The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-10-17
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President Wilsou win Have No
Peace With the Present Auto
cratic Qovtrnmeut. The Military
to Decide on 7kffnistice. German
Atrocities; Must Cease Before
Peace Negotiations Can be En-
tered Into.
Washington, > Oct. 14.-President
Wilson informed Germany today that
the only condition upon which an
armistice can be granted is that atro-
cities on land and sea must cease.
He-also gave notice that autocracy
must go before final peace can come.
When the time to consider All ar
mistice comes, the President said, the
military advisers of the United States
and the Allies will be consulted and
no military advantage of the armies
. fighting the Central Powers will be
lost.
!, The text of the Presidents answer
follows: MI
"The unqualified acceptance by the
present German government and by
large majority Of the ,Reichstag OF
the terms laid down by the President
OF the United States of America in
his address to Congress of the United
States on. the 9th of January, 1915.
and in his subsequent addresses, JUS
titles the President in making frank
and direct statement OF his decision
with regard to the communications OF
the German government of the 9th
and I2th Of October, 1913.
1T must be clearly understood that
the process of evacuation and the
conditions of an armistice are matters
which must be left to the Judgment
and advice OF the military advisers OF
the Government Of the United States
and the Allied governments, and the
President feels it his duty to say that
no arrangement can be accepted by
the govern1nent of the United States
which does not provide absolutely
satisfactory safeguards and guaran-
tees OF the maintenance OF the pres
ent military supremacy of the armies
Of. the United States and the Allies in
the field
'He feels confident that he. can
safely assume that this will also be
the judgment and decision OF the
Allied goveInments. ..s
"The President feels that it>is also
his duty to add that neither the gov
ernment of the United States nor. he
is quite sure, the governments with
which the government Of the United
Stars Is associated As ! bclligrre4t,
IN consider m af4nsg cnk ~asi
the armed forces Of GeEan3ny cun-
tinue the. illegal and inhunsne sprac-
ices which. they still persist in.
"At the very time that the German
approaches the govern
ment of the United States with pro-
posals of peace, its submarines are |
engaged irf sinking passenger ships at
sea and not the ships alone, but the |
verys boats in which their passengers
and crews seek to make their way to
safety; and in their present enforced
from Flanders and
France the German armies are pursu-
ing course of wanton destruction
which has always been regarded as in
direct violation OF the rules and prac-
tices of civilized warfare. Cities and
if not destroyed, are being
of all they contain not only,
but often of their very inhabitants.
''The nations ns-associated against
cannot be expected to agree
to a cessation of arms while acts OF
spoilation and desola-
tion are being continued which they |
Justly look upon-wit horror and
with burning hearts.
"It is necessary, also in order that
there may be no possibility of misun-
that the President should