The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-24
PRES. WILSON SAYS
FULL SURRENDER
NO PEACE TALK
He Declares People of Ger
many Are Still Powerless
WORLD DOES NOT
BELIEVE HUN RULERS
No Negotiations Possible
Until German Troops
Lay Down Their
Arms

Washington, Oct. 23-PreSldent
Wilson has submitted the German
plea for an armistice and peace to
the allies and at the same time has
informed Berlin that there can be no
| would make it impossible for Ger
many to renew hostilities.
The reply to Germany is as fol-
lows
"From the secretary of the state to
! the charge d'affaires ad interim in
charge of German interests in the
| United States:
department of State, Oct. %, 1918:
"Sir: | have the honor to ack-
nowledge the receipt of your note of
the 22nd transmitting a communica-
| ton under date of the Goth from the
/ German government and to advise
/ you that the President has instructed
me to reply thereto as follows:
"Having received the solemn and
| explicit assurance of the German gov
elnment that it unreservedly accepts
the terms of peace laid down in his
address to the Congress OF the Unit
ed States on the eighth day of Janu-
airy, 1913, and the principles of set
/ tlehlent-eHaneiate in his subsequent
addresses particularly the address of
the 9th of September and that it de-
sires to discuss the details of their
application and that this wish and
purpose emanated, not from those
who have hitherto dictated German
policy and conducted the present
war on Germany's behalf but from
ministers who speak for the major
ity of the Reichstag and for an over
whelming majority of the German
people; and having received also the
| explicit promise of the present Ger
man government that the humane
rules Of civilized warfare will be OBJ
served both on land and sea by the
German armed forces, the President
of the United States feels that he
/ cannot decline to take up with the
I governments with which the gov
/ ernment of the United States is as
sociated the question of armistice.
"He deems it his duty to say again,
however, that the only armistice he
would feel justified in submitting for
consideration would be one which
should leave the United States and
the powers associated with her in a
position to enforce any arrangements
that may be entered into and to make
renewal of hostilities on the part
of Germany impossible.
"The presidenthas, therefore, trans
mitted bis correspondence with the
, present Germanauthorities to the gov
ernments with which the government
: ernments with which the government
: of the United States is associated as
: a belligerent, with the suggestion
that, if these governments are dispoS-
: cd to effect peace upon the terms and
5 principles indicated their military adj
| visers and the military advisers of the
United States be asked to submit to
l the governments associated agains.
= Germany the necessary terms of such
5 an armistice as will fully protect the
II interests of the peoples involved and
: ensure to the associated governments
} the unrestricted power to safeguard
} and enforce the details of the peace
to which the German government has
agreed, provided they deem such an
l armisticc possible from the military
e point of view. Should such terms OF
armistice be suggested, their accep-
tance by Germany will afford the best
concrete evidence of her unequivoca
acceptance of the terms and princip-
Ies of peace from which the whole
action proceeds.
''The President would deem himself
lacking in candor did he not point out
: in the frankest possible terms tht
= reason why extraordinary safeguards
must be demanded. Significant anc
: important as the constitutional chang
: es seem to be which are spoken of by
: the German foreign secretary in hiE
. note of the Goth of October it does
. not appear that the principle of gov
. renment responsible to the German
4 people has yet been fully worked ou
or that any guarantees either exls
n or are in contemplation that the al
tcrations of principle and of practice
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