ARMISTICE TERMS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1489, 20 November 1918, Page 5

ARMISTICE TERMS.

REPLY TO GERMANY. (A. & N.Z. & neuter) LONDON, Nov. 18. A wireless American official message states;— Replying to the German Government’s recent appeals for mitigation of the terms of the armistice, the United States Government requests the German Government in future to address such communications to all the associated Governments, through the usual diplomatic channels, and not only to America. A FURTHER PLEA. (A. & N.Z. & Reuter) LONDON, Nov. 19. A wireless German Government message has been sent to the Allies and America, protesting that the conditions of the armistice seriously imenace economic conditions on the left bank of the Rhine and its relations with German territory on the, right bank, and declaring that if the conditions are unalleviated existence will become impossible, and Bolshevism inevitable. In order to obviate Ibis, it requests the following:—Normal intercourse on the left bank of the Rhine, completely normal economic communications between the left bank and the remainder of Germany and foreign countries, even during the military occupation; German owners to exploit as heretofore the coal and potash ore mines on the left bank of the Rhine within the old territory of the Empire, with permission for transportation up and down and across the Rhine to the right bank; the general free use of the Rhine for transport within the old boundary of the German Empire; free navigation via Rotterdam and the coast for provisioning Germany via the North Sea and Railin' coasts with coal, potash, and food supplies; the continuation of industries on the left bank of the Rhine for the use of the remainder of Germany; free railway traffic in occupied territory; the furnishing of electric power from the left to the I right bank of the Rhine; discharged men liable to military service on the (left bank of the Rhine not to be | made prisoners of war even if in uniform; all civil and military or- | animations on the left bank of the .Rhine to be allowed to continue work; no requisitioning in occupied territories unless absolutely necessary for the maintenance of the troops in occupation, THE SUBMARINES. A. and X.Z. Cable' Association and Reuter. (Hoc. Nov. 20, 9.45) LONDON. Nov. 18. A wireless German official message stales that a meeting of U-boat crews at Wilhelmshaven on November 15 carried a resolution that they would render the Fatherland the last and heaviest service of taking all the U-boats where ordered, according to the terms of the armistice. CONCESSIONS ASKED FOR. A. and X.Z. Cable Association and Reuter. (Roc. Nov. 20, 9.45) LONDON, Nov. 18. In the Germans’ protest against the Allies’ conditions of armistice they request freedom of telephonic, telegraphic and postal traffic in the occupied territories with the right hank of the Rhine and neutrals; permission to bring food and fodder from the left to the right of the Rhine; that the old frontier of the Empire, including Luxemburg, shall be regarded as a Customs boundary and that dues leviable by German judicials on behalf of the Empire and German prohibitions regarding export, transit and import shall be handled by German officials. The message declares most emphatically that the surrender of ■SOOO locomotives and 150,000 wagons makes it impossible to supply the towns with food, even for a week. ! The whole Empire, it declares, jwill be stricken with hunger, i Finally, the protest says the continuation of the blockade, especially jin the cast, renders impossible iron and other transport from the north for German industries, and also the transport of German coal for Scandinavia, bringing dependent German and Scandinavian industries to a stand-still and also paralysing the North Sea and Baltic fisheries.