Arizona republican., 1918-10-22
HERE IS TEXT OF GERMAN ANSWER

"ln accepting the proposal for an evacuation of occupied territories, the German government has started from the assumption that the procedure of this evacuation and of the conditions of an armis- tiee should be left to the judqment ot the military advisers and that the actual standard of power on both sides in the field has to form the basis for arrangements safe guarding and guaranteeing this standard.
 "The German government suo- gests to the president that an op- Portun!ty should be brought about for fixing the details. 1t trusts that the president of the United States will approve of no demand which would be irreconciIiabe with the honor of the German people and with opening way to a peace 7 of justice.
 "The German government pro- tests against the reproach of lIeqaI and Inhumane actions against the German land and sea forces and thereby against the German people. For the covering of retreat de- structIons will always be necessary and they are carried out insofar as is permitted by international law. The German troops are under most strict instructions to spare private property and to exercise care for the population to the best of their ability. Where transgressions oc- cur in spite of these instructions, the guilty are being punished.
 The German government fur ther denies that the German navy in sinking ships has ever purposeIy destroyed Iifeboats with their passengers. The German govern ment proposes with regard to all those charges that the facts be cleared up by neutral commissions.
 'ln order to avoid anything that might hamper the work of peace, the German government has caused orders to be dispatched to all submarine commanders pre- cluding the torpedoing of passen- ger ships without, however, for technical reasons, being able to guarantee that these orders will reach every single submarine at sea before it's returns.
 "As fundamental condition for peace. the president prescribes the destruction of every arbitrary pow CT that can separately, secretly and of its own single choice, disturb the peace of the world. To this the German government replies:
 "Hitherto the representation of the people in the German empire has not been endowed with an in tte government.
 "The constitution did not provide for a concurrence of representation and war. These conditions have just now undergone fundamental change. A new government has been formed in complete accord ance with the wishes (principIes ? of the representation of the people based on equal, universal, secret direct franchise.
 "The leaders of the great parties of the reichstag are members of this government. In the future nc government can take or continue in office without possessing the confidence of majority of the reichstag.
 "The responsibility of the chan ceIIor of the empire to the repre- | sentation of the people is being Ie galIy developed and safequarded
 The responsibility of the chan ceIIor of the empire to the repre-
 sentation of the people is being le
 gaIIy developed and safequarded The first act of the new govern
 ment has been to lay before th
 reichstas a bill to alter the consti
 tuition Of the empire so that tn
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