16 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 2

President Wilson read the terms of the armistice to Congress

on Monday. The object of the war, he said, was attained. Prussian Imperialism was at an end. The Allies were united in their purpose to set up a Peace of disinterested justice. Their humanity was shown by their desire to relieve the famine in Central Europe by using the idle German ships, for " hunger does not breed reform " but madness. The spectacle of Central Europe in revolution inspired anxiety, because it was uncertain as yet whether we could deal safely with the revolutionary Governments. As unhappy Russia had shown, the newly liberated peoples would never find liberty " by the light of the torch."