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Show : ARMISTICE TERMS SUBMITTED TO HUNS IMMEDIATE END OF WAR IN SIGHT, PROVIDED GERMANY ACCEPTS CONDITIONS. Terms Interpreted to Mean Absoluts Surrender, Nothing Being Left to the Good Faith of the Vanquished, Van-quished, Nor Victor Restricted. Washington. Terms on which Germany Ger-many may obtain immediate armistice and end the war were completed and signed November 4 in l'aris. Secretary Lansing announced the fact in a brief statement Monday night, adding only ) that complete diplomatic harmony had been achieved by allied conferees at Versailles. It may he stated authoritatively that the terms follow closely those under un-der which Austria-Hungary surrendered surren-dered and passed out of the war, leaving leav-ing Germany to stand alone against the world. Subjected to analysis by military officers of-ficers here, allied terms of the Austrian Aus-trian armistice, which are said to he more drastic than those for Germany, are interpreted to mean absolute surrender. sur-render. Nothing is left to the good faith of the vanquished and no restrictions re-strictions or limitations are imposed on the victors. These officers believe Germany, left alone, also "must throw herself without reserve on the mercy of the victors. Final adjustments, territorial or otherwise, are all deferred to the peace conference for which cessation of hostilities hos-tilities paves the way. Tlie judgment of army officers as to the situation on the western front in a military sense is that Germany must accept the armistice conditions or face a debacle of her armies. Signs of disintegration of the German forces facing the Franco-American lines have been evident for days. The German official statement Sunday admitted an American break through. If the breach is' widened the German armies will be cut in half as effectually as were the Austrian armies in Italy. They then may be crushed separately. An attempt to apply the lessons of the Austrian armistice to Germany's situation brings out several points upon which military men based their forecast of the German terms. For one tiling, it is regarded as certain that complete evacuation of Alsace-Lorraine Alsace-Lorraine will be insisted upon, as well as the occupation of the lthine fortresses fort-resses by allied garrisons. Surrender of the German submarines and a substantial sub-stantial part of the high seas fleet and the occupation of land defenses that protect German bases also is implied. im-plied. Guns Must Be Left Behind. So far as the German army is concerned, con-cerned, it must go back into Germany, probably without the whole vast mechanism of war which it carried into France and Belgium. All the big gtms, tanks and aircraft, under the Austrian precedent, would be concentrated concen-trated and left under the direct control con-trol of the allied and American armies. It was pointed out. however, that since Germany is the last of the central cen-tral powers, when she surrenders there will be no need to provide for the employment of her military equipment equip-ment by Marshal Foch. There will be no one left against whom to turn the guns. The terms for Germany, therefore, there-fore, probably will show that variation from the Austrian conditions. One feature of the Austrian surrender surren-der conditions which is thought to have been duplicated in the German terms is the entrusting to Marshal Foch of the carrying "out of the programs pro-grams of demobilization and disarmament. |