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Show i ARMISTICE TERMS AGGEPTEOBY HUNS GERMANS COMPLAIN AT ALLEGED SEVERITY, BUT SIGN JUST THE SAME. New Terms Expected to Avert What Promised to Be Critical Situation. German Operations Against Poland Po-land to Be Restricted. Paris. The Gorman government, although al-though complaining of the alleged severity se-verity of the terms, has accepted the allied terms for tin: extension of t lie armistice, according to an announcement announce-ment made by Marshal Foeh to the supreme su-preme council on February IT. The signing took place at 0 o'clock-Sunday o'clock-Sunday evening on board Marshal Focb's private car at Treves. This averts what promised to be a rather critical situation, as it had been reported that the Germans might persist per-sist in carrying out their intimations of a refusal to sign. The new terms, while still withheld, are understood to restrict German operations op-erations against Poland within certain fixed lines, thus removing the danger of a military clash, and at the same time opening access between the interior inte-rior of Poland and the Baltic sea. The more important results will take form shortly, when Marshal Foch returns re-turns to Treves for submission of the details of the disarmament and demobilization demob-ilization of the German forces, widen are being formulated by the military, naval and economic advisers of Foch. These are of a nature amounting, in fact, to a preliminary peace agreement. agree-ment. , Disarmament is understood to Include In-clude both the naval and military branches, and the naval authorities ex-pect ex-pect the ultimate naval terms will provide pro-vide for the dismantling of the fortifications fortifi-cations of Helgoland and the Kiel canal, ca-nal, the canal being opened for commercial com-mercial navigation. While the blockade is not raised by the present terms, yet it is expectecf that the disarmament under later and more complete terms will obviate the necessity of a further blockade and permit such economic and food relief as is determined upon. |