The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21
KAISER IS SH0RN:
SUBS ARE HALTED
The GERMAN NOTE
What the Hun Said in Reply to
President Wilson.

London, Oct. 21.-The text of the Ger
man note, as received by wireless, Is as
follows
In accepting the proposal for an evacua-
tion of occupied territories, the German
government has started from the assump-
tion that the procedure of this evacuation
and of the conditions of an armistice
should be left to the military advisers and
that the actual standard of power on both
sides in the field has to form the basis for
arrangements safeguarding and guaran-
teeing this standard"
Section Two.
"The German government suggests to
the president an opportunity should be
brought about for fixing the details. 1t
trusts that the president of the United
would be irreconciable with the honor of
the German people and with opening
way to a peace of Justice"
Section Three.
"The German government protests against
the reproach of illegal and inhumane ac-
tions made against the German land and
sea forces and thereby against the Ger
treat distinctions will always be neces-
sary and they are carried out insofar as
is permitted by international law; the Ger
man troops are under most strict in
structons to spare property and to exer-
else = care for the population to the best
cur in spite of these instructions the
guilty are being puniNned.'
Section Four.
"The German government further denies
v
ever purposely destroyed life boats with
their passengers. The German government
proposes with regard to all those charges
that the facts be cleared up by neutral
missions"
Section Five.
I'm order to avoid anything that might
hamper the work of peace, the German
government has caused orders to be dis
patched to all submarine commanders
precluding the torpedoing of passenger
ships, without, however, for technical rea-
hat hos
orders viii reach every single submarine
at sea before its return"
Section Six.
"As fundamental condition for peace.
the president prescribes the destruction of
every arbitrary power that can separately,
secretly and of its own single choice dis
turb the peace of the world. To this the
German government replies:
Hitherto the representation of the peo-
PIE IN the German empire has not been
endowed with an influence on the forma-
tion of the government.
Section Seven.
"The constitution did not provide for
concurrence of representation of the peo-
pie in decisions of peace and war. These
conditions have Just now undergone a
fundamental change. A new government
sentaion of the people based on equal.
universal. secret, direct franchise
Section Eight.
''The leaders of the great parties of the
u.
In the future no government can take or
continue in office without possessing the
confidence of majority of the reichstag"
Section Nine.
THE responsibility of the chancellor of
the empire to the representatives of the
people is being legally developed and safe
guarded. The first act of the new goyei n
ment has been to lay before the re4chstag
Il bill to alter the constitution of the en-
pire so that the consent of the representa-
tves of the people is required, for decisions
on war and peace"
Section Ten.
"The permanence of the new system is,
however, guaranteed not only by coustitu-
tional safeguards. but also by the un-
shakable determination of the German
people whose vast majority stands be-
hind these reforms and demand their ener-
getic continuance.
Section Eleven.
"The question of the president-with
whom he and the governments associated
against Germany dealings there
fore answered in clear, unequivocal man
ner and by the statement that the offer
OF peace and an armistice has come from
a government which is free from any ar
bfrary and irresponsible influence, is sup
ported by. the approval of an overwhelm-
ing majority of the German people.
'SOLF"