Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-18
TEIJTONS' FORTS
MUST GO; MORE
SHIPS DEMANDED
Helgoland and Kiel Fortifica-
tions Doomed; Block
ade Continued
BY Associated Press.

Paris, Feb. 1S.-Although the
terms imposed upon Germany
by the Allies in the new armis-
tiee are being withheld, semi
official reports indicate that
Marshal Foch has taken a long
step in preventing any possible
outbreak against the entente
governments in military way.
According to the Paris CORE
spondent of the London Daily
Mail the terms provide for the
immediate surrender of certain
warships which have not yet
been given up as required, and
the conversion of the status of
the German fleet in the Scapa
flow from that of interment to
surrender.
1t may sbe taken, the correspon-
dents adds, that these surrounded
ships will be destroyed, the idea of
dividing them among the allies hav-
ing been abandoned.
Forts Must Go
The fortifcations of Helgoland
and the kiel canal will ultimately
be destroyed, it is believed, under
the new allied terms and the canal
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Marshal Foch appeared in per-
son before the council of the great
the acceptance and the signing by
the Germans of the new conditions
of the armistice.
The signing took place at o'clock
Sunday evening on board Marshal
Foch's private car at Treves.
This averts what promised to be
a rather critical situation, as it had
been reported that the Germans
might persist in carrying out their
intimations of IL refusal to sign.
Terms Withheld
The new terms while still with
held, are understood to restrict Ger
man operations against Poland
within certain fixed lines, thus re-
moving the danger of a military
clash, and at the same time open
ing access between the interior of
Poland and the Baltic sea.
But more important results will
take form shortly when Marshal
Eoch returns TO Treves for submis-
sion of the details of the disarma-
ment and rehabilitation of the Ger
man forces which are being formu-
lated by the military, naval nnd
economic advisors of Foch. These
are of nature amounting in fact
to n preliminary peace agreement.
Disarmament is understood to in
clude both the naval and military
branches, and the naval authorities
expect the ultimate nasal terms will
provide for the dismantling of the
fortifications of Helgoland and the
Kiel canal, the canal being opened
for commercial navigation.
Blockade Continued
While the blockade is not raised
by the present terms yet it is ex-
pected that the disarmament under
late and more complete terms will
obviate the necessity of a further
blockade and permit such economic
and food relief as it determined up
on.
The council of the great powers
to-day gave a further hearing on
the Russian question. but no decis-
ion was reached. The feeling seems
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sight and that none of the pend
ing plans offers much of prospect
for arriving at a satisfactory solu-
ton.
The line of demarcation between
Germany and Poland is outlined as
follows: East of Grosser Neudorf
(southeast of Bromberg) south of
Labischin, south of Schodziesen CD,
north of EXin (southwest of Brom-
berg), south of Sam (?), north of
Czarnikau (east of Kreuz) west of
Birnbaum and Benstchen (west of
Posen) Woolstein, Lissa and north
of WiernsZow and thence along the
frontier between Silesia and Poland.
(This line of demarcation gives to
Poland considerable part of the
German government of Posen).
1t was provided by the allied
terms that the armistice must be
renewed for an indeterminate period
with a fixed delay of three days for
the denunciation of it. The old terms
of the armistice are to be carried
out completely by Germany.