Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-11-15
REASSURING MESSAGE
SENT BY PRESIDENT
TO GERMAN PEOPLE
Promises to Relieve Distressing
Want-RepubIiC Is Pro
claimed in Berlin Replacing
Imperial Regime

| WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-Presiden'
| Wilson has sent reassuring message
10 the people of Germany in reply e
the appeal from Chancellor Ebert. He
/ promises TO aid Germany in the mat
ter OF food supplies and in relieving dis
\ tressing want.
1t says steps are to be taken at once
| to organize relief work in the same
systematic manner It was carried out
| n Belgium, but that the president de-
| s.ses TO be assured that pubic order
| will be maintained in Germany and that
an equitable distribution of food can be
| clearly guaranteed.
The reply was sent today by Secretary
/ Lansing through Minister SulZer. OF
/ Switzerland. who delivered yesterday
! Ebert's request for Intervention by the
/ president to mitigate the fearful con-
ditions" threatened through enforce
ment Of the armistice terms.
Lansing's Reply
Secretary Lansing's note to the Swiss
/ minister. dated November u, follows
| I have the honor to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your note of to-
day. transmitting to the president
| the text of cable inquiring Wheth-
/ er this government is ready to send
| 1oodstutts into Germany without
delay if public order is maintained
in Germany and an equitable dis
| tribution of food is guaranteed.
| Il should be grateful If you
would transmit the following reply
| 10 the herman government.
AT a joint session OF the two
| houses of congress .on November IL,
the president of the United States
announced that the representatives
of the associated governments in
the supreme war council at Ver-
sailles have, by unanimous resolu-
ton, assured the peoples of the GEN.
trail empires that everything that is
possible in the circumstances will
be done to supply them with food
and relieve the distressing want
that is in so many places threat
ening their very lives; and that
steps are to be taken Immediately
to organize these efforts at relief in
the same systematic manner that
they were organized in the case of
Belgium.
= Furthermore, the president ex-
pressed the opinion that by the use
Of the idle tonnage of the central
empires it ought presently to be
possible to lift the fear of utter
misery from their oppressed popu-
lation and set their minds and ener-
gies free for the great and has-
ardous tasks of political reconstruc-
tfon which now faces them on every
hand.
Accordingly the president now
directs me to state that he is ready
to consider favorably the supplying
of foodstuffsto Germany and to take
I'D the matter Immediately with the
allied governments, provided he can
be assured that public order is be-
ing and will continue to be MAIN
tanned in Germany, and that an
equitable distribution of food can
be clearly guaranteed
Accept, sir, the renewed assur-
ances of my highest consideration.
ROBERT LANSING"
This message was sent in response to
the following message from Minister
Sulzer:
"By direction of my government,
have the honor to transmit the
following cable:
"'The German government ur-
gently requests the president of the
United States to inform the Ger
man chancellor. Ebert, by wireless.
whether he may be assured that
the government of the United
/. States is ready to send foodstuffS
without delay if public order is
maintained in Germany and an
equitable distribution Of food is
guaranteed
Accept, sir, the renewed assuT-
ance of my highest consideration"
GERMAN AUSTRIA PROCLAIMED
PART OF GERMAN REPUBLIC
COPENHAGEN. Nov. 12.-(Tuesday.)
! German Austria has been proclaimed 4
part of the German republic by the
senate council, says dispatch from vi
emma.
REPUBLTC BORN IN
ASHES OF AUTOCRACY
ZURICH. Nov. 12.-(By the Associated
Press.J-A republic was proclaimed al
Berlin on Saturday, according to ad-
! vices received from Munich.