ARMISTICE TERMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1918, Page 5

ARMISTICE TERMS.

LAN OFFICIAL, SUMMARY. SOME DRASTIC PROVISIONS. | Wellington, Last Night. I The Prime Minister this afternoon received the following gummary of the armistice conaitions from the High Commissioner, dated London, November 11, which he read to the House: All occupied territory to be evacuated. Repatriation of all inhabitants of occupied territory. Evacuation to the left bank of the Rhine. Occupation by the Allies of Mainz, Coblenz, and Cologne, and thirty kilometres radius on the right bank. A neutral zone to be established on the left bank cf the Rhine. Evacuation by Germany 'of the Rhineland (Alsace-Lorraine) within sixteen days. Great surrender of guns, ammunition, and war materials. All submarines at sea, or ready to put to sea, to be surrendered within fourteen days. Germans to disarm six battlecruisers, ten battleships, eight light cruisers, and fifty destroyers, under the supervision of the Allies. Heligoland to be occupied, in order that the conditions may be enforced by the Allies. No transfer of German mercantile marine to neutral flags. Immediate. repatriation, without reciprocity of Germans, or Allied and United States prisoners. German troops is Russia, Roumania and elsewhere to be withdrawn. Complete abandonment of the Bucharest and Brest Litovsk treaties. The duration of the armistice is 36 days. EXCITEMENT IN NEW YORK. THE KAISER'S EXTRADITION. ( ALLOWABLE BY LAW. Received Nov. 13, 1.35 a.m. New York, Nov. 11. The city celebrated the end of the war with whole-hearted, spontaneous enthusiasm. Although the announcement did not appear in the papers till the early morning, crowds of workers and others joined in the greatest demonstration New York City has ever witnessed. The city was rapidly illuminated, and when the whistles sounded the people rushed from their homes, until the streets were packed with demonstrators. The scenes of the premature celebrations were largely repeated, with processions and impromptu patriotic meetings. All attempt at serious work was abandoned. By noon the excitement had reached a tremendous pitch, and the city indulged in the wildest paroxysms of joy ever heard or seen before. Mr. Taft, interviewed, said the Kaiser may be extradited from Holland by the Allies in order to punish him for the crimes committed against humanity. International law permits such extradition, and it is probable that Holland will surrender Wilhelm. The overseas dispatch of American troops has been stopped.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc JUBILATIONS m AVSmMXA. Received (Nov. 13, 10 p.m. Sydney, Nov. 1-2. The city is again in the full tide of unrestrained jubilation. Business is completely at a standstill.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable AssocTHE OWrotAli A3WWNCEMENT. Reeeked Nov. 12, 10.55 p.m. London, Nor. 11. The Pros Burera states that the Prime Minister announced fbe armistice had been signed at 5 am, and that hostffitiet ceased on aO fronts at II a.m. on the Hflt—Anais&iZ. O&le Aswe. and