Evening star., 1919-02-18
NEW ARM|ST|CE
TERMS WITHHELD
Foch Reports Renewal to
CounciI-PoIes Protected,
1t Is Understood.
ERZBERGER ASKS FOR AID
By the Associs ted Press

appeared In person before the council
of the great powers today and an
nounced the acceptance and the sign
ing by the Germans of the new cendt
tions of the armistlce. The signing
took place a o'clock Sunday evening
on board Marshall Foch's private car
Treves.
The new terms. while still withheld,
are understood to restrict German
operations against Poland within GER
, tain fixed lines, thus removing the
! danger of a military clash, and at the
same time opening access between the
/ Important Action to Follow.
But more important results viii
take form shortly when Marshal Foch
returns to Treves for submission OF
the details of the disarmament and
demobiiiza tion of the German torces'
which are being formulated by the
military naval and economic advisers
! of Foch. These are of a nature
amounting in fact to 81 preliminary
peace agreement
/ Disarmament IS understood to in
clude both the naval and military
branches, and the naval authorizes e1s
expect the ultimate naval terms VIII
! provide for the dismantlinG OF the
! fortifications of Helgoland and the
| kiel canal, the canal being epenea foF
commercial navigation.
/ While the blockade is not raised by
the present terms yet IL rs expecteaa
! that the disarm ament under later ana
more complete terms will obyiate rhe
| necessity of further blockade ana
permit such economic and feod re-
! lief as is determined upon.
Says Germany Aided U. S.
| Among the declarations of Matthias
| Erzberger at Treves. according 70
| Berlin dispatch, published IN the
Temps was one to the American rep
resentative on the armistice commis-
| sion that Germany went to the ala OF
| the United States from 1852 to 1863
during the great economic crisis, iuf
| nishing money. clothes, shoes and
machinery. If the United States came
| to the aid of Germany today, more
| than fifty years afterward, Erzberger
said, she could give Germany 1000 ana
raw materials against German ioan,
and at the same time would be doing
a good stroke of business.
ErZberger said Germany was suner-
| ing from hunger More than half
a million men, women and children
| had died from exhaustion or the re-
suits of lessened capacity TO resist
/ disease he said. He declared that
/ Bismarck Immediately gave succor to
Paris in 1871 after the Franco-Prus-
sian war. ErzbeTger gave warning
/ that bolshevism would result from
hunger in Germany.
/ He protested against what he
/ termed the oppression against every
! thing German In Alsace- Lorraine and
! against the encouragement given by
the entente ''to the Polish appetite for
conquest"
Germany, Erzberger declared. had
accepted President Wilson'S four
teen points for peace, and the allies
also had accepted them. Article II,
he said, did not give to the allies
the right to forbid the German peo-
pie from defending themselves
against such Entertainments aa the
Poles were making.
Huns Attempt to Justify Attitude.
/ PARIS, February 1S.-When the Ger
mans came to sign the terms OF the
new armistice, says a Havas dispatch
/ from Treves, Matthias Erzberger handed
! to Marshal Foch twenty-t -three-page
memorial, in which it was attempted to
! justify Germany's attitude, 1T being
maintained that she had done her best
to meet her obligations.
/ He also gave the marshal a memoraD-
dunn from Philip Scheidemann, the new
German chancellor, complaining Of the
increasingly hard terms forced upon
Germany and protesting against the
Germans being forced to evacuate Po-
! land, delivering German fortresses to
the Poles and abandoning the German
people there A demand was made that
/ the allies require the Poles to cease
their attacks against the Germans
/ This last request has already been
complied with, d telegram having been
| sent to Warsaw from Paris last night.
The special commission of the su-
preme council charged with drafting
the terms of a definite armistice which
will hold good until the peace prelirni
raries are signed, has almost completed
its task, and it is possible, says Havas
report, that Marshal Foch will be able
1 to notify the Germans on Thursday or
{ Friday of the military and naval terms
/ which will be essentially those of the
preliminary peace treaty.
/ 1t is understood that the terms will in
clude clauses by which Germany will be
sliowed to maintain only 25, 900 men un-
der arms to keep order. All war ma
rerial beyond what is necessary to equip
these troops, would, according to report.
be placed under control of the allies,
who will also hold Germany's rnuntion
factories.
New Military Conditions.