged.
Desteeg is on the Guelders Ysscl. an
m Of the Rhine river, about forty
lies east of Utrecht and twelve miles
ON the German border. The chateau
to which the former en-
,ror is reported to be proceeding, be-
ngs TO Count William Frederick
iarles Henry Won Bentinck. He is
ember of the Prussian guards, and
fore the war was attached to the
arman embassy In London and
ember of the English Turf and Royal
1tomobile clubs. He is 80 years old.
e belongs TO the famous Anglo-Dutch-
,rman house of Bentinck- the con-
rental branch Of the family of the