Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-11-01
.U.S.REPLY TO GERMANY
PRESIDENTS NOTE VIRTUAL Oh.
MAND FOR. SURRENDER.
Huns Must Place Armies at Mercy u
Allies 10 obtain Armlstlee, VII.
soD Tells Berlin.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
From the secretary OF state 20 the
charge d'affaires a. |. In charge OF Ger
man interests In the United States:
Department OF state, Oct. %, 1918.
Sir--l have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt Of your note OF the 22d,
transmitting a communication under
date OF the goth from the German gov
eminent, 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 govern
ment that II un~reservedly accepts the
terms OF peace laid down In his au-
dress to the Congress OF the United
States on the Sth OF January, 1918, and
the principles OF settlement enunci-
ated In his subsequent addresses, par
%ticularly the address OF the 9th of
September, and that II desires to dis
cuss the details of their application,
and that this wish and purpose eman-
ated, not from those who have hither-
TO dictated German policy and con.
Quoted h present war on Germany's
behalf, but from ministers who speak
Tor the majority OF the relchstag aud
for an overwhelming majority OF the
German people; 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 cannot decline 10 take up with the
governments with which the govern.
ment OF the United States Is associ.
ated h question OF an armistice.
He deems II his duty to say again,
however, h a the only armistlce he
would feel Justified I'm 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
a 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 10 associated as
4 belligerent. with the suggestion that.
II those governments are disposed to
siAbS PohNt hBOh NHO ttiiiih huu Vllh-
clples indicated, their military advis.
ers and the military advisers OF the
United States be asked to transmit 10
the governments associated against
Germany the necessary terms OF such
an armistice as will fully protect the
interests OF the peoples involved, and
ensure to the associated governments
the unrestricted power to safeguard
and enforce the details OF the peace
to which the German government has
agreed, provided they deem such an
armlstlce possible from the military
point OF view.
Should such terms OF armistice be
suggested their acceptance by Ger
many will afford the best concrete evil
dence of her unequlvocal acceptance
Of the terms and principles OF peace
from which the whole action proceeds.
The President would deem himself
lacking In candor did he not point out
In the frankest possible terms the rea'
son why extraordinary safeguards
must be demanded. Significant and
important as the constitutional
changes seem to be which are spoken
OF by the German foreign secretary In
his note OF the goth OF October, II
does not appear that the principle OF
a government responsible to the Ger
man people has yet been fully worked
out, or that any guarantees either ex
list OF are I'm contemplation that the
alterations OF principle and of prac-
tlco now partislly agreed upon VIII be
permanent.
Moreover, II does not appear that
the heart Of the present difficulty has
been reached. II may be that future
wars have been brought under the con.
troll OF the German people, but the
present war has not been; and II Is
with the present war that we are deal
ing.
II Ia evident that the German people