The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-01-18
SUPPLEMENTAL. NOTE
COMES FROM LONDON
State Department and Embassy Posi-
lively Decline to Discuss
Contents.

Washington. Jan. 1.-THE entente
/ powers. in a new note handed by the
British Amba ssador Sir Cecil SPRING
( Rice, to the state Department today,
elaborated at great length upon their
/ recent reply to President Wilson's
! peace message, endorse President
! Wilson'S plan for a peace league and
| declare their tnhexible determination
| to sacrifice every ounce of blood and
gold to win the war for civilization"
| as against the central powers meth
| DDS OF calculated brutality" and mill
! tarism
! a large part OF the new note deals
| with the expulsion from Europe of
Turkey as demanded as one Of the
entente's peace conditions in their
recent note. Outstanding points of
the document are:
Germany stood aloof and that
preaching of the "splendors of war"
is one of the main features of Ger
| man history and philosophy.
The note continues: so long as
Germany remains the Germany which
without a shadow of Justification over
ran and harbarously ill-treated
country II was pledged to defend. no
state can regard its rights as secure
II they have no better protection than
a solemn treaty"
Belgium u Victim.
Belgium, the note asserts, was not
only victim; 1t was an example.
II further says that the war staffs
of the central powers are well con-
tent TO horrtfy the world II at the
same time they can terrorize It," and
the submarine has (within it's limits)
assiduously initiated the barbarous
practices OF the sister service lest the
nations happily protected either by
the British or by their own from
Garman armies"
RI the central powers emerge vic
torIous from this war, the note says,
Terrorism by land and sea will have
| proved itself the instrument of vic
| tory"
The note then proceeds as follows;
! IF existing treaties are no more
/ than scraps Of paper, can fresh
| treaties help us? None will profit by
, the rules hut powers who break
I thcm. II Is those who keep them that
/ viii suffer-,
/ Three conditions are then named by
! the note upon which II is commended
! a durable peace must be based. They
| are:
! J. The removal as far as possible or
| weakening of the existing causes of
| international unrest
| 2. The falling into dsrepute OF the
{ aggressive AIMS ana the uuSFT upu-
/ loua methods OF the central powers"
among their own peoples.
g. The establishment of "some form
/ Of international sanction which would
] give pause to tho heartiest agrees
sor"
Caused BY Lust For Domination.
The entente charges that the war
was brought about by the existence of
! great powers consumed with the lust
# domination in the midst of q COM
-nunty of nations ill-prepared for de-
Tense. plcntifully supplied in deed
! with international laws. but with no
machinery for enforcing them and
, weakened by the fact that neither the
boundaries of the various States nor
| their internal constitution harm
onlzed with the aspirations of their
constituent races, secured to them
just the equal treatment
The note proceeds to argue why in
the allies opinion. the change in the
map of Europe as outlined in their
recent note would greatly mitigate
tho evils which the document charges
led to the war The note describes
the Turkish government as being
controlled subsidized and supported
by Germany and as being "openly
used as an instrument of conquest"
Demands Restoration.
IL reiteratcS the demand for the
restoration of Alsace-Lorraine TO
France Italia irredeuta to italy. and
| ANY of the territorial changes in
! dIcated in the allied note"
Even If these territorial changes are
| made, however the entente note con-
tends, they will not be sufficient to
/ guarantee the world against a repe-
tjtion OF what is called Germanys de-
sire Ito domlncer the world"
The note then asserts that the
l-uited states ana Great Britain, lead
ing other nations wero striving by
/ treaties of arbitration to safeguard
/ universal peace.