The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-15
Presidents Answer on the Ca.
bles to Berne Today.
British Government Considers
1t Officially, as Well.
CUT HUN MORALE DEEPLY
German Emperor's Throne Set
Rocking by the Answer.
Austria and Turkey Are Left In
the Dark.

New York, Oct. 15.-Germany
| peace offensive has failed. The kai-
| ser's effort to save himself from de-
| feat by the use of crafty words has
| met the same fate as his high mill
tary offensive. Henceforth nothing
remains for Germany but the uncondi-
| tional surrender of her military and
| diplomatic autocrats.
Hurt Hun Morale.
| President Wilson's reply to Chan
cellor Maximilian will cut deeply into
| the German morale. 1t is worth more
| than many army corps to the allied
cause, for it's disintegration work will
be effective not only among the Ger
| man soldiers in the field but also
among the German people at home.
| Three mon:hs ago today, when the
| Americans drove German army
across the Marne. the kaiser knew
| America was arriving at military ma
| turity and ordered his defeated
| troops to start home. Today the kali
ser knows that his diplomatic note
writers have failed and been trapped
by President Wilson's greater skill.
/ The strategy of the situation is
wholly on the side of democracy. rhe
| exchange of notes has revealed the
kaiser to his people shoin of his tii-
vine right andF hum bly, petitioning the
| democratic nations for an armistice.
| But 1t is not enough, and the
| HohenZollern intimate of Gott has
| even promised to abandon the con-
Quered territory for whose possession
two million Germans have been killed
| or permanently injured. And it still is
not enough. No absolute monarch
| can long cling to his. preroga tiyes
when his impotence is thus shown to
| his victims
Sets Throne Rocking.
President Wilson has set the Hoiien-
| zollern throne rocking. There can be
! no question but that the kaiser is now
| in jeopardy of losing his crown by an
German people. What the president
| has started it is better for the German
people to finish.
If the Hohenzollerns are overthrown
| by direct mandate of the allies there
| will remain the possibility of consta Mt
royal conspiracies in future years.
with the connivance perhaps of part
Of the German people. If Germany
| herself however, forces the abdica-
ton, then the Hohenzollerns in truth,
Will become the outlaws of humanity.
On the Cables.
| Washington, Oct. 15.-President
! Wilson's reply to Germany ending talk
OF an armistice until the Germans are
ready to surrender and finally closing
the door to peace negotiations with
kaiserism was on the cables today. If it
| actually had not arrived at Berne
Only few hours should be required
for its delivery at Berlin thru the
Swiss foreign office
So far the president has dealt only
with the proposal of the German gov
ernment leaving unanswered similar
pleas for peace from Austria Hungary
and Turkey. There is no Indication
that these allies of Germany will hear
from him until the dominant factor
in the central alliance makes another
move, unless one or both of them in
the meantime should plead anew.
seeking surrender without regard to
tne course or fate of the power that
hitherto has governed their actions.
Cut off by the detection of Bulgaria
and cowed by the victorious British
armies, Turkey already virtually is out
OF the war and separate appeal from
the recognized government at Con-
stantinople is looked for monentarily.
Ono Guess or Another.
4 AS to what will happen Immediately
IN Germany it is conceded one guess
is as good as another, tho there is no
! doubt here as to what will happen
ultimately. With the American and
allied armies advancing steadily to-
ward the German border, it is believed
the only question is how far they
aust go before the people of the Teu-
tonic states arise to stop invasion by
meeting the conditions upon which
the world will deal with them.
Even before President Wilson's de.
cision had been announced rumors
| were coming of the probable retire.
ment of Prince Maximilian, called to
the chancellorship to make the peace
offer, and these were followed by re-
ports that Scheidemann might take
his place. Such a development would
be regarded as important only as an
index to the Ieaven working in Ger
| ma 10 ole
tat Presiden. Wilson's opinion f.
that it matters little who is the Ger
man chancellor as long as the cham
cellor and the government are an
| swerable to the kaiser
i Make Any Sacrifice.
The leaven is working tho and the
note of the president is expected to
i stir it deeply Some observers here
| believe the Germans will make any
/ sacrifice rather than go thru another