The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-09
tor ermany His Reply to Chancellor
Ak Spells Unconditional
Surrender
q MUST WITHDRAW FROM
ALL INVADED TERRITORY
Chancellor Max Must Say Whom He
Represents and What He Means
by Accepting the Presidents If
Principles-It All Means Sur
render Now or Hereafter
Is Germany Now Ready to
Lay Down?


Herewith is The text of the Presi-
dents note of inquiry transmitted to
Germany today through the charge de
affairs of Switzerland:
Department of State, October 1913.
Sir:
have the honor to acknowledge, on
behalf of the President your note of
October 6, enclosing communication
from the German government to the
President; l am instructed by the
President to request you TO make The
following communication to the In
>perial German Chancellor:
Before making reply to the request
of The Imperial German government
and in order that that reply shall be
as candid and straightforward as the
momentous interests involved require,
the President of the United States
deems it necessary to assure himself
of the exact meaning Of the note Of
the imperial Chancellor Does the I'M
perial Chancellor mean that the I'M
perial German government accepts
the terms laid down by the President
in his address to the Congress Of the
United States on tho eighth Of Janu-
airy last and in subsequent addresses
and that it's object in entering into
discussions would be only to agree up
on the practical details of their ap-
plication?
"Ihe President feels bound to say
with regard to the suggestion of an
armistice that he would not feel at
liberty to propose cess; ion of arms
to the governments with which the
government of the United States is
associated against the Central Pow
ers as long as the armies of those
powers are upon their soil. The good
faith of any discussion would mani
festly depend upon the consent of the
Central Powers Immediately to with
draw their forces everywhere from in
vaded territory.
The President also feels that he is
justified in asking whether the Impcr-
ial Chancellor is speaking merely for
the constituted authorities of the en-
pire who have SO far conducted the
war. He deems the answers to these
questions vital from every point O.
view
What Wilson's Fourteen PRINCIPLES
Areas Given
The following are the fourteen prin-
cipics Of President Wilson to which
Chancellor Max refers:
l. Open covenants of peace, openly
arrived at, after which there shall
be no private international under
standings of any kind, but diplo-
macy shall proceed always frankly
and in the public view.
2. Absolute freedom Of navigation
upon the seas, outside of territorial
waters, alike in peace and in war, ex-
cept as the seas may be closed in
Whole or in part by international ac-
ton for the enforcement of intcrna-
tiOnal covenants.
8. The removal, as far as possible,
of hll economic barriers and the es-
tablishment of any equality of trad.
conditions among all the nations con-
sentiig to the peace and associatinr
themselves together for its mainten.
ance.
4. Adequate guarantees given and
taken that national ornaments will be
reduced to the lowest point consistent
with domestic safety.
5. A free, open-minded and abso-
lutely impartial adjustment of all
colonial claims, based upon a strict oh
servance Of the principle that in de-
term'ning all such questions of SOW
ereignty the interests Of the popula
tlons concerned must have equal
weight with the equitable claims of
the government whose title is to be
determined
q. The evacuation of all Russian
territory and such settlement of all
questions affecting Russia as will Sc
cure the best and freest cooperation
of the other nations of the world in
obtaining for her an unhampered and
unembarrassed opportunity for the in