THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1936.
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In Flanders Fields the poppies.blow
Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the Sky
The larks still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead, Short days ago. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing; hands we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1030.
"VICTORY OVER BLINDNESS"
There can be no more fitting occasion than Armistice Day on which to bear in mind the ma ni-
and
ficent work being done on behalf of British blinded soldiers, sailors airmen by St. Dunstan's Home, which has just completed twenty-one years of existence. What this institution has done
had there been no St. Dunstan's
MONDAY
11
NOVEMBER-
SUNDAY
OF
A
NOVEMBER
TWO MINUTES
Armistice Signed.
T six o'clock on Saturday evening, September 28, 1918, Ludendorff left his desk at General Headquar- ters in the Hotel Britan- nique at Spa and went down one flight of stairs, His tread heavy, 19 Were
wns.
them ព
Foch sat as imperturbable as a statue, except when he tugged vigorously at his moustache. Wemyss toyed with his monocte and affected boredom, No one said a word. Now and then a sob escaped from von Wintor feldt. General Weygand went on reading, the interpreter translating:-
Immediate evacuation of in- vaded territory. Occupation of the left bank of the Rhine, with
described Germany's desperate into a dining-car converted into intervened. "We do not wish motor trucks.
an office. This was conch No. 1o stand on form. How
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of
In a moment the marshal cate to them the terms of an ment and G.H.Q.. Foch said the entered, followed by his staff. armistice.
terms could be sent only in cipher, by special courier. The meeting then ended.
his in the Compiegne Forest, near "What brings these gentle bridgeheads, by Allied troops thoughts. So heavy were they, the station of Rethrules, where men here? What do you wish at the expense of Germany. in fact, that Hindenburg read Foch and his staff awaited of me?"
Return of prisoners without re- them in a train run into a "We await proposals relative ciprocity. Reparations for all the First Quarter- siding built for railroad artil- to the conclusion of an armis damage done. Surrender muster-General's face when he lery.
lice," said Erzberger.
5.000 guns, 3,000 minnenwerfer, At nine the German envoys "I have came in a moment later,
no proposals to 30,000 machine guns, 1,700
airplanes, "We must ask for an armis- walked over in single file to the make," said Foch.
5,000 locomotives, Count Oberndorff, a diplomat, 150,000 railroad CHER, 5,000 for those deprived of life's great- tice," said Ludendorff, and he Allied train. They were ushered est gift in the World War only those who have benefitted there- situation.
do Surrender of all submarines. 24190 of the Wagons-lits com you want us to express our Internment of the German sur- from can tell. There are now
"Bitterly as I regret it, I have pany, and, when Foch travelled, selves? We are ready to say face fleet. Terms for the cast- some two thousand- of these war
to agree with you," said - it was Allied G.H.Q. A large that we ask the conditions of ern front, etc. Financial clauses. heroes, who, after expert train-
Maintenance of the blockade. "I have ing at St. Dunstan's, live in their denburg. "I was going to speak table was in the centre of the an armistice."
no conditions to Penalties
for non-fulfilment. own homes. They are not de-You are right, we must act at
to you about it myself to-night, saloon.
Near it stood General Wey- offer," said Foch.
Thirty-four stipulations in all," gand. He showed the Germans Oberndorff bejan to read to be accepted or rejected in relicts, but they would be once, before it is too late."
their seats, and they took their from Wilson's last Note: "Mar, seventy-two hours that is, They shook hands, and places standing behind the shal Foch has been authorised November 11, at 11 am. to take them in hand... During | Ludendorff went back upstairs chairs. Weygand then went to receive properly accredited At the end of the reading the war, whether or not a blinded to his office. Along the front into the next conch to tell Foch representatives of the German Erzberger asked to be put in Government, and to communi- communication with his Govern- ntan availed himself of St. Dun- the night bombardment began that all was ready. stan's was entirely optional an again on the eve of the fifty- his part.
but the fact remains first month of the war. that practically every blinded soldier and sailor In all the British Imperial forces-as well as five women, blinded in various form of active war service--did so. The end of the war did not, as might have been expected, put 11 stop to the increase in the number of war-blinded men. Not
over his "I am authorised to miske even to-day, eighteen years after Early on November 7 Foch re- His cap was the signing of the Armistice, has ceived the first wireless message right ear; he was brisk and them known," replied Foch, "if from German G.H.Q. It an obviously accustomed to com- the German delegates ask for.
The German Empire came to the sad procession come to an
an armistice. Do you ask for an end on November 9, end. In the last three years, 75 nounced the names of the dele- manding.
"That was the best day of my an armistice? If you do, I can November 10 was a Sunday. gates and asked that a mecting new cases of "delayed blindness" place be fixed,
life," he afterwards told one of inform you of the conditions In the morning Foch went to it can be ob church. In the afternoon, still have gone to St. Dunstan's, these
Foch replied at once, direct- his aldes. "When I saw them under which
without any word from their being directly due to war service, ing the Germans to present in front of me, lined up along tained."
"We ask for an armistice,"
Government, the Germans went often to the effect of mustard-gas themselves at the French out the other side of the table, I
on the Chimay-Four- said to myself, "There's the said Erzberger und Oberndorff for a walk in the forest, poisoning. The greatest value of posts
Capelle-Guise rond, German Empire!' I was a proud together. mies-La the work of St. Dunstan's is un- doubtedly to be found in the Arrangements were made for a man, I assure you! I thought, temporary suspension of hos 'We'll be civil, but we must After-Care Organisation, by tilities in that sector.
show them who we are."
salute
At 5 pm on November 6, Secretary of State Erzberger, appointed against his wishes to head the Armistice Commission, left Berlin by special train for Spa. He took with him Count Oberndorff, and he carried full powers signed in blank by the Chancellor.
by Humphrey
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Author of
Cobb Paths of Glory
cocked
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"Captain Helldörff left for Spa with a copy of the terms at 1 p.m., and reached the front about 5 o'clock. There, he was held up for several hours by his own troops, who rained bullets at him each time he signalled that he wanted to come across the lines.
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THERE IS ONLY ONE, which the busincas, domestic and At 9.20 p.m. the delegation Foch gave the Germans a quite unwarlike looking officer received two hours carlier. Pre
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At 9.30 p.m. Weygand gave Erzberger, a batch of wireless And then
slight, un- messages which hand arrived obtrusive, rather boyish and from Germany. These had been and bow. began to read out what are sumably, French officers had his probably the severest terms of held them up in an attempt to
surrender that have ever been decipher them. in dictated to a defeated Power. messages read:-
over
social interests of the cases are crossed the German front-line, military continually watched. In this the cars advancing slowly over Erzberger handed sphere, St. Dunstan's helps the No Man's Land through a drizz- credentials.
"Your credentials are men to settle in their homes, ling fog. their businesses and farms, and The leading car, Erzberger's, order, Kindly introduce your
staff." large white fag, A finds suitable employment for carried
soldier stood on the running Erzberger did so, in German: those who have studied massage
board and constantly bléw "Secretary of State Erzberger, and telephony. For the most short blasts on a trumpet. Two President of the Commission; part, those helped live the lives of hundred yards from the Ger- General von Winterfeldt; Count Naval Captain normal men, with a normal man's man lines the procession was Oberndorff;
Vanselów; Staff Captain Goyer: interest in. work and play; they halted by French soldiers,
Captain von Helldorff." pull their full weight as citizens, and they use their hands and
It was shortly after sunrise brains us effectively as anyone when they arrived at the spot
which they else. The goods
make
in amazing variety
have won a remarkably fine re- Home is being provided for them putation everywhere: they are to at Brighton. This will meet the be found in the homes of thou-specific needs of the blind more sands of people, from Royal completely than has yet been done palaces to the humblest cottages. anywhere in the world.. Money Now, thanks to the continued is still needed for the carrying on determination of St. Dunstan's to of this beroficent work, and see that these blinded heroes are donations, however small, will be to be given every possible facility welcomed by the Home's Hend- to triumph over their handicap, quarters, Regent's Park, London, a new Convalescent and Holiday N.W.1.
Foch then announced the names of the Allied delegates: Foch: Admiral "Marshal
General Weygand; Wemyss; Admiral Hope; Captain Mar- riott: Commander Bagot; Inter- preter-Officer Laperche,"
They took their seats op posite each other in this order: Interpreters.
Vanselow Weygand
Foch Winterfeldt
Wemyss Erzberger Oberndorf Hope
Foch opened proceedings at
once.
One of these
"The German Government ac- cepts the conditions of the
on November 8,
The Two Snipers armistice communicated to it
(An incident of the war, recounted?
to the writer.)
By GEOFFREY DEARMER Gaily, as though it were a game In which the players have
descricd
The comradeship of mastery, Two snipers with each other
vicd
Till the more fortunate found
his aim
And the other choked and
died
Then did reallly break over
The unpierced soldier, and he
crept
And hid his face in the long
177085,
And eurred his hands adept, And prayed for his enemy like
a lover
And with his Master, wept.
"(Signed) Imperial
cellor-3084.'
Chan-
"The Government accepts the armistice," said Erzberger. ›
"Are you sure the message is authentic?" asked Weygand
"Yes," said Erzberger. "This number, 3084, is a code we
to previously agreed on tablish authenticity."
"Then when will you be ready to sign?" said Weygand.
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"As soon 49 we have de- ciphered all these messages," said Erzberger.
At five minutes past two on the morning of November 11 the German delegates notified Marshal Foch that they were. ready for the final meeting, Ten
Bession be-- minutes later the
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