The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-12
GERMANY FEARS


CONTINUED from Page One.)
such vessels as necessary will be en-
pioyed for sending supplies thru Ger
man ports. Dues precautions will be
taken. of Course. to see that these
supplies are devoted to the purposes
for which they are intended.
Hoover to Europe.
President Wilson has already in
structed Food Administrator Hoover
to proceed to Europe and represent
the United States in aling with the
situation, which will include the care
of the German populace as well as the
victims of the Ne France and Bel
GUM. Ittis suggested in some quar-
tiers that Doctor Soils plea may be
DESIGNED to lay the foundation for an
attempt on the part of Germany to
secure general >modificat alton of the ar
mistice terms before the peace confer
ence.,
London, Nov 1.-THE full text of
the German wireless dispatch giving
the message from Foreign Secretary
Solf to Secretary of State Lansing fol-
lows:
Convinced of the common aims and
ideals of democracy, the German gov
eminent has addressed itself to- the
president of the United States with the
request to re-establish peace. This
peace WAS meant 10 COTIeSpOHu Will
the principles the president always has
maintained. The aim was to be a just
solution of all questions in dispute. fol-
lowed by permanent reconciliation
of all nations.
"Furthernore the, president declar-
ed he did not wish to make war on the
German people and did not wish to
impede its peaceful development. The
German government has received the
conditions of the armistice.
People Would Starve.
after the blockade, those condi-
tons, especially the surrender of
means of transports and the susie
would make it impossible to provide
Germany with food and would cause
the starvation of millions of men,
women and children all the more as
the blockade is to continue
I'VE had to accept the conditions.
but feel it is our duty to draw the
presidents attention most solemnly
and in all earnestness to the fact that
enforcement of the conditions must
produce amongst the German people
feelings contrary to those upon which
alone the reconstruction of the COM
munity of nations can rest, guaran-
teeing a just and durable peace.
THE German people therefore. in
this Hateful hour address themselves
again to the president with the requeTt
lied powers in order to mitigate these
| fearful conditions"
Would Split; Allies
Gern1any's sole remaining hope of
evading justice is to split the allies at
| the peace table. Every trick to this
end known to the subtle diplomats at
Berlin will be tried until the parch-
| n-ent is finally signed Believing
| Americans to be new to the pitfalls
| of a coalition peace, the Germans are
| certain to continue to- direct their DIS
migrating efforts chiefly at Washing
ton. Their present design is to arouse
| pity among Americans for Germany's
SD plight. They hope to cajole the
| United States into rorgetfulness of the
four years of pitilees deeds by which
the Germans tried to conquer the
| world.
The German government is not the
| act of German people. 1t is the act
| of invincible powers of the American
, and allied armies. If Hohenzollern
had not been beaten on the battlefield
the Germans today would be ar
rogantly Haunting democracy and
boasting of HohenZollern's kinchips
with "gott." The democratic move
ment in Germany has yet to prove it
| comas from the spirit. 1t has shown
no evidence to the present time that
it is anything more than the outcome
of defeat and chagrin at the Hohen-
zcllern bloody conspiracy against
| humanity.
1t is not the purpose of the demo-
cratic nations to let Germany starve
| We do not starve even the most brutal
of our convicts. tho we sometimes
| execute them.
Nor can it be advantageous to the
world to permit anarchy to develop in