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Show ARMISTICE WAS DISCUSSED AT LATE BERLIN SITTING PARIS, Nov. 12. The new German government, gov-ernment, it appears, considered the armistice arm-istice conditions at a. sitting late on Sun- day at Berlin. Having decided to accept them. It telephoned instructions from Berlin Ber-lin to Spa, German headquarters, authorizing author-izing tlie delegates to affix their signatures signa-tures to the agreement. The courier who was waiting at Spa left immediately for the lines and crossed them without incident north of Chimay. He reached the Chateau de Francfort at about 2 o'clock in the morning, and found the German plenipotentiaries waiting for him. They asked, after they had read their instructions, to see Marshal Foch, who was in his special train on a switch near the chateau. Marshal Foch. with Admiral Sir Ross-lyn Ross-lyn Wemyss, first lord of th,e British navy, received them. A discussion, which Is described by the Temps correspondent as being "rattier long," took place upon certain clauses, particularly that concerning concern-ing the maintenance of the blockade. The Gorman delegates signed the document at 6 o'clock. Premier Clemen cean, receiving re-ceiving correspondents today, said on the question of the blockade: "The German plenipotentiaries Inissted". above all. upon the question of food. We will maintain, it Is well understood, the blockade during the term of the armistice. Nevertheless, as the situation in Germany Ger-many and Austria Is desperate, we will do eVerything possible to feed them that we can In fairness to ourselves. It is the question of transport which dominates all these problems." |