Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1918-10-19
WILSON'S PEACE
TERMS WHICH THE
GERMANS ACCEPT
All Invaded Territory to Be
Evacuated and Freedom of
Seas to All Nations.
Belgium to Be Restored, French Terri
tory Freed, independent Polish
State Erected and Russia Give,
Chance to Become Free Nation.

The fourteen terms of peace set
down by President Wilson in his adj
dress of January s, and accepted by
the Germans, and the additional -four
points outlined by him in his Mt.
vernon speech of July 4. are as fol
lows:
L. open covenants of peace openly
arrived at, after which there shall be
no pri,nte international understand
ings of any kind but diplomacy shall
proceed always frankly and in the pub
nc view.
Al. Absolute freedom of navigation
upon the seas, outside territorial wal
tiers, alike in peace and in war, except
as the seas may be closed in whole or
in part by international action for the
ants.
III. The removal, so far as Dos
sible. Of all economic barriers and the
establishment of an equality of trade
conditions among all the nations CON
senting to the peace and associating
~. Adequate guarantees given and
taken that national ornaments will be
reduced To the lowest points consistent
with domestic safety.
V. a free, open-minded and abso-
lutely impartial adjustment of all CO.
lonial claims, based upon Il strict OBJ
servance of the principle that in deter
mining all such questions of s0ver-
eighty the interests of the populations
concerned must have equal weight
with the equitable claims of the gov
eminent whose title Is TO be deter
mined.
W. The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such settlement of all
questions affecting Russian territory
and Il settlement of all questions af-
Getting Russia as will secure the best
and freest cooperation Of the other
nations of the world In obtaining for
her an unhampered and unembarrassed
opportunity for the independent deter
minaiion of her own political develop
ment and national policy and assure
ciety OF free nations under institutions
of her own choosing; aud, more than
IL welcome, assistance also of every
kind that she may need and may her
self desire. The treatment accorded
Russia by her sister nations In the
of their good will, of their compre-
hension of her needs as distinguished
from their own interests, and of their
intelligent and unSelfish sympathy.
VII Belgium, the whole world will
agree, must be evacuated and restored
ereignty which she enjoys In common
with all other free nations. No other
single act will serve as this will serve
To restore confidence among the na-
tons In the laws which they have
themselves set ana determined with
one another. Without this healing act
the whole structure and validity of
international law is forever impaired
VIII. All French territory should he
| freed and the invaded portions re-
stored, and the wrong done TO France
by Prussia In 1877 In the matter of
Alsace- Lorraine, which has unsettled
the peace of the world for nearly fifty
years, should be righted, In order that
peace may once more be made secure
In the interest of all.
IN. A REIMBURSEMENT of the frontiers
Of Italy should be effected along clear
ly recognizable lines of nationality.
X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary
whose place among the nations we
wish To see safeguaried and assured,
should be accorded the freest oppOr-
unity of autonomous development.
NJ. Rumania, Serbia and Monten-
egro should be evacuated; occupied
| territories restored: Serbia accorded
| free AID secure access tn the sea; ana
the relations of the several Balkan
| states to one another determined by
friendly counsel along historically es-
tablished lines of allegiance and ma
tionality; and International guarantees
of the political and economic indepen-
dence and territorial integrity of the
several Balkan states should be en-
tered into.
MI. The Turkish portions of the
present Ottoman empire should be as
sured secure sovereignty, but the
other nationalities which are now I'M
der Turkish rule should be assured an
undoubted security of life and an alb
solutely unmolested opportunity OF
autonomous development, ahd the OAR
danelles should be permanently opened
os free passage to the ships and