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Show Conditions of the Armistice Granted to Germany by America and Allies Are Given to Congress by President Wilson : WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. The terms of the armistice with Germany were read to congress by President Wilson ; at 1 o'clock this afternoon. He ;j spoke as follows: j Gentlemen of the Congress: i In these anxious limes of rapid and K Stupendous change, it will In some de- , gree lighten my sense of resrftnsibil- ity to perform In person the luty of , ! communicating to you some of the , larger circumstances of the situation I! with which It is necessary to deal. , The German authorities who have, S at the invitation of the supreme war h council, been in communication with I Marshal Foch, have accepted and !' signed the terms of armistice which j i j he was authorized and instructed to i communicate to them. Those terms i are as follows: Mi I Military clauses on western front: !' One Cessation of operations by land m! and in the air six hours after the slg- nature of the armistice, i Two Immediate evacuation of m- 'i vaded countries: Belgium, France. Al- ! sace-Lorraine, Luxemburg, so ordered I I as to be completed within fourteen S days from the signature of the arm-!' arm-!' istice. German troops which have not s left the above mentioned territories j within the period fixed will become i prisoners of war. Occupation by the i allied and United States forces jointly i1 will keep pace with evacuation In these '! areas. All movements of evacuation !' and occupation will . be regulated In ( accordance with a note annexed to the ' stated terms. ? Three Repatriation, beginning at S once and 'to be completed within four- teen days, of all inhabitants of the countries above mentioned, including i hostages and persons under trial or i convicted. To Surrender Equipment. ! Four Surrender in good condition ji by the German armies of the following i1 equipment: J Five thousand guns (2500 heavy, 5 2500 field), 30,000 machine guns, I 3000 minnenwerfer, 20(H) areo-S areo-S planes (fighters, bombers firstly I I D73s and night bombing machines). ', The above to be delivered In situ to the allies and the United tflntes troops c in accordance with the detailed condi-S condi-S tions laid down in the annexed note. ij Five Evacuation by the German '! armies of the countries on the left !' bank of the Rhine. These countries i on the left bank of the Rhine shall be administered by the local authorities i under the control of the allied and United States armies of occupation. The occupation of these territories J will be determined by allied and United States garrisons holding the principal crossings of the Rhine, May-Ji May-Ji ence, Coblenz, Cologne, together with bridgeheads at these points in thirty kilometer radius on the right bank, ' and by garrisons similarly holding the i strategic points of the regions. A J. neutral zone shall be reserved on the ii light of the Rhine between the stream and a line drawn parallel to it forty j' kilometers to the east from the fron-i fron-i tier of Holland to the parallel of ji Gernshelm, and, as far as practicable, ! a distance of thirty kilometers from 1 . the east of the stream from this !' parallel upon Swiss frontier. Evacua-s Evacua-s tlon by the enemy of the Rhine lands Ji shall be so ordered as to be completed c within a further period of eleven days, S in all nineteen days after the slgna-i slgna-i tu re of the armistice. All movements ( ! ture of the armistice. (Here the president interrupted his reading to remark that there evidently had been j j an error In transmission, as the arithmetic was very bad. The "fur-1 "fur-1 thcr period" of eleven days is in ad-J' ad-J' dition to the fourteen days allowed i J for evacuation of invaded countries, J ! making twenty-five days given . the Germans to get entirely clear of the 1 ! Rhine lands.) All movements of J i evacuation and occupation will be i regulated accord. ng to the note S annexed. l Must Be No Destruction. J' Six In all territory evacuated by i the enemy there shall no no evacuation j i of inhabitants; no damage or harm , shall be done to the persons or prop- erty of the inhabitants; no destruc- I tlon of any kind to be committed. Military establishments of all kinds ) shall be delivered intact as well as military stores of food, munitions, j! equipment, not removed during the i1 periods fixed for evacuation. Stores i of food of all kinds for the civil popu-Ji popu-Ji latlon, cattle, etc., shall be left In situ. industrial establishments shall not be impaired in any way and their i1 personnel shall not be moved. Roads I and means of communication of every kind, railroad, waterways, main roads, bridges, telegraphs, telephones, shall ', In no manner be impaired. i Seven All civil and military per- sonnel at present employed on them J i shall remain. Five thousand locomo- i tlves, fifty thousand wagons and ten ; i thousand motor lorries In good work- j 1 ing order with all necessary spare j 1 parts and fittings shall be delivered ' J' to the associated powers within the fi period fixed for the evacuation of Bel-i Bel-i gium and Luxemburg. The railways M of Alsace-Lorraine shall be handed '! over within the same period, to- i gather with all pre-war personnel and material. Further material necessary neces-sary for the working of railways in the country on the left bank of the Rhine shall he left In situ. All stores of coal and material for the upkeep of permanent ways, signals and repair re-pair shops left entire in situ and kept in an efficient state by Germany during the whole period of armistice. All barges taken from the allies shall be restored to them. A note appended ap-pended regulates the details of these measures. Reveal Destructive Measures. Eight The German command shall be responsible for revealing all mines or delay-acting fuses disposed on ter-. ter-. ritory evacuated by the German troops and shall assist In their discovery and destruction. The German command shall also reveal all destructive measures mea-sures that may have been taken (such as poisoning or polluting of springs, wells, etc.) under penalty of reprisals. re-prisals. Nine The right of requisition shall bo exercised by the allies and the U nlied States armies in all occupied territory. The upkeep of the troops of occupation in the Rhine land (excluding (ex-cluding Alsace-Lorraine) shall be charged to the German government. Ten An Immediate repatriation with reciprocity, according to detailed conditions which shall be fixed, of all allied and United States prisoners prison-ers of war. The allied powers and the United States shall be able to dispose of these prisoners as they wish. Eleven Erick and wounded who cannot can-not be removed from evacuated territory terri-tory will be cared for by German personnel, per-sonnel, who will be left on the spot with the medical material required. II. Disposition relative to the eastern frontiers of Germany: Twelve All German troops at present pres-ent In any territory which before the war belonged to Russia, Rumania or Turkey shall withdraw within the frontiers of Germany as they existed on August 1, 1914. Thirteen Evacuation by German troops to begin at once and all German Ger-man instructors, prisoners and civilians, civil-ians, as well as mill tar y agents, now on the territory of Russia (as defined de-fined before 1914) to be recalled. Cease All Requisitions. Fourteen German troops to cease at once all requisitions and seizures and any other undertaking with a view to obtaining supplies intended for Germany In Rumania and Russia (as defined on August 1, 1914). Fifteen Abandonment of the treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Li Brest-Li tovsk and of the supplementary treaties. Sixteen The. allies shall have free access to the territories evacuated by the Germans on their eastern frontier, fron-tier, either through Danzig or by the Vistula, in order to convey supplies to the populations of those territories or for any other purpose. III Clause concerning East Africa: Seventeen Unconditional capitulation capitula-tion of all German forces operating in East Africa within one month. IV General clauses: Eighteen Repatriation without reciprocity reci-procity within a maximum period of one month. In accordance with detailed de-tailed conditions hereafter to be fixed, of all civilians interned or deported who may be citizens of other allied or associated states than, those mentioned men-tioned in clause three, paragraph nineteen, nine-teen, with the reservation that any further claims and demands of the allies and the United States of America Amer-ica remain unaffected. Financial Conditions Imposed Nineteen The following financial conditions are required: Reparation for damage done. While such armistice lasts no public securities securi-ties shall be removed by the enemy which can serve as a pledge to the allies for the recovery or reparation for war losses. Immediate restltu-tution restltu-tution of the cash deposit in National Bank of Belgium, and in general immediate im-mediate return of all documents, specie, stocks, shares, paper money, together with plant, for the issue thereof, touching public or private interests in-terests in the invaded countries. Restitution Res-titution of the Russian and Rumanian gold yielded to Germany or taken by that power. This gold to be delivered in trust to the allies until the signature signa-ture of peace. V Naval conditions: Twenty Immediate cessation of all hostilities at sea and definite information informa-tion to be given as to the location and movements of all German ships. Notification No-tification to be given to neutrals that freedom of navigation In all territorial waters is given to the naval and mercantile mer-cantile marines of the allied and associated asso-ciated powers, all questions of neutrality neu-trality being waived. Twenty-one AH naval and mercantile mercan-tile marine prisoners of war of the allied and associated powers in German Ger-man hands to be returned without reciprocity. re-ciprocity. Surrender Submarines. Twenty-two Surrender to the allies and the United States of America of one hundred and sixty German submarines sub-marines (Including all submarine cruisers and mine-laying submarines) with their complete armament and equipments In ports which will -be specified" by the allies and the United States of America. All other submarines subma-rines to be paid off and completely disarmed and placed under the super vision of the allied powers and! the United Stales of America. Twenty-three The following German Ger-man surface warships which shall be designated by the allies and the United States of America shall fortnwlth be disarmed and thereafter interned In neutral ports, or, for the want of them, in allied ports, to be designated by the allies and the United States of America and placed under the surveillance sur-veillance of allies and the United States of America, only caretakers being be-ing left on hoard, namely: Six battle cruisers, ten battleships, eight light cruisers, including two mine-layers, fifty destroyers of the most modern type. AH" other surface warships (Including (In-cluding river craft) are to be concentrated concen-trated In German naval bases to be designated by the allies and the United States of America and are to be paid off and completely disarmed and placed under the supervision of the allies and the United States of America. All vessels of the auxiliary fleet (trawlers, motor vessels, etc.) are to be disarmed. dis-armed. Twenty-four The allies and the United States of America shall have the right to sweep up all mine fields and obstructions laid by Germany outside out-side German territorial waters, and the positions of these are to be Indicated. Indi-cated. Free Access to Baltic. Twenty-five Freedom of access to and from the Baltic to be given to the naval and mercantile marines of the allied and associated powers. To secure se-cure this, the allies and the United States of America shall be empowered to occupy all German forts, fortifications, fortifica-tions, batteries and defense works of all kinds in all the entrances from the Cattegat into the Baltic and to sweep up all mines and obstructions within and without German territorial waters without any question of neutrality neu-trality being raised, and the positions of all such mines and obstructions are to be indicated. Twenty-six The existing blockade conditions set up by the allies and associated powers are to remain unchanged un-changed and all German merchant ships found at sea are to remain liable to capture. Twenty-seven All naval aircraft are to be concentrated and immediately mobilized in German bases to be specified spe-cified by the allies and the United States of America. Twenty-eight In evacuating the Belgian coasts and ports Germany shall abandon all merchant ships, tugs, lighters, cranes and all other harbor materials, all materials for inland navigation, all aircraft and all materials mate-rials and stores, all armies and armaments arma-ments and all stores and apparatus of all kinds. Leave Black Sea Ports. Twenty-nine All Black sea ports are to be evacuated by Germany; all Russian war vessels of all descriptions seized by Germany in the Black sea are to be handed over to the allies and the United States of America; all neutral vessels seized are to be released; re-leased; all warlike and other materials of all kinds seized In those ports are to be returned and German materials as specified In clause twenty-eight are to be abandoned. Thirty AH merchant vesesls in German Ger-man hands belonging to the allied and associated powers are to be restored in ports to be specified by the allies and the United States of America without reciprocity. Thirty-one No destruction of ships or of materials to be permitted before evacuation, surrender or restoration. - Thirty-two The German government govern-ment will notify the neutral governments govern-ments of the world, and particularly the governments of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland, that all restrictions re-strictions placed on the trading of their vessels with the allied and associated countries, whether by the German, government gov-ernment or by private German Interests, Inter-ests, and whether in return for specific concessions, such as to export of shipbuilding ship-building materials or not, are immediately imme-diately cancelled. Thirty-three No transfers of German Ger-man merchant shipping of any description de-scription to any neutral flag are to take place after signature of the armistice. arm-istice. Duration of Armistice. VI Duration of armistice: Thirtv-four The duration of the armistice Is to be thirty days, with option to extend. During this period, on failure of execution of any of the above clauses of the armistice, the armistice may be denounced by one of the contracting parties on forty-eight hours" previous notice. VII Time limit for reply: Thirty-five This armistice to be accepted ac-cepted or refused by Germany within seventy -two hours of notification. The war thus comes to an end; for, having accepted these terms of armistice, arm-istice, it will be Impossible for the German command to renew It. It is now possible to assess the consequences con-sequences of this great consummation. We know only that this tragical war, whose consuming flames swept from one nation to another until all the world was on fire, is at an end, and that it was the privilege of our own people to enter it at Its most critical juncture in such fashion and In such force as to contribute In a way of which we are all deeply proud, to the great result. We know, too, that the object of the war Is attained; the object ob-ject upon which all free men had set their hearts ; and attained with a sweeping completeness which even now we do not realize. Armed Imperialism. such as the men conceived who were but yesterday the masters of Germany, 5 Is at an end, its illicit ambitions en- i gulfed In black disaster. Who will ; now seek to revive it? The arbitrary power of the military caste of Ger- many, which once could secretly and of its own single choice disturb the peace of the world, is. discredited and de- j stroyed. And more than that much , more than that has been accomplished. accom-plished. The great nations which as- , soclated themselves to destroy It have now definitely united in the common ; purpose to set up such a peace as will satisfy the longing of the whole world for disinterested Justico, embodied in ; settlements which are based upon something much better and much more ; lasting than the selfish competitive interests of powerful states. There is no longer conjecture as to the objects the victors have In mind. They have a mind In the matter, not only, but a heart also. Their avowed and concerted concert-ed purpose is to satisfy and protect the weak as well as to accord their just rights to the strong. Intentions of Victors. The humane temper and Intention of the victorious governments has already been manifested In a very practical ' way. Their representatives' In the su- preme war council at Versailles have, by unanimous resolution, assured the peoples of the central empires that . everything that Is possible In the clr- cumstances will be done to supply ! them with food and relieve the dis- tresslng want that Is in so many places threatening their very lives; and steps are to be taken immediately to organize these efforts at relief In the same systematic manner that they were organized in the case of Belgium. j By the use of the idle tonnage of the central empires it ought presently to ' be possible to lift the fear of utter , misery from their oppressed populations popula-tions and set their minds and ener- J gles free for the great and hazardous tasks of political reconstruction which now face them on every hand. Hun- i ger does not breed reform; It breeds 1 madness and all the ugly distempers that make an ordered life Impossible. ! For with the fall of the ancient gov- ; ernments which rested like an incubus .' upon the peoples of the central empires, em-pires, has come political change not ! merely, but revolution; and revolution which seems as yet to assume no final and ordered form, but to run from one fluid change to another, until thought- ' ful men are forced to ask themselves, I with what governments, and of what sort, are we about to deal In the mnk- ! ing of the covenants of peace? With what authority will they meet us, and with what assurance that their author- i ity will abide and sustain securely the international arrangements into which we are about to enter? There Is here matter for no small anxiety and misgiving. mis-giving. When peace Is made, upon whose promises and engagements besides be-sides our own is it to re&t? Unhappy Russia's Proof. Let us be perfectly frank with ourselves our-selves and admit that these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered now or at once. But the moral is not that tVere is little hope of an early answer that will suffice. It is only that we must be patient and helpful and mind- ; ful above all of the great hope and confidence con-fidence that He at the heart of what is 1 taking place. Excesses' accomplish nothing. Unhappy Russia has fur- nlshed abundant recent proof of that. Disorder immediately defeats itself. If '. excesses should occur, if disorder ! 1 should for a time raise Its head, a so- ber second thought will follow and a day of constructive action, if we help and do not hinder. 1 The present and all that it holds belongs be-longs to the nations and the peoples who preserve their self-control and the orderly processes of their governments; the future to those who prove themselves them-selves true friends of mankind. To -conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer "the !; world by earning its esteem Is to make permanent conquest. I am confident that the nations have learned the discipline dis-cipline of freedom and that those that have settled with self-possession to Its ! ordered practice are now about to '! make conquest of the world by the sheer power of example and of friendly helpfulness. The peoples who have just come out from under the yoke of arbitrary gov- ! ernment and who are now coming at last into their freedom will never find , the treasures of liberty they are in' search of If they look for them bv the light of the torch. They will find that every pathway that is stained with the blood of their own brothers leads to ! the wilderness, not to the seat of their hope. They are now face to face with their Initial tests. We must hold the ' light steady until they find themselves. And in the meantime, if it be possible ! we must establish a peace that wili justly define their place among the J nations, remove all fear of their neigh- i bors and of their former masters, and enable them to live in security and 1 contentment when they have set their ' own affairs in order. I, for one, do not J doubt their purpose or their capacitv. There are some happy signs that they ' know and will cheese the way of self- ! control and peaceful accommodation. If they do we shall put our aid at their disposal In every way that we can. If they do not we must await with patience pa-tience and sympathy the awakening and recovery that will assuredly come at last. a |
