Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-22
GERMAN PEACE NOTE
NOT SATISFACTORY
TO WASHINGTON
Regarded as Left Handed Awkward
Attempt to Forward Negotiations;
Surrender First Condition.
3 CONDITIONS TO MEET

Washington. Oct 22-'rhe German
renl, In President Wilson's latest note Is
NOT satisfactory To the American govern
ment. and will result IN no immediate
move by the President toward the restura-
tion of peace.
II Is regarded as being nothing more
than a 'lcft-handed, even awkward,
acceptancc of the latest conditions pre-
cctlcnt in peace and an armlstce, iald
down hv President Wilson IN hiS note
of Oct. "a, and to that extent 1t Is look
ed upon merely as being one more step
toward ultimate peace; but il can be
asserted very positively thu the com
munication from Berlin Is not regarded
rs proof that there has yet been any de
Struction ar reduction TO virtual I'M
potence o( every arbitrary power IN the
German government that can separately,
secretly, or of ITS own single chocc disturb
the peace Of the world.
ABSOLUTE SURRENDER DEMANDED.
The President, rs spokesman for this
country and our allies, Is standing tor
shc absolute surrender of the enemy,
and il was asserted III responsible
high quarter Inst night that was not
the purpose of the President to make
any peace with an armed Germany.
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appear that steps toward consttu-
1ional and governmental reform IN
Germany will he taken to free the Ger
man government from arbitrary and
irresponsible influences. but offers no
real proof that there has vet been an actual
destruction of the arbitrary powers lodged
IN the kaiser and the imperial government
leaders, and no evidence afforded that
the kaiser, Hindenburg. and Iudendorft
are not now as completely IN control of
the German military machine rs they
were prior to the launching Of the German
peace offensive
II can be stated, on the basis of IN
formation obtained through q reliable
and well-imorrned source, that there
will be no step taken toward the rcstora-
ton OF peace until there arc provided
absolutely satisfactory safeguards and
guarantees OF the maintenance of the pres
cnt military supremacy oi the armIeS Of
the United States and Of the Allies IN the
field
THREE REQUIREMENTS ESSENTIAL.
These three steps must be taken be
fore there can bc 4 real achievement IN
the direction of peace:
First There must hc an evacuation
under which Germany must withdraw her
forces from the SOIL oI TIC Ait4'iSs - NVll do
from Russia and Rumania, and thus with
sirawaI, instead Of being under any mixed
commission, as proposed n first by Ger
many or under conditions in which Ger
manys military leaders would be allowed
any voice, must be under the supervision
If General Foch and the allied military
advisers.
second Both the process OF evacuation
and the conditions Of any armstlce will
be left IL Marshal Foch and the military
advisers of the allied governments. who
will .lctate the terms Unless Germany Is
ready to accept these terms II is not the
purpose to grant an armIsticc, even after
evacuation
Third The condition precedent "a
peace, if peace is to come by the action
of the German people themselves, Is the
overthrow and destruction Of the arbitrary
power of the Hohcnzollcrns. and it Is the
understanding that il is not the purpose oi
the President to accept tile mere ipse dixit
of the present German government, un-
supported by real proof and evidence
that the autocratic power of the kaiser
and those who have served rs the con
stituted authorities of the imperial Ger
man empire have been destroyed.