Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-09
CONDITIONS FOR PEACE
MADE BY PRESIDENT
Important Addresses, Which Are Referred in Requests
for Negotiations and Armistce, Made by Ger
Chancellor Prince Macmillan.

WASHINGTON. October S.-Herc arc
the conditions of peace laid down by
President Wilson in his addresses 10
Congress aud in public speeches to
which he has referred in his note ask :
ink If the German governments accepts
them:
President Wilson. in his address TO
Congress on January s, 1918. said:
,, The program of the worlds peace,
progrnm. the only possible program,
as we sec il. is this:
]: Open covenants of peace. openly
arrived ut, after which there shall he
no private international understand
ings of any kind. but diplomacy shall
proceed always frankly and in the pub
lie view.
> Absolute freedom of navigation
upon the sea outside territorial waters.
alike in peace and in war. except as
i'll part by international action for the
enforcement of international cove
nants.
3The removal so far as possible. of
an economic barriers and the estab-
lishment of an equality of trade con-
ditions among all the nations consent
ing to the peace and associatinS them
selves for it's maintenance.
4. ADEQUATE guarantees given and
taken that national ornaments will be
with domestic safety.
.. A frte open-mindcd and absolutely
impartia! adjustment OF all colonial
claims, based upon n strict observance
OF the principle tina; in determining All
such questions of sovereignty the IN
tcrestS or populations concerned must
have equal weight with the equitable
Claims OF the governme ut>Whose title
is to be determined.
6. The evacuation Of all Russian ter
rltorN and such settlement CT all
questions affecting Russia as will Sc
cure the best and frccst co-operation
OF the other nations of the world in
obtaining for her an unhampcrcd and
rnembarrassed opportunity for the in-
dependent determination Of her own
political development and national pol
icy
Z. Belgium. the whole world agree,
out any attempt to limit the sovereign
~ which she enjoys in common with
all other free nations.
:. All French tcrritor! should be
freed and the invaded portions restored
ard the wrong done 10 France by PruS-
STA III 1871 in the matter of .Alsace-Lor-
iaine which has unsettled the peace of
the world for nearly nifty years. shoulc
he rightcd, An order that the peace may
once more be made secure in the in
tCrcSt OF all
y \ readjus,mcnt of the frontiers Of
italy should he effected along clearl!
recognizable lines OF nationality.
TO- The peoples of Austria Hungary.
whose p!acc among the nations we
wish 10 see safcSuardcd and assured.
should be accorded the freest Oppor-
tunity of autonomous development.
should be evacuated: occupied terri
tories restored; Serbia accorded free
and secure access 10 the sea, and the
relations Of the several Balkan states
to one another determined by friendly
counsel along historically established
lines Of allegiance and nationality. and
international guarantees Of the politi-
cal and economic independence and
territorial integrity Of the several
Balkan states should he entered into.
- The Turkish portion of the pres
cnt Ottoman empire should be assured
n secure Sovereignty but the other
which are now. under
sTurkish rule should be assured an
Wndoubtcd security OF life and I'm alb
Solutcly unmolestcd opportunityPof au-
tonomous development, and the Oar
dancllcs should he permanently opened
rs Il free passage 10 the Ships and
commerce Of all nations under inter
nat ioual guarantees.
IS. I'm independent Polish state
should he erected, which should include
tho territories Inhabited by indisDut-
INV pnliSh nounla lions which Shnlld