The Nevada County picayune., 1918-10-17
GERMAN REPLY DUES
 NUT PLEASE BRITAIN
ATMOSPHERE CHARGED WITH SUSPiClON-gELlEVE HUNS
 SEEKING COMPROMISE
WANT FINAL SURRENDER
Germanys Acceptance Of Presidents Terms in No Wise Means Her Ac- ceptance Will B. Met By Great
 Britain and France.

London -Germany reply 10 Pres idcnt Wilson reached London too late for any authoritative comment it Was bound to come, however. into an atmosphere charged with suspicion. and the opinion k still held Tn all quarters that the reply would be a good gauge of the degree of Ger many's military distress. An arms tice is the old familiar ruse for q dis tressed army.
 Apparently the reply gives one statement of news. It associates Austria-Hungary, but not Turkey, with the German government The implication seems to be that unless the German secretary for foreign af- fairs has written the message with unusual haste, Turkey is no longer Germany's ally. In all previous im- portant diplomatic documents Ger many has scrupulously mentioned all her allies.
 The phrase, "To agree upon prach- cal details of the application of these terms is on it's face straight reply To President Wilson. It was not uneX- pected here but Is likely to be re- garded with suspicion English pa pers have said that a conference bas ed on such a formula may be consld- cred by the Germans to mean an eN- tended debate.
 Some of the most important Ger man pepers, in latest quotations ca bled from Holland, persist in using the word compromise" with refer ence to the application of the presi- dents priniples But the feeling m London is that it will be hard for the allied armies to hold their hand in the hour of seeming victory.
 Unconditional surrender" is the watchWord much more appealing 10 the British people in this hour than any commission 10 arrange for eyaca- ation Events in the pasl.Week, par tioularly the sinking of the Leinster, have steeled British hearts against compromise.
 There is strong belief here, yoiC- cd even by the compromising pa, pers, that there are yet two powers in Germany power of the new government. the other of the army and that It IS not yet decided which is supreme.
 Germany's acceptance of President l Wilson's terms in no wise means that l her acceptance will be met by Great Britain and France, The restoration of ship for ship" from the German mercantile marine for all submarine losses is a British principle which ap- parently is accepted by all the British l people.
 Commenting on the reply, the Sun l day Observer says:
 "The first issue for us is the mari- time question. We ought to insist that the German submarine campaign should be marked out for special treatment in immediate connection with any peace preliminary. If any military armistice is accompanied by concrete guarantees 90 must naval armistice. We ought to insist, before there can be any suspension Of hos 1 tilities, that the German submarines shall be surrendered to the allies and America"
 News of the World says: Any ees- sation of military operations at this stage would compromise all our mili- tary success. They Will not enjoy such respite Foch and his gallant armies. now hot in pursuit of the enc l my. are not to be thus easily cheated of the fruits of their splendid yicto- ries."