New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-10-11
ASKS
FOR ARM|ST|CE
CONFERENCE REQUESTED ON
"PEAcE DRIVES" OPENED BY
VIENNA AND BERLIN.
BACK TO RHINE FIRST"
u. S REGARDS .EUTONs MOVES
AS ATTEMPT TO SAVE DE.
FEATED ARMIES.
Newspaper Union News Service.

Copenhagen, Oct. 7.-Prince Max
imilian of Baden, the new German i'm
perial chancellor, announced in the
~reichstag that he had sent a note
through the Swiss government to Pres.
ident Wilson, in which he had request
ed Mr., Wilson to take up the question
of bringing about peace and to com
municate with the other belligerents
regarding the subject.
The chancellor told the reichstag he
had addressed his note to the Presi-
dent of the United States because Mr..
Wilson, in his message to Congress on
Jan. s, 1918, and in his later procla-
nations, particularly his New York
speech OH Sept. 27. had proposed a
program for a general peace which
Germany, and her allies could accept
as a basis for negotiation.
Chancellor Accepts Wilson's Terms.
Amsterdam, Oct. THE text of the
mote forwarded by the imperial Ger
MAI chancellor, Prince Macmillan. to
President Wilson through the Swiss
government follows: THE German
government requests the President of
the United States to take in hand the
restoration Of peace, a~cquaint all the
belligerent states of this request and
invite them to send plenipotentiaries
for the purpose of opening negotia-
tons, 1t accepts the program set forth
by the President of the United States
in his message to Congress on Jan. s
and in his later announcements, es-
pecially his speech of Sept. 81, as a
basis for peace negotiations.
with a view to avoiding further
bloodshed the German government
requests the immediate conclusion of
an armistice on land and water and
In the air."
1t is announced that Turkey will
take a similar step.
Kaiser admits Macedonian Rout.
Berlin.-Emperor William issued a
proclamation to the German army and
navy, in which, after announcing that
the Macedonian front had crumbled,
he declared that he had decided, in ac-
cord with his allies, to again offer
peace to the enemy.
Austro-Hungary Wants "Peace."
Paris.-The Austro-H Hungarian min
at Stockholm has been charged
% request the Swedish government to
transmit to President Wilson a pro-
)osal to conclude Immediately with
him and his allies a general armistice
md to start without delay negotia-
ions for peace.
No Peace Except On Surrender.
Washington.-An Austrian appeal
or an armistice for discussion of
on President Wilson's own
is regarded here as the logical
'equel of the Presidents recent sum-
nary rejection of the proposal that
lostilities be suspended for secret ,
nd n%onbinding peace discussions. 6
What the American governments 3,
nswer to such an appeal would be is ,
Indicated by the statement author +
~ hN Nv al " n
ign minister complained that his ac- q
eptance of President Wilson's princi- G
les had not been noticed-that peace =,
Ould not be talked of upon any
SO long as Germany and Aus il
ria occupied a single foot of con v
uered territory. a
There is no disposition to believe, O
Owever, that an early end of the war q
in sight, in spite of the fact that S
Germans are known to be desper- n
tely anxious to halt by diplomacy the c
teady advance of their enemies to- 6
ard the German border. v
The Washington government, it was Il
lade plain. would not be stampeded t,
.ther by reports nor by invitation to
Ease hostilities, should one be Of Ii
red from the imperial German gov n
'nment. fl