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Show World War Ends When Teutons Admit Defeat and Accept the Terms Proposed by Allies. in Saxony is not clear from the dispatches. dis-patches. Germany's total population is. 'roughly, 70,000,000. The populations of the three revolutionized revolu-tionized kingdoms are: Prussia, 41,-000,000; 41,-000,000; Bavaria, 7.000.000; Wurttom-berg, Wurttom-berg, 3,000,000; total, ot.000,000. Of the remaining inhabitants of the empire, it is safe to say, on the strength of all dispatches, that the majority ma-jority has joined the revolt. Late dispatches report the king of Saxony is also about to abdicate, if he has not already done so. He is Friedrich August II, whose personal life was exposed some years ago by his divorced wife, the Princess Louise of Tuscany. Washington. Deserted by all her allies, her great military machine in . process of destruction by onslaughts of the allies armies; her emperor a fugitive in Holland, with his dream of world dominion rudely shattered, Germany has at last conceded defeat, and the world war which has raged for fotr years is at an end. The Huns have surrendered unconditionally uncon-ditionally to General Foch. The'war ended Monday morning, November No-vember 11. at 6 o'clock, Washington time, 11 o'clock Paris time. The armistice arm-istice was signed by the German representatives rep-resentatives at 2 :o0 o'eiock Monday morning and flashed all ove.- :h3 country. coun-try. The result was a demonstration in every section of America that was continued for hours. The terms of the armistice, it was announced, will not be made public until later. Military men here, however, how-ever, regard it as certain they include in-clude : Immediate retirement of tic German military forces from France, Belgium and Alsace-Lorraine. Disarming and demobilization of the Germau armies. Occupation by the allied and American Amer-ican forces of such strategic points In Germany as will make impossible a renewal re-newal of hostilities. Delivery of part of the German high seas fleet and a certain number of submarines sub-marines to the allied and American naval forces. Disarmament of all other German warships under supervision of the til-lied til-lied and American navies, which will guard them. Occupation of the principal German naval bases by sea forces of the victorious vic-torious nations. Release of allied and American soldiers, sol-diers, sailors and civilians held prisoners pris-oners in Germany without such reciprocal recip-rocal action by the associated governments. govern-ments. There was no information as to the circumstances under which the armistice armis-tice was signed, but since the German courier did not reach German military headquarters until 10 o'clock Sunday niornin, French time, it was generally gen-erally assumed here that the German envoys within the French lines had been instructed by wireless to sign the tarms. Forty-seven hours had been required for the courier to reach German headquarters, head-quarters, and unquestionably several hyurs were necessary for the examination exami-nation of the terms and a decision. If was regarded as possible, however, that the decision may have been made at Berlin and instructions transmitted trans-mitted from there by the new German government. Up to Sunday there wereffour kingdoms king-doms in the German -empire, namely. Prussia. Bavaria. Saxony and AVurttemberg. All but Saxony tire now kingless and throneless. The situation |
