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Show P FOCH ORDERS VIGILANCE AT FRONT Troops Maintain Petitions, Peti-tions, Ready to Renew Battle; Meeting With Enemy la Forbidden By AMMIMttf Press. rWITH THE AMERICAN FCRCEJ L FRANCE, Nov. 12. Order announcing that, the armistice between the" allied pewers and Germany had been lined and giving directions to th future conduct of tilled soldiers along tha lino were sent to every corps 7m-terday 7m-terday morning. They were" transmit' ted tn the linll. In th. fre-l r--l.. The order follow: "1. Tou are Informed that hostilities will cease along th whole front at 11 o'clock a. m., November 11,111. Paris lime. ."!. No silled troops will pass th linn I fulled by them at that Hour and dete until further orders. I ". Division commanders will lm- ' mediately sketch the location of their front line. This sketch will be returned to headquarter by the courier bearing thea order. "4. All communication with the ene my, both before and after the termination termina-tion of hostilities. Is absolutely forbidden. forbid-den. In case of violation of this order severest dlscipllnsry measures will be immediately taken. Any officer offend-In; offend-In; will be sent to hsadqusrters under ' guard. i "t. Every emphasis will be laid on th fact that the arrangement Is an armistice only and not a peace, i, ". There must not o the slightest C relaxation of vigilance. Troops must be prepared at any moment for further j operations. ! I "1. Special ateps will be taken by all commanders to Insurs strictest dis-I dis-I cipllne and that all troops be held In readiness fully prepared for any sven-? sven-? tuallty. "8. Dlvialon and brlgad commanders will personally communicate thes or-J or-J dera to all organisations.'' I Signal corps wires, telephone and ) runnero were used in carrying the or-' ' dsrs, and so well did ths big machine V work that even patrol commanders had received th orders well in advance of the hour, I Apparently the Germans also had been equally diligent in getting the order to their front line. Notwithstanding Notwith-standing the hard fighting they did Sunday to hold back th Americana. the Germane were able to bring the ' firing to an abrupt end at the sched- j uled hour. , The staff and field officers ofths ; American army were disposed early I in trie day to approach the hour of 11 with lessened activity. The day be-i be-i : e-an with iesa firing ajid doubtless the fighting would hav ended according to plan had there not been a sharp resumption re-sumption on the part of German bat-' bat-' tetiea. The Americana looked upon I this as wantonly useless. It was then that orders were sent to the battery sommanders for Increased fire. |