Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-20
AUSTRIA is TOLD
PEOPLE OF MONARCHY
MUST DECIDE DESTINY
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! Po!anda the Austrian Ruflanians long
I iof reunion with Rumanid and there
/ IS no doubt here that their hopes will
ne fulfilled when the peace conference
/ Is he'd
Feyond press dispatches from Swift
zerland saying the new German note
would be dispatched tonight, the state
department had no intimation what
ever of the time or the nature of the
German response to the president.
OFFICIALS heard without comment of
the report that Germany would ac-
! eepi President Wilson's conditions
generallS' with the reservation that
submarine warfare must continue to
tne end of the war About the state
department this was regarded as an
iHuIcauon that the Berlin government,
Wlthout eonceding the surrender that
II mas been told must precede an
arihlstlc would seek to continue dip
tomato discussions in the hone of
/ eventually weakening the position of
her enemies and winning the earnest.
~ desired negotiated peace.
II was reiterated that ONLY a COM
plete acceptance will satisfy the Unit
ed states and the allies. and that an
effort by the Germans to evade the
issue probably would cause the presi-
/ ueht promptly to refuse to continue
the correspondence
In the report that the new note
would contain a defense of submarine
warfare as a retaliatory measure the
prospect was seen of an attempt ia
reopen this whole question-the
question which brought the United
states into the war. Such an attempt
would be regarded here simply MS an
! othef evidence of the failure of the
Germans to understand or acknowl-
edge the basis of the American obiec-
ton tn their kind of warfare.
The text of the note handed to the
Swedish minister follows:
Sir: l have the honor to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your note of the
seventh instant in which you trans
| mt communication of the imperial
and royal government of Austria
| Hungary to the president | am now
! instructed by the president 10 request
you to be good enough through your
! government to convey to the imperial
| and royal government the following
reply:
! The president deems it his duty to
say to the Austro- Hungarian govern
! ment that he cannot entertain the
! present suggestions of that gov
! eminent because of certain events of
! utmost importance which, occurring
| since the delivery of his address OF the
eighth of January last, have
| necessarily altered the attitude and
| responsibility of the government of
! the United States. Among he four
teen terms of peace which the presi-
! dent formulated at that time occurred
the following
'X--The peoples of Austro- Hun
| gary whose place among the nations
| we wish to see safeguarded and as
sured, should be accorded the freest
/ opportunity of autonomous develop
ment.'
"Since that sentence was written
and uttered to the congress of the
! United States, the government of the
United states has recognized that o
state OF belligerency exists between
| the Czecho- Slovaks and the German
and Austro- Hungarian empires and
that the Czecho-S lovak national coun-
Gil is a de facto belligerent govern
ment clothed with proper authority to
direct the military and political az
fairs of the CZecho-S lovaks. 1t has
also recognized in the fullest manner
the justice of the national aspirations
of the Jugo-Slavs for freedom.
The president is, therefore, nc