Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-08
FIRING CEASES ON ONE FRONT WHILE
 EARLE YIS HELD

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 ly two hours before, at II a. m. MT.
 Lansing upon learning that the cable censors had reported on an unofficial
 dispatch saying the armistice was signed, had put cablegram through
 on the state departments special
 wire to Paris for a statement of the facts. Just at 2:04 o'clock the reply came back that the report was un- true; that the Germans would not be received by Marshal Foch until six hours after the time the erroneous dispatch had given for the signing of the armistice.
 Upon the question of whether the German delegation is empowered to act without communicating with Der lin, regardless of what demands are made in the terms offered by Marshal Foch, depends whether, an immediate cessation of hostilities may be in sight.
 Marshal Foch, of course, is fully empowered to act for the entente allies and America. for the supreme war council at Versailles already has laid down the terms nd no changes re to be tolerated. It has been assum ed, based on the usual practice of ne- gotiations in agreeing upon an armis- tice. that the Germans also are fully empowered to sign for their govern ment. That was the case with. the Bull garian commissioners who were sent down to meet the French and British military and naval commanders. And while the Austro-H Hugarian govern ment nominally approved the terms of the armistice which the Italian commander, General Diaz, dictated, it was General Bender, the Austrian commander in the field who really act ed.
 :, It is regarded as entirely possible, homever, that since the Geran dele gates did not knom the terms of the armistice until they naturally met Marshal oFch they might have plan ned to wait at least perfunctory word from Berlin before closing the negotiations. With military tele- graphs and wireless at their disposal little time would be consumed in the reference. The Germans, of course, want no delay in stopping the Ameri- can and allied advances in view of the tremendous cressure upon the government gy..the populace and by the mutinous soldiers and sailors of the North Sea force and of the panic stricken Bavarians who are desperate ly anxious to avert an invasion of their country from the south.
 That the fears of the Bavarians are not without foundation is made evil dent by the rapid advices today the Varaian minister has threatened to order the Bavarian troops at the front to return home to meet this menace from the south unless an armistice is at once concluded.
 There is reason to believe that in a despairing hope of retaining some shadow of control over the future government of Germany, no lmAtuer what form that may take, the Kaiser and the military leaders will insist that the Reichstag, representing the Geran people, assume full share of responsibility for the humiliatng arm- istice and peace terms which must be accepted. For this reason, if for no other, the official view here is that the armistice commissioners would go through with the form of communicat- ing with their government.
 The inclusion of General Winter feldt and other members of the Prus- sian military class among the German envoys attracted attention here. There was some doubt as to whether this selection was made as last manifes- tation of defiance or neither, on the contrary, the civil powers now SUD- posed to be in control of the German government deliberately intended to humilitate in this way, the military party which is held responsible for the disaster which has overtaken Ger many.
 General Winterfeldt was a military attacl1c for Germany at Paris before the war. It was reclled today in Sep. tember, 1913 he was severely injured in an automobile at Grieseles, while witnessing the great French maneau- vers. For months he was nursed with devoted care. When the war broke out.
 The Statement.
 The document published tonight fol- lows:
 "There was received the seventh of November at 12:3O a. m. the fol- AOWul6 1IOuI IL0 I0Ilndu ulSu cow mand by order of the German govern ment to Marshal Foch:
 "The German govednment, having been informed through the President of the United States that Marshal Foch received powers to received ac- credited representatives of the Ger man government and communicate to them conditions of an arnistice, the following plenipotentiaries have been named by it.:
 Matthias Erzberger, General H. K. A. Witerfield, Count Alfred von Oberndotff, General won Gruenell and Naval Captain von Salow.
 The plenipotenntiaries request that they be informed by wireless of the place where they can met Mar shal Foch. They will proceed by au- tomobile with subordinates of the staff to the place thus appointed"
 "Orders were given to cease fire on the front at 3 o'clock p. m. until