WAR COINCIDENCES.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 October 1919, Page 5

WAR COINCIDENCES.

SIGNING OF THE PEACE TREATY

Six “strange coincidences” of the war are pointed out by Road-Adlnirul A. H. Smith-D~orl'ien. 1. That the war should end where it began. and that Mons should be ‘taken just before the sign-ingg of the Armistice. ’t?'i§g',

2. That the Kaiser when he £lbdi—cated and fled into Hollvand, Should have to run the gauntlet “through the country he had devastated and ruined.

3. That when the -G(3I‘II‘la1l Fleet were sur'l'endcrin-g to the Grand .I_7‘leet, «o-ur flroops in Belgium were nlVa4l'clling across {he plains of Waterloo.

4. That the Armistice should be signed -On- the 11th day of the 11th month at 11 o’clock.

5. That the Peace Conference should take place on .Tanua.ry 18, 1919, just 48 years after the dafe 011 which -the‘ German Empire was proclaimed by an army of invasion in the ‘Chatea.u ‘of Vversailles. ‘

6. That. the Treaty of ‘Peace’ should be signed on Saturday afternoon, exactly five years after the assassination of ‘the AuS’r.ri~a«n Archduke. Ferdina-nd, WTlicll'thus gave the Kaiser the pretext for the war.