Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-10-18
NO ARM!sIICE TO
BEASTS, PRESIDENT
TELLS THE ENEMY
President Rejects Any Peace
With the Prussian Kaiser.
EMPEROR MUST STEP OUT
Declares Autoeracy Must Go, Subma.
rines Quit and Murder Rule End
Allies viii Dictate Any Truce
Must End Atrocities.

Washington, Oct. lO.--ln IoTceiu
reioinder, rejecting the Teutonic pro-
posals for a compromise, President
Wilson informed the German govern
ment that peace will be dictated by
he United States and the allies.
Wilson'S Answer to Note.
The text of the presidents answer
follows:
"The unqualified acceptance by the
present German government and by
large majority of the reichstag of the
terms laid down by the president of
the United States of America in his
address to the congress of the United
States on the 8th of January, 1913, and
in his subsequent addresses justifies
tine president in making a frank and
direct statement Of his decision with
regard to the communication of the
German government of the Sth and
18th of October 1913.
ut must be clearly understood that
the process of evacuation and the con-
ditions of an armistice are matters
which must be left to the judgment
the government of the United States
and the allied governments. and the
president feels it his duty to say that
no arrangement can be accepted by
the government of the United States
which does not provide absolutely sat
isfactory safeguards and guarantees of
the maintenance of the present mill.
tary supremacy of the armies of the
United States and the allies in the
field
Huns Hust End Crimes.
sic feels confident that he can safe
Iy assume that this will also be the
judgment ard decision of the allied
governments.
''The president feels that it is also
his duty TO add that neither the gov
eminent of the United States nor, he
is quite sure. the governments with
which the government of the United
States is associated as a belligerent,
will consent to. consider an armistice
so long as the armed forces Of Ger
many continue the Illegal and inhu.
name practices which they still per-
sist in.
Eat the very time that the German
government approaches the govern
ment of the United States with pro-
posals Of peace its submarines are en-
gagged in sinking passenger ships Mt
sea, and moi the ships alone, but the
very boats In which their passengers
the crews seek 10 make their way to
safety; and In their present enforced
withdrawal from Flanders and France
the German armies are pursuing n
course of wanton destruction which
has always been regarded as in direct
violation of the rules and practices of
civilized warfare.
"Cities and villages, If not destroyed,
are being stripped of all they contain,
not only, but very often of their very
inhabitants.
'The nations associated against Ger
many cannot be expected TO agree 10 n
cessation ef arms while acts of inhu
manity, spoliation and desolation are
being continued which they justly look
upon with horror and with burning
hearts.
ut is necessary, also in order that
there may be no possibility of misun-
derstanding that the president should
very Solemnly call the attention of the
government of Germany to the Ian.
guage and plain intent of one of the
terms of peace which the German gov
eminent has now accepted. 1t is con
tanned i'm the address of the president
delivered at Mount Vernon on the
Fourth OF July last
Must End Atrocities.
at is as follows: The destruction
of every arbitrary power anywhere
that can separately, secretly and of its
single choice disturb the peace of the
world; or, if it cannot be presently de-
stroyed Mt least its reduction to vir.
tual impotency'
1.-THE power which has hitherto CON
trolled the German nation is of the
sort here described. 1t is within the
choice of the German nation to alter
A. The presidents words just quoted
naturally constitute condition prece-
dent to peace, if peace is to come by
the action of the German people them.
selves.
1.-THE president feels bound to say
that The whole process of peace Will
in his judgment depend upon the def,
tniteness and the satisfactory charac.
ter of the guarantees which can be
given in this fundamental matter.
1T is Indispensable that the govern
ments associated against Germany
should know beyond peradventurt
with whom they are dealing.
THE president VIII make a separate
reply to the royal and imperial gov
eminent of Austria Hungary.
accept, sir. the renewed assurance:
of my high consideration.
tSigneO "ROBERT LANSING"
"EE.1s. FREDERICK OEDERLIN.
Charge d'anaires, ad interim. il
charge Of German interests in tn,