Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-10-17
WASH|NGTONSE SEES
LEAVEN WORKING
Wilson Reply May Be
the Start Of Hun
Revolt.
TIME ONLY QUESTION
Reports If Not Yet True
viii Be Later, Is
Capital View.
STEPS MUST BE SINCERE
Guarantee Reported Asked
for, No Obstacle
If Real.
STEPS MUST BE SINCERE

WASHINGTON oct lG.--To-
NIGHTS news Of Germany is cv"rN-
uhera regarded here as tho shadow
NJ great events being cast before
them. ,- .,,,
riaI word that the kaiser has abdl-
Gated, or that he has been over
thrown, or that Germany is ready
70 accept all OF Presidents VIII
sons terms.
officials and diplomatists. eau
,,ous and conservative by nature
and practicc, regard with incr"dul-
i,y the intimatiOns that one or all
NJ those things has happened. or
course. they all hope they have;
they All know that one or all OF
them are inevitable.
The official opinion In the CAPT
tai tonight is that coming OF these
things is timed only by the unknown
degree to which the German mill
tary mower has been broken. There
NAV be more information on that
noint in the chancellOries OF. Eng
land. France and Italy than there
IS in Washington.
When President Wilson'S reply to
the German peace profter went
forth Monday night It was predict
Cd here that IL IL did not bring a
) complete and unconditional sur
render of the military autoCracy the
German pCoDle themselves would
force one President Wilson's words
were u plain invitation to the Ger
man people TO take such step and
an ultimatum that there would he
no peace with kaiserism.
Icaycn Is Working.
The coming hours will show how
the leaven has worked; the intima-
lions In today's dispatches from
London. Paris and The Hague suG-
Gest the process of the ferment
Most significant OF all is regarded
the report from Holland by way OF
London. that Germany will reply
Immediately to President Wilson
accepting an his terms and asking
rouly guarantees for the interests Of
Germany and the German people
II such a reply does come President
Wilson's only course will he to for
ward 1t 10 the Co-belligerents. The
guarantees for the interests of Ger
many and the German people do
not intervene as an obstacle II guar
antees are sought in sincere terms.
II they are put forth as another We
hicIc for quibble, an opportunity
NJ diplomatic evasion and triCkery.
or negotiated peace, they Will
meet only one reply.
II they mean guarantees for the
integrity and sovereignty Of the
l.. rtr f,11 Cor
man. always taking in the deter
m!nations OF the human beings con-
oerned, no obstacle Is foreseen. II
hey mean guarantees for the right
~ tho German people to live their
lives under peaceful responsible
government which does not menace
the life of the world, President
Wilson's utterances on the subject,
officials think, already have given
The answer. II Germany accepts all
his terms and attaches the condition
ot such guarantees 1t Is considered
that hardly less could he expected
Of her.
Guarantees for the interests Of
Germary. involving only Germans,
II was pointed out. are quite apart
from the elf-determination of the
N1pnresscd nationalities in Austria,
Nr which President Wilson has
pledged the peace to secure oppor-
unity for autonomous develop
ment
May Hold Back Last Card.
There always is the possibility
mat conditions President Wilson
mas laid down as the basis for peace
already have come about in Ger.
many Diplomats noticed that
'hancellor Macmillan sent a note
ana that when President Wilson an
%ered with an inquiry l. was For.
eign Secretary Solf and not the
chancellor who replied. and thai
Soit Snoke Of the new government
which had heen formed in Germany
would not he without precedent il
vhe peac" party in Germany actually
was IN possession Of an imperial re,
,Crlnt or other secret act. ronOunc,
mH 'he power of the kaiser and hi,
,nat'E' when the reply to President
NlSonS inquiry was sent. II would
NOV ne without precedent II the
ueHouation was begun with a
WdneuFer for tho best possible terms
"na holding back the last card
'he downfall NJ kaiserism
foch to Dictate Terms.
me prerequisites for an armis.
% Wv" are accepted. tho arrangements
"tI ne made not by mixed com.
l@lon, hut by Marshal Foch ant
ne Co -oel'igercnt commanders
u.b, hSse as has been pointed out
, CuH ne the means of taking fror
: ,L"rmany every agency with which
que con break her word il she
T.UuIa' tho occupation by allied
,f..'s ot such places as -Strassburg
LIZ ana Coblenz; turning over tc
.s allies Of her fleet and submarine
"eS' with the recall of her sub
b,iaa,,IlheS which today's dispatches
-l'" Sh" was ready to do. and tn,
dn,,,truuer of munitions Of war. un
CorrTE, also the agencies bJ
NVNA1SUED OF FACE EIGHT.