Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-11-05
PRESIDENT REFERS.
GERMANS TO FOCH
FOR ARN|ST|CE TERMS
Tell Them Request Must Be
Made On BattlefieIds OF
France.

Washington, Nov. 5.-President Wi
son this afternoon notified Germany
that she can get terms of an armistice
from General Foeh.
At the same time, in a note which
Secretary Lansing gave the Swiss min
lister for transmission to Germany, il
was revealed that the allies accepted
President Wilson's fourteen peace prin-
eiples with two reservations.
These reservations were:
The allies must reserve to themselves
complete freedom Of Interpretation in
the peace conference of Wilson's clause
on freedom of the seas.
Germany ,must; make compensation
for all damages she has done to the al,
lied civilian population and their prop
erty.
This latter is an addition to Presi.
dent Wilson s provision that all invad.
ed territories must be restored as well
as evacuated and freed.
President Wilson, it was stated
agreed with the modification and add
ton 10 the two respective points in
question in his peace formula.
The note follows:
'In my note of October 90, 1918, l
advised you that the president had
transmitted his correspondence with
the. German authorities to the govern
ments with which the government of
the Unitd States is associated as a bel
ligerent, with the suggestion that if
those governments were disposed to eff
feet peace upon the terms and princi-
pies indicated, their military advisers
and the military advisers of the United
States be asked to~submlt to the gov
ernments associated against Germany
the necessary terms of such an arms
tice as would fully protect the inter
ests of the peoples involved and insure
to the associated governments the unre-
stricted power to safeguard and en-
force the details of the peace to which
the German government had agreed.
provided hey deemed such an armistice
possible from the military point Of
view.
''The president is now in receipt Of
this memorandum of observations By
the allied governments on this CORE.
spondence:
"The allied governments have given
careful consideration to the core
~spondence which has passed between
the president Of the United States and
the German government. Subject to
the qualifications which follow, they
declare their willingness to make peace
with the government of Germany on
the terms of peace laid down in tho
president S address to congress of Jan
uary, 1918, and the principles of settle.
ment enunciated in his subsequent adj.
dress.
"'They must point out, however,
that clause two, relating to what is usu-
ally described as the freedom Of the
seas, is open to various interpretations
some of which they could not accept.
They must, therefore, reserve to them
complete freedom on this sub.
ject when they enter the peace confer.
enee. fasiFy#
Further, in the conditions Of
peace laid down in his address to con-
gress of January s, 1918, the president
declared that invaded territories must
be restored as we'll as evacuated and
freed. The allied governments feel
that no doubt ought to be allowed to
exist as to what this provision implies.
BY it, they understand that compensa.
ton will be made by Germany for all
done to the civilian popula-
ton of the allies and their property by
The aggression of Germany, by land, by
sea and from the air.
II am instructed by the president to
that he is III agreement with the
interpretations set forth in the last
paragraph Of the memorandum above
| am further instructed by the
president to request you to notify the
German government that Marshal foch
has been authorized by the government
the United States and. the allied
governments to receive properly accrea
It'd representatives of the German
government and to communicate to
hem the terms of an armistice.n