THE ARMISTICE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16398, 18 December 1918, Page 7

THE ARMISTICE.

RIGHTS

HOLLAND

ALLIES RESERVE FURTHER

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and X.Z. Cable Association,J

NEW YORK, December 16.

The United Press Association correspondent states that the Allied Commission, in extending the period of the* armistice, reserved tho light of the , Allies to occupy tho right hank of the Rhine north of Cologue, if necessary. BRITISH AT COLOGNE. (Australian aud N.Z. Cablo Association.) AMSTERDAM, December 15. When the British entered Cologne, tho newspapers appeared with tho notification on tho first page that the paper was printed with tho permission of the British authorities. Cologne wears a warlike aspect, with British guns stitioned along tho lthine embankment. ; THE NAVAL TERMS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Router's Telegram*.) COPENHAGEN, December 16. It is roported from Kiel that Admiral Browning intimated that Germany must be prepared for tho British occupation of Heligoland _ unless tho naval terms of tho armistice wore carried out. THE QUESTION OF INDEMNITIES. (Australian and N.Z. Oabio Association.) - NEW YORK, December 16. The Washington correspondent of tho "New York Times" states that . Senator Poindexter, in a speech assailing Mr Daniels, Secretaiy of the . Navv, who a few days ago said that : the "United States ought not to seek ; indemnities from Germany, declared v that Mr Daniels did not represent tha - Renublic, or the opunion of tho United States. In his opinion, many people ■ in tl>o United States differed from Mr Daniels. The United States, he de- ,i clared, was the winner in the war, and ' was entitled to justice under interna- .j tional law, and should demand tho cost ' of hostilities." It was the Govern- • ment's duty to assert tho interests of j the people of the country. Those in- < terests demanded that the United > States shall be reimbursed for the iremendous expenditure and cost of the { war. E

BELGIAN" NOTIFICATION TO

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rcuter's Telegrams.) LONDON, December 16. The Belgian Government has notified Holland that war material and provisions for military workers from Franco and England will be brought to Belgium via the Scheldt. It says that Holland cannot but accept in Anew of Dutch permission to the retreating Germans to traverse Limburg.