 In late October, members of the Central Powers began signing armistices with the British and French, signaling the end of the war.The 2nd Squadron ships were sent to Constantinople to oversee the surrender of Ottoman forces, and "Justice" and "Démocratie" proceeded into the Black Sea, where they supervised the transfer of Russian warships that had been seized by the Germans back to Russian control.On 8 December, the French naval command ordered "Justice" to steam to Odessa to join the battleship , which was observing clashes between the communist Bolshevik and White forces during the Russian Civil War, part of the Allied intervention into the conflict.