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Show GERMANS PROTEST SOME FEATURES OF ARMISTICE TERMS PARIS, Tuesday, $g. 12,. -A. declaration declara-tion sent to the French government early this week by the German armistice plenipotentiaries pleni-potentiaries has been published here. It protests against some features of the terms agreed to by the Germans and to which they objected verbally at their first meeting with Marshal Foch. The declaration reads: "The German government will naturally natur-ally make every effort to aid In tho carrying carry-ing out of the obligations imposed upon it. Its plenipotentiaries recognize that on certain points a conciliatory spirit has Dcen shown toward their suggestions. "They cannot, however, permit any doubt to exist on the fact that the shortness short-ness of the delay fixed for evacuation and the handing over of indispensable means of transport threaten to provoke a state of affairs which may render the execution of the conditions of the armistice arm-istice impossible. The plenipotentiaries further consider it their duty to state once more with the utmost energy that the execution of this convention must throw the German people Into anarchy and famine. "After the public manifestations which preceded the laying down of the arm-' istlce conditions might have been expect-t expect-t ,. .iFi1 while Biving our adversaries full military security, would have put an end to the sufferings of non-combatanti women and children. The Gorman peoplej which lor fifty months has held ouSs agalr st a world of enemies, will maintairf 1 Its liberty and unit)' despite every vioJ r lence." ij r |