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Show ou GERMAN COURIER MEETS DELAY WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. A wire-less wire-less dispatch from the German Naucn station picked up by the American naval na-val tovverc 6ays it has been officially explained in Berlin that the courier bearing the armistice terms was delayed de-layed in crossing the lines by an explosion ex-plosion on tho German side, but that the terms could be expected at any hour. The message follows: "It has been officially reported concerning con-cerning the delay in transmission of the armistice terms: "The courier commissioned to bring armistice conditions sent on the night of the' 9th of November by wireless from Eiffel tower made the statement that he could not pass the lines oince Germans had not ceased firing. He was probably led to this statement by circumstances that on the German side an ammunition depot had caught on fire and was blown up with continuous continu-ous detonations. Courier had the circumstances cir-cumstances explained to him by wireless wire-less and received directions immediately immedi-ately to cross the line. Arrival of-armistice terms in Berlin can be expect, cd at any hcur." LONDON, Saturday, Nov. 9. The German armistice terms, the Dally Express saya it understands, are even more stringent than those forecast October Oc-tober 31. Germany vill be absolutely deprived, the newspaper adds, from further military power or action on land and sea and in the air. Marshal Foch then read the terms in a loud voici-. dwelling upon each word. The Germans were prepared by-semi-official communicafions for (Tie' slipulatioas as a whole, but. hearing' them set forth in detail, the concrete demands seemed lo bring home lo them for the first llmo full realisation of tho extent of the German defeat. Thoymado a few observations, merely mere-ly pointing out material difficulties standing In the way of carrying out .some quite secondary clauses. Then Erzberger asked for a .suspension of hostilities in the interests of humanity. human-ity. This request Marshal Foch flatly refused. Courier Sent to Spa. The delegates having obtained permission per-mission to send a courier lo Spa and communicate with that place b.r wireless wire-less withdraw. Marshal Fochvimme-diately Fochvimme-diately wrote an account of the proceedings pro-ceedings and sent I hem by an aide lo Premier Clemenceau who received them at noon. The German delegates are'lodpod in a country mansion at Kothondes, six mijos cast of Compiegne, and thirty miles from Marshal Foch's headquarters. headquar-ters. I Willi the commander-in-chief at the I lime of tho interview were Major General Gen-eral Maxim Weygund, his assistant; j Vice Admiral Sir Kosfilyn Wemyss, first lord of the British admiralty, and the United States representative's. French opinion which is romarkably restrained and conservative, Is unanimous unani-mous in tho view that Germany will capitulate between now and Monday. Hothondes, where the Gorman armistice arm-istice delegates are living, is n small town on the north bank of the river Alsne, six miles cast or Compiegne. It is between the forest of Laguel and the forest of Compiegne. Within a radius of thirty miles of Rethondos are the railroad towns of Clermont, Montdidler, La Fore, Laon and sevoral others not so well known. When tho Germans drove southward from Noyon last Juno the French withdrew with-drew their line north of tho Aisnc in the region of Compiegne and the Germans Ger-mans at one llmo were within Ave miles of Rothondcs. Today the German Ger-man lines are sixty-five miles away. Tho reigning Duko of Brunswick whose abdication la announced in a telegram from Brunswick by way of Berlin Is Ernest Augustus, a son of the Duke of Cumberland. On May 21, 1913, ho married Princess Victoria Louise, the only daughter of Emperor j William They have three sons, tho eldest Ernest Augustus, whoso right to the throne also haB boon renounced, being born March 18, 1911. |