At .11 o’clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the armistice, which concluded the bloodshed of the Groat War, came into force. The coincidence of the occurrence of the three ll’s in hour, day, and month, however, is not the oijly curiosity in dates among the groat, events of the peace settlement. The terms upon which peace was concluded were officially presented to the Germans at Versailles on May 7, 1918, which date was the third anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania. They were signed on June 28, the fourth anniversary of the assassination of the Austrian Archduke at Sarajevo, and they wore formally ratified by the Germans on July 17, the 103rd anniversary of the signature by France of tii© treaty of peace after Waterloo.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19102, 22 February 1924, Page 8
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