The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-11-06

are. Not only can I not stop the offensive, but
I am giving orders to continue it, with re-
doubled energy
"Winterfeldt interviewed in his turn: Mon
sieur lie Marechal, it will be necessary for our
stats to consult each other and to discuss
together the whole of the details of execution.
How will they be able to do if the hos
tilities be continued? 1 beg of you for technical
reasons to stop the hostilities.' Again 1 re-
torted: The technical discussions can just
well take place in seventy-two hours. Until
then the offensive will continue This time it
finished. The four plenipotentiares rose
and withdrew"
During the next two days. November and
10 Foch slept but little. He certain that
the Germans would accept his terms but in the
meantime wireless messages received by the
EiffeT Tower told of the outbreak of a revoIu-
ton in Berlin so he did not know what govern
ment these men represented nor how much power
they now had. On the evening Of November 10
the German plenpotentiares came back to re-
quest that, account of the troubled state Of
affairs in Germany, the army be permitted to
retain a greater number of machine guns for
the purpose of maintaining order. Foch granted
them this and a little after five o'clock on the
morning of November IL they signed the Ar
mistice.
Visitors to the memorial building in Com
peigne Forest can look into the windows of
Dining Car No. 2419D and see there the table
on which the Armistice was signed and along
it the chairs occupied by the sgners Before
each chair is place card with name and
national coors it. Down one side of the
table three Of them bear the Tri-Color of France
and two the Union Jack Of Great Britain The
names on them are in this order from the head
of the table: Officer-I Interpreter Paul Laperche,
General Weygand Marshal Foch, Admiral Sir
Rosslyn Wemyss and Rear Admiral George Hope
On the other side all five place cards bear the
horizontal black, yellow and red Of Germany
and these names in the following order: Cap
tain of Cavalry Won Helldorf, Naval Captain
Vanselow General Major Detlef Won winterfeldt
Mr. Matthias Erzberger and Count Alfred Won
Obendorf.
OF the subsequent history of this famous din
ing car recent visitor TO Compeigne writes in
the New York Times as follows:
"What happened to Dining Car 2419D after that
eventful night does not seem clear. 1t appears
eventually to have been demobized but not to
have returned to civilian life. A small plate
beneath the arms one side of it announces
that it was given by the Wagons-Lits company
May I, 1921 and it was presumably about that
time that it turned up in the Court of Honor
at Invalides in Paris where with all its war
medals upon it, 1t took it's place with the other
inanimate heroes of such war as the first
Napoleon never dreamed of. It's medals are a
little difficult to see from the outside. for they
are high up at both ends of the main saloon
inside, in that strip which in the common herd
of dining cars is occupied by advertisements Of
Scotch whiskies Riviera hotels and Atlantic
steamship lines. They take the form of two
small red plaques adorned with cream-colored
flags, laurel wreaths and figures of Wagons-Lits
angels or of Nine. la Republique, IT is difficult
TO say which, for the light it not too good. One
plaque bears an inscription which begins. In
this car there signed at Transport near
Compiegne on November II. 1918 at five o'clock
the Armistice imposed on the Germans by the
victories OF the Allied Armies and continues
with the names OF the allied and German sig
natories. AT the opposite end of the saloon the
other plaque bears the names Of the battles
which the old dinirE car attended: THE Marine
1924, the User 1915 Verdun 1916, the Somme