The Little River news., 1918-10-16
NOTE MUST BE GIVEN
 CAREFUL CONSIDERATION
Officials Decline to Comment on Ger many's Repiy-Allies Undoubtedly Will Demand Guarantees Before Making Concessions.
Not Very Peacc.u

Not Very Peacceui.
 Basel, Switzerland, Oct. 13. A dis patch received here from Berlin says the Conservative party in the Reiche stag has published the following de- claration concerning the German reply to President Wilson's questions:
 Our armies are still far in enemy country. Before any honorable peace and the integrity of the empires terri tory is guaranteed, and abandonment of German soil n2y be fatal and is ir- reconceivable with German honor.
 Numerous patriotic societies await with us decleration from the Ger man government saying it will not yield upon these points. The German people are resolved to defend the sac red soil of their country to the last man."
 Washington, Oct. 13-The official text of the German note had not ar rived in Washington early this even- ing and in the absence of President Wilson all officials continued to re- serve comment There was no change in the opinion that there is much in the document to be considered before a line of action can be forecast.
 The official document had not been received in Washington tonight when the president returned from New York It probably will be hero to- morrow when the president confe,'s with his advisers, among them Secre, tary Baker, who returned today from the Western battle front, undoubte1- ly prepared to give him some inside information on the broken condition of the German military power.
 Tonight, a3 last night. no official of the government felt justified in speaking to guide public opinion in the directions of the views which are being formed. However, these views rapialy gre crystalizing and the next step Will be taken probably sooner than may be expected.
 President Wilson Net Bound.
 President Wilson is expected to de- eide first if Foreign Secretary Solf s reply to the inquiries addressed to Chancellor Maximilian warrs nts him in presenting Germanys original pro posal to the entente allies. The presi- dents inquiry merely was more ad interim, in which he proposed noth- ing, bound himsely to nothing, and merely aske. some questions which he declared required n answer before he could go further.
 If he puts the proposition before the entente, it undoubtedly will draw quick reply. Dispatches last night from London, quoting the London Ex- press as announcing that the British. French and Ita lian governments ha6 reg eached an unanimous t,ecis:on for . line Of common 2ction, were regarded deeply significant.
 Armistice Improbable.
 Lacking official guidance on which to base prediction, observers are forced to record indications. Tine in- dications are that there Viii be no armistice, and that if the entente al- lies were disposed to sgree to one they probably would demand. a guarantee of good faith that such p.aces as Metz, Strassburg Trieste and possibly Essen be placed in the hands ol en- tente hands to guarantee fulfillment of Germ2ny's words.
 If Germany expects that by agree ing to the evacuation O. occupied ter ritories she will exact the evacuation of German colonies occupied by en- tente forces, German statesmen have made another mistake. A reference to President Wilson's inquiry shows that he spoke distinctly in regard to invaded territory occupied by troops of the central powers