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Published Tvurjr ny tn th South Church Street Tr at I ortr-Binth Im f Pnhllcallon Eitebllihed IStig. OWXZB9 Raltct H. SalllvM Cm-ill B. Jhaj - Waller B. SaUlraa, Pmaideat Wed It RmtU........ I. A. fartaia.. Ttor .JUawlK Editor Editorial and Magazine Page- TUESDAT, NOVEMBER 1J.1M. THE ENDING OF THE WAR President Wilson very safely takes th ground thkt Germany acceptance of the armistice conditions terminates the war and that there will be no more fighting. The terms drafted 'by the Allied Council stripped Germanyiunt the ,a,t frano ot thta ,normou. . .61 everything warlike. They even sonflned her eoldlers to a restricted . territory of their own country. They wiped out all war legislation Ger many bad Imposed on Russia and . made of the Brest-Lltovek peace treaty an actual "scrap of paper." They took an Inventory of Germany's battleships, destroyers, submarines and other vessels and called for their v collection and handing ever, while at .the same time Germany must deliver all ships she has captured or held belonging to the Allied Nations. Ger many must make restitution for the damage done by her armleejn France and Belgium and must restore the money her Government confiscated all her loot la gold and other money is to be returned to the former own- era, Then Germany tnuet park hun dreds and 'thousands of guns; she "must deliver to her conquerors her 'holdings In railrpad locomotives, .wagons, automobiles, her stores of Iron and coal; and she must imme diately give freedom to every Amer ican she Is holding prisoner, while the (Allies will give In. return not a single German prisoner, retaining custody - of these until affairs are finally set tied. 'The disarmed German soldiery must get back from the Rhine and the -Government must open .roads and river crossings and give free access jo .the evacuated territory to the Allies., Qerman troops muit get out Of the vicinity of Alsace-Lorraine wlthlh 14 days and are to never cum ber that devoted country with their presence again. They are to be Im mediately cleared out of Russia, Turkey and Rumania, and the civilian population of Belgium and France carried Into captivity le to be re leased and conducted back to its native home, also within a specified time. The freedom of the seas to commerce is to be proclaimed at once; the Baltic and the Black Sea are to be opened and their ports placed un der Allied occupancy, and the Russian war vessels which Germany had cap tured are to be turned over to the Allies. And then Germany is to fold her hands and wait In patience what ever the Allied peace Powers may have In store for her. Those who might have feared that the armistice terms would not be suf ficiently binding must now find their fears relieved. No surrender on the field could have been of a more abject nature. Nothing was left to the sug gestion of Germany. It was a case or having to 'sign here." German Imperialism has gone out in the dark ness of defeat; a world has been taved, and nobody has a greater right to make proclamation of the great nd glorious achievement than the President of the United States. A SHOUT STCHY Cr THE WAH -, The war historians will naturalty refer to the assassination of Arch duke Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austrian throne, and his wife, in a little fiftsnlan town pn a memorable 'day in June, 1114, as the cause of the mighty war just ended, and they will as naturally make record 6f a mistake. It was the excuse for the war, not the cause. , The incident afforded .Germany An opening to re sume a war that was Interrupted with the defeat of the . French Army ' in 1171, 45 years previously, and which left Germany desire for conquest and power yet unsatisfied her war alms only partly fulfilled. The Imperial Government of Germany had but been given a taste of blood and . through all the succeeding years Its abpetite was Becoming the more ravenous. Germany's conquest . of unprepared France gave ner territory ana ricnes. She gained and took from .the French German assets the resourceful Provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, and in addition to that levied Indemnity upon the French government In the sum Of 4,151.044,671 francs, or t70,000, 000. And German troops were to re main In military occupation of France f.gured out with mathematical accu racy and on the first round these Belgian forte were blown up like toad stools. indemnify was paid. To the admira tion of the world, the French people were successful In raising the last of this blood money within the remark ably short time of two years. It was handed over to the German Govern ment and French soil was rid of the presence of the hated German sol diery. The same pluck manifested by the French people in getting rid of German bondage was later to com Into evidence In helping to rid the world of all danger of another ex action by German military imperialism. THE KAISER'S PUNISHMENT. The deposed Emperor William, it seems, had fixed on the British as the. most likely friend upon whose mercy to throw himself and was endeavor ing to reaoh their lines to give him elf up as a prisoner of war, when the pursuing Germans turned him in the direction of Holland for refuge from their wrath. Pitiable, indeed were tne last days of the reign of this inhuman Monarch. He Is going to pay an all-sufficient prloe for the brutal Instincts which governed hin una which influenced his soldiers. Great is the day of reckoning for this dethroned military dictator! The people will not be content with the lashings his own conscience may give him for the general belief Is that this particular Individual has no con science and they will argue that whatever punishment Is in store for him will fall short of fitting his crimes not only against the civilized world, but against his own people. What form Is his punishment to take? One almost rebels at the impatience Imposed. This war which Germany precipi tated on France In 1170 was as in excusable as was the war which ah precipitated on the world In 114. There had been a diplomatic meet ing between Napoleon III and. Bis marck In connection with the cession of a small bit of southern Germany to France, In which Napoleon had passed a written proposal to Bismarck. Later a dinner was arranged for Bis marck and General von Moltke and at this dinner Bismarck altered the note Napoleon had left with htm by elimination so as to make it appear that ths French Emperor had de livered a deadly insult to the Imperial Government of Germany. It was upon the strength of this garbled note that Germany declared the war of 1870-1171 with France, and for which, after 47 years, Germany Is being made to pay in fulland with Interest When the Archduke was assassinated In 1914, Austria at once mad de mands upon the little Government of Serbia. All these demands, except one and the final demand, were ac cepted and pressure by England, France' arid Russia were about to pre vail upon Austria, when Germany stepped Into object. The demand Serbia declined was that the assassins of the Archduke be tried by a court composed of Austrian Judges In a Serbian courthouse. Russia was in clined to take the part of Serbia, when Germany sent her warning- to keep out of the affair. While Serbia was trying to get before The .Hague Tribunal for adjustment.of the trouble, Germany saw her chance. She sent a message to France asking what France intended to do In case Austria declared war on Russia, and got the Immediate answer that France would act in accordance with what seemed to be her best Interests. Without waiting to make declaration of war, Germany at once rushed her armies toward theFrcnch border, and then began the infamous ravaging of the neutral country of Belgium, ner mann's object In smashing her way through that country was found in later revelations of the plans for a war of conquest. Then another thing, was revealed to the country. The German Govern ment, in anticipation of the coming of the day when It would launch this destroying avalanche of war upon an unsuspecting world, had 1 established lockers in the armories and arsenals which dotted its Empire, and in these lockers for years had been hanging a complete uniform, with gun and .equipment for each man of military age la Germany and for every sub ject of the German Government living in another country. " Each uniform bora the name of the man for whom it was intended; and all this was in addition to the standing Army the world knew Germany maintained. It was in 'this way that .Germany -was enabled to rush - an overpowering Army to the front almost befor the country, knew, that a" war was in progress. But later en the world Was to learn something more of the years Germany had mad study for th effective prosecution ' of a war ' that was to bring her- worldpower. v; In the rapine and destruction wrought on Innocent Belgian people and ter ritory, th country was given notice of the ruthlessnessy of the warfare Germany had embarked on and that it, need express no surprise at any new form of barbarity that should be developed. The Zeppelin was' the first engine of th air in th German pro gram of a war of destructlveness." But the world had heard of the Zeppelin and their appearance did not create the degree of terror many had count ed on. Germany, however, was not disappointed, for she had. other sur prises to spring on th Nations banded together In unpreparedness. Germany swept over. Belgium and across France like- a mighty tidal wave of destruction, and this sweep developed the new and barbarous agency of gas. Ths way in front of th advancing German" troops was cleared by the poisoning of th air so that no soldier could exist in it. The British and ' Belgians and French were pushed back not by bullet or shell or bayonet, but by a new and Invisible agency of which the world had never known. Meantime, civili sation had received a shock through the operations of another agency which had been occupying the dia bolical ingenuity of the German War Government the submarine. The terrors of life in towns within the war ton were added to by the appearance of 'the bombing planes, which soon almost entirely succeeded the Zeppelins. All these devices for the destruction of life ' and property and all the new monsters in the en glneery of war were th products of over 40 years of application to cease loss study on part of the German mili tary and naval authorities: V'tt -was to be recorded that within less than three years the resourceful' British and French had come forward with inventions which were caolable of overcoming the eO.years' demotion to the military arts ' by GeVmnny had been able to produce. Still later came the United States with machinery of war against which the best that Ger many had been able to produce op crated as but toys. ner color.!,:, lYtnce,. tedium aaJ Italy, heU'f.rm and it was this match less exhibition, of .determination .and courage which mad the winning of the war ultimately possible These allied Nations held th enemy until America could com and give the fin ishfng touches.- : . . .. Up to June of this year, th Allied forces were prosecuting " a defensive system 6f warfare. It was In that mohth -whn Pershing, with only a portion of his Army at hand, asked permission to strlk In on what, had been regarded a ths really "lmpreg. nable- portion of th German line th sallfnt which dented In th Allied line at Chateatt-Thlsrry. y General Foch was ' inclined to remonstrate against t ths proposition, but General Pershing was insistent. He wanted to put th American idea of warfare into Immediate operation, and he was finally given permission. ; With th order for his , men to ad vane. ' th turning point of the war was marked. Th American troops stormed th Ger man positions at Chateau-Thierry and drove ths Germans out of their trehches'"lntd! lh 'open; 'where the Kaiser's , men .wer given 'their nrst do; f boon-field.' fighting ;, They wer. routed, and driven Tck," Th Americans occupied Chateau-Thierry, and than something new happened in th history, of th war.. Th Ameri cans held th place. Th German expectation . was that th United states' forees would fall back to their trenches and resume what , tip to that Urn had been th regular routine of warfare to again assault and fall back. Notwithstanding the fact that th Americans wer practically' flank ed by the Germans, they held their conquered ground. fcua-.uest sa.ran, are to. la CstlvereJ to the Allied ro-rers to deal with. CwwZ A.. .IT.J A.l.,Zi. We believe the American heart wl be in accord with the sentiments President Wilson expressed in behalf of the people of Germany. . He had always maintained that we, wer not at war with th German people, but Ana at win same ume, there are others who were acting the part of secret enemies and whose activities Involved the Allied Government in much unnecessary trouble andan- lety, whose bruising to th bar of I w,th thelr military rulers, whos word outraged jostle Is to be expected. I M the,r taF otis .of long, years Oh of th Items In Germany's long undef th mistaken Idea oT th rule years of preparation for involving th ot m,hl- will b undoubtedly re rations in bloody war which w fce. a ""'a Popi or mat up. not included In th account, was th turfld otntr7 hay been suffsrlng placing (ii th United States and other Potions of th direst sort and that countries tears back of m. trft I " win Become th duty of th Amer system f espionage, in America w ,CB Government to xtend th sam hid One notable spy in th person of ,d t0 tn,m Vluntrd th accredited Ambassador from Ger- ln th c of .Austria-Hungary. rur- many. Th crlm of Von Bernetorft ,n,mftrVl0 MUI H procd is On against' ths olvtL ' rath.i then w,th than proceeding with th , military Government, but h Ullr utt A,,,i ln maktaf good stands convicted hot only as a spy but Am,f,CAni of a r An std eltl. as a traitor. Justice shall to astray l, n atm Germany, should hi dUvranc Into th hand irMtrdty toM Thv Obsrvr tnnt of .th Allies by th nmy be si whM tt truth oh this country overlooked Incident Th murderers " "w,u woon, "own mat th peace at eea and on land th. .ntM.iKi. i uemonswauon in America. nthus- stents for th.deltbrat destruction M"0 n4 ftnsld. vn as they were. of human life may b dealt wlthlw,r BOt of mor wldly And it was from this very incident that The Observer took counsel of itself and publicly established its con tention that the war would b brought to an end ln 1111. For, out of Persh ing's captur of Chateau-Thierry, there cam adoption by th Allied commanders of th new policy of . progressive offensive. - Th;pln of holding th Germans by a "continua tion of the trench system of defensive fighting was then and there aban doned for good. It marked the be ginning of th general offensive by th Allied commands' and relegated the proposition of, holding for "a great Spring offensive." It wilt be remembered that' Just before Persh ing's capture of this place, word had gon forth from general headquarters of what was to be expected when the Allied forces should begin their, "great offensive in th' Spring of Ills?' The performances , of the "Americans at Chateau-Thierry changed all that and brought the war to an end ifl. the Fall of 1918, instead of In the Spring of 1919. rejoicing nature than the peac ei. bratlons that wer hold In r Berlin, for, h declared, he knows from personal knowledge that no vnt could have caused ev deeper feeling Of relief to th German people than th.elr free dom from th yok of militarism un- der Which they hay been living, and that by no peopl on .the fao of th earth will demovatlo form of Gov ernment b nor sincerely welcomed. THE RETURX OF PEACE. Another blessed relief comes in the abandonment of the War 'Depart ment's plans for the further mobiliza tion of new troops at the camps. The anticipated jJisrirption of business affairs in consequence of the calling of the November draft u avoided and 300,000 men who had prepared to leave their homes and businesses will remain at their usual . avocations. It la hard to realize that peace , has come so quickly. But it is her and dally we are going to ;'flad new cause for rejoicing, . , -:,v; j :'.rt"ls th Big Croak we may now be expecting to bear above the shout ings and tumult ot a world wild with th Joy in It new freedom. , - - .A.:. , Tb only white thing about Ger many was th fkg ah last waved." Germany knew that neither Kng land nor France was nrenared fnr war, and It was, her plan to get at France by a quick rush through Bel glum, bring France to terms, then hurry back and meet tho Russian Army as, it made its way to the Ger man border. Germany had calculated that she could finish the Job with France within six weeks. 'Then she could almost as quickly settle with Russia. After that she would have time to give attention to England, and subjugating that country, Ger many Would take up the, account with the United States. Whipping this country, the conquest tf the world might be reasonably considered In sight for the German War Government. It was when tho big German can non began roaring at the modern forts protecting the Belgian border that the world waked to a realization of .the fact that Germany had been Spending all these years In prepara tion, while other countries were sleep ing in fancied safety, with never a suspicion of the breaking of the storm of war. Tho unddcelvln eam In the sixth month after the United States got into the war, Germany had been brought to her knees and the war was ever. America had sent across an Army the like of which Germany had never dreamed and the Americans brought along with them a few surprises which Germany had not believed possible. When the Ger mans met the Americans with various forms of gas, the Americans gave them samples of a gas of a greatly superior quality; when the Germans would fire a big gun at. the Ameri cans, the artillerymen from the United States would turn loose a shell that would wipe out a regiment of Germans at a time; when the Oer man airplanes would undertake to will over the Allied lines, a larger and faster and more deadly form of bombing plane, driven by the en gineering marvel of the world the Liberty motor would set out In tur- iult, and the German 'stock of air planes was quickly reduced to the point when it became negllgable. All the German product ln destructive ness ana rrigntruinese which she sprung on the world as the fruits of more than 40 years of Invention, were nullified by the Inventive genius and resourcefulness of the Allied Nations within the short time of four years. with a force of startling suddenness and In manner that almost paralyzed ! point where the Allied forces .held Germany's well-laid plans to make swift and complete conquest of France and Russia and Italy and Great rtrltaln were counteracted by the most magnificent display of bravery and gallantry by the defending armies of which there Is any note in history. There was quick recovery from tho surprise of the resistless momentum of the German Army, and when Paris had been almost reached, there de veloped the battle of the Marne, out of which a turning back movement stanea ror tne uerman Armv t the senses. The Belgian Government had protected its frontier with a sys tem of steel and concrete forts which were supposed to be "Impregnable." Germany, however, knew better. The Qerman War Lords knew of these forts and laughed at them, but they concealed their mirth from the outside world. The exact location of each fort was as well known iu Germany as in Belgium, and for its reduction the German Government had con structed behind th protecting secrecy 01 me urupp Shops a pattern, of cannon, Enormous In caliber and carrying i shell such as had. never been, dreamed of. The location these guns should" be) Jsrbught up to had been fixed, and the. ranges had been them while waiting for help from America. This country had no Army to speak of, but it set to work to create one, and the creation, equip, ment and transportation of this Army across the sea proved the moet bril liant accomplishment in the military history of all Nations. For over three years the British,. French, Belgians and Italians held the German north of the Marne, and held them there whll division after division was be ing brought up from the Russian front to strengthen th mightiest aggrega tion of bruts forc that civilised Army ever encountered, ; Germany hurled more than a million fresh troops against the entrenched Allied Armies and hurled them In vain. 1 Britain and From the day of that performance the Germans have been on the losing side. They had scored their last ad vance in the direction of Paris and the TJharyiet . ports and every step 'they made at any point of the line from the North Sea to the Swiss border' was backward In the direction of the Ger man frontier. It was the German de teat by the Americana at Chateau- Thierry that decided the fate of the German Army on the western front. It was the American capture of St Miniei and the obliteration of th formidable salient there which sealed this fate and made more sure than ever the termination of the war in it was along about this time that the first effect on other branches of the German Army was developed, wnen Bulgaria sued for peace and when Turkey was whipped to a con dition of helplessness, and the foun datlon of the German military struc ture ln the east had crumbled away. Then came the Austrian-Hungarian movement to drop out, and the end of the war waa practically announced whn the Emperor(made formal plea for an armistice and an immediate cessation of hostilities' The "se quence of events" Is easily and un mlstakbly traced from the granting of permission to the American general to hurl his forces against the en trenched Germans.. It was upon the active entrance of General Pershing's Army into the fighting and the appli cation of American Ideas of prosecut ing a battle that The Observer based its prediction for the winding up of the war in 191 J. In this contention The Observer had but few supporters, ana even arter the surrender of Austria-Hungary, the voice of . the scoffer was to be heqrd, but In di minishing volume. The story of the German war Is the story of the most barbarous atrooltles against humanity In the history ot wars. On land and sea, murder and desructlon were th main characteris tics. The pillage of . Belgium, the atrocious treatment of the women and children, wer parallel transgression to the offenses against civilisation on the seas, although the women and children involved in th submarine murders esoaped with the lighter fat In that the Huns had no opportunity to desecrate their bodies. Their saturnalia of excesses on land 'went, th full lengths of savagery, v Not only was th vary land Itself de stroyed and laid wast, but th home ot th people wer burned or blasted and there was revelry in the Very taking of human Ufe. Hospitals pro tected under th rules of International warfare, were th special object of German vengeance, and doctors, nurses and wounded men alik were torn' to atoms by shells and bombs deliberately aimad for th , purpose. ' For th very barbarity of the wa each and separately. Th German people w are going to feed and clothe until th tlm of their rehabilitation, for that becomes a cjYiiueq Nation, Th incidents of th revolution which Overthrew th Qerman thron gives token of th de termination of th German peopl to rid themselves4 from th serfdom which Hhsy nav sndured nhdee or. man militarism, it dsvslops that these, peopl had been deceived until ITALY'S SCORE. th very last by thlr rulrs, andth Prmlr Orlando and General Ca Inowldg ofth manner in which dor r looking after Italy's they had been duped aroused them ta.rst in th negotiations, will yery to th utmost fury and resulted jn guranto that th Italian tn abdication and flight of th Ho- I possessions so long held under Aus hehtollerns, Thr 1 to b no penalty I truu dominion, will b "liberated" to upon th populac of Germany othr M1 Provinces of Trentlno and than that which will be Imposed upon utr wni ""H to Italian ownership. them by th price of th war. Their ?tl Alsace-Lorraine again corns children to th Attn generation will nn' tn horn Government of b paying this debt, and th end may mnc- hss ar wa of the great not be In sight ! Mores that hav been held for paying off by th Italian and French Th matter of Indemnities and rn- Gwnmnts, and it was because aratlon and restoration will probably A"trta tubbomly refused to re find adjustment between th Supreme MaouM- Xstra and Trentlno to th War Council of the Entente Nations W Government that deoldad Italy and the new German Government at 10 J,n nf fortunes with th Allies, Versailles, and In that event might be lana Beside. Italy did not feel at all seen a case of poetlo historic Justice, aur ,that lt Austria should glv back for It was at Versailles that the Ger- tn,M Provinces the trade would man conquerors fastened the in- ""ok" after the war. . Italy . and famous terms upon the French Gov- rrnce appear to hav been arulded ernmnt Undoubtedly th return to by iMn wisdom In th decision France of Alsace-Lorraine which wh,cn nnally landed them on th side was confiscated by th Germans, will r tR All lea b on of th first requirements. The restoration of the ruined territory ln Belgium and France will be an ex. action uermany may not hope to escape. Germany will be made to re turn the Indemnities mercilessly ex acted of Belgium; she must restore the loot from treasuries both, public and private and she will be bound under years of humiliating obligation involved In th work of reparation and restitution. The arrangement for mlstice are but preliminary to the drafting of terms of surrender. The Allied War Council may not get through the winding up task before the expira tion of several weeks. The. conditions upon which armistice has been grant ed afford an Intelligent Index to the CHARLOTTE'S REJOrciXO. Charlotte got up out of bed nromnt- ly and willingly when the token was proclaimed by bell and whistle at 1 o'clock Monday morning, and only 'a portion of the town had gone back to bed at S o'clock Tuesday morning; It was a great celebration this olty staged. There waa never ona quite like it, for in celebration ot th event the enUre population tit Charlotte. from toddling childhood to tottering old age. took part., 4As a maerfvof cours no business v was undertaken during the'day, vThi ntlr city wis given 6vr to manifestations! of Joy over the greatest event of the world. Th pent-up anxiety of week Xnd months found sDonUnehus " - WMO mnn It waa a . character th. term, of surrender Vlll w.Lcln waTmade li take. Every .vestige of military power form. ,t w. . -I.. - V. 2? 5l, Vr'PPe; T?; ermhy aBd tory of th,B P-Pto and X sne win us made helpless over again paper has never - 1- MWMfjCltlUl to wage war. and Into th peace com pact all Nations of the earth will be made partners, to th end that th peace which is to be established will endure through all ages and to the 1 a duty as making it of record. A FORGOTTEN VILLAIN. There is intimation that Villa, the protection of all Nations. The Supreme ,mort forgotten Mexican villain, has War CouncU under whose guidance out th Cfcbl nd ma'r ba P to some th peace terms will be formulated n,w tr,ck' thouh that this may mean Is composed of Col. E. M. House and troub,e wUh Mexico Is quite Improb Major General Tasker H. Bliss for th. aWe- If tnat estimable . gentleman United States; Premier Lloyd Georsre wU1 on,y waU ttw day on forth' for England; General Cadorna and 50m,n' Paca developments In Europe, Premier Vlttorlo Orlando for Italy; n may com to the conclusion that General Ferdinand Foch and Premier Clemenceau for France, with repr. sentatives of the smaller Powers. the ' EiBCuslon was t;rur i;j the Sen ate yesterday on tha matior cf trim ming Chairman. KItchla's war revenue bill down to a ,coming-of-peace basis. The Republican leaders were prompt' to strike the'popuTar attltud In ad vocacy pfsan immediate reduction, but as a matter ot course .that -could not b don ' until Secretary. UeAdoo might be abl to revise his figures' on th basis of new plans ot th tear Department in the matter of bringing in soldiers horn and th elimina tion of such expense as might be made possible la the reduction ot the military establishment of th Nation. But thr la vry assurance that the big war measure, will b trimmed with : developing Circumstances, vn if th xlganolM Of ' th oeoaslon demand pajsag la Its original ship. CILUILOTTB BOTS MONUMENT. U. will D mn'ln this-mornlns'a Observer that a. movmat has bn launched to rct . a monumwtt to Charlott boys who lost their lives In th waf Th initial subscription list . tor this caus is on which hi likely to grow with delightful rabidity, for' th popl of Charlott will welcome the' opportunity .which, i preentd them to join in doing honor to our soldier ;; dead. The Obsrvr . may promise now that the monument whleh la under consideration will de velop into a credit to the patriotic sentiment of th" city,'. It will be a haft of nobl proportions and oh th city will take prld In pointing out to visitors and in their own con templations for ages to com. A PATnETIO appeal; ' As th Allied Nations, turned hope fully to Wilson when J.he stress pf war was greatest, so beaten Turkey and Bulgaria nd Austria and ..Hungary turned to. him for his protecting) in fluences. And now we see th new ruler In Germany appealing with pa thetic earnestness to the American President to intervene to the amel ioration of the - deplorable " conditions existing ' in interior Germany, The people of the United 8tats.af going to hav revealed. to them as th facta com out. a more dreadful ploture of human misery and suffsrlng than they have imagined possible to exist be hind the back of the lat Xs,lsr. THE U-BOATS. Th giving up of the submarines demanded by the Allies may be pro ductive of some entertaining revela tions. Perhaps we may come to know What happened to a number of the Kaiser's pirates '.of rthe, seas that came over to America ted-whose activities ceased suddenly and mysteriously. We believe some of the ,ubs th Allies hav called for hav bn peacefully -resting on th sands: under th At lantic from Maine to; Florida. Ger many may have to. resort; to the diving bell to prbduo --the lull quota of U-boats listed in th armistice specifi cations, ' A NIGHT OF Bm iELIEF. - It Wis with v.'iridfh' fj.-.. relief, that Amrfirttuin: could turn In t their rest the nrst night after peace was assured. ' Not for four long years has head been laid upon pillow with out thoughts of th war to trouble. The American people no doubt re tired to their rest reelmg a If some Over-bearlng burden 4id been lifted from their shoulders and there was no vision of bloody war to vex them. For many It waa the first night of peaceful and untroubled sleep' they had been vouchsafed since thv first shipload of Americans sailed for France. , .' NO KICK FROM PENROSE. . Senator Penrose, .Roosevelt's side partner, make th cvldentlyv luo tant admission that th term laid down to Germany and mad of ac ceptance will "practically In effect" bring Germany to "unconditional sur render," and disarm hr "so that she him Is to find his hole and crawl into it. Th peace papers will undoubt edly take care of the future' sltua A large Arm must be maintained tlpn ,n Mm,co ad safeguard not only in Germany and other Central coun- tnB unu? ftes but all other coun tries for an Indefinite time, but in trles from future aPPrehensions about the course of adjustment of ths mitu P1100- ; under new conditions dob! tary affairs some men will be ri... t,on "W" a tlt which Villa has for the return home, and we shall Bume1 wiu De made untenable for an shortly see the Inhn.m hti instant. tf - -, . u .'11 .,.'0 charglng troops who have served their country and who are now welcomed Into the peace and happiness arid liberty they and their comrade! se cured for 'the world. The hum. most advisable proceeding for , could not renew the war If she wanted THANKS FOR THE SHIPS, With the new turn-over bf German ships the' Allies will have quite an abundant supply . of German bottoms. coming, of those soldier boys will I We suppose the United States will get mark a day hardly less great In 'the her proportionate share. thooH tt history of this country than was the may be that Our possessions of long uy wnicn signauzea tne aereat of ago may, no. taken into account Germany. Many of these American soldiers will ask for continuance of duty In France. (That expression, "In France," came from force of habit What we Intended to say was "In' Ger many.".) For . one, The Observer wjll second tms request. It wants them to have the realized satisfaction of a long-felt wish a Thanksgiving Day on th Rhine and a Merry Christmas Day In Berlin. The war is over!. It is a great day in the history of the world when this can b s4ld. Well may the peopl rejoice with a great reJoIcing,for the world will know no more forever the scenes through . which- ;lti has been passing 'for over four yearsof appro henslon, of agony and of terror. Th last war has been fought and the last humah sacrifice ha been offered up to militarism.- . i General Crowdef , makes' th fact plain thai whll th recently drafted men are to be relieved of military training and service, there win h ni there surety rnust be an accounting ! Indemnity for the deserters, and that with the culprits and ther is a rea sonable expecution - that nartlculaf means thos who have, by hook or crook avoided the draft law. ; They offenders against the rules of common wlU sUll be leading the lives of the numanity, rrom tne Kajser to thai practically outlawed. in the division. These are tha 'lntarn ships of. the German Nation found at the various ports -in this country when the war broke ont and which were held' under th laws of neu trallty;Wheh ; the -..United States de clared war with Germany these ships were seized and' equipped , for service Iu transporta4on;tof troops and sup plies. They gave useful service, too. One of these vessels, a crack German passenger liner, lay at anchor in the North River one night and next day she had disappeared. It was not per mitted to say so at the time, but that converted German steamer pjhtui out the entire Camp Greene command of : 1 , 00 0 Northweeternboys,- with a1 .couple odd hundred .from other- camps to fill up space. : This country will always regard Itself beholden to the German Government for the use of tome of the biggest and swiften hn. in the world In the carrying over of a couple or millions of tha finest sol diers ln the world. ' ' , , to." For Mr. Penrose that is saying a great deal and it will bs takeh as assurance by. th country that enough was done tp Germany on the first round to encourage belief in an ulti mate Job of the, most satisfactory nature. - -' ' We are taking pride and gratifica tion in the faot that It fell to the lot of ' the American soldiers to firs the last shots at the German Army; and by he same token may- they be "first at Benin." Holland is said to be embarrassed at th presence within her border ot the former Kaiser, but her mbartass ment Is likely to be short-llvedi The Allied Nations May relieve hereof lt all in due time.. ... ? Never mind about 'th comfortoble ensconcement of th KaIsef ln:Hol-' land.' ,H will be produced whei the Allies dictate that they are ready to deal with His -Majesty. v' .." - ;' m :-4 - As Deacon Asheraft of The Monroe Enquirer would say, lt was, a ease of Hellahollern for the Dutch border. DELAY. FOR EVACUATION I PROLONGED BY 24 HOURS London, Nov .11.- (British Wireless Service) Th following messar waa. sent by wireless by th German plen ipotentiaries: . r - 4 -' To th German high command to be communicated to all authorities in terested. -J - ; - "Radio received. Armistice ' was signed at ( o'clock in , the morning ; French time. It comes into forte at 11 o'clock vJn the " morning, French timei- Delay -tot evacuation Prolong ed by 34 hours for the left bank of the Rhine besld th five days; there fore, It days in all. Modifications of the- text with that brousht bv f eonr. - ler) Helldorf Will be transmitted by radio. - ' - (Signed) "ERZBERQBR." DUTCH OFFICIALS CO TO MEET THE KAISER - , Amsterdam, Nov. 11. (By the Asso- ' elated Press,) Offlclala of the Dutch governmeht and the German minister ' " at The Hague have gone to Elsden. on , ' the Dutch frontier, to meet the former German emperor. ; j
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Nov. 12, 1918, edition 1
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