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Show ' TERMSSHOW HUNS WHAT TO EXPECT Germany Must Give Up Strategic . Points and Accept - Conditions as : JThose GivenAustria i United feeaa. ; WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. Od the basis of the Austrian r armistice, it may be assumed that Germany will be called upon to - evacuate all occupied territories, give up all railway and military equipment within ths evacuated territories, ter-ritories, surrender a portion of her artillery and equipment within Germany, Ger-many, surrender a portion of bar an " 1 ? ? ta n dD ro ba hiv Permit oc cu pat ion or Heligoland or Kiel and other fnrtresaes by United States allied units. wTRIKE THROUGH AUSTRIA. 1- By tho-Austrian armistice tha allies are given military and naval prlvl- lges wlthiiuAuatrta, me king It easier or.tnern to strike at Germany's back door If that nation decides not to yield to ths United Bta tee -allied demands. Austria will leave where It la all naval and military equipment In occupied oc-cupied territories. ' The allies- can move freely along roads, railways and waterways and have the right to occupy oc-cupy 'Strategic Austrian points. Definite Def-inite geographical lines drawn for the evacuation follow the line which Italy claims as her natural boundary. HUNS MUST LEAVE. In addition to Calling for Austrian withdrawal on the west front, the armistice requires that all German , troops shall be taken from the Italian and Balkan front within fifteen days or suffer internment. Austrian troops on the west front will have to leave the llnea. and if Germany decides to fiitht she will have to fill the gaps with her own reserves.. Austro-Hungary is forced to give upJ all merchant vessels belonging to the allies, and Is enjoined against destruction destruc-tion of ships or materials. END AT S P. M. At the stroke of S o'clock today hostilities hos-tilities on hind, sea and In the air were to be halted by Austria, Demobilisation Demobilisa-tion Is to start at once. The surrender of half Jier artillery . and equipment at designated points will he one of the most effective means of assuring that Austria may not sven a attempt to reenter the war. Germany's power In Austria Is ren- dered impotent by the provision that all t German forcn shsll quit Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian 4err1tory. Local authorities will govern evacuated evac-uated territories in cooperation with tha allies' army chiefs. The allies will start at once upon bringing toack allied prisoners and Interned civilians as well ss such sick and wounded as can bs moved. Austria's naval surrender represents about one-fourth of her submarine fleet and about one-fifth of her grand fleet. AUSTRIA'S NAVAL STRENGTH. The 'last- available figures on Austrian Aus-trian fleet strength showed: Fifteen battleships, twenty-one destroyers, de-stroyers, ten torpedo gunboats, forty-five forty-five submarines, sixty-seven torpedo boats, eleven monitors, fifteen cruisers, forty-three mine layers, two trawlers, six scout, one river torpedo boat, three armed steamers and seven patrol boats. These figures are up to October and do not take account of known losses of two battleships recently or of a number of boats taken over by ths C'secho-Klovsks. j Similar naval terms applied to Oer- I many will Insure the freedom of the seas and will so reduce Germany's grand fleet that there will be no question ques-tion of supremacy of the allies on the sea. IVERITV 18 SATISFYING. Those who have been demanding- unconditional un-conditional surrender seemed satisfied . by the sweeping severity of the docu- - ment. The state, war and navy depart- - ments took on an air of cheer and relief re-lief such sn they haven't shown for many montha. Secretary Lansing was all smiles when he told the correspondents correspon-dents he would give them ths terms. The war department was not generally gener-ally avl vised of the terms, though Chief of Staff March obtained a copy to be .ead at a luncheon of staff officers in the department at 1 o'clock. Release of the news In this capital wag permitted shortly in advance of the release in other world centers. JrOMTnww1e najion could sssume that the German demands would be comparable to the Austrian. Military men aald that In this cise surrender, flat and abject, would be the German portion. They anticipated that Germany would swallow swal-low her medicine. One cabinet officer, who heretofore has been particularly cautious, refus-Ing refus-Ing to make any predictions, declared that In his opinion the war is now i about done. ammm miamwmrr I |