NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THIS memorable week has brought the war to an end with a complete victory for the Allies. The imposing edifice of Prussian militarism has come toppling to the ground. While the Emperor's delegates were on their way to sue to Marshal Foch for an armistice, revolution spread rapidly throughout Germany. When the Allied terms became known at the German headquarters, the Emperor, doffing his shining armour and throwing away his broken sword, abdicated and slunk into Holland, where so many other German deserters had preceded him during the last four years. The conditions imposed on beaten Germany were accepted by Marshal von Hindenburg, and by the Socialist Government which had arisen in Berlin. The armistice was signed at five o'clock on Monday morning, and six hours later hostilities ceased. The British armies had that morning captured Mons, thus returning to the very spot at which our little Expeditionary Force first met the German hordes in August, 1914, while the Belgians had entered Ghent, and the French and American armies had almost completed the-liberation of French soil from the invader.
