Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-10-25
TEXT. or THE. GERMAN NOTE

y wireless. is as follows:
In accepting the proposal for
n evacuation of occupied terri
cries the German government has
tarted from the assumption that
lie producer OF this evacuation
md of the conditions of an armis-'
tice should be left to the judg-l
ment of the military advisers and
that the actual standard of power
On both sides in the field. has to
form the basis for arrangements
and guaranteeing
this standard.
1.-THE German government ug.
gests to the President that an
opportunity should be brought |,
about for fixing the details. It'll
trusts that the President OF the
United States will approve of 70
demand which would be 1rrecon-l
cilable with the honor Of the
German people and with opening
a way to a peace of justice.
HUNS FEELINGS HURT.
The German government pro-
tests against the reproach of
illegal and inhuman actions made
against the German land and sea
forces and thereby against the
German people. For the cover
ing of a retreat distinctions will
always be necessary and they are
carried out in so far as is per-
mitted by international law. The
German troops are under most
strict instructions to spare pri-
vate property and to exercise
care for the population to the
best of their ability. Where
transgressions occur in spite OF
these instructions the guilty are
being punished.
1.-The German government
further denies that the German
Navy in sinking ships has ever
Ipurposely destroyed lifeboats
with their passengers. The Ger
man government proposes with
regard to all those charges tia
1.-THE facts be cleared up by neu'
trial commissions.
| U-BoAT REFORM PROMISED.
| I'm order to avoid anything
that might hamper the work oil
peace, the German government
has caused orders to be dispatch.
ed to all submarine commanders
precluding the torpedoing oil
passenger ships without, how
lever, for technical reasons, be-
ling able to guarantee that these
!orders will reach everv single
Submarine at sea before its re.
turn.
las a fundamental condition
for peace the President prescribes
the destruction of every arbitrary
|power that can separately, sec
reetly and Of its own single
lchoice disturb the peace of the
world. TO this the German
government replies:
Hitherto the representation
Iof the people i'll the German EN-
pire has not been endowed with
an influence on the formation of
the government.
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
NOW.
1.-The constitution did not
lprovide tor a concurrence of repre-
|sentation of the people in de-
|cisions of peace and war. These
conditions have just now under
gone funda mental change. A
new government has been form
ed in complete accordance with
the wishes (principle?) of the
representation of the people,
based on equal. universal, secret,
franchise.
The leaders of the great
parties of the Reichstag are
members OF this government. In
the future no government can
take or continue in office without
possessing the confidence of a
majority of the Reichstag.
The responsibility of the
Cha ncellor of the representation
of the people is being legally de-
veloped and safeguarded. The
first act of the new government |
has been to lay before the Reich
stag bill to alter the consti-,
tutioE of the empire so that the
consent of the representation of /
the people is required for de-
clsions on war and peace.
THE permanencc of the new
system is. however, guaranteed
not only by constitutional ste-
guards, but also by the unshake-
able determination of the Ger !,
man people whose vast majority
stands behind these reforuS a nd