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"Do you wish for an armistice?”

to save my army, Ludendorff wailed. Fock demanded, and with one voice Germany had then to learn that Erzberger and Oberndorff cried out, choice of the moment for

for beginning

"Yes,"

war does not confer the power to Defeat had been acknowledged, deelde when war shall bo

ended

ted, surrender hud been offered. Foch Negotiations for an armistice went on was ready to give them his condi for a month while the Allied forces, tions. He instructed Weygand to attacking without respite, drove the read out the principal clauses of the German armies back upon their own armistice, ench of which was trans- frontier

Inted at its close. The compiele text was handed to the Germans.

The Sleufried line of those days was shuttered. Further withdrawal meant the invasion of Germany. The In dend silence the clear-spoken German troops at the front could phrases were heard. Foch sat im--

in mobile on a statue, except that once neither stand fast nor retreat order. The Navy, called upon to or twice he pulled at his moustache. fight, replied by mutiny. The All- Wemyss played with his eyeglass. Highest sought safety from his own The German civilians listened erect people on neutral soil.

and impassive.

The terms of the Armistice drawn up by the Allies required uncondi- tional surrender.

In the first hour of the morning of Nov. 7. 1918, Foch received a wire- less message giving the names of German envoys who would meet him. Not for a moment was the vigour of the Allled offensive relaxed. From Lorraine to Ghent the guns still thundered and the infantry pressed

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Erzberger and Oberndorff showed no more concern than at an ordinary political conference. Gen, von Win- terfekt grew pale and disconcerted, and "the young German captain," Gen. Weygand has recorded, "could hot hide his emotion."

At the end of the recital, on the announcement that Germany had a time limit of 72 hours to refuse or accept, Erzberger made a vehement In a death-dumb, autumn-drip- appeal for the instant cessation ΩΣ of ping mist" the Germun delegates hostilities. "For God's sake, M.

M. le motored from Spa to the front.

Marcchal, do not wait those 72 hours. WHEN ENVoys arrivED Stop the hostilities this very day. Only at the point to which they Our armies are a prey to anarchy. had been ordered was there no Bring. Bolshevism threatens them, and may The convoy of five inotors brought spread over the whole of Germany Erzberger, the President of the Mis- and threaten France itself." sion; Count Oberndorf, Gen. von Winterfeldt then put the same plea Winterfeldt, Post-Captain von Selow in another way: "for technical rea- and their companions had to explain sons" the Allies should cease firing.

Von

"Natchally, the chief difference between this $7.98_ting, and the $4.79 one is that you get a better diamond!”

that they had been delayed by roads Foch would have none of it, and almost destroyed and the disorder of

the Germans. relired. During the shed." But they preferred to decode the Marne, the second this vigil be- troops. retiring Hongkong on the date of publication, by Then & long motor drive brought three days given their Government and debate a telegram from Ilinden- fore the Armistice. the United Press Associations, who re- I them to the railway junction of obtain one or two modifcutions.

for consideration they were able to berg, IL cannot have comforted serve all rights and forbid repulation, Tergnler. They complained after-

them.

At a quarter past two the Germans: either wholly or in part without

came to ls cooch and argued for arrangement.

wards, with a characteristically Cer-

At eleven o'clock that evening nearly three hours. Then they sign- man sense ol grievance, that the it was learnt that the Government Foch lay down to sleep. There were ed, and the order went forth that journey was unnecessarily prolonged accepted the conditions, and Foch only two nights in the war on which hostilities will cease along the entire to show them the devastation made urged the delegates to sign "if they he could not get his full allowance. front on Nov. 11 at 11 am." De by their own 'armies. In

Employment in Britain

Towards eight o'clock on Nov. 10

There is much uneasiness in dawn of Nov. 8 their the grey truly desired to avoid useless blood- The first was before the Battle of liverance had been achieved.

train stopped

a forest by the black outline of another, in which Foch and Admi. Wemyss, the British First Sea Lord and plenipotentiary, had arrived the night before. Both trains were on sidings bullt for heavy zallway guis, which, "one of the densest corners of the Compiegne forest" screened from aircraft.

Britain and amazement else where that in spite of all the calls of the war there still remain several thousands of persons out of employment. The French are frankly mystified ---they have not been able to get enough labour. What is the meaning of this surplus of Jabour in Britain after nine months of war when man-power is such an essential part of the nation's war potential?

The answer is simple. The difference between Britain on the one hand and France and Germany on the other is that in Britain there was no military conscription before last June and consequently there were no ness,' millions of trained men to be instantly mobilized.

Consider

what

H

When A Young Girl

Marries

An Old Mon-

The chances are they

"On a chilly and cloudy morning," Foch related afterwards, "Weygand Here they are came to my carriage and announced,

It had rained) for several days

and the

ground, was the German train was only 60 yards Although mere lake of niud.

distant sort of gangway had

been thrown on the soil and four men striding along it. I looked at them and said to myself, So this is the German Empire. At last it is beaten and begs for peace. I am going to treat it as it deserves, with- out hate or brutality, but with arm of two young women engaged to men vanced age have a more restricted

old enough to be their fathers. range of healthy young

will be happy

times I wish omething exciting would happen. At times I find this | life rather dull, but then I realise how lucky I am to have a husband, home and baby."

QUESTION 4: Was your wife

ON Page Three of Saturday'sly interior to other children it is behen in her parents' home?

"Telegraph" were pictures enuse persons marrying, at mad-

He received them in a coach stol Thirty-one-year-old Miss Deniza choose from."

married Braun

10

sixty-year-old

women to

Typical answer: "Not entirely." Often the girl had been robbed. of normal chances of social life by a deralnating mother or a solitary job.. preserved, a restaurant-car with two compartments made into one and

ON the other hand at the Marriage has made her matter; de- Nineteen-year- happened. large table in the centre, its design Lord Newborough,

couples who replied to my Veloped her from an object of intere of--familiar okl wagon-lit type old Mile. Genevieve-de-Saint-Jean questionnaire said their marriage mittent social charity to a position.

fty-four-year-old Sacha was a success.

of Importance. They were standing "pale and sil" married when Foch and Wemyss appeared, Cultry.

QUESTION 5: and salutes

In none of these eases was there any problems, to cope with; for in- were exchanged. Mar-)

Have there been shat and admiral, of course, and the The chances of their being happy any question of marrying for wealth, stance, do your children resent the German offleers were in uniform are very great-much greater than All of them suffered varying degrees presence of a young woman, in the Erzberger and Oberndorff wore civilian clothes.

many people think,

of opposition, in two coses to the house? little man of Impul- Here are the results of an in-per cent, of the cases family opposi

point of financial loss. But in fifty

Typical answer: sive ways," presented his colleagues vestigation into the chances of hap- tion had changed to approval, and unfriendly gossip at times."

Foch Was and their credentials. coldly courteous. He sat down on Piness in marriages between men of in practically all cases to tolerance. one side of the table between Wemyss fty-five and more and women of

nd Weygand; from the other side thirty-five and less. the Germans,

Erzberger,

In

bei

First, hundreds of thousands of persons were deprived of work by the mere dislocation caused by the partial evacuation of vulnerable cities and the shut- ting down of entertainment industries. More than 200,000 people in the building industries

"A good deal of“ alone became unemployed by the

One or two, men replied that on orders to stop building construc

very pleased with the marriage. the contrary their children were tion. The introduction of gasol line rationing deprived of their

QUESTION 6: Are you particular- occupation scores of thousands

noted as a "young old" man? of, men engaged in automotive

Typical answer: "No, I don't think services. The Government's ex-

Here are some of the questions. But I have always preferred the hortations to the public to reduce be no pretence or disguise: Germany married: 952 of them married consumption of goods led to less had sent an embassy to admit defeat girls at least twenty years younger together with the digest or a typical society of people younger than my

reply to ruchi-.

self. And I had a fear and horror of and sue for peace.

becoming like some old bachelors." buying and less manufacture. But though the whole structure of ried girls in their teens.

QUESTION I: What attracted you To set against this there has German aggressive power was col-

to rach other?

Most of the men are apparently Of thirty cases Aled siner 1938,

unusually energelle men with many been the absorption of men into lapsing the delegacy still quibbled

over acknowledging defeat.

seventeen were clergymen (country They

Typical asper; "Undoubtedly interests; for instance a mun the Army and the other fighting had come, said Erzberger, to receive clergymen are

of. often lonely, being youthful charm lud moal to do with eighty-three who says his hobby in services, and the employment of the proposals for an armistice from socially Isolated by their jobs). il. We were both lonely as far as buying and selling as a general dealer hundreds of thousands of addi- the Alles.

real friends went."

and his recreation is going to chapel. tional men in the war supplyiness had not been fought to allow Four years of war against fright-

varied THESE CARCH

One man wrate: "Of course not QUESTION 7: Would you like industries.

the extreme of a man of all marriages between an oldich mun your wife to marry again after, you: 1 cvasion

of surrender. "I have no eighty-three who married a woman and a young girl are, successful, are gone? These two factors were enough proposal to make," said Foch sternly. of thirty-four, to a man of Afty-six Often a young girl is flattered and to reduce unemployment, but Erzberger was dumb; the Germans who married a girl of seventeen,

Half answered yes, the other half thinks she is in love when she is not. that their wives had no desire to re- not enough at once to abolish it.sat puzzling over their next move,

alist marry. ·.

About thirty per cent, of the wives found fe rather "quiet" sometimes.

to 1937-latest year for which The others chimed never Then, in one sharp plicase, Foch

troubled by the alleged barrier be- laid down the conditions of the meet-] figures ure available-nore Ing. "What do you want of me?" 4,000 men of fifty-five and upwards

than tween youth-and age. he asked Erzberger. There was to

the

Focli retorted.

than themselves; two of them mar-

from

diplomatist Oberndorff I wrote to these thirty couples A hasty marriage would If the British had instantly smoothly suggested tin! they were asking them, to answer twenty-five always lead to trouble." catied up the 5,000,000 men who quite ready to say they had come to questions.

QUESTION 8: Were your friends- QUESTION 2: To what do you and/or your wife's friends opposed will ultimately be required for "ask the conditions for an armistice," service there would have been "I have no conditions to give you," to say let us just briefly recall what riage?

Before reporting what they have attribute the success of your mar-to your marriage? the same shortage of labour as

Tother people have to say,

Typical answer? "Yes, many of Typical answer: "A certain basic them were; but most of them now. there is in the conscript coun- awaiting their turn.. The war:

The usual arguments against similarity of many of our views and realise that they were mistaken.. tries now at war, and the same manufactures will be still ex-mixed-age marriages are: (1) It is lastes combined with a fair number We had to face great difficulties at.. necessity to get certain men panding, and employing female unfair to the old man's dependants. of superficial differences due to age first." back from the Army to service as well as male labour. The (2) Why not marry some one his and education. Enough differences

But not all families were opposed. In the factories. But to have export industries are getting pace with a young woman. (4) Old

own age? (3) An old man can't keep to prevent life becoming dull."

One man answered: "My family were [done so before there WAS the under way under atrenuous

Several women and "The coming present. My eldest son gave men are liable to be unbearably pos- means of training them or the efforts in which the Government sessive and jealous, (5) They will of my baby made our marriage wife away and she had two girl

friends as bridesmaids," equipment for arming them and the manufacturers are co-be bored by each other's friends. success."

Interesting point was that every was plenty of opposition. - ::

Generally speaking, however, the would have been folly.

operating. Some unemployment (6) The children will be unhealthy was an inevitable phenomenon

couple said they had the amen and mentally dull,

terests and hobbles.. in a country organized for pence, which can be scientifically proved or Tila last is the only argumenti

QUESTION: 3. Do you ever find suddenly called upon to

Weiss, disproved... Professor ganize itself for totalitarian war. Stuttgart, and others, in denying it relaxations than you?

of that, your, solfe likes more exciting But it is temporary.

say: "If such children are occasional-

In a month from now the transition period will be over. Some 2,500,000 persons from Great Britain alone will be in the 'fighting services, and others.

reor-

́Typical answer by wife:

my

WELL, those are the results: HAA cot: the questionnaire; The fact seems to emerge that such mar riages are no less succonafúl "Some other marriages,

then