The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-15
PRESIDENTS ANSWER
Wilson's Reply to Germany De-
manding That Atrocities Cease
and Autocracy Go Before Peace
Is Discussed.

Washington, OCT 15.-The: text of
any'sm peace pleas is as follows:
THE unqualified acceptance by the
present German government and by q
large majority of the reiehstag of the
terms laid down by the president OF
the United States of America in his
States on the eighth of January, 1918,
and in the subsequent addresses 3usti-
fled the president in making a frank
and direct statement Of his decision
with regard to the communications of
the German government OF the sth
and 12th of october, 1918.
when the time to consider ararmis-
tice comes, the president said, the mil
itary advisers of the United States and
the allies be consulted and no military
advantage of the armies fighting the
central powers will be lost.
'It must be clearly understood that
the process of evacuation and the con-
ditions of an armistiee are matters
which must be left to the judgment
and advice of the military advisers of
the government of the United States
and the allied governments and the
president feels it hin duty to say that
no arrangement can be accepted by
the government of the United States
which does not provide absolutely sat-
isfactory safeguards and guarantees of
the maintenance of the present mill
tary supremacy of the armies of the
United States and the allies in the
field.
He feels confident that he can
safely ASSUME that this will also be
the judgment and decision of the al
lied governments.
Atrocities Continue.
cat the very time that the, German
government approaches the govern
ment of the United States with pro-
posals of peace it's submarines are en-
gagged in sinking passenger ships at
sea and not the ships alone but the
very boats in which their passengers
and crews seek to make their way to
| safety; and in their present enforced
withdrawal from Flanders and France
| the German armies are pursuing a
course of violation of the rules and
practices of civilized warfare. Cities
and villages If not destroyed are be-
ing stripped of all they contain not
only but often Of their very inhabit-
ants. The nations associated against
Germany cannot be expected to agree
inhumanity, spoilation and desolation
are being continued which they justly
| look upon with horror and with burn
| ing hearts.
y RECALLS Langnnge.
ut is necessary also in order that
there may be no possibility of misun-
/ Outstanding that the president should
| very solemnly call the attention of
| the government of Germany to the
| language and plain intent of one of
| the terms of peace which the German
government has now accepted. 1t is
contained in the address of the presi-
dent delivered at Mount Vernon on
the fourth of July last.
1T is as follows:
| The destruction of every arbitrary
power anywhere that can separately,
secretly and of it's single choice dis
turb the peace of the world; or II it
cannot be presently destroyed at lea st
it's reduction to virtual impotency' -
The power which has hitherto con-
trolled the German nation is of the
sort here described.
No Armistice Yet.
| "The president feels that it is also
eminent of the United States nor, he is
quite sure, the governments with
which the government of the United
States is associated as a belligerent
| will consent to consider an armistice
SO long as the armed forces of Ger
many continue the illegal and inhu-
name practices which they still per-
sist in.
People May Act.
ut Is within the choice of the Ger
, man nation to alter it. The president's
words just quoted naturally constitute
a condition precedent to peace, il
peace is to come by the action of the
German people themselves. The presi-
dent feels bound to say that the whole
process of peace will in his Judgment
| dependupon definiteness and the sat.
isfactory character of the guarantees
which can be given in this fundament-
| al matter.
1T is indispensable that the govern
ments associated against Germany
should know beyond a peradyenture
| with whom they are dealing.
The president will make a sepa-
rate reply to the royal and imperial
government of Austria Hungary.
Accept, sir, the renewed assur-
ances of my high consideration.
ROBERT LANSING,
FREDERICK ODERLIN,
"Charge d. affairs, ad interim, in
charge of the German interests in
the United States"
Continue To Send Men.
Washington, Oct 14.-This state
ment was made at the White House
THE government will continue tc
! send over 100000 men with their sup.
plies every month and there will be
no relaxation of any. kind"