The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-11-14
WILSON ASSURES
GERMAN PEOPLE
U. S. to Send Food and Supplies
If New Government Will
Maintain Order.
MUST HAVE GUARANTY
Allied High Command Refuses to
Modify ArmistIce Terms Beside
Adding "a Hours for Evacua-
tion by Foe.

London, Nov. 14.-The Allied high
command has sent to the German high
command by French wireless a mes
sage that there can be no modification
of the conditions of the armistice in
cluding the annexes at this time. II
is added that a supplementary period
OF "a hours for the evacuation of Bel
gium, Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine
has been added to the IA days stipu-
lated in the original text, so as to per-
init the text to reach German head
quarters at the desired time.
Washington, Nov. IA. President
Wilson has sent reassuring message
to the people of Germany in reply to
the appeal from Chancellor Ebert. He
promises to aid Germany in the mat
ter of food supplies and in relieving
distressing want.
The reply was sent by Secretary
Robert Lansing through Minister Sui
ger of Switzerland, who delivered
Ebert's request for Intervention by the
president to mitigate the fearful con-
ditions" threatened through enforce
ment of the armistice terms.
1t says steps are to be taken at
once to organize relief work i'm the
same systematic manner in which 1t
was carried out in Belgium, but that
the president desires to be assured
that public order will be maintained
in Germany and that an equitable dis
tribution of food can be clearly guar
anteed
Text of Answer.
Secretary Lansing's note to the
Swiss minister follows:
Il have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your note of today,
transmitting to the president the text
of cable inquiring whether this gov
ernment is ready to send foodstuffs
into Germany without delay IL public
order is maintained in Germany and
and equitable distribution of food is
guaranteed.
Il should be grateful IL you would
transmit the following reply to the
German government
Pledged Aid to Foe.
AT joint session of the two houses
of congress on Nov. II, the president
of the United States announced that
the Representatives of the associated
governments in the supreme war coun.
ell at Versailles have by unanimous
resolution assured the peoples of the
Central Empires that everything that
is possible in the circumstances will be
done to supply them with food and
relieve the distressing want that is In
so many places threatening their very
lives; and that steps are to be taken
Immediately to organize these efforts
at relief in the same systematic man.
ner that they were organized in the
case of Belgium.
Furthermore, the president ey
pressed the opinion that by the use oi
the idle tonnage of the Central EN-
pires 1t ought presently to be possible
to lift the fear of utter misery from
their oppressed populations and sci
their minds and energies free for the
great hazardous tasks of political con
struction which now face them or
every hand
Accordingly, the president now di
rects me to state that he is ready ts
consider favorably the supplying o.
foodstuffs to Germany and to take III
the matter Immediately with the AL
lied governments, provided he can b,
assured that public order is being ant
will continue to be maintained In Ger
many, and that an equitable distribu
tion of food can be clearly guaran
| teed."