Rapidan Township (part 3 of 3)

Nov. 11 - German envoys signed the Allied arm terms at Senlis, at 5 A. M., Paris time, which effect at 11 A. M., Paris time (6 A. M. New ' time i Delaj Eoi evacuation prolonged by 24 hours Foi the left bank of the Rhine besides the 5 therefore, 31 days in all. A supplementary declaration to the armistice terms was signed to the - that in the event of the 6 German battle cruisers, in battleships, S light cruisers and 50 di troyers nol be ing handed over owing to a mutinous state, the \1 lies reserve the right to occupy Heligoland as an advance base to enable them to enfori e the ti rms.

- The Grand Duke of Oldenburg has been dethroned and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin has abdicated, according to despatches from Hamburg.

- President Wilson reads the terms of the German armistice to Congress in joint session and announces the end of the war. Similar declarations were made to the British Parliament, the French National Assembly, and at other Allied capitals. In Xew York and other ureal cities the event was hailed by celebrations.

- Dr. Solf, German Fi ireign Sei retary, addresses a mesto Secretary of Stale Lansing requesting that 1 'resilient Wilson intervene to mitigate "the fearful conditions" existing in Germany. lie -ays the enforcement of the conditions of the armistice, especially the surrender of transport, means the starvation of millions, and requests that the President's influence be directed to overcoming this dan

- Field Marshal von Hindenhin ' ed himself and the German army at the disposition of the new people's government at Berlin, lie asked the I Soldiers and Workers' Council to -end delegate to German main headquarters at once. Von Hindenburg ..ml lie had taken this action "in order to

- When lighting ended the German front line oppo iti ihe Pi American Ainu, running south and north, wa- approximately as follows. From north of the south of I'reny. Thence through Remberecoun I north of the Hois Dommartin, and the Mainbois Farm skirting the northern end oi Lake Lachaussee. tin Bois les !l.iut>s Epines, through the Bois de Wa

- On the front of the 1st and 2d Armies, between the Meuse and the Moselle, Allied troops hold the former German front line villages of Ronvaux, Watronville, Blanzee, Moranville, Abaucourt, Dieppe and Bezonvaux.

- Thousands of American heavy guns fired the parting shot at the Germans at exactly 11 A. M. At many batteries the artillerists joined hands, forming a long line, as the lanyard of the final shot. There were a few seconds of silence as the shells shot through the heavy mist. Then the gunners cheered. American tings were raised by the soldiers over their dugouts and guns and at the various headquarters. Individual groups unfurled the Stars and Stripes, shook hands and cheered. Soon afterward they were preparing for luncheon. All the boys were hungry, as they had breakfasted early in anticipation of what they considered the greatest day in American history.

- Mons was taken by the British, and from Belgium to the Meuse the German line was near collapse before the Allied forces got orders to stop punishing the foe. The latest British report says : "At the cessation of hostilities this morning we had reached the general line of the Franco-Belgian frontier, east of Avesnes, Jeumont, Sivry, 4 miles east of Mons, Chievres, Lessines and Gammont."

- The latest French report says: "In the fifty-second month of a war without precedent in history the French Army, with the aid of the Allies, has achieved the defeat of the enemy."

- Canada's casualties in the war up to 11 days before the capture of Mons, on the final morning of the conflict, 'totalled 211,358 men, it was announced here today. These are classified as follows: Killed in action, 34,877; died of wounds or disease, 1£,457; wounded, 152,779 ; presumed dead, missing in action and known prisoners of war, S.245.

- Latest advices from Germany show that while desultory fighting is occurring in Berlin, and that naval mutineers are refusing to yield to any authority, the Socialist Government is proceeding toward full control. All factions of the Socialists are apparently working in unison, and the ultraradical, or so-called Bolshevist element, has gained great recognition. The agreement which has been reached between the Socialist and independent Socialist Parties and the new regime seems to have secured support from the press. In addition to the Wolff Bureau, the Socialists are now represented by 3 newspapers, the Vorwaerts, the Lokal-Anzeiger, formerly the Emperor's favorite newspaper and now rechristened the Red Flag, and the former semi-official organ, the North German Gazette, which has taken the new title of the International. The revolutionary movement is continually spreading. Kocnigsberg, Frankfort-on-Main and Strassburg are now controlled by the Soviets. - The Belgian Legation, in an official statement today, announced that Belgium will no longer submit to a status of "guaranteed neutrality" like that which existed before the war. It aspires to "complete independence; to the rights common to all free peoples.' - Chairman Baruch of the United States War Industries Board began to lift the restrictions on building material so that the country can return to a peace basis gradually. He announced the reversal of priority orders respecting commodities that had been curtailed for the war. The action of the War Industries Board is a first step to be followed as quickly as it is deemed advisable by others. Secretary McAdoo announced a 75 per cent, reduction in Government war risk insurance rates on hulls, cargoes and seamen's insurance. This made the rate on ships and cargoes through the war zone % of 1 per cent.,' instead of 2 per cent., with other rates cut accordingly. Treasury officials explained that, although the submarine has been abandoned, risk still exists on account of floating mines and the possibility that some submarines may run amuck. june 28 - German envoys signed the Peace Terms. Aug. 12 - Final casualty reports from the Central Records office of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, made public by the War department today, gave the total battle deaths as 49,498, total wounded 205,690 and prisoners 4,480. July i_The army had reported 149,433 cases of disabled soldiers to the War Risk Insurance bureau. It was estimated that the final total would be close to 200,000.

Location of the thirty-five combat divisions and six depot divisions of the American Army in France on Nov. 7, four days before the signing of the armistice, was announced by the War Department Nov. 27, as follows: iri, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado. New Mexico, Arizona) - Tallly and St. Dizier; Brig. Gen. Frank L. Winn. 90tli i Texas and Oklahoma) - Vill. rs-devant-Dun and St.

, Montana. Wyoming, Utah) - Oostroosebeke and or Gen. William H. Johnston. 92d (Negroes, National Army) - Marbache and St. Dizier; arles C. B

.. West Pennsylvania) - Le Mans and Castres; E I'. Glenn. 76th (New England and New York) - St. Amand, Monti on; Major Gen. Hairy P. Hodges.

I. Open covenants of pi ily arrived at; after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.

II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war. except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international coven:

III. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equalitj of trade conditions among all the n ting to the

V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial cl a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the p

VII. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored without any attempt to limit the SO joys in common with all other free nation-. No Cl will si i in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired.

VIII. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored; and the wrong done to France 'russia in ls71 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty year-, should he righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.

X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous developm aid secure access to the sea, and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of ltd nationality; and international guarantees of tin- political and economic independence and tcrriintegrity of the several Balkan states should be cut' red into.

nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should he assured an undoubted securitj of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should he permanently opened as a frei tei the ships and commerce of which should include tin' territories inhabited bj indisputably Polish populations, which should he assured a free and ;i ess to the sea, whose political d. under specific covenants, for the purpo affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.