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Show ARMISTICE TERMS I SIGNED BY GERMANY HUN8 HELPLESS ON LAND ANO 8EA AS RESULT OF ACCEPT- ANCE OF TERMS. Must Immediately Evacuate French and Belgian Territory or Become Prisoners of Wsr All of Wll- son's Terms Accepted. Washington. The terms of the armistice arm-istice with to'i-muny were rend to congress con-gress by President Wilson Monday afternoon. Assembled In the hull of the house, where nineteen months ago senutors nnd rciircseiitiithes heard the president presi-dent nsk fur the decliutitlon of wur, the.v on Mondiiv henril him speuk the words which hornhl the coming of ieme. The strictij military terms of the armistice are embraced In eleven -.peelllenihms which Include the evacuation ,,f all Invaded territories. the withdrawal of the comum troops from the left bank of the Uhiiie and the surrender af all supplies of war. The tonus alOO provide fur the iiluimloniiient hy (termun.v of the tfenlles of Itiiclniiest und Hrest-l.llovsk. Hrest-l.llovsk. The naval terms provide for the surrender sur-render of ltio sulimurines, .VI de.stio.v ers. Ii battle, enilseig. HI battleships, s light cruisers and other uiiscelhiiicoiis ships. All allied vessels in Herman hai.ils are to he surrendered and tierffinny is to notify neutrals that they are free to trade on the seas with the allied countries. Among the financial terms included are restitution for damage done by the (ieruian armies; restitution of the cash taken from the national hank of Itelgliim and return of gold taken from Itussla ami Itumaiiia. The military terms Include the surrender sur-render of "sUH) guns, half Held and half light artillery ; .'to.iHMi machine guns. ,'tiMKi flame throwers and B0OO air planes. The surrender of .VKH locomotives, 00,000 wagons, lO.(MN) motor lorries, the railways of Alsace-ljorrulno for use by the allies and stores of coal and iron also are Included. The Immediate repatriation of all Milled Mi-lled and American prisoners without reciprocal action by the allies also Is Included. In connection with the evacuation of the left hank of Hie Uhlne It Is provided pro-vided that the allies shall hold the crossings of the river at t'oblentz, Cologne Co-logne nnd Miiyeiice, together with bridgeheads In a thirty-kilometer radius. ( ionium troops are to retire lit once from any territory held by ltussln, Ku-maniii Ku-maniii and Turke.v before the war. The right hank of the lthllielaiid. that occupied by the allies, is to become be-come a neutral .one and tlie bank held by the (lennans Is to be evacuated In nineteen days. The urmlstlce Is for thlrt.v days, but the president spoke of the war us "coming to an end." The allied forces are to have access to the evacuated territory, either through Dantsig or by ihe river Vistula. Vis-tula. The unconditional capitulation Of all QeruuUI forces in Kust Africa within one month Is provided. Deserted by her allies, Cermnuy, on her knees, la accepting terms of capitulation capi-tulation which amount virtually to abject ab-ject surrender. ICxcept for actual hostile hos-tile military Invasion, the once great Kuropcau power, whose monarch's ambition am-bition was to dominate over all. is In complete defeat. Beaten on the field of battle, the edict of the allied chief coiumanil is that the (lerinnn armies shall retire Into In-to their own homeland from nil invaded invad-ed territory. Impotent as the tleriuan armies shall he, iih impotent also shall be the (lennan fleet. Colonies are lost. and the bund that sought to reach out and ii t tit In nhlilioii:l territory Is withered with-ered by the ruling of the supreme war council ni Versailles. Kcpnrntlon and restitution. In fact full compensation of all kinds, Is to he liuide by tiermnny for all the disaster that has followed her armies and those of her allies throughout the world war. The handwriting was on the wall for (iei'inaiiv. Her tmop8 had fought valiantly val-iantly throughout the more thnn four yean Of warfare. Hut what had I n considered iii Cerinaii.v as an Invincible army was beaten In feats of arms by the allied powers. Ksen before (Ser-ninny's (Ser-ninny's allies deserted her, the strength of the entente allies had become apparent. ap-parent. Unprepared they had resisted resist-ed for more than three years the assaults as-saults of an enemy who had been preparing pre-paring for combat -Ince the Franco-Prussian Franco-Prussian war. The hostilities ended on the eleventh hour of the eleventh iluy of the eleventh elev-enth month of IIH. |