AMERICA DECIDES AGAINST ARMISTICE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 246, 15 October 1918, Page 5

AMERICA DECIDES AGAINST ARMISTICE.

DISPATCH OF OVERSEAS TROOPS CONTINUES, rOCH DEFINES GUARANTEES NEEDED BY ALLIES. (Received 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 14. The Government has decided that there shall be no armistice. The dispatch of troops overseas shall continue. President Wilson has replied to Germany that atrocities on land and sea must cease before an armistice is granted. Mr. James Tuohy, the New York "World's" London correspondent, says that although the German appeal for an armistice has not officially been communicated to the Allies, it is learned that the whole subject was exhaustively discussed last week at the Versailles Conference. The Premiers of England, France, and Italy, and military representatives of all the Allies were present. Marshal Foch presented a list of the guarantees he considered necessary before granting an armistice, namely, Allied occupation of Metz, Strassburg, and Coblenz. The conference endorsed the list. Marslial Foch also presented for the consideration of the conference a scheme for making Germany impotent as a military factor. The eclieme included the surrender of the German fleet and its distribution among the Allies according to naval losses, the destruction of the Krupp and Skoda armament works. The scheme was considered, but it was believed that it would be a better plan for these works as well as other great German and Austrian industrial plants to he utilised to compensate for machinery and material losses in France and Belgium. Mr. N. D. Baker, Secretary for War. says that the War Department is going right ahead. Senator H. F. Ashurst, speaking in the Senate, said that President Wilson refused to consider any armistice of his own making. Cessation of hostilities eonld only be made through the generals .n the field.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) After an interview with the President Senator Ashurst gave an interview in which he said that President Wilson did not desire in the slightest to weaken the. Allied will to victory. He pointed out that Mt. Lloyd George and M. Ckrnenceau had already been consulted. President Wilson stated to-day that when the time to consider an armistice comes the Allied military advisers will be consulted, and no military advantage will be lost.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)