The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-11-01
ARMISTICE is.
LEFT TO F0CH
Wilson Replies to Germany That
No Peace Can Be Made With
House of HohenzoIIern.
SURRENDER DEMANDED
df Armistice Is Deemed Advisable by
Allied Commanders Its Terms
Must Be Left Entirely to
Them-Text Of Reply.


Washington, Oct "a. = President
Wilson has submitted the German plea
for an armistice and peace to the AL
lies and at the same time has informed
Berlin that there can be no armistice
except upon terms that would make it
impossible for Germany to renew hos
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The text of the reply follows:
From the Secretary of State to the
charge d'affaires ad interim. in charge
of German interests in the United
States:
Department Of State, Oct %, 1918.
Sir:-I have the honor to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your note of the
I'D transmitting communication un-
der date of the goth from the German
government and to advise you that the
President has instructed me to reply
thereto as follows:
Having received the solemn and ex-
plicit assurance of the German gov
eminent that it unreservedly accepts
ShO tCi VI pCoSO idlu uO"h LILO
address to the Congress of the United
States on the Sth of January, 1918,
and the principles Of settlement enun-
ciated in his subsequent addresses,
particularly the address of the 9th of
September, and that it desires to dis
cuss the details of their application,
and that this wish and purpose ema-
mated, not from those who have hither-
to dictated German policy and con-
Quoted the present war on Germany's
behalf, but from ministers who speak
for the majority of the Reichstag and
for an overwhelming majority of the
German peoples; and having received
also the explicit promise of the pres.
ent German government that the hu-
name rules, of civilized warfare will
be observed both on land and sea by
the German armed forces, the Presi
dent Of the United States feels that he
cannet decline to take up with the gov.
ernments with which the government
OF the United States is associated the
question of an armistice.
He deems it his dhty to say again,
however, that the only armist &c he
would feel justified in submitting for
consideration would be one which
should leave the United States and
the powers associated with her in a
position to enforce any arrangements
that may be entered into, and to make
renewal of hostilities on the part OF
Germany impossible.
The President has, therefore, trans
mitted his correspondence with the
present German authorities to the gov
ernments with which the government
OF the United States is associated as a
belligerent, with the suggestion that
il those governments are disposed tc
effect peace upon the terms and prin
ciples indicated, their military advis
ers and the military advisers of the
United States be asked to submit tc
the governments associated against
Germany the necessary terms of such
an armistice as will fully protect the
interests Of the people involved, and
ensure to the associated governments
the unrestricted power to safeguard
and enforce the details of the peace
to which the German government ha:
agreed, provided they deem such al
armistice possible from the military
point of view.
Should such terms of armistice b.
suggested, their acceptance by Ger
many will afford the best concret,
evidence of her uneQuivocal accept
aHce of the terms and principles o
peace from which the whole actor
proceeds.
The President would deem himsel
lacking in candor did he not point il
the frankest possible terms the reason
why extraordinary safeguards must b,
demanded. Significant and importan
as the constitutional changes seem t,
be which are spoken of by the German
foreign secretary in his note of thu
10th of October, it does not appea
that the principle of government re
sponsible to the German people ha
yet been fully worked out, or that an,
guarantees either exist or are in con
temptation that the alterations O
principle and practice now PARTIAL
dSTSou upOu Will 10 poTudHeut.
Moreover, it does not appear tina
the heart of the present difficulty ha
been reached. It may be that futur
wars have been brought under tn
control of the German people, but tn
present war has not been, and 1t
with the present war that we are dea
ing.
It is evident that the German peopl
have no means of commanding tn
acquiescence Of the military author
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