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Show ARMISTICE SIGNED; ! WORLD WAR ENDEDj GERMANY FINALLY ADMITS DEFEAT DE-FEAT AND HOSTILITIES HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED. Kaiser VVilhelm Serkg Sanctuary In Holland After Being Convinced That His Dream of World Dominion Would Never Come Trua. Washington lt-erted by all her allien, her great military machine In ltiM'e-s of deal ruction by onslaughts of the allies iiriule; her eniierof 11 fugitive In Holland, with his dreutn of world dominion rudely shuttered, lierinnny bus at lat conceded defeat, und the world war which bus raged for fti 'r years I- t an end. The HunM huve surrendered unconditionally uncon-ditionally to (ienerul Foch. The war eti'lsjH Monday inornliiK. ',H veniher 11, 11 1 tl o'clock. W'liaiiliiKtoti tltne. II o'clock I'm is time. The arin- Istlre was slgnsfl by the UfrtMfl 1 ; N si iiiatlvea at 'Jti o'cioi k Monc'ay inoriiiim and flaaliel all ovvr .b" WW try. The result was a deinoiistrntlon In every section of America that was Continued for hours. The terms of the nrmlstlcc. It was announced, will not he made public until later. Military men here. However, How-ever, regard It as certain they In elude : Immediate reti-enient of ih rjenntu Military forces from l-'runce, iteiglum and Alguco-l.orrulne. Dtsurmlng and demobilization of tin (iertuaii armies. Occupation by the allied and Atuer loin forces of such strategic points In IJernmny as will make Impossible a re llevv.il of hostilities. Iicllvcry of part of the (iertnan high seas fleet and a certain number of rah marines to tha allied and American nam I forces. Disarmament of nil other Raman Warships under supervlaioti of the allied al-lied and American navies, which will guard than. Occupation of the principal tiertuan naval bttaes by sea forces of the victorious vic-torious nations. Helease of allied and American soldiers, sol-diers, sailors and civilians held prisoners pris-oners In tierinany without such reelp meal action by the associated govern meats. There was no information ns to the circumstances under which the armistice armis-tice was signed, but since the lierinati courier did not reach Herman military aaadquarters until u o'clock Sunday mornln. French time. It was gen (Tally assumed here that the German envoys within the French lines had been instructed by wireless to sign the t mis. ('orty-Heven hours had leen rcipilred tot the courier to reach Herman bend quarters, and unqnaattonaMy several hours were necessary for the examination exami-nation of the terms and a decision. It u.is regarded as possible, however, Ihul the decision may have been made I at Merlin and Instructions transmitted trans-mitted from there by the new German gov eminent, t'p to Sunday (here were four kin;.' do;, is in the German empire, namely, Prussia, Bavaria, Baxony and I Wurttcmherg. All but Saxony are now kinglets and thronelets. The situation In Saxony Is 111 : clear from the dispatches. dis-patches. Germany's total population K roughly, 70.iiiMi.tMHl. The populations or the three rerolu iioiii.ed kingdoms are; Prussia, 11.-oo'ukxi; 11.-oo'ukxi; Bavaria, 7,000,000; Warttero-berg, Warttero-berg, :i.oox0; total, rii.iMKt.mio. of the remaining Inhabitants of the empire, it Is safe to say. on the Strength of all dispatches, that the majority ma-jority lias Joined the revolt l.atc dispatchea report the kiti'' of RaXflny Is also about to abdicate, If be has not already done so. He Is I'tledrlch August II, Wboas personal life was exposed some years ago by bis divorced wife, the Princest LoUlSS of Tuscany. William Bohenaollern, lha former emperor of loinuiiiv, wlio beguii the world war, and who abdicated when be wits convinced that (icrinanv nor -I surrender to lbs victorious allies, litis arrived in Holland, an I is now at the town of Daatlagi near I'tretih. where lie hopes to escape further punMi meal at the hands of tttu nations he! baa bo grievously wronged Deeteeg 1 on the Guelders ssol, an I ana at the Bhlns river, about fortj mllaa taal of Utrechl and twelve miles j from the German border. The chateau Miildachten, to which ilm former emperor em-peror la reported to he proceeding, be longs to Count Willi m I'ni'erlck Charles Henry von Bentl iek, He is a member of the Brusaiun guard), and before the war nras sttachod lu tha German em ha say In Lonihm and member of tha Ktuliah Turf and Royal Automobile dubs He In SO years old. ii.- belongs to the fumous Anglo-Huti'l Herman bouse of Bentlnek, lite nm tlnelltnl branch of the fulllllj of the 1 Mike of Portland. |