Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-11-15
PRESIDENT SENDS REAsSURiN0
MESSAGE TO GERMANY IN
ANSWER TO APPEAL.
GUARANTEES ARE DEMANDED
8tens Will Be Taken at Once to Or
0anaize Relief Work in the Same
Systematic Manner Used
In Belgium.

command has sent to the German high
command by French wireless mes.
sage that there can be no modification
OF the conditions Of the armistice in
GLIDING the annexes at this time. 1t
10 added that supplementary period
OF "a hours for the evacuation of Bel
GUM, Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine
has been added to the IA days stipu-
lated in the original text, so as to per-
NIT the text to reach German head
quarters at the desired time.
Washington, Nov. IA. - President
Wilson has sent reassuring message
to the people of Germany in reply to
the appeal from Chancellor Ebert. He
promises to aid Germany in the mat
ter Of food supplies and in relieving
distressing want
The reply was SAINT by Secretary
Robert Lansing through Minister Sui
ger OF Switzerland, who delivered
Ebert's request for Intervention by the
president to mitigate the fearful con-
,ditions" threatened through enforce
ment of the armistice terms.
1t says steps are to be taken at
once to organize relief work in the
same systematic manner in which it
was carried out in Belgium, but that
the president desires to be assured
that public order will be maintained
in Germany and that an equitable dis
tribution of food can be clearly guar
anteed.
Text Of Answer.
Secretary Lansing's note to the
Swiss minister follows:
Il have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your note of today,
transmitting to the president the text
of cable inquiring whether this gov
eminent is ready to send .foodstuffs
into Germany without delay if public
order is maintained in Germany and
and equitable distribution of food is
guaranteed.
81 should be grateful if you would
transmit the following reply to the
German government:
Pledged Aid to Foe.
AT a joint session of the two houses
OF congress on Nov. II, the president
of the United States announced that
the representatives Of the associated
govern 1ments in the supreme war c0un-
Gil at Versailles have by unanimous
resolution assured the peoples of the
Central Empires that everything that
is possible in the circumstances will be
done to supply them with food and
relieve the distressing want that is in
so many places threatening their very
lives; and that steps are to be taken
Immediately to organize these efforts
at relief in the same systematic man
ner that they were organized in the
case of Belgium.
Furthermore, the president ex-
pressed the opinion that by the use of
the idle tonnage of the Central EN-
pires it ought presently to be possible
to lift the fear of utter misery from
their oppressed populations and set
their minds and energies free for the
great hazardous tasks of political con-
struction which now face them on
every hand.
Accordingly, the president now d.
reefs me to state that he is ready to
consider favorably the supplying of
foodstuffs to Germany and to take up
the matter Immediately with the AL
lied governments, provided he can be
assured that public order is being and
will continue to be maintained In Ger
many, and that an equitable distribu-
tion of food can be clearly guaran-
teed.''