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Was

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Germany's Envoys For An Armistice

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Command confessed. defent. “A pruce Wilson that Foch hud "authority to offer to our enemies must be issued state the conditions of armistico."

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"Do you wish for an armistice?"

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"Yes." chaice of the moment for beginning war does not confer the, power to Defeat had been acknowledged, decide when war shall be ended. surrender had 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 resplie, drove the read out the principal clauses of the German armies back upon their own, arnilstice, each of which was trans- lated at its close. The complete text The Siegfried line of those days was handed to the Germans. was shattered. Further withdrawal meant the invasion of Germany. The In dead silence the clear-spoken German troops at the front could phrases were heard. Foch sat kn neither stand fast nor retreat in mobile as a statue, except that once 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.

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Erzberger and Oberndorf showed no more concern than at an ordinary

political conference. Gen. von Win-

terfeldt grew pale and disconcerted,

In the first hour of, the morning of Nov. 7

7, 1918, Foch received a wire- less message giving the names of the young German captain," German envoys who would meet him not hide his emotion."

Gen. Weygand has recorded, "could Not for a moment was the vigour of the Allied offensive relaxed." From At the end of the recital, on the Lorraine to Ghent the guns still announcement that Germany had a thundered and the infantry pressed time limit of 72 hours to refuse or accept, Erzberger mude a velement appeal for the instant cessation of

...

"In a death-dumb, autumn-drip- ping mist" the Germon delegates hostilities "For God's sake, M. le motored from Spa to the front.

WHEN ENVOYS ARRIVED

Foch would have none of it, and

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and the $4.79 one is that you got a bottor diamond!”

them.

At

At a quarter past two the Germans came to his coach and argued for eleven o'clock that evenlag nearly three hours. Then they signs,

Marechal. do not wait those 72 hours. Stop the hostilities tha very day. Only at the point to which they Our armies are a prey to anarchy. had been ordered was there no dring, Bolk

Bolshevism threatens them, and may The convoy of five motors brought spread over the whole of Germany

threaten Erzberger, the President of the Mis- and

France itself," Von sion; Count Oberndorff, Gen. von Winterfeldi then put the same plea Winterfeldt, Post-Captain von Selow in another way: "for technical Tea- and their companions had to explain sons" the Allies should cease firing. that they had been delayed by roads almost destroyed and the disorder of retiring troops.

the Germans retired. During the shed." But they preferred to decode the Marne, the second this vigil be- Then a

three days given their Government and debate a telegram from Hinden- fore the Armistice. a long motor drive brought Use Valled Press Associations, who re-them to the railway junction of for conskicration they were able to berg. It cannot have comforted sorvo all rights and terbid republication, Ternier. either wholly or in part without pravicai

They complained after obtain one or two modifications,

Towards eight o'clock on Nov. 10 arrangement

wards, with a characteristically Ger- man sense of seriesserfly prolonged accepted conditions,

that the it was learnt that the Government Foch lay down to sleep. There were ed, and the order went forth that 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." by their in a forest by the black outline of Wemyss, the British First Sca Lord another, in

in which Foch and Admn1.j and plenipotentiary, had arrived the night before. Both trains were on. sidings built for heavy railway guns, of the Complegne forest" screened which, "one of the densest. corners from aircraft.

Employment in Britain

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There is much uneasiness in dawn of a armies, In the grey truly desired to avoid useless blood- The first wo3 before the Battle of liverance had been ackloved.

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 labour in Britain after nine months of war when man-power is such an essential part of the nation's war potential?

Nov. 8 their train stopped

When A Young Girl

Marries An Old

The chances are they

will be happy

Man-

De-

times I wish something exciting would happen. At times I find this life.rather.dul,--but-then-I-realiza how lucky I am to have a husband. home and baby.” QUESTION 4:

Was your wife

ON Page Three of Saturday's ly inferior to other children to be happy in her parents' home?

Typical answer: "Not entirely." of hormal chances of social life by a Often the girl had been robbed dominating mother or a solitary job..

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

are'

It had rained i for several days and the ground, was a mere lake of mud. Although the German teain was only 00 yards The answer is simple. The

distant a sort of gangway had been difference between Britain on were striding along it. I looked at thrown on the soft and four men the one hand and France and them and said to myself, 'So this is Germany on the other is that in beaten und begs for peace. 7 am

the German Empire. At last Britain there was no military

going to treat it as it deserves, with-

"Telegraph" were pletures cause persons marrying at an ad-, conscription before last June and out hate or brutality, but with firm of two young women engaged to men vanted age have a more restricted consequently there were

ПCES. HO

| old enough to be their fathers.

range of healthy young women to millions of trained men to be

He received them

a a conch st preserved, a restaurant-car with two

Thirty-one-year-old Miss Deniza choose from." instantly mobilized.

compartments me into one and a Braun married to sixty-year-old happened, large table in the centre, its design Lord Newborough. Nineteen-year-

ON the other hand all the Marriage has made her matter; de- Firat, hundreds of thousands of of the faml"

couples who replied to my veloped her from an object of inter-- ar old wagon-lit type. old Mlle. Genevieve de Saint Jean questionnaire said their marriage mittent social charity to a position persons were deprived of work They wer standing "pale and silft"

married Afty-four-year-old Sachn

of importanco. Foch and Wemyss appeared, Gultry. by the mere dislocation caused

salutes were exchanged. Mar- by the partial evacuation of

In none of these cases was there any problems to cope with; for in- QUESTION 5: Have there been shal and admiral, of course, and the The chances of their being happy any question of marrying for wealth. [stance, do your children resent the vulnerable cities and the sh

ut-

German officers

were in uniform are very great-much greater than All of them suffered varying degrees presence of a young woman in the ting down of entert

Erzberger and Oberndorf wore many people think. ainment

of opposition, in two civilian clothes. industries. More nan 200,000

to the house? Erzberger, "a little man of impul

Here are the results of on in-per cent, of the cases family opposi- unfriendly gossip at times."

point of financial loss. But in Afty people in the guilding industries sive ways," presented his colleagues vestigation into the chances of hap-tion had changed to approval, and

Typical answer: "A good deal of'. alone become tinemployed by the and their credentials. Foch was orders

One or two men replied that on About thirty per cent, of the wives very pleased with the marriage.

the contrary their children found life rather "quiet" sometimes. troubled by the alleged barrier be-y noted as a "young old" man? The others claimed never to be QUESTION 8: Are you particular- tween youth and age.

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Consider what

when

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the

pre available-more

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than

ESE cases varied from

was a success.

cases

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were

to 3p building construc. coldly courteous. He sat down on plness in marriages between men of in practically all cases to tolerance.

one side of the table between Wemyss fifty-five 'und more and women of The introduction of gaso-nd Weygand; from the other side thirty-five and less. the rationing deprived of their the Germans.

Then, in one sharp phrase, Foch In 1937-latest year for which oupation scores of thousands of men engaged in automotive laid down the conditions of the meet-figures

"What do you want of me?" 4,000 men of fifty-five and upwards) Ing. services. The Government's ex- he asked Erzberger. There was to

Typical answer: "No, I don't think Here are some of the questions: 50. But I buve always preferred the hortations to the public to reduce be no pretence or disguise: Germany got married: 852 of them married consumption of goods led to less had sent an embassy to admit defeat girls at least twenty years younger reply to each

together with the digest of a typical society of people younger than my- selt. And I had a fear and horror of and sue for peace.

than themselves; two of them mar- buying, and less manufacture.

becoming like some old bachelors." But though the whole structure of ried girls in their teens. To set against this there has German aggresalve power was col

QUESTION 1: What attracted you to each other?

Most of the men are apparently been the absorption of men into lapsing the delegacy still quibbled

Of thirty cases fled since 1930,

unusually energetic men with many the Army and the other fighting come, sald Erzberger, to receive clergymen are often lonely, being youthful charm had most to do with eighty-three who says his hobby is over acknowledging defeat. They seventeen were clergymen (country Typical answer! "Undoubtedly interests: for instance Д man of services, and the employment of hundreds of thousands of addi-the Aosals for an armistice from socially Isolated by their jobs), 11. We were both lonely as far as buying and selling as a general dealer

real trlendi went."

and his recreation is going to chapel.. tional mon in the war supply' Four years Way against fright-

QUESTION 7: Would you like industries.

fulness had not been fought to allow

the Xtrehie of a man ofìi Marriages between an oldisk man your wife to marry again after your

One Man wrote: "Of course not These two factors were enough evasion of burrender Foch sternly, they co wie harted a woman and a young girl are successful.

are gone? make," said of thirty-four, to a man of fifty-six Often a young girl is flattered and to reduce unemployment, but

proposat

Erberter 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 oilca to abolish it. set Bizzling over their next move tal the diplomatist Oberndorft

I wrote to these thirty couples] A hasty "marriage would almost raárry, the British had. Instantly smoothly suggested that they were asking them to answer twenty-five always lead to trouble.".

QUESTION 8: Were your friends! called up the 3,000,000 men who quite ready to say they had come to questions.

QUESTION 2: To what do you and/or your wife's friends: opposed will ultimately bo required, for ask the conditions for an artistice. service there would have been "I have no conditions to give you," Before reporting what they have attribute the success of your mar to your marriage?

to say let us just briefly Recall what riage?

Typical answer: the ea shortage of labour as Foch retorted.

other people have to say.

“Yes, many of? theros in the conscript coun-awaiting their turn. The war

Typical answer: "A certain basic them were; but most of them now; The usual arguments against similarity of many of our view and realise that they were mistaken. trick now at war, and the same manufactures will be still ex-mixed-age marriages are: (1) It is tastes combined with a fale number We had to face grent; difficulties at! notessity to get certain mon panding, and employing female unfair to the old man's dependants. of superficial differences due to age rat." back from the Artby to service as well as male labour. The (2) Why not mairy some one his und education. Enough differences

n the factories But to have export industries are getting on age7 (3) An old man can't keep to prevent life becoming dafi,"

pate with oʻyoling woman.. (4) Old done so before there was the underway under strenuous men are liable to be unbearably pos-

Several women said "Tho coming means of training them or the efforts in which the Government sessive and fealous, (0) They will of my baby made our marriage equipment for arming them and the manufacturers are co-be bored by each other's friends, success. would have been folly

operating. Some unemployment (0) The children will be unhealthy

and michially dulli, zarad In a month from now the whis an inavitable phénomenon transition period will be over. in a country organized for peace, can be scientifically proved of

This last is the only argument) Some 2,500,000 persons from suddenly called upon to reor disproved Professor Wolas, of Great Britain alone will be in the ganize itself for totalitarian war. Stuttgart, and others, in denying fighting services, and othersBut it is temporary.

[say: "If such children ́ate occasional-

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But not all faunities were opposed.. One, man answered: "My family were: present. My chat, son gave my wife away and she had two girl i friends as bridesmaids."":"

Generally speaking, however, there Interesting point was that every was plenty of opposition. couple said they hail the some in- terests and hobbles,

QUESTION 3: Do you ever fint of the questionnaire. The 1TS WELL those are the resulta

that your wife likes more exciting fact seems to emerge that such mar- relaxations than you?

Triages, are no Jom; auccessful than. Typlest titlawder, by wife!" "Some-other morningjeni,