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But here history was made, for In this car on November 11, 1918, the terms of the Armistice, which ended the greatest war In all history, were signed. Dining Car No. 2419D Joined the French army In 1914 to be converted Into a railway rail-way saloon of a senior French officer. It served throughout the war and in 1918 It was used by General Ferdinand Foch when he became Marshal Mar-shal Foch, commander In chief of the Allied armies. So It was into this ear early In the morning of November 8, 1918, that the representatives repre-sentatives of the German government came to listen to the terms of an Armistice, for which titty bad asked, which Foch would be willing to grant them. Picture now the scene which took place on that morning. In the center of the car Is a 4W French, d. British officers, the victors. On the other side stand German officers and civilians, the vanquished. General Weygand, Foch's chief of staff, was at his tight and at his left were two English ad minis, Hope and Wemyss. As they took their seats Mathlas Eraberger, the head of the German Ger-man delegation, was facing Admiral Hope. General Gen-eral Von WInterfeldt, the second German plenipotentiary, pleni-potentiary, was facing Foch. A German m ne. Captain Vanseiow, was seated beside Ton WInterfeldt WIn-terfeldt and the German diplomat. Count Oben- dorf, sat beside Eraberger. Lieutenant Leperche seated himself at the end of the table and two of Foch's staff officers. Major Rledlnger and Captain de Mlerry were seated at two small tables at one side. Here Is the story of what took piace as told by Foch himself: "When they entered my drawing room Id the car, I saw them standing, paie ana mi it. une of them, whom I guessed to be Mathlas Era berger, asked In a rather weak voice, permis sion to make the presentations. "I simply said, 'Gentlemen, have you any docu- mentsT We shall examine their validity.' Then they showed me documents signed by Prince lfax of Baden, which I deemed to be satlsfac tory. Then turning toward Erzberger. I said to him, 'What do you wantr He replied In a till troubled voice, 'We have come to receive the proposal of the Allied Powers In view of an armistice,' I cut in rather sharply (and this was the only time I was sharp), 'I hnv no proposal pro-posal whatsoever to make. The four Germans consulted one another with their eyes. 'Well.' said on of them. Count Obendorfr, 'Tell us. Monsieur le Marechal, how you winh us to ex press ourselves. Our delegation Is prepared to ask you the conditions of an armistice.' I Insisted, Do you ask f(rmnlly tot an armistice?1 Yes, we do.' 'Then, please sit down and I will read the conditions ofrthe Ayies to you.' "I began to road the conditions of the ar mlstlce slowly. After each paragraph I stopped to permit the Interpreter to translate. Then 1 looked at my Interlocutors and followed the Im pression of their faces during the translation. Mathias Erzberrjsr Gradually I saw those faces change. Winter feldt especially was very pale. I even think that be wept When I bad finished reading l simply declared, 'Gentlemen, I leave this text with you, you have seventy-two hours to reply to it Meanwhile, you may present observations of details to me.' "Then Erzberger became pathetic, 'For God's sake, Monsieur le Marechal,' he said, 'do not wait for those seventy-two hours. Stop the hos tllities this very day. Our armies are a prej to anarchy. Bolshevism threatens them, and that Bolshevism may gain ground over the whole of Germany and threaten France herself." I replied: 'I do not know in what state your armies are; I only know In what situation mine are. Not only can I not stop the offensive, but am giving orders to continue It, with re doubled energy,' WInterfeldt Intervened in his turn: 'Mon sieur le Marechal, It will be necessary for our staffs to consult each other and to discus together the whole of the details of execution. T-JS&TSfcowJE -iSsy bj-'StS.'Ks--ee if- the - tllktea be continued? I beg of you, for technical reasons; to stop the hostilities.' Again I re torted: 'The technical discussions can Just as well take piace In seventy-two hours. Until then the offensive will continue.' This time It waa finished. The four plenipotentiaries rose and withdrew." During the next two days, November 9 and 10, Foch slept but little. He was certain that the Germans would accept his terms but in the meantime wireless messages received by the Eiffel Tower told of the outbreak of a revolu tlon in Berlin so he did not know what govern ment these men represented nor how much power they i-ovr had. On the evening of November Id the German plenipotentiaries came back to re quest that on account of the troubled state of affairs In Germany, the army be permitted to retain a greater number of machine guns for the purpose of maintaining order. Foch granted them this and a Uttle after five o'clock on th morning of November 11 they signed the Ar mlstlce. Of the subsequent history of this famous din Ing car a recent visitor to Compelgne writes In the New York Times as follows: "What happened to Dining Car 2410D after that eventful night does not seem clear. It appears eventually to have been demobilised but not to have returned to civilian life. A small plate beneath the arms on one side of It announces that It was 'given by the Wagons-Llts company. May 1, 1921,' and It was presumably about that time that it turned up In the Court of Honor at Invalldes In Paris where, with all Its war medals upon It, It took its place with the other inanimate heroes of such a war as the first Vapoleon never dreamed of. Its medals are a little difficult to see from the outside, for they ire high up at both ends of the main saloon Inside, in that strip which In the common herd of dining cars is occupied by advertisements of Scotch whlRkles, Riviera hotels and Atlantic iteamship lines. They take the form of two mall red plaques adorned with crenm-colored Hags, laurel wreaths and figures of Wagons LIU angels er of Mme. la Republlqua, it Is difficult to say which, for the light It not too good. One plaque bears an inscription which begins, In this car there was signed at Francport near Compiegne on November 11, 1918, at five o'clock the Armistice Imposed on the Germans by the victories of the Allied Armies,' and continues with the names of the allied and German sig-Latorles. sig-Latorles. At the opposite end of the saloon the other plaque bears the names of the battles which the old dining car attended : "The Marne 1924, the Yser 1015, Verdun 1918, the Sontme 1916, the Battle of France 1918." "Paris, however, is fifty miles from Compiegne. When the old car took its place with the other mmortals In the Invalldes, there was nothing at the site in the forest except two boards nailed to trees marking the positions of the two trains. Le Matin of Paris was the first to move for a permanent monument choosing a spot beside the Oomplegne-Francport road 200 vards away, presumably on the assumption that nobody would ever leave the road and enter I he forest to reach the actual site. Its monument monu-ment Is a striking piece of work, a golden sword with Us point resting on a fallen German eagle, but although It bears the Armistice date there is a stronger flavor of Alsace-Lorraine In its Inscription than of the Armistice. "The next step was taken by Foumier Sar-loveze, Sar-loveze, depnty from the department of the Oise find mayor of Compiegne. This was directed to the raising of a monument at the actual site which, although It Is five miles from the town, is Just within the municipal boundary. The monument which resulted was dedicated on Armistice day, 1922, In the presence of President Presi-dent Mlllerand and an Impressive assembly of marshals, admirals, ambassadors, troops and townsfolk. It consists of a broad boulevard 200 vards long which has been carried into the forest from the main road, and at the end of wtilcft tTii erearihg,'lof"'yarda it 'diametVr tfltiv a circular road surrounding the gardened circle of the actual site. The railway tracks from Rethondes station have been torn up elsewhere In this end of the forest but In the clearing they remain. Between the rails of each track, slabs of granite mark the positions which the two trains occupied. "Of late years the old dining car bad been showing the effect of the weather to which Its outdoor position at the Invalldes has exposed It. Its return to the'slte In the forest had been i-ontemplated for some time, but the problem of the cost was not solved until A. H. Fleming f Pasadena, after consulting M. Sarlovete at compiegne, offered 150,000 francs (say $6,000) for the construction of a suitable bulldlog at i lie site. Accordingly In April, 1928, the old car was moved on temporary rails to the outer court of the Invalldes, where It was taken off Its trucks and plaeed on two wlteeled floats to be towed to the Wsgnn-Mts repair shops for a coat of paint and a general sprucing up before starting on its last voyage. As soon as the builders were ready for It at the site. It was hauled back to Rethondes station and a line of tracks Into the forest was especially laid for It It was pashed carefully Into Its new home at the edge of the cleai.ng and is now permanently built in. And there, with an ex-poilu who limps when he walks In charge of it you will Ind It today, roped off, smelling of fresh paint and at the first glance looking like well, looking about like a dining car. "It Is disconcerting to discover that the table on which the Armistice was signed was so unpretentious un-pretentious a table and that the chairs in which the signatories sat. Von WInterfeldt opposite Foch, Ersbenser opposite Wemyss, were ordinary ordi-nary Wagons-Ltts dining car chairs. It Is difficult diffi-cult to it the play to its banal theater, to connect con-nect this culminating episode of the greatest of all wars, one of the supreme moments in history, his-tory, with the old dining car In which it transpired. trans-pired. Such, however, Is the Immortality of Dining Car No. 24190.' ( by WMltrn Nirapar tjiton.) Wild Lifo Just Outtid Gay Capital of Italy Although Rome baa been a center ef dvlUsaUon for 2,000 years. It still Ilea Just a few hours' train ride from one of the most rugged and wildest districts on earth, the province of AbrunL Bears and wolvea are still to be found wandering through the forests of this mountainous section, and shepherds are accustomed to encounters encoun-ters with them. Now It bss been derided de-rided to stock the national park of Abrcust with some of these animals before,lf ever, they .become completely com-pletely extinct Within a few weeks the director has had presented to hint a chamois, which was rescued from a river Into which It bad Jumped to escape from a wolf, and a baby bear, which was found wan deiing helplessly about after its mother had made a wild attack oa a flock of sheep. Shepherds are Joining enthusiastically enthusiasti-cally in the work of collecting fauna, and now, Instead of shooting every, wild animal, they hastily call the dl rector of the park for help In capturing cap-turing It AdvcnUrera ExtoIlaJ The expression, "England was made by adventurers, not by Its gov-ernmeat" gov-ernmeat" Is attributed te Gen. Charles Gordon, better known as Chinese Gordon, who was killed In the defense of Khartum. 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