Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1918-11-01
President Wilson Tells Germany
That No Peace viii Be Made
With the Kaiser.
Views OF HIS REPLY VARY
Breaking Up of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire Seems an Assured Fact
Huns Continue Retreat From
Belgium-Yanks in Fierce
Fighting Northwest of
Verdun.
By EDWARD w. PICKARD.

We are willing to evacuate Occu-
pied territories and arrange an
armistice based on the actual
standard of power on both sides in
the field. Our land and sea forces
have not been been guilty of ille-
gal and inhumane actions, and we
have ordered them not to commit
any more such actions. The Ger
man government is now free from
any arbitrary and irresponsible in
fiuence and is supported by the ap-
prevail of an overwhelming major
ity of the German peOple.-Ger-
many's Note to President Wilson.
Considering the assurances
given by the German government,
/ cannot decline to suggest to the
allied governments the cOnSidera-
ton OF an armistice, which, how
ever, must leave the United States
and it's allies in a position to en-
force the arrangements made and
to make impossible renewal of
hOstilities by Germany. 1t appears
to me that the kaiser and his crew
still are in unimpaired control of
the empire, and if we must deal
with them. now or later, we must
demand, not peace negotiations,
but surrender.-President Will
sons reply to Germany.
The above summarizes briefly but
fairly the diplomatic exchanges of the
week between Berlin and Washington.
9ermany's note, evasive, shutting and
unsatisfactory, was received
with contempt by the press and people
IF the United States and the allied
countries. The president and his close
advisers, it was said, were pleased
only with the indication that Berlin
vas moving step by step toward full
of the allies terms for an
and peace. The imperial gov
ernment's indignant denial that its
)utrages was looked on generally as
IN insult to the intelligence of world
hat knows such OutrageS have been
committed and have not yet ceased.
Even while protesting against the
charges, the note says orders have
,een issued to discontinue the inhu-
name practices alleged by President
Wilson in his former note; and the
Huns who are being driven from Bel
rum and northern France have not
stopped the ruthless pillaging and
burning of the places they are forced
O evacuate, save in a few instances.
f the orders to observe the rules of
civilized warfare have been issued,
hen there is an end of the contention
If the defenders of the German people
Is distinguished from the German au-
ocratic government, namely, that the
roops commit outrages only under the
orders of the military command. No
deserving person can longer doubt that
We are at war not only with the Ger
nan government. but with an inconsid-
,rable part of the German people. 1t
nay be that the Germans will over
brow the Hohenzollerns and all their
rang. but if so, it will be not because
# the monstrous crime they have COM
but because they have failed
# their criminal purpose. There is
lot in all Germany one sign of repent
,nce. There is only furious disap-
continent because the leaders have
lot been able TO make good.
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