The border vidette., 1918-10-19
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.
German Autocracy Must Go Befor
 Peace Comes, Says Wilson.

Washington, Oct. 14.-Presi- dent Wilson today informed Ger many that the only conditions upon which an armistice can be granted is that all atrocities on land and sea must cease.
 'When the time to consider an armistice comes, the military advisers of the United States and it's allies will be consulted and no military advantage of the armies fighting the central pow CTS will be lost"
 The President also gave no tice that autocracy must go be- fore final peace comes.
 The text of the Presidents answer follows:
 "The unqualified acceptance by the present German govern meut and by a large majority of the Reichstag of the terms laid down by the President in an ad dress to congress, on January 8th and in his subsequent ad dress, justifies the President in making a frank and direct state ment of his decision regarding the communication of the Ger man government of October 8th , and 12th.
 Tt must be clearly understood that the process of evacuation and the conditions of an armis | tice are matters which must be left to the judgment and advice of the military advisers of the | United States and the Allied governments, and the President feels it his duty to say that no arrangements can be accepted | by the government of the United States which does not provide, absolutely, satisfactory guards and guarantees, which can be given in their fundamental mat ter of the maintenance of the present military supremacy of the armies of United States and it's allies in the field,
 He feels confident he can safely assume that this will be also the judgment and decision of the Allied governments.
 "The President feels it is, al so, his duty to add. that neither the government of the United States, nor, he is quite sure, the governments with which the gov ernment of United States is as sOciated as belligerent, will consent to consider an armistice so long as the armed forces of Germany continue the illegal and in humane practices which they still persist in.
 Tt is indispensable that the governments associated against Germany should know beyond
 bread venture, with whom they are dealing. The President will make a separate reply to the government of Austria Hungary
 At the very time that the
 German government approaches
 the government of the United
 States with proposals of peace
 it's submarines are engaged 1T
 sinking not passenger ships alone but every boat in which their passengers and crew seek
 to make their way to safety, ant in their enforced withdrawa from Flanders and France 7 tht
 German armies are pursuing
 their course of wanton destruc , tion which has always been re garded as a direct violation o t rules and practice of civiiizet 5 warfare Cities and villages, l not destroyed, are being strip ped of all they contain, not only t but often of their very inhabit l ants. Nations associated agains l Germany cannot be expected t 2 agree to a cessation of arm while a lot of inhumanity, in
 spoilation and desolation Is bein g continued which they justly loo l. upon with horror and burnin hearts. ---* - Tt is necessary in order tha : there may be no possibility C e misunderstood that the Pre D sident should very solemnly ca l. the attention of the governfner d Of Germany to the language, an t plain intent, of one of the term e of peace, which the German gov 0 ernment has now accepted, COT
 tained in an address by the Pre- l. sident, delivered at Mount Vel e non on the Fourth of July las L-1 as follows: The destruction ( |. every arbitrary power anyWher I that can separately, secretly an t of it's single choice disturb tn
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