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THE CHARLOTTETOWN quantum»: NOVEMBER 10,1938

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At Armistice

Bore Maple Leaf To Many Blimes

OTTAWA, Nov. ll ~ (CP) Armistice. 1918, found Canadilmfi serving on various fronts and in many capacities with naval forces of the Allies. Canada's share in the general operations from 1914-18 is indicated in the following sum-

Motorizetlllorps Beat Sea Attack

NEWCASTLE. Australia, Nov. 8 ~(CP-ROUft‘1'Si——.l1l the most ex- tensive tnaitoeuvrcs since 1914, Australian troops massed in the vicinity of Newvttstlc repulsed a dawn attack from the sea. The ' cs "ware designed t0

Armistice Day Recalls Entry Freeing Mons

Germans Knew

War Wits Lost

_ defence exert

place where the war ended,

lay (‘.\l’l'. W. \\. WFRRAY, M. C. would not act independently. He _, , , _ _ ,. _ , _

(anatliltl in.“ start‘ Writer ‘eotnmunlcated the terms to ffifd mtg,‘“ijfrlfgiigffingi mary: By C021’: Whig;- lgglallalgtg- C- Th“ much how“ I '1. -. ~. a-o tt.-ttt>:"t-0\v Can- Cletneucentl of France and Llojv-‘I “HUI. Ho“, mud‘ FTIIIXM. Bflgllllfl End Gormflflyl a a‘ an s m, be waged“ It “r-fm}: 198d- . v . n/tllll froth Gnome of Ehiglatid. ‘ Meanwhile Tm ,._\-L.,.,.,J(., $0.1m. with a A corps off four infantry divisions: Rtcarmg 20 years after the react- Canadian code-pt butlliilllgilh the " Of [he 1 ‘my? ‘ms “O mmmullol‘ of m“ 1mm‘ 111° '1‘ 1111111 NPY-‘Cll-‘tle a cavalry brigade; a corps of rau- ions of ‘the men at the front on the strov it‘ and it efitrlfibgflnot m. u wh ‘ ftirtotis attacks before u-titeh the hcadqud,.u.,.s‘ mnounflng the way troops; a forest c0198 and first Armistice Bu; n ‘vould seen, a of [he (‘my of Mo,“ HER)‘; $131311 t_\ tour _vt Gcttuttn army tvas r-Jchng_. Its sighting o! m‘ men“, convoy other army. trauswrtfl i011 8nd "Y"? “up” climax to he [our ymrs m- bemn. mp9 it ended‘ In memllP-B l1kl.\ of ll8l'->0lls'|‘1l’1f)l"<\l€ had greatly tlettrlaratrti: cqimmm ,3 M. mnmbh.‘ of carryj of communication units. lgmmg with m; tragedy and between nearly 1060000

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unnarv Hospital, Nos‘ 4 and wretchedness to observe boundless

soldiers and sailors lost their 1M5‘ jubilation among the troops whet.

its. will to resist had collapsed, ‘mg your (m-Lqmg

i111 "3111 ill '11P‘ "In (I991) lnwflYd 1111711511 I Twtlld Wllhui an ltour of the receipt . \'l_llt1"0 1n the only say: ‘There. no hope. Ger- .Q(_ the mp5; .8 4mm troops of me Canadian General Hospital. c the “Cease Fire" message was re_ Mons Game“ Bock o1 France the many u» lost. 171%‘ “'1”°1° Flffil Infant ., Brigid? Were Slqfiod- Three 0f the principals at the dramatic signing of the Armistice :3‘“'d1“t°1"°" Nit}? ‘Hing’; :3‘ celved._ ‘ n. 2t t." rsredszif. east: iiiititlii;."‘°‘~’i“ii.‘l..."‘€.§‘$2 1-" 1" 1" M" *0 "r1115“..3i"r1l|-1i1’=-'~<» PM ..f.r1‘rr."t. ‘Nfiéiifig. lsrttt*°s..ts.rsts.fltt e .._ . , ,... ._-. . ~. §'..... ' . ‘_ , , .- ,_ , . 1-. - - _-~ t_, , t , ."‘ _ _ l 1 '_ s. ii, . “-I4L‘:~(. i111: tno- I \\'(l.\ now tulperative. "In the Cwr- and 43 light lOl'llt:~. along rough “M” {or Fume’ ‘wmysg’ n“. Blnaln’ ‘vmkfleld’ n" uflmany‘ PT deblTlVed NT 7 Cflllfldlg“ Gil“. IFOQps "Carried on" 111-0119119111» 111W 9111111)’ historical event. presertgll ir, tt ‘P11111011’ was accepted man note of Oct. M we capltau- baelt-cotttitry rtmrls leading to the _ 91111395911511) all Calm’ e 1 '5‘ day of NW. 11. 191B. 1119M)’ 1111101185 m? C1 5'5 $301115" BQQK. W115 "lurked t had no spot tn 1 lated." he wrote. icoast. TUDAYI" "5 101111301‘ 11116 Years, 20 of them. Bridging Co., Canadian Raina)’ the" had been accustomed to on by the visits to the Hotel tie vine - before the l Evens accelerated Germany's 1 Artillery ctuplncemetits were It is dark in the Forest of Compiegne . . . . .. the first wan light of Pmops. any other day. 01 911113111911‘ 11111101‘ officers eralled as the activities. Valenciennes had iullcti.;l"~‘~l3i(11.\‘ llffillxlretl on half a dozen dawn has not penetrated the aisles of great oaks. and beeches . . . . . . .. WW!“ and Cellini A818"! D6- , Whatever excesses featured ‘he _No illustrious names adorn the . ‘l the German etnls- Everywhere the field-grey soldiers ‘$111161’ bPflt-‘llvfi- 11114 11 lllfiller-‘Fhlch this remote spot. in the venerable wood is onlv 50 miles from Paris laghment with “Dumterlorpc and wars end °15e“'h°r'~" “m.” we" firs" Page of m‘? 90km" 31101111112 s tame or. Nov. 8, 1918. to sue were being hurled back. On Nov. mrrlved sutltltttll‘ 1mm i111‘ all" but the“. is no 51g“ of war “ "NOW?!" (North Persian) Fflrfie- ntanifest among the soldiers. The hlglter cotnuulnd had its hours o; I g 5 n was announced a German com. rforee station at Richmond. roar- " d‘ 8-5 m track bum’ w “an t 1 Murmansk (North Russlal: Can- 2nd Canadian Divzsion, south-east glory in the afternoon of Nov 11‘ rear.» inter. in 193a, with mission had been appointed to de- Id 01'". 11111 ‘lvfvllsive twsltlcns. . a“ “g °“ . 1’. l? 5139i’ ,5 adian "Swen" Party. comprising a of Mons, was advancing all morning 191111 ‘>111 1" “1’~’.,““1'k hours of the t1 ‘i of m.- flew Germany's vise means of agreement “con- '1‘@¢<?11110!1@1'i1ls the ground and a. 1"“1“'“-‘1.' c“ - - - * '~ Just ‘m m‘ i W” ' dog detachment. artillery, infantry intent upon attaining a good de- morning. the vlsnation was mad, ‘ and m0 re_ mmihg an expected armistice}. mkmg aerial photographs of the (111181? 111111112 car, impressed 1M0 Fatherland. There is no longer and machine gun personnel, fenslve position by 11 o'clock. The Ilzlyerliéluggsgifrfllgfiegrgfiglgenbtzug grtiuttg. - u

‘Hmrlltlmlg Can- same l5 true of the 3rd Canadian

taunt of another great war iticrable effort has <1 1n the Reich to as- Gcrttzuti army of the a.» tint defeated in the t‘ t-hery 0n the n; about the col- Ix-yzic of events

'-o the evid-

So wrote the late Quartermaster- t Armies, in Lude norff spoke nose reminiscences. He red the Canadtati victory . 8. I918, as “the " c German Army." . he has disclosed. itr-trticted Secre- tu von Hintze "to open cltlltnllflllfi."

Zibllvs For Peace

ya..- (“it'll before the British - in the W-t-t were plo- Von l-Iintze, it is tly hoped“ on .tion throughthe

dian triumph at the . ant. the other on- n reduced position af- d. on Sept. 29. ssion frcm the t. “Duty compelled la>t to substitute action for ' ~titig and empty mv hati to be asked i an armistice." . n Getteral Helrlquart- with the political au- de-patch a note to Presi- '1" w Wilson and the British governments. mint. Marshal Paul

‘ erbttrg, Supreme Com- mr of the German forcw. has to say on Oct. S: "General tytarers holds to the demand . - b". i: on ‘Monday. Sept. _29 of t1 a year for an immediate peace afar go the enemy."

‘the offer found its way. through

‘wttttlu l at

tire Urmotl Statues ambassador in S ttreraud, to President Wilson; but t1 Utiitcd States

executive

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MB AS A PUBLIC HOLIDAY ,=

It le my duty as Mayor of the City of Charlotte- town to urge upon our citizens the observance of Re- membrance Day, and especially the strict keeping of the two minutes silence immediately following eleven tfclock A.M._ when all vehicular traffic should be

AY-NUVEMBER llth

uspentied and all noise subdued.

wish of the authorities and to honour remembrance of those gone and of the service of the survivors. , E. A. FOSTER, 1

Marshal Foch communicated the route which the enemy's envoys must take on entering the war zone. They had to advance to the French outposts by the Chimay- Fourmies-Ia Capelle -—Guise Road. There the German delegation was met by French officers and eon- ducted to the station at Rethondes. where Foch's special train was drawn up. '

In Great Britain the terms of the armistice had been completed several days before. Sir Sam Faye. president of the London and South Western Railway. who had much to do in the dlrvctloti of tnllitary transport during the War, has dis- closed that on Oct. 24 he was at the Wat- Office. "engaced all day with the General Staff. fixing up ideas of an armistice for the West- ern and other fronts.

,Germans Azhast

Sir Sam discussed the (‘M11595 next day with Sir Henry Wilson. Chief of the Imperial General Staff. On Nov_. 4 he “event thtmrrh the terms of the armistice. which has been settled at Versailles for presentation to the Germans when they give in.”

What took place at Rethondes now is history. The Germans asked for an immediate cessation of hos- tilities which Foch neremptorily re- fused. The geheralissimo then read tn the enemy the terms impose-cl by the Allies, and informed them these must be accented. There would be no modification. Aghast at the severity of them. the Ger- man envoys sought permission to communicate them to their Army Headquarters at Spa. Belgium, For this purpose they were accorded 72 hours grace. A messeneer was de- spatched to Spa; and he returned on the morning of Nev. 11 bear- ing with him the unqualified ceotance of the Germans.

Ln the railway car at Rethondes signatures were affixed to the 35 clauses of the amnisiice document at 5 a. m. with six hours allowed wherein to have all belllgerents notified that the Great War had ended.

At eleven o'clock on the eleventh day of the eleventh month "cease fire" sounded.

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ntassitig troops and gun positions. It was the first time private motorists had co-operated here with the military authorities in carrying out rapid troop move- ments.

Follovrltig a lively "battle" in which the entire mechanized force of 4.000 men had to cross the Hun- ter River at four points en route the coastal battlefield on the

the troops were adjudged to have scored a technical win over the invaders.

Riel Survivor Dies Overseas.

IPSWICH. England, Nov. 8- fCP)-—-Chf11‘lt35 P‘rank Gayfer, 82, last survivor in Etnzhtid of the Riel Rfbellion of 1R3‘. has died here. He had been tiratving a dis- ability rpnsimi of 55_ cents a day from the Canadian Govrenment for sunstroke suffered in tihe Qu'- Apprlle Valley in the summer of 1885 while serving as a private with the Manitoba Grenadiers. Born in England. Gayfer went to Canada as a youth returning to his homeland just before the otttbreak of the Great ‘Jar.

‘This leaves but one veteran of

this catnpnimi on the books of Canadian Cmvcrntnenl pensions here. He is Trooper Valentine

Bruce of Boultcufs Mounted Bri- gade Bruce now lives in New- castle, Natal. and draws a pens- ion fnr gunshot wrlttnd suffered in n -skirmish ai Fltli Creek in April

1885 Thelr Goal Hmnembmnce Day t»hey‘ve earned it well

'I'hn:~c ntble boys who fought, Se‘ e'fell.

u.- that wc might. live . id cherish the home they bought. We must not fall when trust. was

given

We represent those boys who fought We tell

Their victory o'er again Trlumphantly, and keep our tryst To guard the goal they sought.

Today we wear a DODDY redto show ’I‘hose noble boys who fought And live.

Our gratitude ln full - Co-oncratititz and carrying on

To hold the goal they bought.

Today our thoughts will fly to France

To the graves of those who fought

They sleep

We renew our vows '

Unltedlyt. To love and cherish

'I‘h'*ir memory and home they bought.

Tisuttt mty years since they came

us Those boys. dear boys, who fought Scared worn t But smtltng through Contcittctlly", persevering and carry-

ing on They won the goal they sought. its

Remembrance Dav draws to

OSE We clasps the hands that fought And pray Lest we forget ' THTE" I€II'G\\"§I'11f)”iifiiI'1bvé b0 Carry

service four years ago and placed at the disposal cf Marshal Foch. Lights come from its windows. 0n a nearby spur a train looms darkly.

Sine.» 2 o'clock on this morning of Nov. 11, 1918, the lights have blazed from the windows of the dingy dining car . . . . .. but Com-

lonely beaches near Port Stephens, tmlys.

piegne Wood has become used to

strange doings in the past four VICTORPS PEACE

On Nov. B. for the first time

that other train. now dark, had been shunted into the forest ren- dezvous . . . . .. five figures that morning walked silently across

any question of what ls going on 1n the lighted car. Only one thing can happen. .

On opposite sides of a plain table . . . . .. 1n the regular dining car seats, two rctws of men sit. On one side Foch, opposite him the German Gen. Detlaf von Win- terfeld French General Weygant, and across from him Mathias Erzbergcr, German plen- lpotentlary . . . . .. two British ad- mlrals in sober blue, two more German uniforms, one more Ger- man in civilian dress a mil itary interpreter in French blue.

DEATH HA9‘. A DEADLINE

It is 5 o'clock now. What can be said has been said. A deed,

or draft. of the Armistice terms lies on the table . In bold

from their train to the waiting car They had come through the

French

not knowing . . . . .. secretly transferred in closed autos and railway cars to the forest rendez- vous where Foch waited.

There they heard Fuchs terms after he had compelled them to make first overtures for an arml- stlce . . . . .. humiliating terms ‘that left. no doubt as to the victor.

In those four days frightenln, things happened . . . . .. Germany in revolution the Kaiser fled . . . . . .. Bolshevism stalking the

script the Frenchman signs slmnlv Foch." Wemyss. the British admiral, then the lrentbling Erz-

bcrgcr. den l)l"lf‘lllll. Obcrndorff. Winfcrfeld. von Salow. the names follow. Erzbcrgcr. choked with

emotion. risrs and reads a formal protest tttzainst the terms.

Foch rises. It is over. By ‘I o'clock his train ls on the way to Paris.

At 11 o'clock. as specified in the paper with the six signatures, a suddio nari uwtcctvstnmed si- lence falls across the front. The war is over.

DLASTWPOS FOR

Bv THE CANADIAN PRESS

Armistice celebrations recall that few’ of the stiorcme commanders who directed the campaigns of the Great War are alive today-JO ytears from the conclusion of hos- tilities. Last post has been sounded for all the comnianders-in-chltef whose theatre of operations wtas the Western Front with the sole exception of General J. J. Persh- lns: of the Tlnltezi States Army,

Lord French. who took the original Brlttlsh Expeditionary Force to France, and n.is successor. Earl Haig. died many years ago. their relations embittered by acri- monious controversy which ‘tad its roots back in the first months of the war.

Sir Horace Smlth-Dorrlen, super- seded ln France in 1915 and sent for a. brief space to direct the cam- paign in East Africa, Lord Allen- by, conqueror of the Turks in Palestine. Lord Horne, Lord Plumer and 10rd Rawlinson. commanders resoectively of the First, second and Fourth Armies in France. Sir John Monash, the brilliant leader of the Australian Corps —all are dead.

.None of the three commanders of the Canadian Corns is alive to- day. Sir E. A. H. Alderson. Lnrd Byng of Vimy, Sir Arthur W. Currie have died within the last five yeals. Of the four divisional commanders who were left at the armistice two are alive—Slr Archi- bald C. Macdotiald in Kingston. Ont.. and General Sir Henry Bur- stnll in England. The others Sir. David Watson and Sir. F. O. W. boomls am dead. The necrology ex- tends to others whose names rank- ed high in the story of the Can- adian Corps. Sir E. W. B. Mor- rtson, who commanded the Canad- ian artillery, Sir James H. Mac- Brien. one of the outstanding

on

And share the home they bought. -—l-l J. DYTNEY.

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brigade commanders. have passed to the ValhLlla of soldiers.

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MAJORITY OF WAR’S BIG CHIEFS

S0 it is with the French com- manders. Marshal Jnffre -"le vieux Pore Joffre"—Marshal Foch. Getteraks Lanrezac. Maud‘ Hay. and numerous others are survived only by Marshall Philippe Petnin. hero cf Verdun, and lvlarshali Gnuraud.

The situation is little different in Germany. Marshal Paul von Hindenburg died in 1933 and Gen-

eral Erich Ludctidorff. von Hind- enburgls right-ham"! man, was buried at Munich only a few

PEACE

As theksun sank in the western 5 Y.

I saw the vision of the day.

The day, when strife shall cease,

And foes shall meet in serene

peace. In hatipy brotherhood.

When fwilitrht yzntltcrcd in the sky It scented as if to my naked eye.

That, the souls of the dead as- cended above

Dosertlug their pest for the great post above,

Their Last Post, Soon s; the darkness filled the

. l. I found myself doubting, Doubthig. if quarrels would ever 603.56, And fltzhting end with the Dawn of Peace. -—J.W.F.

Market Closing

Owing to Friday. Novem- ber llib being n Public Holi- day_ the City Market will be closed. The regular market will be held on Saturday, November 12th.

G. A. CUDMORE, Market Clerk

Holy Redeemer llall B O I N I G B 25c ABMISTIBE SWEEFSTAKE

TONIGHT 8.30 SHARP

Atchanllel (North Russia): adian “Elope" Party. consisting 0f the 87th and 68th Batteries. Can- adian Field Artillery.

S

rla: Thv (mnadlan Expedi- tionary Force (Siberia), made up of the 16th Canadian Infantry

Brigade (259111 and 260th Bat- talions). the 85th Battery C. F. A- and subsidiary units.

Program For Remembrance Day At Summerside

The services on Rcnn-etmibrance Dav at Summerside will have a special significance this year as Dominion Square. Where the monument stands. is to be dedicat- ed to l-hc ‘memory of the soldiers whose names are lit-scribed on the monument and the name changed to Memcrial square.

His Worship. Mayor John E. Cam-pbell will neflomi this cere- mony during the service at the monument.

The address will be given by Mr. T. C. MacNalbb. General Sup- erintendent of the C. P. R.. St. John. N. B.

The parade will be ln charge of O01. E_ H. Strong, K.C., M.C.

The Remembrance Day Parade will assemble at. 9.50 A.M. and the Parade will move off about l0 A.M.

The first section will assemble at the school and will include the R.C.M.P., the Summerside Citizen's Band. the Boy Scouts. the Girl Guides, and the High School Pupils. These will be Joined at the Con- vent by the Convent Pu ils.

The second section wll assemble at the Armcury and will include the Summerside Police. the Pipe Band of the P. E. 1. Highlanders, the Mayor and Town Council, the

The route will be up Summer Street to Green Street. down Cen- tral Street to Water Street. up Sum- mer Street to Memorial Square.

Plpr band of t r. P-lnce Fiuvard

scattered rumbling

rifles. brushed their equipment-and went out on parade.

Division east and north-east 0t the city. The 1st and 4th,Canaciian Div- isions had been "in rest" in the vicinity of Valeuclennes for some days. Actually the wnr ended for the 1st Division in the last week of October. Orders had been isued for “he battalovis of this Division to relieve the 3rd Division on the ev- ening of Nov, 11. The armistice brought about n cancellation of these instructions.

In the forward area the armistice found Lhe troops digging in on the ridges east‘ and south-east of Mons. Eleven o'clock came and went. The of the guns

ceased abruptly; and the troops

continued digging-in. Nobody got

excited over the event. It was all in the day's work.

Troops in billets cleaned their polished their buttons.