The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-19
REPLY TO PEACE
NOTE SAYS SUBS
ARE TO Be USED
German Answer Reported To
Be Coming, Now.
Geneva Hears Hun Will Abide
by Allied Terms.
MEANS END OF AUTOCRACY
Says U-Boats VIII Be Con-
tinued on the Seas.
Denies That CrueIties Were In
flicted on Captiyes.


many's reply to President Will
son will be dispatched this even
ing, according to information
here today from a diplomatic
source.
Altho the German press is pro-
hibited from discussing the mat
ter, it is understood that Ger
many accepts President Wilson's
conditions generally, with one
exception. She declares that the
submarine warfare must con-
tinue until the wars end. She
denies having inflicted cruelties
or carried out devastating meas
ures beyond the scope of military
necessities.
Tho Presidents Answer.
In his reply to the German note ac-
cepting his peace terms. President
Wilson declared that when the time
for a. srmistice came. the military
advisers of the United States and the
allies will name the conditions upon
which it will be granted. Those con-
ditions, he declared, would be such as
would insure the military supremacy
of the allied armies.
No armistice. he stated. could be
granted until the atrocities committed
by the Germans on land and sea,
ceased
one fundamental condition of peace,
the president pointed out. was that
autocracy must be banished from Ger
lutte power now held by the kaiser
must be taken from him and given to
the German people themselves.
Germany must give adequate guar
antees that her autocratic government
has been abolished and that d govern
ment, with which the allies will treat,
has been esta ablished.
he Did Quit.
London, oct 19-Intervention by
the ruling classes in Germany restored
the kaiser after he had actually abdi-
Gated, and interfered with the sending
OF a reply to President Wilson's last
note, the Chronicle today declared it
had reason to believe.
According to this newspapers be-
lief, lie kaiser abdicated for several
hours and probably even signed his
abdication. An agreement on an
armistice under Wilson's terms was
reached, and was actually under way
when the ruling caste interviewed,
caused ca citation of the note and
restored the kaiser
In connection with this report it
was noted that there We're many ru-
mors early this week of a reply al
ready being en- route, then neutral
- centers received accounts of the
arrival in Berlin of Hindenburg and
other military leaders and at the same
time riots were reported in the Ger
man capital.
Amsterdam. Oct. ia hundred
window panes in the imperial palace in
Berlin were sna shed by Il rioting mob
during peace demonstration Wednes-
day, according to reports received here
today.
The police were routed. the advices
said. Thereupon the crowd rushed
upon the palace and did considerable
damage before being dispersed.
At the recent conference to select a
successor to Kaempf. the independent
Socialists paraded carrying placards
WIN the slogan:
IF the war lasts another year. the
kaiser will make his exit like the czar
did"
Another Panic.
Paris Oct. 19.-There was another
panic on the Berlin bourse Thursday
according to advices from Zurich.
Maritime securities are reported to
have dropped 25 per cent and chem
ical products issues from 10 to 20 per
cent.
Not Decisive.
London. Oct. 19.-Germany' reply
10 President Wilson according to
lest information available here today,
VIII not be decisive.
All of today's dispatches from HoI-
land and switzerland indicate that the
German milita-y caste succeeded in
preventing complete submission
The reports generally agree that in
her rar7'r- Germany will seek to pro-