Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-18
IMMEDIATE BREAK
IN ARM|ST|CE, HINT
Foch Demands FuIfi|Iment of
Conditions al, Once,
Paper Says.
BELIEVES FAMINE REAL

PARIS, January IS (Havas) Mar
shal Foch, according to the Matin, will
Immediately break off the armistice
with Germany if the conditions of the
armistice are not fulfilled.
The allied; commander in chief, the
newspaper adds, does not believe that
the Germans exaggss&ts when they
cry famine The situation Of the
populations OF Austs4a anA Prussia.
the n1Aesl1aisis quoted as saying. is
near the starvation point.
Germany sfin possesses an army, the
marshal declared, but the allies hold
the Rhine, which constitutes formi-
dable strategica1 barrier. Marshal
Foch is said to have declared that he
did not believe that a bolshevik inva-
sion through Germany: to France was
possible.
Extended One Month.
PARIS. Friday, January IT, The
agreement for the renewal Of the Ger
man arnistice signed by Marshal Foch,
Admiral Browning and the German
arlnistice commissioners on Thursday
provided for the renewal of the armis-
tice from time to time after the month
for which the extension runs, until the
conclusion of peace, subject to approval
OF the allied governments.
New Clause Added.
The principal terms of the renewal
are substantially as have been already
reported. In addition there is clause
by which the allied command reserves
the right to occupy that part of the
Strassbourg defense comprised by the
Rhine and a strip of territory from
three to six miles beyond. Other
clauses. provide for the substitution
for supplementary railroad material.
fixed at 500 locomotives and ], 800 cars
by the protocol of December II, by
agricultural implements and give con-
troll of Russian prisoners in Germany
ito allied and associated delegates for
repatriation. German headquarters at
Berlin will act in collaboration with
the. allied and associated relief or
ganizations in this phase Of the work.
The naval clauses provide that all
submarines must be turned over, in
Guiding all submarine cruisers. mine
layers, sweepers, salvage ships and
floating docks for submarines. They
also stipulate that the building of all
submarines must cease and those on
the stocks must be dismantled or de-
stroyed under allied supervision.
+ Germany undertakes TO turn over
ali allied ships still detained in Ger
man ports. The clause providing that
Germany shall place her mercantile
marine at the disposal of the allies in
return for food supplies says that the
agreement in no way affects the final
disposition Of those ships.
Erzberger Protests.
AMSTERDAM. January 1.-THE
meeting between Marshal Foch and
the German delegates was featured by
protests by Matthias Erzberger, repre-
senting the Germans. against the status
in which Germany was left during the
period of the armistice. The financial
and economic dictatorship of the
entente" was the theme of his main
protest.
sWhen will you raise the blockade?'
Erzberger asked. 'The food condi- |
tions in Germany are daily growing |
worse, and hunger will produce a |
mental state which the allies cannot |
desire. Your peoples themselves are |
not proof against a world revolution.
'Win the entente" he continued, |
undertake binding obligations re-
specting the return Of the German |
prisoners of war? When viii you be |
in a position to conclude a prelimi- |
nary peace. Germany has asked six /
times for negotiations for preliminary |
peace, but has received no reply"