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Show ! i Armistice News Will Be! Promptly Given Out. WASHINGTON, Nov. S. The Amor-Jean Amor-Jean government was notified just before be-fore noon today that Marshal Foch had received the German delegates seeking armistice terms behind the French lines at 9 o'clock this morning, Paris! time. In announcing that the conference: which may end the war had begun, the, state department disclosed that the Gorman envoys after reading the surrender sur-render terms handed them would be allowed a brief time to consider j whether they must communicate withi Berlin and then would be given 72 J hours In which to reply if they requir- ; ed a decision from Berlin. i Anxiety among officials of the government gov-ernment today over the renewal of wild premature peace demonstrations started yesterday by the false -report of the signing of an armistice almost equalled interest in the outcome of the conferences. Everywhere it is believed that the Germans are beaten and that their surrender cannot long be delayed. Word that the drastic conditions, under which tho American and allied advance may stop, will be accepted is awaited with calm confidence. But it is realized that the premature celebrations, in which lives already have been lost and property destroyed, may create a grave situation, resulting j in material Interruption of industrial and business activities. President Wilson Wil-son himself has taken cognizance of the danger and at his direction Secretary Secre-tary Lansing issued an official statement state-ment denying persistent statements thai news was being withheld and promising an announcement as soon as tho government received Information I that an armistice had been signed. |