16 NOVEMBER 1918, Page 1

On the Eastern Front the enemy is to withdraw all

his troops Arid civilian agents within his old frontier, from Russia, Rumania, and Turkey, though the Allies may require German troops to act temporarily as police in some Russian territories—presumably in the Ukraine against the Bolsheviks. The Treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk are to be abandoned. The gold paid by Russia and Rumania to their oppressors is to be handed over to the Allies as trustees. The Allies are to have free access to the former border States of Russia either through Dantzig or by the Vistula, in order to send supplies or to maintain order. Germany's Eastern schemes are thus brought to an end. The Allies will direct the resettlement of Eastern Europe. The remnant of the German forces in East Africa is to leave the colony within a month. We shall, therefore, have to ship the survivors home.