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J 1 J t I J I J 1 Q j s I iK i uns ear to 10 r I I II I I CUt ociE A ARMY Mf I S 1 TO O I 1 Germany to Be Allow Allowed d I II I I Only Enough Soldiers I to Preserve In Internal I Order Council Decides BY pr Press s WEIMAR Feb 18 Th The Ge German German Ger Ger- man cabinet voted early Sunday morning to reject the allied terms for the renewal of the armistice and take the chances of an allied military advance being ordered After consultation with the party leaders however the decision was changed and andon on on Sunday night orders were issued that the armistice armi armi- sties stice be signed PARIS Feb IS When When the Germans came to sign the terms of the new armistice says saysa a a dispatch from Treves Mathias l Erzberger han handed cd to Marshal Fh Foch a twenty-three-page twenty memorandum in which It was at attempted attempted at- at I tempted to Justify Germ Germanys Germany's nys ny's attitude It being maintained that she had done her best to meet her obligations He lie also gave the marshal a memorandum I from ui LI-ui Philipp oL the tile me German Jerman I i I I I I r I j I I I from ui LI-ui Philipp oL the tile me German Jerman I chancellor complaining of the IncreasIngly increasIngly Increasingly I hard terms forced upon Germany and protesting against the Germane I being forced to evacuate Poland de delivering delivering de- de I de-I I livering U German fortresses to the Poles I and abandoning the German people there A demand was made that the tho allies require the Poles to cease their I attacks against the Germans This last request has already been I complied compiled with a telegram gram having been ben I sent to Warsaw from Paris last night ARMY OF I The special commission of the su supreme sO- sO preme council charged with drafting the terms of ot a definite armistice which will hold good until the peace preliminaries preliminaries are signed has almost completed completed com corn its task and it Is possible says saysa a Havas report that Marshal l Foch will be able to notify DOUCy the Germans on Thursday or Friday of or the military and naval terms which will be essen- essen Itally those of the preliminary peace treaty It Is understood that the th I terms will include e clauses by which German Germany will be allowed to maintain only men under arms to keep order orde All Mi war material beyond what is necessary to snub these troops I J t I I would acc according to tor r report port be placed d I under control of oC the allies who will also hold Germanys Germany's munitions fac fac- I tories FOCH IS STERN By Associated Press Preas TREVES TrIEVES Feb 18 When When Marshal 1 Foch presented the new armistIce I terms to the German commission on Friday he was vas requested to permit the Germans to communicate with Wei Wei- mar Marshal Foch told the Germans I that he would give th them thim m until 6 o'clock Sunday evening to take action and If II III I j the convention was not then signed j I the armistice would expire at 5 o'clock Monday morning The terms were agreed to at Sunday night Although the disarmament question I I was not raised I 1 Mathias Erzberger one of the German commissioners volunteered volunteered volunteered volun volun- a statement that the German army consisted of only men 40 per cent of whom were of doubtful value He said that the German army had been demobilized too quickly an and that It was inadequate to maintain or order order order or- or der In the country GERMANY REMADE Apart from the conference Erzberger Erzberger Erz- Erz Erz Erz- berger herger made a number of ot declarations saying particularly that the political future of oC Germany German was fixed by President 1 j dent Wilson Wilsons fourteen point lie Ife He asserted that Germany Gernian would henceforth hence 1 forth be a new country countr adding that it i I would be Ien genuinely u de democratic and Continued on page 8 1 l j i I BOCHE ARMY Continued from page page 1 would loyally participate in the ih league I or of nations on the principle e of political antI and d economical equality lie He said sald that Germany was ready to agree to dIsarmament dIs- dIs disarmament dis armament on land and sea and in the air nil Erzberger admitted that Germany made a mistake in 1871 when sh did not consult the people of Al Alsace Alsace- ce- ce Lorraine He lIe expressed the hope that France would not make the same mistake mistake mis mis- take in annexing Germans without calling a plebiscite ERZBERGER COMPLAINS By Associated Press LONDON Feb 18 One One of the notes presented by Mathias Erzberger one of it the German armistice commissioners commission commission- ers to Marshal Foch at Treves on Friday Friday Fri Fri- day complained of the failure of the entente allies to commence negotiations negotiations negotiations at Spa for a financial treaty with Germany according to a German wireless wireless wire wire- less Jess dispatch picked up here Erzberger Erz- Erz berger herger pointed out according to the message that the arrangements made b by the entente called for a beginning of Lf f th the the- negotiations on February 12 12 and that the German delegates were at Spa to commence work worl ABOUT THE FLEET I He Ite said it would be necessary in connection with placing the German commercial fleet at atthe the he disposal of the alies allies to arrive at an agreement re regarding regarding regarding re- re garding the amount and price of foodS foodstuffs foodstuffs food food- S stuffs to be supplied Germany and concerning the manner of payment S according to the message lIe He declared that as these matters were not settled it was was impossible to give instructions to the commercial fleet for however anxious the German government Is to toS S fulfill its engagements it is Its solemn I S I duty not to place the merchant fleet fleetS S under foreign control until the p pur purpose rose r- r pose ose for which such a significant and arid painful measure was agreed upon has been assured |