The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-10-24
CHIEFS TO NAME
ARMISTICETE TERMS
Allied Nations Invited to Par.
tiCipate In Discussion Of
Proposition.
NOTE SENT TO KAlSE R
Needs No Interpretation-It Is
Explicit and No Further
Statements Will Be Made.

Washington, Oct. "a. Il. N. s. -
Germany will be given the nc ;al
armistice terms of the allies. This has
already been determined on by the
president and the entente premio rs
An oiiici' copy OF President Wilson'S
note of last. night has been sent to
every nation associated with the United
States In the wa.
All win be invited to participate In
the discussions, which will frame the
armistice terms.
However. before any official actioi Is
taken tho military and naval chiefs OF
the nations actively participating in the
conflict will themselves agree on the
details on which Germany and her al
lies will be permitted TO cease fighting.
There already have been some eX-
changes on the subject.
Tentative Program.
The supreme war council at Ver-
sailles has taken some steps and has
outlined IL tentative program for guar
antics. But II dealt only with some OF
the angles of the subject. Any further
conferences will take place ~ the near
future, at which all the military and
naval phases will be debated and an
ar' >ement reached. This Is made alb
solutely necessary. officials and diplo-
mats here explained, by the political
developments within Germany.
Pleased With Text.
Officials today were well pleased with
the text OF President Wilson's note.
Meagre information reaching Washing
hit in the entente capitals where II
was accepted as crystallizing the fu-
ture unified policy Of all the countries
at war with Germany. And officials
here professed to be amazed at sug-
gestions from certain quarters that the
note needed Interpretation. Thev de-
clared that 1t spoke for itself and that
no further statements dealing with its
text would be issued.
Kaiser Has Note.
The note already is in the hands of
the kaiser and his advisers. At the
requ st Of the Swiss charge II was sent
by wireless last night to the big Ger
man wireless station at Nauen, which
man note At the same time the off,
cial copy was put on the cables for
Berlin, via Berne.
All to Exchange Views.
Copies of the note also were sent by
the state department to all the .llied
nations. small as we'll as large, and
these were followed by the copies OF
the complete text Of all of the COM
munications exchanged to date between
Washington and Berlin. This was
done so that all of these nations would
be able to exchange views on the
armistice proposition. The United
States will now adopt waiting atti-
tude as far as the diplomatic phases
of the situation are concerned. 1t Is
expected that eventually the military
conference that Is to be held to deal
with the armistice proposals, will re-
port its findings to President Wilson
and that then he will, in turn, transmit
them to Germany inasmuch as they
would prove chapter in sequence to
his note Of last night.
Indicating that he believes there will
be results of sweeping Importance
from the presidents latest note. Sena-
tor Hitchcock. chairman of the senate
foreign relations committee, today
asked Secretary Lansing to forward
the committee for its study the ofii-
cial version of all peace notes that
have been exchanged since the begin
ming of the war.