The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-10-17

| no relaxation Of any kind" Mr.. Tumul-
~, secretary of the president, said.
Secretary Of War Baker, who re-
turned from France, said:
"The war department Is pressing
forward as rapidly as It can the aug
mentation Of the army and its supply.
We are going ahead"
Incidentally Secretary Baker dis
closed that President Wilson himself
is one of the four members of the su-
preme war council which is directing
the prosecution of the war. The other
members are Premier Lloyd George
of Great Britain, Premier Clemenceau
of France, and Premier Orlando Of
Italy.
The president votes by cable when
the war council is sitting at Versailles.
Wilson's Answer TO Note.
The text of the presidents answer
follows:
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 ad-
dress to the congress Of the United
States on the Sth of January, 1918, and
in his subsequent addresses iustifes
the president in making frank and
direct statement of his decision with
regard to the communications of the
German government of the Sth and
18th of October, 1918.
1T must be clearly understood that
the process of evacuation and the con-
ditions of an armistice 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 IL his duty to say that
no arrangement can he accepted by the
government Of the United States which
does not provide absolutely SatiSfac-
tory safeguards and guarantees of the
maintenance of the present military
supremacy of the armies of the United
States and the allies in the field.
Huns Must End Crimes.
"He feels confident that he can safe
ly assume that this will also be the
judgment and decision of the allied
governments.
The president feels that it is also
his duty to add that neither the gov
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 armiStlce
SO long as the armed forces of Ger
many continue the illegal and inhu-
name practices which they still persist
in.
AT the very time that the German
government approaches the govern
ment of the United States with pro-
pOsaS of peace its submarines are en-
gagged in sinking passenger ships ut
sea, and not the ships alone. but the
very boats in which their passengers
the crews seek to make their may to
safety; and in their present enforced
withdrawal from Flanders and France
the German armies are pursuing "A
course of wanton destruction which
has always been regarded ms in direct
violation of the rules and practices of
civilized warfare.
"Cities and villages, If not destroyed,
are being stripped of all they contain,
not only. but very often of their very
inhabitants.
THE nations associated against Ger
many cannot be expected to agree to a
cessa ion of arms while acts of inhu
manity, spollation and desolation are
being continued which they justly look
upon with horror and with burning
hearts.
"It 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
of Germany to the Ian
guage and plain intent Of one Of the
terms Of peace which the German gov
eminent has now accepted. 1t is con
talned in the address of the president
delivered at Mount Vernon on the
Fourth of July last.
Must End Atrocities.
at is MS follows: The destruction
OF every arbitrary power anywhere
that can separately, secretly and of its
single choice disturb the peace of the
world; or, If 1t cannot be presently de-
stroyed at least Its reduction to vr-
tual impotency,' continue on land and
sea"
THE power which has hitherto con
trolled the German nation Is of the
sort here described. 1t is within the
choice of the German nation to alter il.
The presidents words just quoted nat
constitute condition prece-
dent to peace. II peace is to come by
the action Of the German people them
selves.
"The president feels bound to say
that the whole process of peace will,
in his Judgment, depend upon the def
inlteness and the satisfactory charac
ter of the guarantees which can be
given In this fundamental matter.
ut is Indispensable that the govern
mcnts associated against Germany
should know beyond peradventure
with whom they are dealing.
"Thc president will make a separate
reply 10 the royal and imperial gov
ernment of Austrn-Hungary.
accept, sir. the renewed assurances