through almost impregnable positions from St. Mihiel to Sedan.

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Events followed one another in rapid succession. Revolutionists seized the German navy at its base, German cities rocked with riotings, a great German popular gathering proclaimed Bavaria a republic. There were on German banks, and November 8 the German emperor agreed to sign an abdication, and he afterward did, while the crown prince promised his signature to a renunciation of the throne, and he subsequently kept his word. Naturally, it was said, that William Hohenzollern shivered, even as Felix once trembled at Paul's preaching of "judgment to come.' Father and son became fugitives in Holland. German envoys bearing the white flag of truce sought Marshal Foch to learn what the terms of surrender were, and these after vain attempts to get them modified were accepted November 11, though they were even more rigorous than those which had been submitted to Austria. It was a hard dose to swallow, and it went down only with many grimaces, while Doctor Foch for 72 hours, the time-limit for the acceptance of the armistice, held the nose of the kicking patient. It was no "soft peace," as the Kaiser himself expressed the idea, when he was expecting to win. The situation had been strangely reversed, the shoe was on the other foot, and it must have pinched dreadfully, the humiliation must have been most galling. The last antagonist had fallen, and though, as Scripture says, "There is no peace to the wicked," (the defeated could have had little repose of mind), nevertheless the hallelujah sounding forth from most of mankind was that of the heavenly host ushering in the first Christmas.

"Glory to God in the highest,

And on earth peace among men in who He is well pleased."

The transaction occurred at Senlis, a little town hitherto unknown to fame but to be henceforth a name to conjure with, like Waterloo. It was the nearest point to Paris reached by the Germans, and when in 1914 they were compelled to retire, their arrogant boast was that they would come again, and now they had come, but only to sign an instrument absolutely unprecedented for severity to the foe, who in this case had been thoroughly whipped, and who was deserving of all he got.

The specifications of the armistice made plain how entirely impossible would be a renewal of the war by Germany. She was required to disarm her troops, to evacuate Alsace-Lorraine and all invaded lands. She was to retire. beyond the Rhine, and the western Rhine territories were to be occupied by the Allies, and the upkeep of the forces was to be charged to the German government. She was to permit a neutral zone a score of miles wide on the east side of the river. She was to yield up Rhine fortresses like Mayence, Coblenz and Cologne to be garrisoned by her enemies who were to remain in possession till every charge had been met, till the uttermost farthing had been paid. She was to be deprived of much war equipment, turning over munitions in vast quantities, 5,000 locomotives, 150,000 wagons (railroad cars), 5,000 cannon, 25,000 machine guns, 1,700 airplanes, 5,000 motor lorries. She was to hand over the railroads in Alsace-Lorraine. She was to surrender the main strength of her navy, all of her submarines, six cruisers, ten battleships, fifty destroyers, and all other warships were to be concentrated at designated German bases,

there to be disarmed. Till these terms were met, stronglyfortified Helgoland if necessary was to be held, that Gibraltar of the Teutons, the island bastion defending the naval base and the north coast. There was to be freedom of access to the Baltic Sea. All prisoners were to be returned, and all who had been deported were to be repatriated. The treaties with Russia and Rumania were to be cancelled. Russia's captured fleet was to be given back. There was to be a restitution of Russian and Rumanian gold that had been seized. Looted money, securities, and all valuables were to be disgorged. There was to be reparation for damage done anywhere. Merchant ships were to be loaned for carrying foodstuffs wherever needed, for as President Wilson has said, our aim now was "to conquer the world by earning its esteem.'

When the electrifying news came of the abject surrender which such terms implied, bedlam broke loose throughout our country, pandemonium reigned from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Lakes to the Gulf. Even on the front, as we afterward learned, there was a delirium of joy, and a roar of artillery swept along the whole line, and just before eleven o'clock, which was to end hostilities and which was awaited with watches in hand, there came the final salvos of screeching shells. The homeland celebration, which has never been equalled, continued on account of the differences of time over the continent from a little after midnight till the following midnight and later. In all our cities whistles blew, bells rung, automobile horns honked, every kind of a device for making a noise joined in the jubilation, fire-crackers were exploded, blank cartridges were shot off, guns boomed, sirens shrieked their ear-splitting hilarity, and weird Scotch bagpipes wailed out their