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Show HUNS MOST QUIT ; OR BEJRUSHEO; Leaders IVIust Accept Allied j Terms Quickly or Problem Will Be Settled for Them. WASHINGTON, Nov. S The question ques-tion of whether Germany will surrender surren-der Immediately, or wait to be crushed between the advancing allies and American armies on the west front and revolution at home, rested tonight with an extraordinary conference at German great headquarters. Marshal Foch has given until 11 o'clock Monday Mon-day -morning, Paris time, for the answer. an-swer. At the conference the kaiser Is represented rep-resented to be, perhaps, appearing for the last time as supreme war lord and, according to German wireless reports, defying the civilians who are seeking through, submission to the inevitable to save something out of the wreck of an empire. A courier was due sometime some-time during tbo night with the text of the American and allied armistice terms, handed to the German envoys behind the allied lines this morning by Marshal Foch. He carried the word, sent ahead by wireless, that tho allied commander in chief had refusod a provisional cessation of hostilities and demanded an answer "within seventy-two hours. The American government was advised ad-vised from Paris late today of the re-coptlon re-coptlon of the Germans by Marshal Foch at 10:35 o'clock in tho morning, and Its result. Secretary Lansing immediately made the news public at the state department Later unofficial information of the movements of the German courier and knowledge of the difficult roads over which he must travel for one hundred miles after leaving the allied lines, led to the conclusion con-clusion that he could not- get back 'N?ith a reply beforo tomorrow if not) kept waiting for a decision. End Must Come Quickly In the meantime, the result is await- . ed here with entire confidence and calm. American and allied military men say the end must come quickly one way or the other; that if tho Ger- j mans are unable to agree among thorn -1 selves and accept the allied terms the j problem will be settled for them with no great delay. Some believe that acceptance Is assured as-sured and will be hastened now that a final effort to quibble, with hostilities hostili-ties stopped, is ended, on the theory that even the kaiser himself must realize rea-lize that unless peace is made quickly quick-ly there will be no goevrnment in Germany to make it. j Envoys Had Full Powers An interesting question was raised by tho statement in the report to the American government on which Secretary Sec-retary Lansing based his statement that the German envoys came with full powers. Since tho delegates did not use full powers either to sign or r.ejecLthe terms and instead referred them to grand headquarters, it was regarded re-garded here as certain "that they came with the hope of accomplishing something some-thing more than "the signature of an armistice. It was believed their purpose pur-pose was to inject matters which can be considered only at the peace conference. con-ference. It has been made very clear, however, how-ever, and emphasized today in official dispatches from France that Marshal Foch's powers were limited strictly to the drastic military program prescribed prescrib-ed by the supremo war council at Versailles. Ver-sailles. nn |