The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-11-15

shall abandon all merchant ships
tugs, lighters, cranes and all other
harbor materials, materials for inland
navigation, all aircraft and all mate
rials and stores, all arms and arm
aments, and all stores and apparatus
of all kinds.
Twenty-nine-All Black sea ports
to be evacuated by Germany; all Rus
sian war vessels Of all descriptions
seized by Germany in the Black sea
are to be handed over to the Allies
and the United States Of America; all
neutral merchant vessels are to be re.
leased; all warlike and other materials
Of all kinds seized in these ports are
to be returned and German materials
as specified in clause twenty-eight are
to be abandoned.
Thirty-All merchant vessels in Ger
man hands belonging to the Allies and
associated powers are to be restored
in ports to be specified by the Allies
and the United States of America
without reciprocity.
Thirty-one-No destruction of ships
or of materials to be permitted be-
fore evacuation, surrender or restora-
ton.
Thirty-two-The Greman govern
ment shall formally notify the neutral
governments of the world, and par
ticularly the governments Of Norway.
Sweden, Denmark and Holland, that
all restrictions placed on the trading
of their vessels with the Allied and as
sociated countries, whether by the
German government or by private
German interests, and whether in re-
turn for specific concessions such as
the export of shipbuilding material
or not, are Immediately cancelled.
Thirty-three-No transfers of Ger
man merchant shipping of any de-
scription to any neutral flag are to
take place after signing of the
armistice.
YIDuration of armistlce:
Thirty-four-The duration Of the
armistice is to be thirty days, with
option to extend. During this period
on failure of execution of any of the
above clauses, the arnistice may be
denounced by one of the contracting
parties, or where both have been no.
tilted 4S hours previous
YIITime limit for reply:
Thirty-fve-This armistice to be &C.
cepted or refused by Germany within
seventy-two hours of notification.
The war thus comes to an end; for
having accepted these terms of arms
tice, it will be impossible for the
German command to renew it.
It is not now possible to asses;
the consequences of this great con-
summation. We know only that thi;
tragic war, whose consuming flames
swept from one nation to another
until all the world was on fire, is a
an end and that it was the privilege
of our own people to enter it at it
most critical juncture in such fash
ion and in such force as to contribute
in a. way of which we are all deeply
proud to the great result. We know
too. that the object of the war is az
tanned; the object upon which all fre'
men who set their hearts; and at
tain with a sweeping completeness
which even now we do not realize
Armed imperialism such as the mel
conceived who were but tools TO tn
masters of Germany is at an end. II
Illicit ambitions engulfed in biacl
despair. Who will seek to revive it
The arbitrary power Of the militar,
caste of Germany which once coul
secretly and of its own single choic
disturb the peace of the world is dis
credited and destroyed. And NOR
than that-much more than that-ha
lbeen accomplished ME great nation
which associated themselves to de
stroy it have now definitely unite
in the common purpose to set up sue
a peace as will satisfy the longin
Of the whole world for dfsintereste
justice, embodied in settlements whic
are based upon something much bel
ter and much more lasting than tt
selfish competitive interests Of powe'
ful States. There is no longer COZ
lecture as to the objects the victor
have in mind. They have mind