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Show EXTEND ARMISTICE WITH THE GERMANS ERZBERGER VOICES PROTEST AGAINST ATTITUDE TAKEN BY THE ALLIES. Huns Are Anxious to Learn When Blockade Will Be Raised, Announcing An-nouncing That Food Situation Situa-tion Is Growing Worse. Amsterdam. The armistice between the allies and Germany has been extended ex-tended one month, the agreement to that effect being signed by Mathias Erzberger, the German armistice commissioner, com-missioner, at Treves, on January 15, according to a dispatch from Berlin. The meeting between Marshal Foch and the German delegates was featured fea-tured by protests by Mathias Erzberger, Erzber-ger, representing the Germans, against the status in which Germany was left during the period of the armistice. The "financial and economic dictatorship of the entente" was the theme of his main protest. "When will you raise the blockade?'' Herr Erzberger asked. "The food conditions con-ditions in Germany are daily growing worse and hunger will produce a mental men-tal state which the allies cannot desire. de-sire. Your peoples themselves are not proof against a world revolution. "Will the entente," he continued, "undertake binding obligation respecting respect-ing the return of the German prisoners prison-ers of war? When will you be in a position , to conclude a preliminary peace? Germany has asked six times for 'negotiations for a preliminary peace, but has received no reply." Herr Erzberger, who made these statements in a speech opening the proceedings, declared the Germans bad fulfilled the terms of the armistice up to the limit of possibility. In the cases in which the terms had not been complied with, the entente was responsible, re-sponsible, he insisted, especially so regarding re-garding the delivery of transport material. ma-terial. - , Herr Erzberger maintained that the freedom of movement had been impeded im-peded between the occupied trritory and the measures, taken by the allies in Alsace-Lorraine proved that France aimed to anticipate the decision of the peace conference by annexing' the provinces without respecting the right j pf the people to self-determination. |