THE ARMISTICE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 95, 16 January 1919, Page 5

THE ARMISTICE

GERMANY FAILING TO FULFIt THE TERMS SHORT DELIVERY (F LOCOMOTIVES ' By Telegraph-Press ;Ae3octation- Copyright Paris, January 13. Marshal Foch, at the Supreme War Council, reported that 23,000 prisoners were still due from the enemy's custody. Germany had delivered 1967 locomotives out of live thousand ordered by the armistice terms. The council had therefore decided that a prolongation of the armistice, should only be accepted under new conditions. The revictualling of- Germany would be undertaken in return for the acceptance of the new.conditions.—-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CONDITIONSJFRENEWAL CONSIDERED BY-SUPREME WAR . • COUNCIL. London, January 14. The Press Bureau reports: The Supreme War Council met in Paris in tho afternoon for the settlement of the terms upon which the armistice is to be renewed, including questions'connected with the treatment of German shipping, the surrender of submarines hitherto under construction or repair, tho completion of the transfer of railway and organisation of material, and the restoration of the machinery taken from Allied territories.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. RESTORATION OF ABSTRACTED • MACHINERY . ' • GERMANY'S REASONS FOB , DELAY. (Rec. January 15, 8.15 p.m.) Copenhagen, January 13. The German armistice delegate. General von Winterfeld, has notified! the Entente representatives at Spa that Germany is resolved loyally to perform the undertaking to restore machinery abstracted from occupied ter-« ritory as a. part of the undertaking to repair material losses, but declines to undertake a detailed; settlement which would "anticipate the Peace Treaty, the conclusion of -Tvhich Germany has repeatedly urged." The German Government, commenting by wireless on von Winterfeld's note, gives statistics available of the restorable oquipment, and adds: "Refusal must ■be made in all circumstances to the demand than Germany replaces machines by others essential to German industry, because such a step would inaugurate the economic war deprecated by President Wilson."' —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. ;