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Show WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 1 .The strictly military terms H i of the armistice are embraced in eleven specifications which include the evacuation of all invaded territories, the withdrawal of the German troops from the left bank of the Rhine and the ' surrender of all supplies of war. vM The terms also provide for the abandonment by Ger-. Ger-. many of the treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Lkovsk. The naval terms provide for the surrender of 1 60 subma-rines, subma-rines, fifty destroyers, six battle cruisers, ten battleships, ' eight light cruisers and other miscellaneous ships. All Allied vessels in German hands are to be surrendered land Germany is to notify neutrals that they are free to trade at once on the seas with the Allied countries. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY ON THE SEDAN H I FRONT, Nov. 11, 2 p. m., (by The Associated Press). H j Thousands of American heavy guns fired the parting shot to t the Germans at exactly eleven o'clock this morning. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. The terms of the armistice with Germany were read to congress by President Wilson at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Assembled in the hall of the house where nineteen months ago senators and representatives heard tho president presi-dent ask for tho declaration of war, they today heard him speak the words which herald the coming of peace. The president spoke as follows: Gentlemen of the congress: In these anxious times of rapid and stupendous chango it will in some degree lighten my sense of responsibility to perform in persou the duty of communicating to you some of the larger clrcumstanc-j es of the situation with which it is ! nocessary to deal. j The Ggrman authorities who have at . the invitation of tho supreme war 1 council, been hi communication with i Marshal Foch, have accepted and signed the terms of armistice which he was authorized and instructed to communicate to them. Those terras are as follows: , 1 Military clauses on western front: 1 Cessation of operations by land and in tho air six hours after the signature sig-nature of tho armistice. 2 Immediate ovacuation of Invaded ! conntries; Belgium, France, Alsnce-j Alsnce-j Lorraine. Luxemburg, be ordered to I bo completed within fourteen days from the signature of "the armistice. German troops which havo not left the above mentioned territories within tho period fixed will become prisoners of I war. Occupaiiou by the allied and j United States forces jointly will keep pace with evacuation In these areas. All movements of evacuation and occupation oc-cupation will be regulated in accord-, j ance with a note annexed to the stated! j terms. 3. Repatriation beginning at once and to be completed "within fourteen! 'days of all inhabitants of the coun-1 I tries above mentioned, Including hos-j I tages and persons under. trial or con-i ' victed. j : 4. Surrender in pood condition by the German armies of the following dquipment: Five thousand guns (two thousand, five hundred heavy, two thousand fivo hundred field), thirty thousand 'machine guns; two thousand minnenwerfors, two thousand airplanes . (fighters, bombers firstly J) 37's ami , night bombing machines.) The above j lo be delivered in Situ to the Allies ' and the United States troops in Vc-cordance Vc-cordance wlthjLhe detailed conditions laid down in the annexed note. 5. Evacuation by the German armies ar-mies of the countries ou the left bank of the Rhino shall be administered by tho local authorities-undor tho control of the Allied and United States armies ar-mies of occupation. The occupation of these territories will bo determined bv Allied and Uujlcd States gnrrisons holding the principal crossings of the !! Rhine, Mayence, Soblenz, Cologne to- Hl get her with bridgeheads at these !! points in thirty kilometer radius on the right -bank and by garrisons shn- !! ilarly holding the strategic points of !! the regions. A neutral zono shall be !! reserved on the right of the Rhine be- !! tween the stream and a line drawn ! parallel to it for forty kilometers to thc east from the frontier of Holland !! to the parallel of Gershelm and as far as practicable a distance of thirty kilo- meters from thc east of the stream IH from tins parallel'upon the Swiss fron- tier. Evacuation by the enemy of the Rhinelauds shall be so ordered as to be completed within a ffj-ther period of eleven days, in all nineteen days after the signaturo of the armistice, C In all territory evacuated by th i enemy there shall ho no evacuation of i inhabitants; no damage or harm shall ( be done to the persons or property of i the inhabitants ; no destruction of any kind to be committed. Military estab-llshments estab-llshments of all kinds shall be dellv-ered dellv-ered intact as well as military stores of food, munitions, equipment not re moved during" the periods fixed foi evacuation. Stores of food of All kinds for tho civil population, cattle, etc , shall be left in Situ. Rail establish- ments shall not be impaired in a in v way and their personnel shall not he moved. Roads and means of coinmuni j cation of every kind, railroad, water- I ways, main roads, bridges, telegraphs, !IH telephones shall in no manner be im- I VM j paired. v v ! 1 All civil and military personnel ' at present Piuployed on them shall re-main. re-main. Five thousand locomotives, 50,- : 000 wagons and 10,000 motor lorries in . good woiking order with a)l nccessarj spare parts and fittings, shall be de KH livered to the associated powers with H i in mo period tlxed for the evacuation HH lot Belgium and Luxemburg. The rail- 1H ! ways of Alsace-Lorraine shall be H handed over within the same period, together with all pre-war personnel 11 i and material. Further material neces-! neces-! sary for the working of railways in I the" country on the left bank of thc Rhine shall be left In Situ. All stores 1 1 I of coal and material for the upkeep of 1 permanent ways, signal and repair shops left entire in Situ and kept in H an efficient state by Germany during 1 the whole state of armistice proceed 1 lugs. AH barges taken by Germany 1 shall be restored to them. A note ap- I ponded regulates thc details of these il measures. vi 8 The Gcrmau eormnaud shall be responsible for revealing all mines or ; delay acting fuses disposed Jn terrl-tory terrl-tory evacuated by the German troop."' and shall assist in theli' discovery and H destruction. The German command ' shall also roveal all destructive, meas- i 1 ures that may have been taken (such. ! (Continued' on Page Seven. ) j H ' ARMISTICE TERMS ' BEFORECONGRESS (Continued from Page 1) j as poisoning or polluting of springs J wells, etc.) under penalty of reprisals. 3 The fight of Yoqulsltlon shall bo exercised by the allies and the United States armies in all occupied territory. The upkeep of the troops of occupa-tlon occupa-tlon in the Rhineland (excluding Alsace-Lorraine) shall be charged to the German government. 10 An Immediate reparation without with-out reciprocity, according to detailed conditions -which shall be fixed, of all allied and United States prisoners of war. The allied powers and the United Statos shall be able to disposo of theso prisoners as they wish. 11 Sick and wounded who cannot bo removed from evacuated territory will be cared for by German personnel person-nel who will be left on the spot with the medical material required. 11 Disposition relative to tho eastern east-ern frontiers of Germany: 12 All German troops at present in any territory which before the war belonged to Russia, Rumania or Turkey Tur-key shall withdraw within the frontiers fron-tiers of Germany as they existed on August 1, 1914. 13 Evacuation by German troops to begin at once and all German instructors, instruc-tors, prisoners and civilian as well as military agents now on territory of Russia (as defined before 1014) to be recalled. 14 German troops to cease at once all requisitions and seizures and any other undertaking -with a view to obtaining ob-taining supplies intended for Germany in Rumania and Russia (as defined In August 1, 1914). 15. Abandonment of the treaties or Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk and of the supplementary treaties. 16. The Allies shall have free access ac-cess to the territories evacuated by the Germans on their eastern frontier either through Danzig or by the Vistula Vis-tula in order to convey supplies to the populations of those territories or for any other purpose. III. Clause concerning East Africa: 17. Unconditional capitulation of all German forces operating in East Africa within one month. IV. General clauses: 18. Repatriation, without reciprocity, reciproci-ty, within a maximum period of one month, in accordance with detailed conditions hereafter to be fixed, after I lea shall be empowered to occupv all German forts, fortifications, batteries and dofense works of all klnda In nil tho entrances from the Categat into the Baltic and to sweep up all mine and obstructions within and without German territorial waters without any question of neutrality being raised and the positions of all .such mines and obstructions are to bo Indlcatod. Tho existing blockade sot up bj 'the allies and their associated power I are to remain unchanged nnd all Ger-, Ger-, man merchant ships found at sea are to remain liable to capture. J 27 All naval aircraft are to bo concentrated con-centrated and Immediately interned in German bases to be specified by tho allies and the United Statos af America. Amer-ica. 2S In evacuating the Belgian coasts and ports, Gormany Hh'all abandon all merchant ships, tugs, lighters, cranes and all other harbor materials, all materials ma-terials for Inland navigation a.ll aircraft air-craft and all materials and stores, all arms and armaments, and nil stores and apparatus of all kinds. 29. All Black Sea ports are to be evacuated by Germany; all Russian war vessels of all descriptions seized by Germany In the Black sea are to be handed over to the Allies and the United States of America; all neutral vessels seized are to be released; all warlike and other materials of all kinds seized in those ports are to bo returned and Gorman materials as specified in clause twenty-eight nro to be abandoned. ' , 30. All merchant vessels In German hands belonging to the Allied and associated as-sociated powers are to be restored in ports to be specified by the Allies nnd the United States of America without reciprocity. 31 No destruction of ships or of materials to be permitted' before evacuation, evac-uation, surrender or restoration. 32 The German government will notify the neutral governments of tho world, and particular tho governments of Norway, Sweden. Denmark and Hoi-, land, that all restrictions placed on tho trading of their vessels with tho allied and associated countries, whether by the German government or by private German interests and whether in return re-turn for specific conceptions such as the export of shipbqilding materials, or not are Immediately cancelled.,.' 33 No transfers of German shrwpfdg. 0 fany description to any ncumljflaj aro to take place after signature' of ttif, armistice. VI Duration of armistice: 34 The duration of tho armistico 1 sto be thirty days, with option to extend. ex-tend. During this period on failure of execution of any of tho above clauses, the armistice may bo brought tp an end by ono of the contesting-partles on 48 hours' previous notice.'.'' VII Time limit for reph'i- 35 This armistice to bo accepted or refunded by Germany within 72 hours of notification. Among the-finnaclal terms included are restitution for damage done by the German armies; distribution of money- Kum and rt'jrn o o' l ken from E Russia nnd Rumuii G The mlli'an tfrrji inrna.i. the ear render of 5i" gun, h.ili f . d nd half light artdh-r? . Su.mki nuichim- gun, I 3000 flame throwers and 2000 airplanes. air-planes. Tho surrender of 6000 locomotive. 60.000 wagons. 10.000 jnotor lorries the railway of Alsaoa-Lorralne for uh by the allies and stores of coal and , iron also are included. The immediate repatriation of nil 1 Allied and American prisoner with- 1 out reciprocal action by the Allies also 1 ia included. , In connection with tho evacuation of tho left bank of tho Rhine U is provided that the Allies shall hold the crossings of the river at Coblena. Co- logno and Mayone together Trith bridgeheads in a thirty kilometer rad- i lus. j ..' , ( German troops are to rotlre from all territory held in Russia, Rumania and ' Turkey before the war. i Tho ight bank of tho Rhlnolarjd. ; that occupied by the Allies Is to be- 1 como a neutral zone and tho bank held 1 by the Germans is to be evacuated in, ten days. Tho armistice ia for thirty days, but the president spoko of tho war as "coming to an end." The allied forces are to JiavoaciJee to tho evacuated territory " either through Dantzlg or by the river Vistula. Vis-tula. The unconditional capitulation of all Gorman forces in East Africa within with-in one month is provided, oo |