The Sentinel=record., 1918-10-24
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER
 IS MEANING OF REPLY
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1 CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) United states on the eighth of January, 1918. and the principles of settlement enunciated in his subsequent ad-
 dresses, particularly the address of tho twenty seventh of September and
 that it desires to discuss the details of | their application, and that this wish
 and purpose emanate, not from those who have hitherto dictated German lpolicy and conducted the present war, on Germany's behalf but from min isters who speak for the majority CT the Reichstag and for an overwhelm-
 and having received also the explicit promise of the present German gov ernment that the humane rules or civilized warfare will he observed both on land and sea by the German armed ferces, the president of the United
 States feels that he cannot decline to- Itake up with the governments with which the government of the United. States is associated the qdestion of anI
 armstice,
 ''IIe deems it his duty Co say again, however, that the only armistice heI
 would feel justified in submitting forI consideration would be one which, should leave the United States and tieI powers associated with her in q po-
 stion 10 enforce any arrangements
 that may be entered into and to makel
 a renewal of hostilities on the part osI Germany impossible The President has, therefore, transmitted his cores
 pondence with the present Germanl authorities to the governments wlthl which the government of the Unitedl States is associated as a behgetentl
 with the suggestion that ii those soy |ernments are disposed to effect peaceI
 upon the terms and principles ndI- .cated. their military advisers and the military advisers of the United States
 be asked to submit to the governments associated with Germany the necos Isary terms of such an armistice as will
 fully protect the interests of the peo-
 ples involved and ensure to the as
 sociateG governments the unrestricted
 power to safeguard and enforce the de-
 tails of the peace to which the Ger
 man government has agreed, provided
 they deem such an armstice possiblel from the military point of view ShouldI such terms of armstice be suggested, their acceptance by Germany will af-l ford the best concrete evidence of thcirl
 unequiyocal acceptance of the terms
 and principles of peace from which the whole action proceeds.
 The president would deem himself lacking in candour did he not point o1t| in the frankest possible terms the| reason why extraordinary safeeuards|
 must be demanded Significant and 1 Important as the constitutions changes seem to be which are spoke of by the German foreign secretary in his note of the twentieth of october, it does
 not appear that the principle of gov ernment responsible to the German people has yet been fully worked out
 
 or are in contemplation that the al terations of principle and of practice now partially agreed upon would be permanent Moreover, it does not ap- pear that the heart of the present diff ificulty has been reached 1t may be
 that future wars have been brought under the control Of the German peo- pie, but the present war has noi been; and it is with the present war that We are dealing It is evident that the Ge,man people have no means or commanding the acquiescense of the liltary authorities of the empire in the popular will: that the power of the king of Prussia to control the policy of the empire is unimpaired; that the determinims initiative still remhins with those who have hitherto been the masters of Germany. Feeling that the