THE ARMISTICE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16408, 31 December 1918, Page 7

THE ARMISTICE.

FURTHER RESTITUTION. (By Cable.—Pr?&3 Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and Cablo Association.) PARIS, Docomber 23. Germany's restoration of loot includes tho handing over of 5500 gold bars marked Avith tho Russian eagle, weighing 73,500 kilogrammes, also 6000 cases of securities, valued at £120,000,000, stolen froni banks in Lillo, Roubaix, and Tourcoing. Tho value of tho restitutions thus far made exceeds £240,000,000. THE BRITISH NAVAL MISSION. LONDON, December 27. , Admiral Browning's Naval Mission to Germany found that the Germans had employed meet of tho interned British merchant ships on war duties. They would require much alteration before they could bo used for their original purposes. Hamburg was a dead port. The Mission inspected a cyclopean submarino cruiser, and a crane capable ofi lifting five hundred tons, also the raider, Moowe, -which has now reverted to merchant uses. The destroyers which captured Captain Fryatt's steamer, the Brussels, carriod two of the Brussels' lifebuoys as souvpnirs. The. conditions at Kiel were deplorable, discipline was non-existent, and tho Mission, in one case, refused to proceed with its inspection until the crew had quitted the ship. Admiral Browning refused to deal with the "Workmen and Soldiers' Council, though obviously it was in complete control of the situation. The German commission at Kiel included Steinbrinck, the submarine commander, who claims to have sunk '200,000 tons of shipping. The British Mission was treated everywhere . with marked respect, and the officials of the Workmen and Soldiers' Council smoothed the way everywhere. The naval officers acted with dignity., bnt a sense of humiliation was only too apparent. The mon, however, appeared unashamed. The Mission closely examined all surface and submarine warships, naval aircraft, and merchantmen.

FRENCH WOMEN'S VIEW. ! NEW YORK. Decembor 28. Mrs Gertrude Atherton, American authoress, cabling from Paris, says that the French women resent the granting of an armistice to Germany. They feel that the German ' armies should have been humbled and defeated on the field. THE BRUSSELS SECRET JOURNAL. LONDON, December 27. The "Daily Express" states that the secret journal, "Libro Belgique," published in Brussels throughout the war, was the work of two brothers named Jourdain, both of whom died on the eve of the armistice. Several men and women were shot or| imprisoned for helping to publish thei paper, which was orinted on various presses, which the Germans were unable to locate. The Jourdains employed two orderlies attachod to General Bissing's and General Falkenhausen's staff, to put copies on the Governor's desk or in his pockets. j AMERICAN FLAG TORN DOWN. (Received December 30th, 7.55 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, December 29. German officers tore down the American flajg at Posen. Tho German general, in reply to the British mission's protest, said he would not permit an enemy flag in Prussia: FOOD FOR THE GERMANS AND AUSTRIANS. (Eeut-er'a Telegrams.) LONDON, December 29. The "Express" learns that President Wilson submitted to the Allies a plan tci feed the German and Austrian peoples. The plan includes the utilisation of German and Austrian tonnage.