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Show HIS HIT DHWNOP PEACE Although Resting, Men Are on Alert for Any Eventuality. The guns everywhere are mute. Hostilities have given way to preparations prepara-tions by the defeated enemy to evacuate all Invaded territory In accordance with terms of, the armistice, and by the entente forces to take up the strategic positions assigned to them in order that the foe may be unable to resume fighting. Although the British, Belgian, French and American armies have rested on their arms, they, nevertheless, are on the alert for any eventuality. And thus It is purposed pur-posed they shall remain until the peace which will make the world safe for democracy de-mocracy has arrived. As tho German armies in the west wend their way backward across the Rhine de- j feated, comes the cry from Germany for an early peace. Starvation faces the vJtir-torn vJtir-torn empire. Germany, which once boasted boast-ed that It would throw a circle of iron about the British isles and starve the people into submission, today is begging not alone for peace, but for bread. Magnanimity lies in the outstretched hands of the allies. The German people are not to be permitted to perish for want of food. Sustenance Is to be given them, but in doing so undue privations are not to be visited upon the peoples of the devastated countries over which the Germans have swept. In Germany proper the new govern- mental regime apparently Is holding sway. Interna) strife .seemingly has ended, ex- ! cept for a mutiny by the sailors. It Is asserted that the northern fleet and i Helgoland, the Island bastion defending ! the ceast of northern Germany, are In ; the hands of the mutineers, who have ! called upon the sailors to defend the coun- ; try against the "unheard-of presumption" presump-tion" contained In the allied armistice terms. i Amendments of the armistice terms to Germany show that the jihics are more t (Contiuued on Page Eight.) HUES AWAIT DM OF PEACE (Continued from Page One.) exacting in their demands than was at first reported. The Teutons are to be stripped entirely of their submarines, those wolves of the sea which have ea-used such devastation, Instead of 160 as first stipulated. A reduction in the quantity of some of the military equipment to be delivered up is made, but instead of 50.000 railroad cars, 150,000 must be surrendered. sur-rendered. The treaties of Bucharest and Brest-l.itovsk. Brest-l.itovsk. it is stipulated, must be renounced, re-nounced, and the evacuation of the Rhlnelands on both sides of the river shall be completed within thirty-one davs. The countries on the left bank of the Rhine are to be administered by the local troops of occupation. Instead of the local authorities under the control of the armies of occupation. . It Is again reported that Charles. Emperor Em-peror of Austria and king of Hungary, has followed the example of his chier colleague in the war. William Hohen-zollern, Hohen-zollern, and laid aside his scepter. |