WAR COINCIDENCES.
SIGNING OF THE PEACE TREATY.
Six "strange coincidences" of the war are pointed out by Rear-Admiral A H Smith-Dornen. 1. That the war should end where it ' began, and that Mons should be taken just before the signing of the Armistice ' j That the Kaiser, when he abdicated ' and fled into Holland, should have to run > trie gauntlet, through the country he had ' devastated and ruined. 2. That when the German Fleet were surrendering to the Grand Fleet our troop? i. Belgium were marching across the plains of Waterloo. nn 4 't», Th , t l he Armißtice Bhntl,d be Si <™*d on the Uth day of the 11th month at li d clock. 5. That the Pence Conference should take place on January 18. 1910 in-t 48 years from ♦he date 'on v.l,i-|, the German Empire was proclaimed hv an nnnv of 'nvasum in the Chateau of" Versailles. 0. , that the Ireatv of Pea-.* should >« signed on Saturday afternoon" exactly it-«» yearn after the assassination of the §??. Archduke Ferdinand, ,;";;;: thw gave, the Kaiser the pretext for the
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17270, 20 September 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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