AUSTRIA'S ARMISTICE.

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 3629, 9 November 1918, Page 2

AUSTRIA'S ARMISTICE.

The greatest amount of satisfaction possible—more cvon than we expected—is to bo ''derived from a perusal of the terms upon *.vhich the Allied Conference at Versailles granted an armistice to Aii-.tria- ! Hungary. They aro published in detail on pago .4 of to-day's issue. It is not surprising that one of Vienna's leading journals declared them to bo "hard conditions," and added that they "will burn like unquenchable fire." Why not? Austria cannot expect to escape the penalty of a full partnership with Germany in a world-war that ivas quito uncalled for. The Hapsburg was on hand-in-glovc tonus with the Hohenzollern in the seeking to satisfy a lust for world-do-minion, although both Central I'owors had already peacefully penetrated into the trade areas of th ewhole wide Avorld before war Avas declared. AYe do not, however, derive great satisfaction Jiom tho Austrian armistice terms so much because they have been inflicted upon Germany's partner as because they indicate that severity will wait upon tho arch-criminal nation when it applies for peace. New York editorial articlos, in reviewing the terms for Austria, cmpha_se tho point that "the terms of the Austrian armistice could not have been exceeded in severity if she had actually surrendered on the field of battle." There is Ho need for us to add to that com nient. There is word of the signing of an armistice by the German Government. We will not got the details yet. But reading betA**een the lines of the terms for Austria, we can get a fair assurance that thero will be no soft-hearted treatment of tho Germans. With lied Revolt ravaging the Fatherland, with its chief mercantile city (Hamburg) running red with the blood of Junkers and rebels, with the Rod Flag of Anarchy flying over the ships of the Kaiser's Grand Fleet, and with Kiel in the hands of a Bolshevik Committee — Germany has the cup of sorrow tn her lips. Yon Junker and Frit? Schmidt alike will havo to drain that cups to the dregs.