Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1918-10-18
I re HEM MAKES DEMAND
OK UNI ONDIIIONAL.
SURRENDER

'''ssEs WI, OStooSA IL
Unconditional surrender" is :
ne substance of President Will !;
son S decision today on the first :,
German peace note and the later /,
reply to his inquiry.
He makes plain that no ar,
will be considered for
either evacuation or an armistite
unless Germany gives safeguards
and guarantees of the mainte-
nance Of the present military
supremacy of the armies OF the
United States and the allies IN
the field.
He tells Germany that nothing
will be considered until she with
draws her submarines from the
sea and stops the perpetration OF
atrocities on both land and water.
And he tells the German ma
ton that no final peace may beck
pected until the overthrow of the
Hohenzollern dynasty and the
downfall of the cruel military
autocracy that plunged the Whole
world into war.
The full text Of the note fol-
lows:
i From the Secretary of State to
Ithe Chatge de Affaires of Swi'zer-
Hand, ad interim, in charge OF
German interests in the United
States:
i department of State.
Oct. IA, 1918.
Sir:-In reply to the commune
-icatiou of the German govern
, tment dated the 18th instant,
} which you handed me today,
have the honor to request you to
transmit the following answer;
y THE unqualified acceptance
; BY the present German govern.
; ment and by a large majority Of
1.-The German reichstag of thu
I. lterms laid down by the President
LOT the United States of America
lin his address to the congress Of
1.-The United States on the 9Th Of
J. January, 1913, and in his subse
Iquent addresses, justifies the
president in making frank and
ldirect statement of his position
with regard to the communlca
ltion of the German government
!. of the 9Th and 18th of Oct. 1918
1T must be clearly understood
THAT the process Of evacuation
: and the conditions of an arms
! ttice are matters which must be
. left to tile judgment and advice
lof the military advisers of the
government of the United States
and the allied governments and
1.-The President feels it is his duty
Ito say that no arrangements can
be expected by the government
iOf the United States which does
mot provide satisfactory safe
fguards and guarantees OF the
maintenance of the present mill
Itary supremacy of the armies OF
1.-The United States and the allies
liza the field. He feels confident
THAT he can safely assume that
this will also be the judgment
land decision of the allied govern
meuts.
The President feels that it is
also his duty TO add that neithe.
tue government of the United
Estates, nor, lie is quite sure, the
governments with which the
government OF the United States
are associated as a belligerent,
will consent to consider n armis-
| tice as long as the armed forces
| of Germany continue the illegal
,nd inbuman atrocities which |
thev will persist in. At the very
time that the German govern
nent approaches the government
f tile United States with pro-
,osals of peace its submarines
are engaged in sinking passenger
ships at sea and not the ships +;
alone but the very boats in which
the passengers and crews seek to
make their way to safety; and in
their present enforced with
dra wal from Flanders and France
the German armies are pursuing
a course of vanton destruction
which has always been regarded X
as in direct violation of the rules I
of and practices of civilized war
tare. Cities and villages if not
are being stripped of