La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1918 Page: 5 of 8
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they today heard him speak the words
which herald the coming of peace.
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The president spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of’the Congress:
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THE LAGRANGE JOURNAL, LAGRANGE, TEXAS
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ARMISTICE TERMS WERE READ
PRESIDENT WILSON APPEARED
BEFORE CONGRESS MONDAY
Document Published For The Journal’s
bility to perform in person the duty
of communicating to you some of the
larger circumstances of the situation
which it is necessary to deal.
The German authorities who have,
at the invitation of the supreme war
council, been in communication with
Marshal Foch, have accepted and sign-
ed the terms of armistice which he
was authorized and instructed to com-
municate to them. Those terms are
as follows:
Military clauses on western front:
1— Cessation of operations by land
and in the air six hours after the sig-
nature of the armistice.
2— Immediate evacuation of invaded
countries: Belgium, France, Alsace-
Lorraine^ Luxemburg, so ordered as
to be completed within fourteen days
from the signature of the armistice.
German trops which have not left the
above mentioned territories within the
period fixed will become prisoners of
war. Occupation by the allied and
United States forces jointly will keep
pace with evacuation in these areas.
All movements of evacuation and oc-
cupation will be regulated in accord-
ance with a note annexed to the stated
terms.
3— Repatriation beginning at once
and to be completed within fourteen
days of all inhabitants of the coun-
tries above mentioned, including hos-
tages and persons under trial or con-
victed.
4— Surrender in good condition by
the German armies of the following
equipment: Five thousand guns (two
thousand five hundred heavy, two
thousand five hundred field), thirty
thousand machine guns; three thous-
and minnewerfer; two thousand aer-
oplanes (fighters, bombers—firtsly D-
Seventy-three’s and night bombing
machines). The above to be delivered
in situ to the allies and the United
States troops in accordance with the
detailed conditions laid down in the
annexed note.
5— Evacuation by the German arm-
ies of the countries on the left bank
of the Rhine. These countries on the
left of the Rhine shall be administered
by the local authorities under the con-
trol of the allied and United States
armies of occupation. The occupation
of these territories will be determined
by allied and United States garrisons
holding the principal crossing# of the
Rhine, Mayence, Coblenz, Cologne, to-
gether with bridge-heads at these
points in thirty kilometer radius on
the right bank and by garrisons sim-
ilarly holding the stategic points of
the regions. A neutral zone shall be
reserved on the right of the Rhine
between the stream and a line drawn
parallel to it forty kilometers to the
east from the frontier of Holland to
the parallel of Gernsheim and as far
as practical a distance of thirty kilo-
meters from the east of stream from
this parallel upon Swiss frontier.
Evacuation by the enemy of the Rhine
lands shall be so ordered as to be
completed within a further period of
eleven days, in all nineteen days after
the signature of the armistice. All
movements of evacuation and occupa-
tion will be regulated according to
the note annexed.
6— In all territory evacuated by the
enemy there shall be no evacuation
of inhabitants; no damage or harm
shall be done to the persons or prop-
erty of the inhabitants. No destruc-
tion of any kind to be committed.
Military establishments of all kinds
shall be delivered intact as well as
military stores of food, munitions,
equipments not removed during the
periods fixed for evacuation. Stores
of food of all kinds for the civil popu-
lation, cattle, etc., shall be left in situ.
Industrial establishments shall not be
impaired in any way and their per-
sonnel shall not be moved. Roads
and means of communication of every
kind, railroad, water ways, main
roads, bridges, telegraphs, telephones,
shall be in no manner impaired.
7— All civil and military personnel
at present employed on them shall re-
main. Five thousand locomotives,
fifty thousand wagons and ten thous-
and motor lorries in good working
order with all necessary spare parts
and fittings shall be delivered to the
associated powers within the period
fixed for the evacuation of Belgium
and Luxemburg. The railways of
Alsace-Lorraine shall be handed over
within the same period, together with
all pre-war personnel and material.
Further material necessary for the
working of railways in the country
on the left bank of the Rhine shall
be left in situ. All stores of coal
and material for the upkeep of per-
manent ways, signals and repair shops
left entire in situ and kept in an effi-
cient state by Germany during the
whole period of armistice. All barges
taken from the allies shall be restored
to them. A note appended regulates
the details of these measures.
8— The German command shall be
frontiers of Germany:
12— All German troops at present
in any territory which before the war
belonged to Russia, Roumania or
Turkey shall withdraw within the
frontiers of Germany as they existed
on August first, 1914.
13— Evacuation by German troops
to begin at once and all German in-
structors, prisoners and civilians as
well as military agents, now on the
territory of Russia (as defined before
1914,) to be recalled.
14— German troops to cease at once
all requisitions and seizures and any
other undertaking with a view to ob-
taining supplies intended for Ger-
many, in Roumania andj Russia (as
defined on August 1, 1914).
15— Abandonment of the treaties of
Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk and of
the supplementary treaties.
16— The allies shall have free ac-
cess to the territories evacuated by
the Germans on their eastern frontier
either through Danzig or by the Vis-
tula in order to convey supplies to the
populations of those territories or for
any other purpose.
Clause concerning East Africa:
vate interests in the invaded coun-
tries. Restitution of the Russian and
Roumanian gold yielded to Germany
or taken by that power. This gold to
be delivered in trust to the allies un-
til the signature of peace.
V—Naval conditions:
20— Immediate cessation of all hos-
tilities at sea and definite information
to be given as to the location and
movements of all German ships. No-
tification to be given to neutrals that
freedom of navigation in all territo-
rial waters is given to the naval and
mercantile marines of the allied and
associated powers, all questions of
neutrality being waived.
21— All naval and mercantile ma-
rine prisoners of war of the allied and
associated powprs in German hands
to be returned without reciprocity.
22— Surrender to the allies and the
United States of America of one hun-
dred and sixty German submarines
(including all submarine cruisers and
mine laying submarines) with their
complete armament and equipment in
ports which will be specified by the
allies and the United States of Am-
erica. All other submarines to be
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Father Time has closed another chapter
on wordly affairs. As each page is turned the
old eternal dispenser of time indelibly inscribes
meinoriable events which cannot be forgotten
by man, and which help to educate the on-
coming generation. Four years ago last Aug-
ust the very lid of Hades was lifted, like wild
fire the fumes of hatred, war insanity and
greed was wafted by the zephyrs to the four
corners of the world. It seemed that the earth
fairly trembled and with devilish cruelty and
cunning a monarch spread discord to the right
and to the left. With a powerful magnetism
that appealed to the unbeliever and self-con-
ceited only, he enlisted the services of the bar-
barian and the cut-throat alike, and builded up
a monstrous foe that shattered ideals and taxed
the souls of the Christian. It was stupendous,
and yet it was true.
Wordly ways gave up the open road to
frugality and conservation, in the oppressed
countries; overrun people found themselves
relegated back to the days of slavery. Virtue
was sacrificed upon the altar of lust, and bas-
tard children were given to the civilized folk
and merciful organizations to raise. Ancient
houses of worship, where the humble and lowly
found comfort and heart and soul relief were
razed and rich and fertile soil drenched with
the blood of martyrs. And all for what?
Four years of earthly hell, a sulphuric hell, if
comparison will permit could not have wrought
greater destruction; then came the barbaric
practices upon the seas.where, with the firma-
nent or floating foundation removed, only
watery graves remained.
And now, after four years, the dragon has
had his fangs removed, his breath, ’though
still offensive, is free from the scorching
flames which burned the world, the humbler
is now the humbled- Is it possible that the
just God in the high heavens is asleep? No,
nevermore. So surely as the rays of the sun
cover the earth, certain is it that the reward,
so well merited, is to come in the future. Hun-
dreds of years will pass, history will be made
of what we are now doing, and youngsters,
looking to Him above for guidance, will won-
der what manner of man was this that could
have involved the world. Peace! Is there a
more acceptable word in the lexicon of the
language taught to us today? Not unless we
prefix it, by the word “universal.”
Four years! And now the cruel war is
over. Great America, her flag with its stars
and bars, her eagle, with his wings spread
once more, her people, kind, forgiving, and yet
how aggressive; her name, written on the
scroll of fame, there to remain until time shall
be no more. Like a nightmare, is appears;
the monstrous guns are smokeless, yet they
stand menacingly toward the former enemy,
and silently proclaim the fact that, unless all
remains quiet nnd serene, they will begin to
vomit. What 'a horrible necessity, and yet,
how necessary! American people, think of it!
It is PEACE once more, glorious peace, and
you and I can enjoy it- The harvest has been
terrible, and the flower of manhood in the bel-
ligerent countries has been planted beneath
the sod. Hundreds of years, did I say? Aye,
more than that before the last vestige will
have been removed. The world cannot cease
to revolve, nor can civilization cease to exist.
Rehabilitation is quick to follow, and quick to
make its work known.. Devastated regions
will blossom once more, marred and scarred
buildings, houses of worship will replace their
former, loved and historical predecessors, and
little children will carry the messages of love
to and fro, and in awed whispers only, refer
to the ogre who would have it otherwise.
The Prince of Peace sanctions the news
from the front. War is ended and a united
people stand out in bold relief for the Chris-
tian people will triumph in the end. Shake,
damned if it isn’t good to be an American and'
to know that we helped to win the war, and
preserved the freedom which the colonists
fought to establish. The spirit of ’76 still lives.
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responsible for revealing all mines or
delay-acting fuses disposed on terri-
tory evacuated by the German troops
and shall assist in their discovery and
destruction. The German command
shall also reveal all destructive meas-
ures that may have been taken (such
as poisoning or polluting of springs,
wells, etc.,) under penalty of repri-
sals.
9—The right of requisition shall be
exercised by the allies and the United
States armies in all occupied territo-
ry. The upkeep of the troops of oc-
cupation in the Rhineland (excluding
Alsace-Lorraine) shall be charged to
the German government.
10 — An immediate repatriation
without reciprocity according to de-
tailed conditions which shall be fixed,
of all allied and United States prison-
ers of war. The allied powers and the
United States shall be able to dispose
of these prisoners as they wish.
11—Sick and wounded who cannot
be removed from evacuated territory
will be cared for by German personnel
who will be left on the spot with the
medical material required.
Disposition relative to the eastern
17—Unconditional capitulation of all
German forces operating in East Af-
rica, within one month.
General clauses:
18— Repatriation, without recipro-
city within a maximum period of one
month, in accordance with detailed
conditions hereafter to be fixed, of all
civilians interned or deported who
may be citizens of other allied or as-
sociated states than those mentioned
in clause three, paragraph nineteen,
with the reservation that any future
claims and^demands of the allies and
the United States of America remain
unaffected.
19— The following financial condi-
tions are reqpired:
Repatriation for damage done.
While each armistice lasts no public
securities shall be removed by the
enemy which can serve as a pledge to
the allies for the recovery or repatria-
tioin for war losses. Immediate resti-
tution of the cash deposit, in the Na-
tional Bank of Belgium, and in gen-
eral imemdiate return of all docu-
ments, specie, stocks, shares, paper
money together with plant for the
issue thereof, touching public or t>ri-
paid off and completely disarmed and
placed under the supervision of the al-
lied powers and the United States of
America.
23— The following German surface
warships which shall be designated
by the allies and the United States
of America shall forthwith be dis-
armed and thereafter interned in
neutral ports, or for the want of them,
in allied ports, to be designated by
the allies and the United States of
America and placed under the sur-
veillance of the allies nnd the United
States of America, only caretakers be-
ing left on board, namely: Six battle
cruisers, ten battleships, eight light
cruisers, including two mine layers
(including river craft) are to be con-
centrated in German naval bases to be
designated by the allies and the
United States of America, and are to
be paid off and completely disarmed
and placed under the supervision of
the allies and the United States of
America. All vessels of the auxili-
ary fleet (trawlers, motor vessels,
etc.,) are to be disarmed.
24— The allies and the United
States of America shall have the right
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Weather and roads permitting, I
will be at the following places to col-
lect taxes, on days and dates as speci-
fied below:
SIXTH WEEK
Bluff—(Hausmann Store) Wednes-
day, November 20, 2 p. m. to 4 p. m.
Halsted—Thursday, November 21,
2 p. m. to 4 p. m.
Rabb’s Prairie—(Legler Store) Fri-
day, November 22, 10 a. m. to 12 m.
Rutersville—Friday, November. 22,
2 p. m. to 4 p. m.
Plum—Saturday, November 23, 1 p.
m. to 4 p. m.
SEVENTH WEEK
Flatonia — Monday and Tuesday,
November 25 and 26, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Praha—Wednesday, November 27,
10 a. m. to 4 p. m.
Elm Grove—Thursday, November
28, 10 a. m. to 12 m.
Colony—Thursday, November 28, 1
p. m. to 3 p. m.
Cistern—Friday, November 29, 9 a.
m. to 4 p. m.
Stellar—Saturday, November 30, 2
p. m. to 3 p. m.
LaGrange—From December 9 to
January 31, 1919. The time for vol-
untary payment of taxes expires on
the 31 of January, 1919, after which
time a penalty of 10 per cent is im-
posed by law.
Tax rate for 1918—State 55c, coun-
ty 40c on $100.00 valuation.
WM. MENNIKE,
County Tax Collector.
to sweep up all mine fields and ob-
structions laid by Germany outside
German territorial waters, and the
positions of these are to be indicated.
25— Freedom of access to and from
the Baltic to be given to the naval
and mercantile marines of the allied
and associated powers. To secure
this, the allies and the United States
of America shall be empowered to
occupy all German forts, fortifications,
batteries and defense works of all
kinds in all the entrances from the
Categat into the Baltic, and to sweep
up all mines and obstructions within
and without German territorial waters
without any question of neutrality be-
ing raised, and the positions of all
such mines and obstructions are to be
indicated.
26— The existing blockade condi-
tions set up by the allies and as-
sociated powers are to remain un-
changed and, all German merchant
ships found at sea are to remain
liable to capture.
27— All naval aircraft are to be
concentrated and immobilized in Ger-
man bases to be specified by the allies
and the United States of America.
28— In evacuating the Belgian
coasts and ports, Germany shall
abandon all merchant ships, tugs,
lighters, cranes and all other harbor
materials, all materials for inlatid
navigation, all aircraft and materials
and stores, all arms and armaments,
and all stores and aparatus of all
kinds.
29— All Black sea ports are to be
evacuated by Germany; all Russian
war vessels of all descriptions seized
by Germany in the Black sea are
to be handed over to the allies and
the United States of America, all neu-
tral merchant vessels seized are to
be released; all war-like and other
materials seized in those ports. are
to be returned and German materials
as specified in clause twenty-eight are
to be abandoned.
Thirty—All merchant vessels in
German hands belonging to the allied
and associated powers are to be re-
stored in porta to be specified by the
allies and the United States without
reciprocity.
(Continued on next page).
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
Do not emagine that because other
cough medicines failed to give you re-
lief that it will be the same with
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Bear
in mind that from a small beginning ■
this remedy has gained a world-wide
reputation and mmense sale. A med-
icine must have exceptional merit to
win esteem wherever it becomes
known.
J. Meyenberg, druggist.—Adv.
“The winding of the war means the
utmost econnomy, even to the point
where the pinch comes. It means the
kind of concentration and self-sacri-
fice which is involved in the field of
battle itself, where the object always
looms longer than the individual. May
all enlist in the war savings army.”—•
Woodrow Wilson. Pay that W. S. 8.
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1918, newspaper, November 14, 1918; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth998572/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.