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Show Hun Tells Story of Armistice Conference n Terms Described From Foe Viewpoint. By Aeeec'atsd Press. AMTKHDAM, Nov. J7.Ths erml-stice erml-stice conferences biwen tha Ofrnikn delegates and Marshal Kocb and his associates early this month were car- j rled out In the roust businesslike man- , jir possible and apparently without J notable incident, according to a Ions; ' account of Ihe conference given the Berlin Vosslsche Zeitung by a mem-j Iter of the orman party. rter the French met ine iterman eomrnlsslonera they were driven for ten hours in automobile to an appoint', ap-point', rendeivous. "It peemeii to me," aays the narrator, "that tha driva was Intentionally pra-lonped pra-lonped in order to furry us through the devastated provinces and prepare us for the hardest, conditions which hatred and revenge might demand. One of the Frenchmen pointed to a heap of ruina, aaying 'Kehold guentinl' "V entered a train with blinds drawn In the evening and awoke In the morning amiiNt the forest of t'omplesne, surrounded by soldiers. "Tin i. m is two ti a Ins. nus iplsd I by Marshal Koch and his staff and tha other by the Oermana. In thesa we lived, worked and negotiated for three days. We had everything In abundance. There waa nothing to find fault with. The great enmity and hatred that apparently prevailed i against ua were shown, however. In j the negotiations and In the terms Imposed." Im-posed." The nsrrstor remsrks that the french officers and Vice Admiral Wemvss. Hrllish representative, maintained main-tained a cold attitude, "never tempered by a frieriflly word" "Marshal Koch, whom we only aaw twice, at the beginning and at the end of the conference, Is a stern, plain man. tie .11.1 nnl .r.e.1. . .!r,f. ...j . ... in the tone which formerly distinguished distin-guished tha chivalrous French nation, na-tion, ess "It la not true that Foch told s there Could not he any question of negotiations, ne-gotiations, only the Imposition of conditions, con-ditions, and whatever coldness he displayed dis-played was never lll-nisnnered or rough. s s ' "Really, there wss nothing ta negotiate. nego-tiate. We pointed out the technical impossibility of sums conditions. Finally we wera obliged to sign " I luring the discussion the French handed Ihe Germans the I'sris newspapers news-papers announcing tha abdication of Kmperor William. "We observed no smile of triumph on their tnr,m, a, I, Is Hie miter, 'but could discern their hatred." |