Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-24

The of the German note. received by wireless is
follows:
In accepting the proposal for evacuation of occupied
rores the German government has started from the assump
that the procedure of this evacuation and the conditions
of an armsce should be left the judgment of the military
advisers, and that the actual standard Of power both sides
the field has form the basis for arrangements safeguard
ing and guaranteeing this standard
The German government suggests the president that
opportunity should be broug about for fixing the details 1t
trusts that the president Of the United States will approve of
demand which would be irreconcabe with the honor of the
German people and with opening way peace OF justice
The German government protests against the eproach of il
legal and mumane actions made against the German land and
forces and thereby against the German people For the
erng of distractions will always be necessary, and
they carried out In far permitted by international
law he German troops under most strict instructions to
spare private property and exercise for the population
the best of their ability Where ansgressons spite
Of these instructions the guilty are being punished
The German government further denies that the German
navy sinking ships has puposey destroyed Hfeboats
with their passengers The German government proposes with
regard all those charges ha the facts be cleared by
trail commissions.
In order to avoid anything that might hamper the work OF
peace the German government has caused orders to be dis
patched all submarine commanders pecudng the torpedo
ing of passenger ships without however for technical
being able guarantee that these orders will reach every single
submarine at before its return.
AS fundamental condition for peace the president pre-
scrbe the destruction of every arbitrary power that
araey 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 em-
pire has not been endowed with influence the formation
of the government. 7r@sz~~=- ~
The constitution did not provide for OF rep
esenaton of the people decisions of peace and These
conditions have just undergone fundamental change
new has been formed accordance with
the wishes princpe? of the representation OF the people,
based on equal universal, secret direct franchise.
The leaders Of the great parties Of the echsag members
Of this government In the future government can take or
continue in office without possessing the confidence of major
ty of the reichstag.
The responsibility of the cha ?ceuor Of the empire to the
representatives of the people being legally developed and
afegaed The first Of the government has been to
lay before the rechsag bill c alter the constitution OF the en-
pre that the Of the representatives OF the people
required for decisions and peace.
The pemanence Of the system however, guaranteed
not only by constitutional safeguards but also by the shaka
bic determination of the German people whose vast majority
stands behind these reforms and demand their energetic
tlnuance.
The question of the presdenvih whom he and the
ernments associated against Germany deang therefore
answered clear unequyoca by the staemen that
the offer of peace and amisce has from govern
nen which free from any arbitrary and irresponsible nfu-
ence and is supported by the approval Of overwhelming
oaiortv Of the German people SOLF