Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-10-24

id The United States:
Department Of State,
October %, 1918.
Sir: D.
have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt Of your note of the twenty
sSeBfM transmitting communication
assaer date of the twentieth from Che
Gef1nAh Government and to advise yon
bsat the President has instructed rae
10 reply thereto as follows:
nffaTifg received the solemn and
f,.r:heit assurance Of the German gov
csirsseht That IL nnreservedly accepts
sie tsfaB u peace laid down in his
address, 10 the Congress of the United
STATES Sc the eighth of January, 1918,
ard Tie principles Of settlement enun-
ciated IA Ass subsequent addresses,
particularly the address Of the twenty
seeohd ST September, and that it oe-
sirts Is d;4enss the details Of their ap-
plicatio1. and that this wish and pr
pose emarate, not from those who
have hitherto dictated German policy
and conducted the present war on Ger
r1any's behalf, but from ministers who
speak for the majority of the Reich
stag and for an overwhelming ma
iorfty Of the German people; and hav-
ing received also the explicit promise
of the present German government
That The humane rules Of civilized war
fare viii be observed both on land AMI
sea by the German armed forces, the
Presiden1 of the United States fcels
that he cannot decline to take up with
the governments with which the Gov
Iernmers d. TIE United States is: as,
.sociatsi1 the question Of an arnlistice.
Il Hs sselHsse ffhssaatSs to. say AGAIN
however: thakS thss;oply arrnistice nc,
waald feel iusstssfea in submit ine for;
consideration wUpid be one which
shonld leave the United States and :he
"a j, - u s,s;o1e;isssd Win her in q posi-
tisn % snforcs any arrangements thai
map be entRa into andItoimake are
newsl' Of hossTfsies on the part of
Gelsaany impossible. The President:
Has. therefore, transmitted his CORES
nondence with the present German ar-
thorities: to the governments with
WHICH the Government ofSStheshUnitel
States is associated as "a bellieerenr.
with tie subsection that, if. those row
eFnme,ss ore Disposed toAeFees 'peaac
rnsst tss !trns and PRINCIPLES indicat-
cd. Msir military advisers and. the
nfEsarv advisers Of the United States
he ssked to submit 10 ths govern
nsnts associated AGAINST Germany
the necessary trims Of such an arnlis-
tee 40 win fully project the interests
II the peeules involved and ensure &,
.she assecisssds governments the IN.
restricted sswer % ssfexuard and M
Force the details of the peace to whirh
the. German government has agreed.
they deem such AN ,armist7ce
POSSIBLE from the military point ot
view Should such terms of armisl;ra
he suggested .>thefr acceptance by Ger
MANY will afford the best concrete
evidence of her uneuuivocal acccn-
tance Of the terms and principles Of
nesce from which the whole acton
proceeds.
The President would deem himself
'sckine IN condor did he not: point: out
IN the frankost possible terms Che rea-
son, why. extraordinary !. safeguards
must! be demanded Significant, and
'mportant as the constitutional
changes seem to be which are spoken I
# by the German foreign secretar7
N his note Of the twentieth of October
# does not appear that the prineinlaa.
# a: government responsible to the
German people has yet been fully
worked out or. that any guarantees /
ais r exist or are in contemplation
that thsi alterations Of principle and sPt