Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1928, Page 5

PLANS T0 OBSERVE THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. . TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1928.' THE WORLD WAR ARMISTICE Day-by-Day Negotiations Ten Years Ago. M]‘H ANNlV[RSARY BY GENERAL MORDACQ (Military Secretary to Clemenceau.) Note—Gen, Mordaca, the author of 1 Serich o} fire articles. who is teiling Jor the first time in this city exactly what happened behind the scenes on the occasion of the signing of the armistice, is ‘especially fitted for the assignment, As “the link between Clemenceau and Foch, he was one of the three men who dictated fhe ierms of the armistice to the Germans ; Tn'Europe Gen. Mordaca is best known as a_writer on military subjects, & tac- fician and a military colonizer. Takoma Park Association Is: Perfecting Arrangements. Considers Other Matters. The fortieth anniversary of the or- ganization of the Takoma Park Citi- zens' Association will be appropriately celebrated next month, it was decided last night at a meeting held in the Tekoma Park branch of the Washing- ton Public Library, comer of Fifth and Cedar streets. The general de tails of the proposed celebration we discussed and left to the executive com- | mittee to be worked out. The pioneer | Tesidents of Takoma Park will be in- | vited to be present and relate the early history of the suburb, In the absence of H. R. Smalley. chairman of the commitice on school Walter Irey presented the committee report, which was unanimously adopted. It recommended larger playground facilities for the Takoma Pu It will be recalled that, as a matter that a gymnasium and auditorium and |of fact, on November 9, at 11 ¢'clock, the cight additional classrooms be provided | chancetlor, Max WA ol or the 'hi Scl 2 2 £ - | upon himse] 0 announce i rocts o ooy TArth and Sher- | Hon of the Emperor, although the latter, it et eI t-TO0m |y his interview with Hindenburg and lavanitte Gen. Groener, one hour previously, had : . formally refused to_abdicate. On_the Urges Senior High School. some day at 2 in the ancl;l!mm;t},{"h" The committee further recommended | Scheldemann, speaking in the Reich- that a site be secured, plans prepared | Stag, confirmed the abdication and pro; and at least & portion of the building | Claimed the republic. It was ofly at completed for a northern senior high |2:15 o'clock that Wilhelm 11 abdicate achool to be located north of Kennedy |28 Emperor, adding “hut not &s iing e eommitiost gor Rack Creek Park. | O 7 Gielock in the afternoon Hin- posed Theodore Roosevelt High School | denburg, who had just learned that on Towa avenue, Upshur and Thir. | Fevolting troops animated with the teenth street. tract, as. it fecls tha g |Most hostile fecling toward the Em- northern high school should be located | PEIOF, Were marching on Spa, begged farther north. Two additional wings e - N eaBs | has since been denied, Should be arranged for the new ®aul | i 1ol Timself in a letter to the Em- unior High School, which it is pr b n July 28, 1922, formally ac- dicted will be overcrowded before 1935. | PCTO%, O% IOV, 5 Lonen it or the The locating of an additional junior | CCPtE high school in the Sixteenth street- | 1OV Takoma Park section is urged. Violation of the zoning laws by the District in connection with the locating of the House of Detention in a resic glential section was protested in a reso- on of C. C. Waters, which w. s i was | e following new members were en- Tolled: Mrs. Lenora F. Sanborn, George H. Schoolmeesters, C. B. Waldo, Sam- uel H. Handelsman and C. Leonard Boyer. The association reaffirmed on | motion of C. W. Waters its previous ae- tion protesting against the proposed merger of the street railway lines of the District in its present form. The locating of a more convenient voting place for those members of the associ- ::i&ré ;esédlx;fi }1)2 Maryland was advo- nd wi roposed to Mary] cated ar proposed to Maryland Ask Change in School Name. On motion of John W. Coffman the association adopted a resolution recom- mending that the name of the Reno Jmu:ldiolinfllgh s::ihOOLhon the Conduit , changed to the Ali - m%r gig% School. el ) . Andrews reported that th: Work of grading the east side of 1-"ix1e;3 Br:?c"};l eroad Wats progressing. suggestion of Walter Irey th association reaffirmed its stand ori’ thg g{mposmon to permit the residents of the ational Capital to elect members of the Board of Education, ‘The asocia- tion expressed the hope that the Bu- Teau of the Budget would provide for the development of the Takoma-Bright- essively a_regiment, @ foision, until he was called by M. Clemenceau to the ministry of ‘war. During his service at the jront he was injured three 1 citations, In November, 1917, chosen by Clemenceau, ‘among all the rals of the French army, as the chief abinet and his military adviser. o vears he did mot quit the side of Clemenceau. The Day of November 10, 1918. what was happening in Germany were reaiized in part. About 3 o'clock in the morning I received a code message | informing me that “the German Em- peror abdicated yesterday evening and a new popular government has been ipaugurated in Berlin. The garrison of that city is backing the new gov- ernment.” Retains Prussian Title. ‘Wilhelm II, after a long and painful discussion, finished by accepting the suggestion of Hindenburg, and it was arranged that he would take the train for Holland at 10 o'clock that same evening. At 10 o'clock everything was ready. The Emperor arrived on the platform, but as he was about to enter the train he changed his mind again and said he was not going. He went back to the little village to pass the night again. Marshal Hindenburg renewed his ap- peals, and finally the Emperor left for Holland at 5 o'clock in the morning of November 10, 1918. He had to wait six hours at the Dutch frontier before receiving authorization from the Dutch authorities to cross it. Naturally, with the difficulties of com- munication, as we were still in a state of war and hostilities had not ceased, it is easy to understand how impossibz it was to be fully informed about these events. November 10 was a.Sunday. Clemen- ceau came early to ti*: ministry and we resumed our conversation of the eve- ning before. About 10 o'clock Gen. Desticker telephoned for Foch to in- form us that “the German delegates were very conciliatory and that they desired, so they said, in order to avoid fresh bloodshed, to show the emplace- ments of the delayed mines in the re- gions newly occupied by the Fiench troops.” Tiger's Suspicion Aroused. fiecination Genter, “They're too polite to be honest,” ex- claimed Clemenceau when I announced to him these excellent but unexpected FEDERATION PRAISES | io.hm i STOPPING “If they have become so conciliating OF BOUTS |it is because they have received infor- mation about the internal situation in Germany and that over the Rhine things are not going well. That augirs well for us. But whatever is the case, we must take the utmost precautions with these fellows.” Arlington Group Commends Gloth and Fields on Relee Club Action. Always haunted by the fears he ex- pressed the previous day, Clemenceau asked me about 11 o'clock to call Foch by telephone and give him the follow- ing instructions: “Before signing the protocol the Ger- mans must absolutely make a written declaration setting forth that they are really the delegates of the government actually holding power to Berlin and that they consider the government ca- pable of assuring the execution of the armistice.” Marshal Foch telephoned about noon that the delegates would agree to the first condition, but they had not replied about the other. However, they later accepted that too. During the after- noon fresh telephone calls from Foch came in to inform us that everything pointed to the Germans signing the Our hopes of having real news of | armistice terms the same night. At 8 o'clock that evening there ar- rivad at Rethondes two wireless m sages fromaethe German governmen The first sald: “The German govern- ment accepts the conditions of the armistice laid down on November 8. The second message was exactly the same as the first, but after the phrase of acceptance there followed a long protest against the hard conditions im- posed by the Allies, which, it said, would reduce to famine the whole Ger- man nation, men, women and children. The text of these messages was imme- diately communicated to Paris and I conveyed it to Clemenceau. It was about half past 9 in the evening. but he was at the point of going o bed in his home in the rue Franklin. Clemenceau Demands Submission. “Decidedly,” he remarked, “the Ger- mans are always the same. They can never be frank; they always have to argue. They know well that given the internal situation of their country, which cannot be beiter than their| strategic situation, they are perfectly well obliged to sign the armistice, but that does not prevent them from trying evasive measures. “What are they waiting for? In any case, you telephone Foch to demand an immediate signature. We've got to finish this thing.” Stay at the telephone all night and let me know if anything interesting happens. Let's hope that the night will give them courage.” I transmitted Clemenceau’s instruc- tions to Foch. At about 10 o'clock that night he telephoned that a very long telegram in code had been received by the delegates from Hindenburg. Marshal Foch asked the delegates if they were ready to sign, pointing out that the quicker they did would be the better if they wanted to avoid useless waste of life. They replied that they were ready, but asked permission to decode the messages they had received. Foch could not refuse. From 11 o'clock on, I remained in constant communication with Gens. Weygand and Desticker, who merel however, confirmed that the Germans were still in conference. Finally at 2 a.m. on the morning of November 11 they announced that they were ready to enter a final conference for the signa- ture of the armistice. So the famous conference which con- stituted the last act of the tragedy which lasted for four and a half long years opened at 2:15 a.m. (Copyright, 1928 LINDBERGH FETED. Airman Presented to Mexican Pres- ident-Elect at Dinner. MEXICO CITY, November 13 (#).— Col. Charles A. Lindbergh last night was presented to President-elect Portes Gil and his wife at a dinner given at the United States embassy by Ambas- sador and Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow. Among the other guests were Luls Montes de Oca, secretary of finance; Joaquin Amaro, minister of war, and other members of the cabinet, as well as Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Robinson and the Ambassadors of Brazil, Cuba, Ar- gentina, Chile and Guatemala, !pghl Dispatch to The Star. LARENDON, Va., Nove 1 Commonwealth’s Attorney '\?filefiar;s’c | Gloth and Sheriff Howard B. Fields are commended for their action in stop- ping the boxing match at Arlington Beach, last Thursday night, by a reso- lution adopted by the Arlington County Clvic Federation, copies of which are ||| being forwarded to the officials today, | | In’ addition to expressing satistace | | tion at the ending of the proceedings | | at the amusement park that night, the Tesolution cltes that there is no reason | | why they should be permitted in the ||| future, because of greater ‘“circum- spection in the issuance of so-cailed ! || membership tickets.” The fight was | stopped on_complaint of Deets Pickett, | Secretary of the Board of Temperance, | Prohibition and Public Morals of the | Methodist Episcopal Church, who | charged that tickets were being sold to non-members of the Relee Athletic | Association, under whose auspices it | was being held. | The resolution requests the officials | that,“the spirit of the Virginia law | against prize fights be enforced, partic- | ularly in lsitsbappllc;tlon to any renewal | efforts by such clubs to cons | similar exhibitions.” S FIRE HALTS CAR SERVICE; Many new features cut down overhead in this most modern new building in the heart of the Financial Dis- trict. 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Poirer, Minneapolis, who | yesterday was re-elected president and | national chairman of the party at a| reorganization meeting. Only five States were represented— | Tli- | North™ Dakota, Colorado, Texas, nois and South Dakota. tion claims membership in 17 States. The guiding principle of the party’ activities, put forward by R. O. Rich- | | ards of Huron, S. Dak., urges the Gov- | ernment to go into the business of dis- tribution, but demands it stay out of the production. A “constructive movement for stand- ardization” of the purchasing power of the dollar is advocated. A “constructive party election system by majority rule” is called for. 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