The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-29
Reply Calls Attention to Altera-
tons in the German
Constitution.
WANTS PEACE TERMS
Under Control of the Civil Gov
eminent Has Been Passed
by the Reichstag.

Amsterdam, Oct. 20. Austria,
In her reply to President Wilson,
accepts all the views expressed by
the President in his note of Octo-
Der 10.
Austria says she is willing and
ready without awaiting the result
of other negotiations to negotiate
a peace and an immediate armis-
tice on all Austro-Hungarian
fronts.
Washington, Oct. 29.-The Ger
man governments reply to Presi-
dent Wilson's last note asserting
that the negotiations for peace
are being conducted by a peoples
government with actual and con-
stitutionai power and that the
terms of the American and allied
governments for an armistice are
awaited, has reached the Swiss
legation by cable.
The President is expected to
make no reioinder. His personal
exchanges with the German au-
btOI ibiCSy OtilCIdlS SdlOy CiOSO
when he transmitted the corre-
spondence to the Allies. The next
step must be on the part of the
cobelligerent acting in concert.
Paris, Oct. 29.-An answer to Presi
dent Wilson's last note has been pre-
pared by the German government, In
which, after again referring to the
"~far-reaching changes which have
been and are being carried out in the
German constitutional structure, tC
which the military powers have beer
made subject" it declares that Ger
many now awaits the proposals for al
armistice.
A London dispatch, however, in re
porting the fact that Premier Lloyd
George and Foreign Secretary BalfOuI
had gone to France with naval and
military adviers, says it is understood
authoritatively that the Allied govern
ments will not reveal their armistice
terms until Germany has replied tC
President Wilson's last note, which, il
probably was expected, would contain
more than the mere fact that Germany
al waiting for the terms of the
armistice.
Ludendorff Steps Out.
A crash has come in the personne
of the German high command.
General Ludendorff, reputed to be
the brains of the German army-tht
mar who promised he would crush
Great Britain and France before the
United States could get under way in
a military sense, has resigned his pc
sition as first quartermaster general
and Emperor William has accepted his
resignation.
Military Losing Power.
simultaneously, while the German
line continues to crumble under the
Allied attacks and the German Dor
der is slowly but gradually being ap
preached by Germany's foes, come
report that the reichstag, by a large
majority, passed a bill placing the
military command under control of the
civil government.
Germany's answer to President Viii
sons latest communication says:
"The German government has takel
cognizance of the answer of the Pres
ident of the United States.
The President is aware Of the far
reaching changes which have been car
ried out and are being carried out ii
the German constitutional structure
and that peace negotiations are bein,
conducted by a peoples government il
whose hands rests, both actually an(
constitutionally, the power to make the
deciding conclusions.
"The military powers are also sub
iect to It.
THE German government nov
awaits proposals for an armistice
which shall be the first step toward
just peace" as the President has de
scribed In bis -~oclamation."