Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-22
TEXT OF NOTE

LONDON, Oct. 21.-The text of the German note, as received by wireless is as follows:
 In accepting the proposal for an evacuation of occupied territories, the German government has started from the assumption that the procedure of this evacuation and of the conditions of an armistice should be left to the judgment of the military advisors, and that the actual standard of power on both sides in the field has to form the basis for arrangements safeguarding and guaranteeing this standard.
 "The German government suggests to the president that an opportunity should be about for fixing the details. It trusts that the president of the United States will approve of no demand which would be irrecon- cilable with the honor of the German people and with opening way to a peace of justice.
 "The German government protests against the reproach of illegal and in- humane actions made against the Ger man land and sea forces and thereby against the German people. For the covering of a retreat Instructions will always be necessary and they are ca=- ried out in so far as is permitted by international law. The German troops are under most strict instructions to spare private property and to exercise care for the population to the best of their ability. Where transgressions occur in spite of these instructions the puiltv are heinz DuniShed
 "The German government further denies that the German navy in sink ing ships have ever purposely destroy ed life boats with their passengers. The German government proposes with regard to all those charges that the facts be cleared up by neutral commissions.
 "In order to avoid anything that might hamper the work of peace the German government has caused or ders to be despatched to all submarine commanders precluding the torpedo ing of passenger ships without, how ever, for technical reasons, being able to guarantee that these orders will reach every single submarine at sea before its return.
 As a fundamental condition for peace the president prescribes the destruction of every arbitrary power that can separately, secretly and of its own single choice disturb the peace of the world. To this the German gov ernment replies:
 Hitherto the representation Of the people in the German empire has not been endowed with an influence on the formation of the government
 The constitution did not provide for a concurrence of a representation of the people in decisions of peace and war. These conditions have just now undergone a fundamental change. A new government has been formed in complete accordance with the wishes (principlesO of the represen- tation of the people, based on equal, universal, secret, direct franchises.
 The leaders of the great parties of the reichstag are members of this government In the future no govern ment can take or continue in office without possessing the confidence of a majority of the reichstag.
 The responsibility of the chancel- Tor of the empire to the representation of the people is being legally devel- oped and safeguarded. The first act of the new government has been to lay before the reichstag a bill to alter the constitution of the empire so that the consent of the representation of the people is required for decisions on war and peace.
 The permanence of the new sys- tenn is, however. guaranteed not only by constitutional safeguards, but by the unshakeable determination of the German people whose vast majority stands behind these reforms and de mand their energetic continuance.
 The question of the president - with whom he and the governments associated against Germany are deal ing-is therefore answered in a clear, unequivocal manner by the statement that the offer of peace and an armis- tice has come from a government which is free from any arbitrary and irresponsible influence. is supported by the approval of an overwhelming majority of the German people.
 (Signed) SOLE"