THE EXPECTED ARMISTICE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 41, 12 November 1918, Page 5

THE EXPECTED ARMISTICE

NO OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT YET

' HISTORIC MEETING IN FRENCH CHATEAU By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright London, November 10. Mr. Lloyd George has announced that the German' courier arrived at Spa (the German Headquarters) at. 10' o'clock this ISunday) morning.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable' Assn. ... v •-..;■. .: ■ OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM BERLIN GERMAN PLENIPOTENTIARIES REPORT PROGRESS. ■■' London, November 10. A German official report states: "Heir Erzberger, on behalf of the German plenipotentiaries, has sent a message to the Imperial Chancellor and the German High Military and Naval Commands as follows:'"At the Allied General Headquarters on Friday .morning the plenipotentiaries received the terms of the armistice, as well as a formal demand that they should be accepted Or refused within seventy-two hours, expiring at 11 o'clock on Monday morning. ' A German proposal for the immediate conclusion of a provisional suspension of hostilities was rejected wry Marshal Foch. "A German courier, bearing the text of the conditions of the armistice, has been sent to Spa, as other means of communication are not practicable. Please acknowledge receipt and send back the courier as soon as possible with your latest instructions. The sending of fresh delegates is unnecessary at present."— . Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reutcr. ' ,1 ■ COURIER TAKES TO THE AIR. (Eec. November 11, 7.50 p.m.) London, November 10. Eeuter is informed that the German courier, with the terms of. the armistice, finally crossed the.German lines by aeroplane—Eeuter. ;•■.,"' Amsterdam, November 10. . ■ It is officially explained that the German courier was detained by the explosion of an ammunition dump which h'e mistook for machine-gun fire.—Eeuter.