Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-17

porting equalization and abdication of the kaiser. while the British official press bureau announced it had been officially informed that such rumors had no foundation in fact.
 There is in Washington no official word that the kaiser has abdicated or that he has been overthrown; or that Germany is ready to accept all of President Wilson's terms.
 Officials and diplomatists, cautious and conservative by nature and prac- ticeA regard with incredulity the inti- nations that enc or all of these things has happened Of course. they all hope they have; they all know tha. one or all of the mare inevitable.
 The official opinion in the capital tonight is that the coming of these things is timed only by the unknown degree to which the German military power has been broken. There may be more information on that point in the chancellories of the allies than there is in Washington.
 When President Wilson's reply to the German peace prefer went forward Monday night, it was predicted here that if it did not bring a complete and unconditional surrender of the military autocracy the German people themselves would force one. President Wilson's words were plain invitation to the German people to take such a step and an ultimatum that there would be no peace with kaiserism.
 TIo rrrfn ch hnr~ the leaven has worked; the intima- tions in today's dispatches from Lon don. Paris and Holland suggest the progress of the ferment.
 Most significant of all is regarded the report from Holland by way of London that Germany will immediately reply to President Wilson, accepting all his terms and asking only guaran- tees for the interests of Germany and the German people.
 When the German reply to Presi- dent Wilson's note comes this gov ernments only course is to forward it to the co-belligerents. Guarantees for the interests of Germany and the German people, which may be asked, will not intervene as an obstacle if guarantees are sought in sincere terms. If they are put forth as an- other vehicle for a quibble, an oppor- tunity of diplomatic evasion and trickery, or a negotiated peace, they will meet only one reply.
 If they mean guarantees for the in- tegrity and sovereignty of the Ger many which is rightfully german, al ways taking in the determinations of the human beings concerned, no ob- stacle is foreseen. If they mean guar antees for the right of the German people to live their lives under a peace full responsible government which does not menace the life of the world. President Wilson's utterances on the subject, officials believe already have given the answer.
 Guarantees for the interests of Germany, involving only Germans, it was pointed out, are quite apart from the self-determinaticn of the oppress- ed nationalities in Austria for which President Wilson has pledged the peace conference to secure opportun- ity for an autonmous development.
 There always is the possibility that the condition President Wilson has laid down as the basis for a peace all ready have come about in Germany. Diplomats noticed that Chancellor Max sent a note and that when Presi dent Wilson answered with an inquiry. it was Foreign Minister. SOlf and not the chancellor who replied and that Solf spoke of a new government which htad been formed in Germany. It would not be without precedent if the peace party in Germany actually was in possession of an imperial re- script or other secret act renOuncing the power of the kaiser and his party, when the reply to President Wilson's inquiry was sent. It would not be without precedent if the negotiation was begun with a maneuver for the best possible terms and holding bach the last card-the downfall of kaiser ism.
 If the conditions for an armistice are accepted the arrangements will be made not by a mixed commission, but by Marshal Foch and the co-belliger- ent commanders. These will be the means of taking from Germany every agency with which she could break her word if she would; the occupa tion by allied forces of such places a. Strassburg. Metz and Coblenz; turning over to the allies of her fleet and submarine bases; with the recall of her submarines which today's dis patches hinted she was ready to do, and the surrender of munitions of war, undoubtedly also the agencies by which others might be produced and probably the employment of the great war machine plants of Germany to re