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Show UN PLEAD FOR MODIFIED TERMS ARMISTICE TO BRING DISASTER DECLARES HEAD OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. German Women Fear Dear Ones Will Die from Starvation Unless Plans Are Made for Securing Food Supply at Once. Washington. Appeals addressed to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Miss Jane Addams of Chicago, on behalf of the women o.f Germany, asking that the armistice terms be modified to prevent "unspeakable disaster," have been sent from the German wireless station at Nauen. They were picked up by the military mili-tary intelligence radio at Haulton, Me., and were made public Thursday night by the war department. The appeal to Mrs. Wilson said the women and children of Germany have been "starving for years," and that they "will die from hunger by the millions" mil-lions" unless the terms of the armistice armis-tice are changed so that sufficient rolling roll-ing stock will he made available for moving food from the farms. It was dated at Berlin and signed by Gertrude Baeumer and Alice Soloman for the "national council of women of . Germany." Ger-many." The appeal to Miss Addams was from Anita Augsburg at Poz. It is said that the German women, "forseeing entire famishment and mutiny for their country," coun-try," urged "their American sisters" to intercede to have the armistice terms modified. "We are all free voters of a free republic now, greeting you heartily," the appeal said. |