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reply to President Wilson probabI,
will be dispatched this afternoon, &C
cording to advices received here.
Washington, Oct. 10. President
Wilson has answered Germany's peace
proposal with a decision which not
only fulfills the expectations of sup
pels the fears of those who predicted
he would substitute victories at arms
with defeats at diplomacy.
No peace with kaiserism; autocracy
must go; no armistice can even be
thought of while Germany continues
her atrocities on land and sea- One
cannot be considered unless it is fully
dictated by the allied commanders in
the field in such terms as absolutely
provide safeguards and guarantees
that Germany's part will not be a
scrap of paper This, in few words
is the presidents answer.
May Cause Revolution.
If it does not bring a capitulation
which may be more than an uncondi-
tional surrender, allied diplomats and
American officials believe it may cause
revolution in Germany. Beyond
question it speaks for the entente al
lies as well as for the United States.
The dispatch of the presidents reply
NAL statement at the White house by
Secretary Tumulty:
'The government will continue to
send over 100000 men with their sup
plies every month and there will be
no relaxation of any kind"
Quite outside of the formal phases
of diplomatic document that was
President Wilson's word to the world
that he had no thought of stopping
the fighting at this stage.
The senate chamber rang with ap-
plause of senators as the presidents
answer was read few minutes after
it had been announced at the state
department. Senator Lodge, the presi-
dents chief critic until yesterday, is
sued a statement explaining his graft
fTcation at the presidents decision.
Opinion at the capital and throughout
official Washington was unanimous in
approval.
The official note which will convey
the presidents decision to the German
government and, more important, to
the German people, was delivered yes
terday by Secretary Lansing to the |
charge of the Swiss legation who has
been acting as the intermediary. 1t |
was given out publicly by Mr.. Lansing |
at the state department at six o'clock |
last evening. In full it follows:
The Note to Germany.
"sir:
"In reply to the communication of the |
German government, dated the twelfth |
instant, which you handed me today, | |
have the honor to request you to tras-
NIT the following answer:
"The unqualified acceptance by the |
present German government and by
large majority of the reichstag, of the
terms laid down by the president of the
United States of America In his address
to the congress of the United States on
the eighth of January, 1918, and in his
dent In making a frank and direct state
nent of his decision with regard to the
of the German govern
nent of the eighth and twelfth of o.
tober, 1918.
at mus. 5e clearly understood that
the process of evacuation and the condi-
lions of an armistice are matters which
must be left to the Judgment and advice
Of the military advisers of the govern
NJ Of he fpif 4afa i |
governments, and the president feels it
MS duty to say that no arrangement can
De accepted by the government of the |
United States which does not provide abb
'oIuteIy satisfactory safeguards and guar
antees of the maintenance of the present
military 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 juda-
nent and decision of the allied govern
nents.
"The president feels that it is also his
iuty to add that neither the government
# the United States nor, he is quite
lure, the governments with which the
government of the United States is asso-
iated as beiIioerent, will consent to
consider an armistice so long as the arm
ID forces of Germany continue the Illegal
ind inhuman practices which they still
'ersist In.
AT the very time that the German
government approaches the government
4 the United States with proposals Of
eace, its submarines engaged In
linking passenger ships at sea, and not
he ships alone, but the very boats In
which their passengers and crews seek
o make their way to safety; and In |
heir present enforced withdrawal from
flanders and France the German armies
re pursuing a course Of wanton destruc.
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