The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-10-17
Military Advisers
OF All Allies to
Decide HrmiSfiCe
President Replies to German Peace Offer
While Allied Armies Push On

Washington, Oct. 14.-President
Wilson today answered Germany's
peace proffer with a note declaring
anew that there can be no peace with
a German government controlled by
a military autocracy and no thought
of In armistice while German atroci-
ties continue on land and sea. The
official Interpretation of the note as
openly expressed was:
1.-THE government will continue to
send over $50, 900 men with their sup
plies every month and there will be no
relaxation of any kind"
Washington, Oct. 1.-The text of
the presidents answer follows:
"Sir:
"In reply to the communication of
the German government dated the
twelfth instant which you handed me
today, / have the honor to request
you % transmit the following answer:
THE unqualified acceptance by the
present German government and by a
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 eighth of January, 1918,
and his subsequent addresses justifies
the president in making a frank and
direct statement of his decision with
regard to the communication of the
German government of the eighth and
twelfth of October, 1918.
at must be clearly understood that
the process of evacuation and the
conditions of an armistice are matters
which must be left to the judgment
and advice of the military advisers OF
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
satisfactory safeguards and guaran-
tees of the maintenance of the present
military supremacy of the armies of
the United States and the allies in the
field.
HE feels confident that he a safe
1y assume THAT this will also be the
Judgment and decision of the allied
governments.
THE president feels that 1t 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 United States is associated
as a b~elligerent will consent to con-
slider an armistice SO long as the arm
ed forces of Germany continue h IL
legal and inhuman practices which
they still persist in.
AT the very time that the German
government approaches the govern
ment of the United States with pro-
posals OF peace it's submarines are en-
gagged in sinking passenger ships al
sea and not the ships alone, but the
very boats In which their passengers
and crews seek to make their way to
safety; and in their present enforced
withdrawal from Flanders and France
the German armies are pursuing q
course of wanton destruction which
has always been regarded as in direc'
violation Of the rules and practices
of civilized warfare. Cities and vii
lagos IL not destroyed are being strip
ped OF all they contain, not only, but
often OF their very inhabitants. Tn
nations associated against German,
cannot lie expactci to agree to a res
sation of arms while acts of inhuman
ity, spoilation an d~esolation are beint
continued which they justly look up
IN with horror and burning hearts
Signed-Robert Lansing,
sec'y. Of State, U. s. A.
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