Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1918-10-19
KAISER MUST GO
DECLARES WILSON
IN HIS ANSWER
Rejects Germany's Offer of
Peace Without Guarantees
for the Future.
No Armistice Can Ever Be Thought of
While Huns Continue Atrocities on
Land and Sea-War Will Be
Prosecuted to Decision.

Washington.-Pres Wilson has
answered Germany's peace proposal
with decision which not only fulfills
the expectations of supporters of di-
plomacy, but also dispels the fears of
those who predicted he would sub
stitute victories at arms with defeats
at diplomacy.
No peace with kaiserism, autocracy
must go; no armistice can even be
thought of while Germany continues
her atrocities on land and sea; one
can not be considered unless it fully
is dictated by the allied commanders
in the field in such terms as absolute
ly provide safeguards and guarantees
that Germany's part will not be scrap
of paper; this, in a few words, is the
presidents answer.
Revolt in Germany Expected.
If it does not bring equalization
which may be more than an uncon-
ditional surrender, allied diplomats
and American officials believe it may
cause a revolution in Germany.
Beyond question 1t speaks for the
entente as well as the United States.
The dispatch of the presidents re-
ply was followed by the issue of the
following formal statement by Secre.
tary Tumulty:
1.-THE government will continue to
send over 250,000 men with their sup
plies every month and there will be no
relaxation Of any kind"
Quite outside of the formal phrases
of a diplomatic document that was
President Wilson's word to the world
that he had no thought of stopping the
fighting at this stage
The senate chamber rang with APP
plause of senator's as the presidents
answer was read few minutes after
1t had been announced at the state de-
pGrtment. Senator Lodge, the presi-
dents chief critic in his course, is
sued statement expressing his gratifi-
cation at the presidents decision.
Opinion at the capitol and through
out official Washington vas unani-
nous in approval.
The official text which will convey
the presidents decision to the German
government and, more important, to
the German people, was delivered Oc-
tober II by Secretary Lansing to the
charge of the Swiss legation who has
been acting as the intermediary. 1t
was given out publicly by Mr.. Lansing
at the state department at 6 p. III.
The text of President Wilson's re-
ply follows:
"Sir:
''In reply to the communication of
the German government dated the 18th
Instant, which you handed me today,
l have the honor to request you to
transmit the following answer:
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 frank
and direct statement of his decision
with regard to the communications of
the German government of the Sth and
18th of October, 1918.
at must be clearly understood that
the process of evacuation and the con
ditions of an armistice are matters
which must be left to the Judgment
and advice of the military advisers of
the government of the United States
and the allied governments, and the
president feels it his duty to say that
no arrangement can be accepted by
the government of the United States
which does not provide absolutely
satisfactory safeguards and guaran-
tees of the maintenance of the present
military supremacy of the armies of
the United States and the allies in the
field.
"He feels confident that he can
safely assume that this viii also he
the Judgment and decision of the al
lied governments.
"The president feels that 1t is also
his duty to add that neither the gov
eminent of the United States nor, he
is quite sure, the govel lments with
which the government of the United
States is associated as belligerent,
will consent to consider an armistice
so long as the armed forces of Ger
many continue the Illegal and inhu-
man practices which they still per-
slst in.
AT the very time that the German
government approaches the govern
ment of the United States with pro
Thousand Perish in Forest Fire.