Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1918-10-17
Straight rom. the Shoulder Re-
ply of Wilson Gives Foe
Subject for Thought.
ATROCITIES MUST STOP
Full Agreement Between America and
Allies Is Also Made Plain by
President as Necessary
Condition to Peace,

Washington, Oct. 15.-President
Wilson late yesterday afternoon an
swered Germany'S peace proffer with
a note declaring anew that there can
be no peace With a German govern
ment controlled by a military autoc-
racy, and no thought of an armistice
while German atrocities continue on
land and sea.
Text of the Presidents Note.
The text Of the Presidents answer
follows:
"The unqualified acceptance by the
present German government and by a
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 Sth of January, 1918,
and in his subsequent addresses, iusti-
fies the president in making a frank
n direct statement of his decision
with regard to the communications of
the German government of the Sth and
10Th Of October, 1918.
Confident He Speaks for Allies.
HE feels confident that he can as
sumo that this will also be the iudg-
ment and decision of the allied govern
ments.
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 aA armistice
so long as the armed forces of Ger
many continue the illegal and inhu-
name practices which they still per.
sist in.
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
land crews seek to make their way to
safety; and in their present enforced
SlthdraWal from Flanders and France
the German armies are pursuing a
SoulSS vi Ntlllpll NCSll uSllOl WHICH
has always been regarded as 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 often OF
their very Inhabitants.
"The nations associated against
Germany me be expected to agree
to a cessation of arms while acts OF
Inhumanity, SpoilatiOn and desolatiO1
are being continued which they justly
look upon With horror and With burn.
ing hearts.
Must Be No Mistake About Autocracy
1T is necessary, also, in order that
there may be 10 possibility of mis-,
understanding, 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.
at 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, if II
cannot be presently destroyed, al
beast its reduction to virtual impo
.tency.'
'The power which has hitherto con
,rolled the German nation is of thu
sort here described. 1t is within tn
choice of the German nation to altel
it. The presidents words just quotet
naturally constitute a condition prece
dent to peace, if peace is to come b,
the action of the German people them
selves.
"The president feels bound to sa
that the whole process Of peace will
in his judgment depend on the def
niteness and the satisfactory characte
of the guarantees which can be give
in this fundamental matter.
"It is indispensable that the govern
ments aligned against Germany shoul
know beyond a peradventure wit
whom they are dealing.
accept, sir, the renewed assn
ances Of my high consideration.
(Signed) ROBERT LANSING.
$40 Mr.. Frederick Oederlin, chare
d'affairs ad interim, in charge of &c
man interests in the United States.'
Vienna Reports Turkey Out of Wa
Amsterdam, Oct. 15.-The first ste
taken by the new Turkish cabine
headed by Tewtk Pasha, says a di
patch from Vienna to the Weser Zc
tung, was to dispatch Il note to Au
trlu-Hungary to the effect that owir
to the military situation, Turkey W,
obliged to conclude II separate pea
with the entente. The central powe
requested Turkey to await the resu