The Oregon daily journal., November 13, 1918, Page 2, Image 2

THE OREGON. DAILY . JOURNAL. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 13,
BRUSH
solders
TAKE ARMISTICE
NEWS
STO CALLY
"Very Good, Sir Thank You,
Sir," Says Tommy When Told
Germans Give Up the Fight.
FRENCH OFFICER IS CALM
Civilians at Ath Show Only Signs
of Dramatic Emotion; Germans
f Make Quick Get-Away.
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By Lowell Mellett
At the Allied Front, Nov. 11. (U. P.)
fNlght) The arrival of peace at the
i front was 'not Ilk anything you have
r Imagined.
There was practically no contact with
. the enemy, and the last real fighting
took place at Ath. early this morning.
f This afternoon I traveled through Ath
and eight milea beyond the British lines
J without finding a single German. Ord-
era forbidding communication with the
enemy were superfluous.
I The enthusiasm with which the troops
f might be expected to receive the great
news was absent. The news was com
j municated by airplanes, dispatch riders
i and word of mouth. The men continued
J working on the roads and cleaning their
. guns. The first man to whom I broke
the news was a sergeant.
"Very Good," Says Tommy
"Very good, sir," he said.
There was a pause, then : "Thank you
for that, sir ;" another pause, then finally
wawilng up, "It's best news In the world,
ir-
t A French officer told of the armistice
terms, replied, "Mercl."
, The response of a Portuguese ma
J chine gunner was equivalent to a po
'1 lite "thanks."
The only Incident which filled the
h proper dramatic requirements was sup-
plied by an aged woman In the vil
lage of Bouriarnbralt on the Brussels
' road. 8he stared, unbelieving at first.
then begged pardon and plumped on her
knees beside tho road.
After praying for a moment, she arose
and with her tear-stained face quiver
$ Ing with emotion, stammered the expla
nation, "My son."
A general reviewing & brigade of Lan
.( cashlre men, announced the news and
asked for three cheers for the king. All
a lifted their tinhats on their bayonets
i and shouted to the top of tbelr voices.
Civilians Shoot Enthusiasm j
4 With men and material moving up
normally to the front. It was easy to un
' derstand the average Tommy's "I've
f heard that stuff before."
; A great string of ambulances was con-
tinually passing with the victims of the
early morning battle.
When airplanes dropped the news In
packets wrapped with ribbons, the atti
tude of the men could scarcely be called
enthusiastic. There were a few smiles,
some chaffing, but no cheers.
Ath was evacuated by fhe enemy at
6 :10 this morning. Civilians paraded
through the streets where German guns
blazed only last night. They danced
around the last German prisoners taken
by the Tommies. The civilians seemed to
be trying to make up for the soldiers'
lack of excitement.
Hoping to catch sight of the German
lines, I pushed on, passing throngs of
people going to their homes, but there
were no Germans. Boon the roads be
came so thick that I waa compelled to
return without a sight of the enemy.
have by unanimous resolution as
sured the peoples of the central
empires that everything that is
possible in the circumstances will
be done to supply them with food
and relieve the distressing want
that is in so many places threaten
ing their very lives; and that steps
are to be taken immediately to or
ganize these efforts at relief in
the same systematic manner that
they were organized in the case of
Belgium. Furthermore, the presi
dent expressed the opinion that by
the use of the idle tonnage of the
central empires it ought presently
to be possible to lift the fear of
utter nlsery from their oppressed
populations and set their minds and
energies free for the great and
hazardous tasks of political con
struction which now face them on
every hand.
Reassnrasee Is Requested
"Accordingly the president now
directs me to state that he is ready
to consider favorably the supply
ing of foodstuffs to Germany and
to take up the matter immediately
with the allied governments pro
vided he can be assured that pub
lic order is being and will continue
to be maintained in Germany, and
that an equitable distribution of
food can be clearly guaranteed.'
Accept, eirr the renewed assur
ances of my highest consideration.
ROBERT LANSING.
Mr. Hans Sulzer. Minister of Swit
zerland, in charge of German
Interests In the United States.
Jfote Seat by Germany
The note to which Secretary Lan
sing replied was as follows:
From the minister of Switzerland
to the secretary of .state :
Department of German interests,
legation of Switzerland.
Washington, Nov. 12, 1918.
Sir : By direction of my govern
ment I have the honor to transmit
the f olio winge, cable :
"The German government urgently
requests the president of the United
States to inform the German chan
cellor. Ebert. by wireless, whether
he may be assured that the gov
ernment of the United States la
ready to send foodBtuffs without de
lay if public order is maintained in
Germany and an equitable distribu
tion of food is guaranteed."
Accept, sir, the renewed assurance
of my highest consideration.
(Signed), HANS SULZER.
Minister of Switzerland.
National Holiday in
Honor of End of the
War Is Proposed
Washington, Nov. It. U. P.) A
joint resolution declaring November 11
a national holiday to be designated as
"Victory Day," waa introduced in the
house today by Representative Hicks
of New York, a member of the house
naval affairs committee.
Adjourns to Friday
Washington. Nov. IS-(L N. &)
After a 15-minute session the senate
Tuesday afternoon adjourned to meet at
noon Friday.
Miehigan to Celebrate Sunday
Lansing. Mich.. Nov. 13. (U. P.)
Sunday, November 17. has been pro
claimed "Victory Sunday" for Michi
gan by Governor Albert E. Sleeper.
PJEACE TREATY THREATENS
TO BEGIGANTIC PROBLEM
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(Continued From Pas One)
Big Sum for Food Asked
London. Nov. 13. (U. P.) Chancel
lor Bonar Law, moving a credit of
700.000,000 pounds sterling ($3,500,000,
000) in the house of commons Tuesday,
stated that, although military expensea
would be reduced, the allies probably
will be compelled to bring food to
Europe.
To Prevent Grip and Influenza
LAXATIVE BBOMO QUININE Tablet taken
in time will Prevent Cinp ana inliuenn. t,.
W. GKOVK'S ((nature on box. 30c. Adv.
settlement in Europe, much more than
a year divides the actual ending of hos
tilities from the signing of the final set
tlement. In the interim there had been
signed a treaty between France and her
enemies, the treaty of Paris, executed
promptly after Napoleon's first abdica
tion, but a second treaty of Paris, fol
lowing the second abdication, was not
signed until November 30. Thus the
settlement hung fire over all the period
from April 7, 1814, to November 30, 1815:
Ho Government to Negotiate
In the present case we have Ho face
certain conditions which recall those of
1814-1815. First of all. it i. necessary
to find a German government with which !
to negotiate. In 1814 this was supplied
by the return of Louis XVIII. Thanks
to the aid of his brother sovereigns,
Louis waa able to take over French ad
ministration with relatively small dlffl-
culty, both in 1814 and again in 1815.
The fabric of government was not de
stroyed ; there was merely a change in
the sovereign, the executive.
But in the case of Germany we have
something approaching a genuine revo
lution already, and there is good reason
to believe that the disorder may extend
In the following weeks. In any event no
government can be more than pro
visional, until there has been a German
election, a submission to the new order
of the people. With any other govern
ment the allies must hesitate to do busi
ness lest it be repudiated later by the
people. But an election can hardly come
before demobilization, before evacuation
of the regions to be occupied by the
allies, least of all can it come before the
German chaos haa settled into some
form of order.
We may then conclude that any real
peace conference In the present year is
out of the question. We may suspect
that any gathering early next year is
unlikely, given heed to the existing situ
ation of chaos sot merely in Germany
but In Austria and In Turkey. Peace
can , only . be ; .made with, governments
and for the moment there is no govern
ment in Austria or Germany and not
bandy substitute such as Louis XVIII
constituted in 1814. Nor is this the
sole difficulty. We are not merely to
deal with Germany In making the new
peace but we have to reconstruct the
maps of Europe, Asia and Africa and
reorder the relations between tpe nations
of the world. We have to create new
countries and we have to .rewrite the
international law governing countries In
their dealings hereafter. In a word, we
have to free the smaller peoples and to
construct a league of nations.
Looking at the task of liberating the
smaller peonies, it is apparent instantly
that the problem is colossal. The con
flict between various claims is bound to
be sharp.' We have already .the protests
of the Jugo-Slava against Italian claims
in the Adriatic; Greek protest against
Italian claims in Albania; Ruthenian
protests against Polish policy in Eastern
Galicia.
Csecho-Slovakla la Tamslt
The German minority in Czecho-Slo-vakia
is already becoming vocal, and the
social problems of Russia' are manifold.
It may be that the victorious allies will
follow the course of their predecessors
in 1814 and promptly sign a treaty with
Germany, always providing that Ger
many can in- the meantime achieve a
national government, but this would be
a minor detail in the general settlement,
as the Treaty of Paris was wholly sub
ordinate to that of Vienna. And the
problem of time would remain In the
matter of the larger task.
Measuring by past precedent, it seems
to be almost Inevitable that the negotia
tions for restoring peace now will oc
cupy most, if not all, of next year, and
may easily extend into 1920. There may
be separate treaties closing the war as
between Germany and the allies. Turkey
and the allies and Bulgaria and the
allies, but these will not collectively or
severally dispose of the even greater
questions of race and of International
relations. And even if Germany finds
herself, there remains Russia, without
whom no general settlement can be made
and coneerning whom all that we know
precludes hope of speedy sanity.
In a word, the making of peace may
spread over years, as In the case of
Westphalia and Utrecht. It can hardly
occupy less time than the settlement of
the Napoleonic period, which occupied
more than 20 months, punctuated by the
100 days of Napoleon.
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hod been troubled for a long time with
chronic constipation and neper found any
thing tJiat gave me the natural relief that
Dr. Catdwcir. Syrup Pepsin has." (From
a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by Mr. I.
RoserUlul, 6 W. 28th St, New York, N. Y.)
Nearly every disease can be traced to
constipation. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin js
a combination of simple laxative herbs with
pepsin that quickly relieves constipation and
restores normal activity. It is gentle in its
action and does not gripe.
DR.CALDWELL'S
Syrup Pepsin
The Perfect Laxative
Sold by Druggists Everywhere
50 cts. (ST.) $1.00 ,
k TRIAt BOTTLE CAN BE OBTAINED. FKEE OF CHARCC. BY VRITINC TO
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E. N. STRONG. Asst Mgr.
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HELP FOR GERMANY IS
PROMISED BY PRESIDENT
(Continued Front Pass On)
today, transmitting to the president
the text of a cable Inquiring; whether
this government is , ready to send
foodstuffs Into Germany without de
lay If public order is maintained in
Germany and an equitable distribu
tion of food Is guaranteed.
' I should be grateful if you would
transmit the following reply to the
German government:
Words to Cosgreit Qnoted
"At a joint session of the two
houses of congress on November 11
the president of the United States
announced that the representatives of
the associated governments In the
supreme war council at Versailles
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THANK
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ERICA
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and Omit .Heroic Allies
for this, the hour of our salvation. You have been you have seen
you have done all that was expected of you. A befitting wel
come awaits you at home and fireside. God speed the day and
bring you back safe.
Play the "Stars and' Stripes "
and the " Marseillaise "
and all the famous military airs that our boys will know so well.
They will want good music when they return. We know of no
more enjoyable way of spending an evening with our boys than
rendering them a gqodly selection of music on a Bush & Lane
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Note We have refrained from sbliciting Liberty Bonds in
payment prior to this. We feel at liberty now to offer you face
value on bonds or stamps on any Bush & Lane piano. We will
set" aside your piano and deliver Xmas if you so wish.
We have four very fine second-hand pianos and player
pianos in almost new condition. Will be sold this week at little
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