THE ARMISTICE

Grey River Argus, 13 November 1918, Page 3

THE ARMISTICE

SEVERE TERMS FOR ENEMY

MUST GO BEHIND THE RHINE.

AND LEAVE ALSACE-LORRAINE.

ALLIES OCCUPY THREE GERMAN

CITIES.

HELIGOLAND TO BE ALSO

OCCUPIED.

WARSHTPS TO HE DISMANTLED

24 BIG AND 50 SMALL VESSELS

MERCANTILE .MARINE

SURRENDERS

BIG SURRENDER OF GUNS AND

MATERIAL

ALL U-BOATS TO BE HANDED

OVER

EASTERN TREATIES NULIFIED

(Per P<re»s Association.)

WELLINGTON, November 12

The Prime Minister this afternoon received the following summary of the armistice conditions, from . the riigh Commissioner, the message being dated London 1 , November 11th. The message, which the Premier read to the House states the conditions to be: —

(1) — All occupied territory to he evacuated.

(2)— -The repatriation of all the inhabitants of occupied territory.

(3)— The' evacuation of the left bank of the Rhine.

(4)— The occupation by thp Allies of. , the German' cities of. Mainz. Coblens and Cologne, and of a thirty-kilometre radius on the right bank of the Rhine.

(o) — A neutral zone to be established on the left bank of -the Rhine.

(6) — The evacuation by Germany of the' Rhineland (Alsace-Lorraine) within 16 days.

(7)— A great surrender of suns, ammunition and war materials.

(8) — All German submarines, it sea, or ready to put to sea, to be surrendered wihin fourteen days.

(Q) — Tlie German<! ore to disarm fi bnttleerukers. in bntti pel-fins. S lisrhfc cruisers, and fifty des f rovers. under supervision of the Allies.

(10) — Heligoland to be occupied

(11) — In order that the armistice conditions may be enforced by the Allies, there is to be no transfer of the German mercantile marine to neutral Hags.

(12) — The immediate repatriation, • without reciprocity, of all Allied and United States prisoners.

(13) — The German troops in Russia, Roumania and elsewhere are to be withdrawn.

(14) — The complete abandonment of the Bucharest and the Brest-Litovsk treaties.

(15) — The duration of the armistice is 36 ctavs.