Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-10-07
PRINCE MAX ASKS
WILSON TO ACT As
ALLIES SPOKESMAN
SENDS NOTE TO PRESIDENT SAY.
ING GERMANY is WILLING TO-
ACCEPT HIS FOURTEEN TERMS
AS BASIS FOR PEACE NEGOTlA.
TiONS.

Geneva, Oct. 6.--Prince Macmillan
German chancellor, as successor C
Count Won Iertling, has sent through
the swiss government a note to Pres
ident Wilson of the United States ask.
ing the President 20 use his good OF
fees in bringing a meeting of the bel
ligerents for the purpose of discussing
peace
Information that the new chancellor
had taken this step was impaired Sat
urday 20 the German reichstag in a
speech delivered by Prince Max. in
which he admitted calling upon Presi.
dent Wilson to serve az spokesman
for the allied powers so as to bring
about the coveted conference. In the
text of the note Prince Maximilian
says the German government requests
the President to take a hand in the
restoration of peace. acquaint all bel.
iiserents of this request and invite
them to send ptenipotentiaries for
the purpose OF starting negotiations
Prince Max says the German gov.
eminent accepts the fourteen terms
as set forth in Mr.. Wilson's address
Of Jan. $ and of his later declarations
OF allied terms on Sept. u as a basis
for peace negotiations.
He admits he is prompted to take
this step with a view Of avoiding
further bloodshed' and seeks an i'm.
mediate conclusion OF an armistice
on land and water and in the air" as
a means of preventing further blood
he'd
The prince also announced that
Turkey would take a step similar to
the one taken by Germany.
In his address to the reichstag the
acw chancellor said in part;
The program of the majority par
lies upon which take my stand con
tains, first, an acceptance of the an.
swer of the former imperial govern
ment 20 Pope Benedict's note of Aug.
|, 1916, and an unconditional accept
ance OF the reichstag resolution of
July 10, the same year. 1t further de
ciares willingness to join general
league of nations based on the founda-
ton OF equal rights for all, both
strong and weak.
1T considers this solution of the
Belgian question to lie in the com.
plete rehabilitation (wederherstel-
ling) of Belgium, particularly of its
independence and territorial integ.
ri'y An effort snail also be made to
reach an understanding on the ques.
tion of indemnity
The program will not permit the
peace treaties hitherto concluded 10
De hindrance to the conclusion OF a
general peace.
Its particular aim is that popular
representative bodies shall be formed
Immediately on broad basis in the
Baltic provinces in Lithuania and Po.
land We will promote the realiza.
tlon OF necessary preliminary condi-
lions therefor without delay by the in.
PRODUCTION of civilian rule.
All these lands shall regulate their
constitutions and their relations with
neighboring peoples without external
interference.
In the matter of international poll.
cles, have taken clear stand
through the manner in which the for.
nation of the government was
brought about. Upon my motion lead.
ers OF the majority parties were sum.
moned for direct advice.
1t was my conviction, gentlemen.
that unity Of imperial leadership
should be assured not only through
mere schismatlc party allegiance by
the different members of the govern.
ment | considered almost still more
important the unity of ideas. | pro.
ceeded from this view point and have,
IN making my selections, laid greatest
Welght on the fact that the members
or the new imperial government stand
on basis of a just peace of Justice
regardless OF the war situation and