Any officer offending will be sent to headquarters
under guard.
5. Every emphasis will be laid on the fact that the arrangement is an
armistice only and not a peace.
6. There must not be the slightest relaxation of vigilance. Troops must
be prepared at any moment for further operations.
7. Special steps will be taken by all commanders to insure strictest
discipline and that all troops be held in readiness fully prepared for
any eventuality.
8. Division and brigade commanders will personally communicate these
orders to all organizations.
Signal corps wires, telephones and runners were used in carrying the
orders and so well did the big machine work that even patrol commanders
had received the orders well in advance of the hour. Apparently the
Germans also had been equally diligent in getting the orders to the
front line. Notwithstanding the hard fighting they did Sunday to hold
back the Americans, the Germans were able to bring the firing to an
abrupt end at the scheduled hour.
The staff and field officers of the American army were disposed early in
the day to approach the hour of eleven with lessened activity. The day
began with less firing and doubtless the fighting would have ended
according to plan, had there not been a sharp resumption on the part of
German batteries.
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