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Show NEW GOVERNMENT STUDIES ARMISTICE i PARIS, Nov. 11 The new; German government it appears considered the armistice conditions at a sitting late on Sunday at Berlin. Having decided to accept them, it telephoned instructions instruc-tions from Berlin to Spa, German headquarters authorizing the delegates dele-gates to affix their signatures to the agreement. The courier who was waiting at Spa left immediately for the lines and crossed them without Incident north of Chimay. He reached the Chateau de Francfort at about 2 o'clock In the morning and found the German plenipotentiaries pleni-potentiaries waiting for him. They asked, after they had read their instructions in-structions to see Marshal Foch who was in his special train on a switch near the chateau. Marshal Foch, with Admiral Sir Ro&slyn Wemyes, first lord of the British navy, received them. A discussion discus-sion which is described by the Temps correspondent as being "rather long," took place upon certain clauses, particularly parti-cularly that concerning the maintenance mainten-ance of the blockade. Tho German delegates signed the document at 5" o'olock. Promlor Cloiaenceau, receiving receiv-ing corroapondonts today, said on the quostlon of tho. bloclcado: "Tho Gorman plonlpotontinrles in-Hi'etod, in-Hi'etod, iibovo all, upon the question of food. Wo will maintain, it 1b well untloralood, tho bloclcado during tho term of tho armistice. Nevertheless, as the situation in Germany and Austria Is desperate, we will do everything poriBlblo lo food thorn that wo enn In fulrneBrt to ourHolvoH. It lu tho question of trnnnport which dominates all these problems." Each departmental minister is to be supported by two socialists, one from each party. Friedrich Ebert and Hugo Haase avIU be tho chairmen of tho political j cabinet. Tho excitement in Berlin Sunday ow-1 ing to tho isolated resistance of offi-! ccrs faithful to the former emperor has subsided. The night passed quietly. quiet-ly. The population is willingly obeying obey-ing orders. Almost all the shops are open. The soldiers' and workmons' council has decreed that all work shall be resumed re-sumed Tuesday. The bourse is closed at present. In Saxony the cabinet ministers have announced that elections will be held in which both men and women will vote. Hindenburg Remains. AMSTERDAM, Nov n.Mondaw Field Marshal von Hindenburg is "not In Holland, according lo a telegram from the semi -official Wolff bureau of Berlin. Ho remains at main headquarters headquar-ters and adheres to tho new government. govern-ment. The telegram adds that Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, commander com-mander of the German northern army group, has not fled, as some reports have declared. New Government All Red. COPENHAGEN, Monday, Nov. 11. Germany's new provisional government govern-ment will be all Red. that is to say the bourgeoise parties will not be represented in it. This will not be because be-cause of their unwillingness to participate, parti-cipate, but because the Socialists definitely de-finitely refused to permit the Bourgeoise Bour-geoise to enter the new government. The plan is to give the Independent Socialists the vice chancellorship and two other secretarial posts. There arc indications, however, that independents independ-ents will demand more. " " Parties Reach Agreement. AMSTERDAM. Monday, Nev. 11. German Socialists and Independent Socialists have reached an agreement to form a joint cabinet from both parties, par-ties, according to a Wolff bureau announcement. an-nouncement. This cabinet, it is said, consists of Phillpp Scheidcmann, vice president of the rcichstag, Herr Landsberg, member of the rcichstag, and Herr Geitert, Socialist, and Hugo Haase. Richard Barth, editor of the Vorwaerts and Wilhelm Bittmanrr, member of the reichstag, Independents. Independ-ents. I Council to Meet Hindenburg. AMSTERDAM, Monday, Nov. 11. A soldiers' council has been formed at the front and will submit its demands to Field Marshal von Hindenburg tomorrow to-morrow according to a Wolf bureau dispatch from German general headquarters head-quarters received hero today. William At Chateau LONDON, Nov. 12 William Hohen-zollern, Hohen-zollern, the former German emperor, arrived Sunday at Count Bentinck's chateau of Mlddachten at Velp ncarj Arnhem, according to a dispatch to' The Daily Express dated Sunday at Velp. An Amsterdam dispatch to the Daily Express dated Sunday says that the former German empress is ill at Pots-1 dam, near Berlin and that the former crown prince is at her bedside. on |