Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-17
mo OFFICIAL WORD
|. IS RECEIVED FROM
BERLIN SOURCES
Washington Regards With
1ncredulity Intimations
From Amsterdam.
BELIEVED GERMAN PEOPLE
WILL FORCE THE ISSUE
Guarantees Will Not Be Per-.
mitted as Vehicles for Dip
lomatic Evasion.
THE DOWNFALL OF KAIsERIsM
This May Be Last Card Held Back
by Tcutons in Maneuvering
for Best Terms.
THE DOWNFALL OF KAIsERIsM
This May Be Last Card Held Back
by Tcutons in Maneuvering
for Best Terms.

WASHINGTON. October Ito
nights news of Germany is everywhere
regarded here as the shadow of great
events being cast before them
There is in Washington no official
word that the Kaiser has abdicated;
or that he has been ovcrthrown, or
that Germany is ready to accept all Of
President Wilson's terms
Unconditional rumors are in the air
that Germany has capitulated and that
raSrs Mam has front pass Ins hs
Swiss sources, but as yet the German
s,0yeinment has not officially Informed &
ernments of its intention to concede
in their entirety the. conditions for
Ssssation 6y ,ls ii4 Of hSstilities as laid down
message received tonight from
Amsterdam says that the Nieuwe ROT
sfsdams9hs G@urnnt has wlthdraWn its
Gerlnany and the abdcation or EN-
peror William. :.
says. because IL was unable to Obtain.
any hs solsaaf4 oea press e5 ieS hSrssgg Esgos, s
to the, effect that Germany had scahlta-
iatfd t,;1,,!is,s hsNe no no, fo9ndation In fact:
tlce. regard with ineredulity TT the :. in In
hnss has ha all 9s hsss es
one or al ot, them are inevitable.
tonight is that the coming m ' Of tR.sss tRese
things is timed only by the unknown
dess desree 10 70 whisn hasn the German military
be more information on that. point In
the ehancellories of England, France
@ nan ehfFe II o Wassng.oa rspg
the German peace protfer went forth
Monday night it, was predicted here
unconditionaI Surrender Of the Mill
tary autocracy. the German people
would force Que; President Wilson'S
German people to take such step. and
an ulti!nntum that there would be no
peace with kaiseriSm. {NzS,s sic
The coming hours will show how the
leaven has worked; the iutimations in
to-day's dispatches from London. Paris
Most significant OF all is regarded the
report from Holland that Germany
asking only guarantees for the inter-
ests OF Germany and the German peo-
pie. II such reply does come. Presi
forward 1t TO the belligerents. The
guarantees for the interests of Ger
many and the German people do not in-
are thought Of in sincere terms.
NO TIME FOR TRICKERY
OR NEGOTIATED PEACE
II they arc put forth as anpther We
hIele ,en, for aui6bie' an Opportunity for
negotiated peace, they will meet only
one reply. tl3fs1.5
II they mean guarantees for the IN
which is rightfully German, always
taking in the determinations of the
human beings concerned no obstacleiis
TOreSeen en- rr,to a.
the right of the German to live their
lives under peaceful responsible gov
ernment WHICH docs not menace the'iife
or the world. President Wilson'S ut
terances on the subject, officials think.
already have given the answer. II
Germany accepts all his terms and at
taches the condition OF such guarantees
1t is considered that hardly less could
be expected OF her.
Guarantees for the interests OF Ger
many involving only Germans 1t was
pointed out, are quite apart from the
elf-det ermination OF the oppressed ma
tsonalities in Austria for which Presi-
secure opportunity for an autonomous
development.
There always is the possibility that
laid down as the basis for peace al
ready have come about In Germany.
DIPLOMATS noticed that Chancellor Max
President answered with an inquiry, II 1
was Foreign Secretary Solf, and not
the Cnancellor, who replied, and Solf =
spoke oe the new government which
had been formed In Germany. It would
be without precedent it the peace party
In Germany actually was In possessioir
OF an imperial rescript or other secret
act renouncins the power OF the Kaiser
and his party, when the reply to Pres
ident Wilson's inquiry was sent. II
would not he without precedent II the
was begun with mancu-
verins for the best possible terms and Y
holding back the last card-the down
fall OF Kaiserism. 5
To DECIDE
If ARMISTICE rs GRAxTEn
II the prerequisites for an armIstice
are accepted. tho arrangements ruffI
be made, not by mixed commission 81
but by Marshal Foch and tho CO. y
belligercnt commanders These, as Has &
been pointed, will be themeans OF TAX sc
which she could sreak her word lf
she would: the occapations by aitted q
forces OF such places as StrasbuTY, Mai1 "
and Coblenz; turning over to the atsiss q
of her feet and submarine bases !: with @
The recall OF her submarines which tos &
lays dispatches, limited she was ready r.
10 do, and the surrender Of nun tIossa ~
of war. undoubtedly also the 5Arei,cfes VI
BY which others might be Produced
and gpropablyt the employment gofEthA s.
great war machine p.SS.sts or (sefpdanys y ! &
% repair the industf Hal = dstnnt ~ \ done y
IN Heigiun1 ara France. SssinE yd ;3s