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For An Armistice

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offer to our enemies must be issued state the conditions of armistice." at once," Hindenburg told the quak- ing Government in Berlin. "I want

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"Do you wish for un armiátleo?"

"Yes,"

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of the moment for beginning does not confer The power to Defeat hud been acknowledged, decide when war shall be ended. surrender had been offered. Foch Negotiations for an armistice went on was rently to give them his condi for a month while the Allied forces, ilons. He Instructed Weygand to attacking without respite, drove the read out the principal clauses of the Germon armles boek upon their own armistice, each of which was trans- frontier.

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

Erzberger and OberndorfT showed no more concern than at an ordinary political conference. Gen, von Win- terfeldt grew pale and disconcerted, and "the young German captain," Gen. Weygand has recorded, "could not hide his emotion.

In the first hour of the morning of Nov. 7. 1918, Fach received a wire less message giving the names of German envoys who would meet him. 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 necept. Erzberger made a vehement

"In a death-dumb, autumn-drip- appeal for the instant cessation of ping mist" the German delegates hostilities. "For God's sake, M. le Marechal, do not wait those 72 hours. motored from Spa to the front.

Stop the hostilities this very day, Our annies are a prey to anarchy.

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WHEN ENVOYS ARRIVED Only at the point to which they Bolshevism threatens them, and may had been ordered was there no firing, spread over the whole of Germany The convoy of five motors brought and threaten France itself," Von Erzberger, the President of the Mis- Winterfeldt then put the song plea **** sion; Count Oberndorf, Gen. von in another way: "for technical rea- Winterfeldt, Post-Coplain von Selow nons" the Allies should cease firing.

"Natchally, the chief difference between this $7.98 ring and the $4.79 one is that you get a better diamond!” and their companions had to explain

had been delayed by roads Foch would have none of it, and that they

Germans relired. almost destroyed and the disorder of the

During the shed." But they preferred to decode the Marne, the second this vigil be- retiring troops.

three days given their Government and debate a telegram from Hinden- fore the Armistice. Then

EL leng motor drive brought for consideration they were able to berg. ennnot have comforted There is much uneasiness in

At a quarter past two the Germans 10 the railway junction of obtain one or two modifications, them. Britain and

his coach and argued for amazement

Towards eight o'clock on Nov. 10 else-Tergnier. They complained after- where that in spite of all the man sense of grievance, that the accepted the conditions, and Foch only two nights in the war on which hostilities will cease along the entire At eleven o'clock that evening nearly three hours. Then they sign- wards, with a characteristically Ger- It was learnt that the Government Foch lay down to sleep. There were ed, and the order went forth that calls of the war

there still journey was unnecessarily prolonged urged the delegates to sign if they he could not get his full allowance. front on Nov. 11 at 11 am." De- remain several thousands of to show them the devastation made truly desired to avoid useless blood- The first was before the Battle of liverance had been achieved.

by their own armies. In the grey persona out of employment. dawn of Nov. 8 their train stopped The French are frankly mystified in a forest by the black outline of

another, in whleh Fach and Adm --they have not been able to get Wemyss, the British First Sea Lord enough labour. What is

the und

plenipotentiary, had arrived thei meaning of this surplus of night before. Both trains were on sidings bullt for heavy railway guns, labour in Britain after nine which "one of the densest corners months of war whch man-power from aircraft.

of the Compiegne forest" screened 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

When A Young

Young Girl

Marries An Old Man-

The chances are, they

will be happy

times I wish something exelting 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 #: Was your wife

"On a chilly and cloudy, morning," Fuch related afterwards, "Weygand came to my carriage and announced, Here they are.. It had rained for several days and the ground, was a mere lake of mud. Although the German train was only 80 yards distant a sort of gangway had been thrown on the sall and four men were striding along it. 1

looked at them and said to myself. So this is

N Page Three of Saturday's ly inferior to other children It is be-happy in her parents' home? ON Page Three of fe pictures cause persons marrying at an millions of trained men to be beaten and begs for peace. I am of two young women engaged to inen vanced age have a mure restricted

the German Empire. At last it is

Typical anauer: "Not entirely." Instantly mobilized.

going to treat it as it deserves, with-

range of healthy young women to of normal chances of social life by a Often the girl had been, robbed choose from."

dominating mother or a solitary job.. O couples who reputed to my veloped her from an object of inter- the other hand all the Marriage has made her matter; de-. mittent social charity to u position [of importance.

were

no

out hate or brutality, but with firm-old enough to be their fathers. ness.

Consider what happened. First, hundreds of thousands of He received them in a conch still) Thirty-one-year-old Miss Deniza married เส sixty-year-old persons, were deprived of work preserved, a restaurant-car with two Braun by the mere dislocation caused compartments made into one and a Lord Newborough. Nineteen-year- of the familiar old wagon-lit type.

and..

ing

their

ad-

morrlage

the

QUESTION 5: Have there been

"

To set against this there has he asked Erzberger. There was to got married: 952 of them married together with the digest of a typleat society of people younger than my-.

be no pretence or disguise; Germany girls at least twenty years younger reply to ench: had sent on embassy to admit defeat than themselves; two of them mar- and sue for peace,

QUESTION 1: What attracted you to rack other?

Of thirty, cases fled ince 1938,

by the partial evacuation of large table in the centre, ils, design old Mille. Genevieve de Saint Jean questionnaire said their vulnerable cities and the shut-They were standing "pale and stiff tried fifty-four-year-old Sochowas-a-success

Guitry. ting down of entertainment when Foch and Wemyss appeared,

In none of these cases was there any problems to cope with; for in- The chances of their being happy any question of marrying for wealth.stance, do pour children resent the industries. More than 200,000 and solutes were exchanged. Mar- shat and admleal, of course, and the people in the building industries German officers were in uniform.every great much greater than All of them suffered varying degrees presence of a young woman in the alone became unemployed by the Erzberger frict Oberndorf wore many people think.

of opposition, in two cases to the house? orders to stop building construc-

civilian clothes.

Here are the results of an in-per cent. of the cases family opposi- point of finnheint loss. But in Afty

Typical answer: "A good deal of tion. The introduction of gaso- Erzberger, "a little man of impul-

ways," presented his colleagues vestigation into the chances of hap-tion had changed to approval, and unfriendly gossip at times." line rationing deprived of their

credentials. Foch was piness in marriages between men of in practically all cases to tolerance. One or two men replied that on occupation scores of thousands coldly courteous, He sut down on fifty-five and more and women of

About thirty per cent. of the wives very pleased with the marriage.

contrary their children were of men engaged in automotive one side of the table between Wemyss thirty-five and less,

found life rather "quiet" sometimes, nl Weygand; from the other side services. The Government's ex-

the Germans.

In 1937-latest year

for which The others claimed never to be QUESTION 6: Are you particular- hortations to the public to reduce Then, in one sharp phrase, Foch Agures are

troubled by the alleged barrier bely noted as a "young old” man? avaliable ingre consumption of goods led to less laid down the conditions of the meet-4,000 men of fifty-five and upwards

than tween youth and age. buying and less manufacture.

Typical answer; "No, I'don't think. "What do you want of me?"

Here are some of the questions. But I have always preferred the

been the absorption of men into

self. And I had a fear and horror of the Army and the other fighting

ried girls in their teens.

becoming like some old bachelora." services, and the employment of But though the whole structure of

Most of the men are apparently unusually energetic mon with many Cerman aggressive power was col- hundreds of thousands of addi- lapsing the delegacy still quibbled seventeen were clergymen (country Typical answer:

и "Undoubtedly Interests; for instance man

of tional men in the war supply over acknowledging defeat: They clergymen are often lonely, being, youthful charm had most to do with cighty-three who says his hobby is industries.

had come, said Erzberger, to receive socially isolated by their jobs).

We were both lonely as far as buying and selling as a general dealer Iren friends went." the proposals for an armistice from

and his recreation is going to chapel, These two factors were enough the Allies.

THESE cases varied from to reduce unemployment, but

QUESTION 7: Four years of war against fright-

the extreme of a man of One man wrote: "Of course not

Would you like- not enough at once to abolish it.fulness had not been fought to allow eighty-three who married a woman all marringes between an oldish man your wife to marry again after you If the British had instantly evasion of surrender. "I have ad of thirty-four, to u mon of sitty-six Often a young girl is nitored and

and a young girl are successful. are gone?

Half answered yes, the other half called up the 5,000,000 men whooposal to make," said Foch sternly, who married a girl of seventeen.

Erzberger was dumb; the Germans

thinks she is in love when she is not, that their wives, had no destre. 19. r will ultimately be required for sut puzzling over their next move I wrote to these thirly couples A hasty marriage would olmosi [marry, service there would have been

the diplomatist

Oberndorf asking them to answer twenty-five always fear to trouble," the same shortage of labour as quite ready to say they had come to

QUESTION 8: Were your friends; smoothly suggested that they were questions.

QUESTION 2: To what do you and/or your wife's friends opposed there is in the conscript coun-ask the conditions for an armistice." to say let us just briefly recall what riage?

Before reporting what they have attribute the success of your mar- to your marriage? tries now at war, and the same have no conditions to give you," other people have to say.

Typical answer: "Yes, many of necessity to get certain men Foch retorted.

Typical answer; "A certain basic them were; but most of them now back from the Army to service

The usuni arguments against similarity of mony of our views and realise that they were mistaken. (mixed-age marriages are: (1) "It is{tastes combined with a fair number We had to face great difficulties at in the factories. But to have panding, and employing female unfair to the old man's dependents, of superficial differences due to age frat." done so before there was the as well as male labour. The (2) Why not marry some one his and education. Enough differences

But not all families were opposed. means of training them or the export industries are getting own age? (3) An old man can't keep to prevent life becoming dull."

One man answered: "My family were equipment for arming them

pace with a young woman. (4) Old under way undor strenuous men are liable to be unbearably pos- Several women said "The coming present. My eldest SONI gave my would have been folly,

hnd two girl efforts in which the Government-sessive and jealous (5) They will of my baby made our marriage wite away and she

friends as bridesmaids!", In a month from now the and the manufacturers are co-be bored by each other's friends, success."

Generally speaking, however, there transition period will be over. operating. Some unemployment (a) The children will be unhealthy Interesting point was that everywas plenty of opposition

couple said they had the same in- Some 2,500,000 persons from was an inevitable phenomenon and mentally dull. Great Britain alone will be in the in a country organized for peace,

This last is the only argument terests and hubbles.

WELL, those are the results QUESTION 3: fighting services, and others suddenly called upon to

which enn be scientifically proved or

Do you ever find

of the questionnaire. The reor- disproved. Professor Welas, of that your wife Ukes more exciting fact seems to emerge, that such mar- waiting their turn. The war ganize itself for totalitarian war. Stuttgart, and others, in denying relaxations than you?

riages are no less auccessful thank manufactures will bo still ex But it la temporary."

[say:',“If" such children are ocensional- Susical answer by wife: "Some-other marriages.