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in five days. Oct. 31--Turkey surrenders; armistice takes effect at noon; conditions include free passage of Dardanelles. Nov. 3--Austria surrenders, signing armistice with Italy at 3 P.M. after 500,000 prisoners had been taken. Nov. 11--Germany surrenders; armistice takes effect at 11 A.M. American flag hoisted on Sedan front. Nov. 21--The German high seas fleet, 74 vessels in all, surrendered to the Allied fleet to be interned at Scapa Flow. Dec. 4--President Wilson sailed from New York for Europe, to attend conference on the larger phases of the treaty of peace. Dec. 15--The Allied force complete the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine. 1919. Jan. 10--A republic is proclaimed in Luxemburg. Jan. 18--The peace congress (without delegates from the defeated powers and Russia) met at Paris. Premier Clemenceau made permanent chairman. Jan. 21--Germany by the terms of its new constitution divided into eight federated republics. Jan. 25--Discussion of the covenants of the League of Nations begun in the peace congress. Feb. 11--Friedrick Ebert elected first president of the German State. Feb. 14--The draft of a constitution for a League of Nations adopted by the peace congress. Feb. 19--Attempted assassination of Premier Clemenceau. April 23--Montenegro becomes a part of Jugo-Slavia. May 7--The treaty of peace framed by representatives of the twenty-seven allied and associated powers, handed to the German delegates at Versailles. June 21--The German high sea fleet interned at Scapa Flow sunk at its anchorage by the officers and men left in charge. June 28--The treaty of peace signed in the Hall of Mirrors, palace of Versailles, by all the representatives of the Allied powers (except China) and the German delegates, officially closing the World War. Just five years after the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand at Serajevo. June 29--President Wilson left Europe for the United States. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights, by Kelly Miller *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KELLY MILLER'S HISTORY OF WORLD WAR *** ***** This file should be named 19179.txt or 19179.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/9/1/7/19179/ Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Graeme Mackreth, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http:/
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