Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-15

Wilson has answered Germanys peace proposal with a decision which not only fulfills the expectations or supporters of his diplomacy, but also dihpels the fears of those who pre- dicted he would substitute victories at arms with defeats at diplomacy.
 No peace with kaissrism, autocracy must go: no armistice can even be thought of while Germany contin- ues her atrocities on land and sea; one cannot be considered unless it fully is dictated by the allied com uanders in the field in such terms as absolutely provide safeguards and guarantees that Germany's part will not be a scrap of paper
 This in a few words is the presi- dents answer.
 If it does not bring a equalization which may be more than an uncon- ditional surrender, allied diplomats and American officials believe it may cause a revolution in Germany.
 Beyond question it speaks for the Entente allies as well as the United States
 The dispatch of the presidents re- ply was followed by the issue of this formal statement at the White House by Secretary Tumulty:
 The government will continue to sand over 25O.oo0 men with their sup plies every month and there will be no relaxation of any kind.'
 Quite outside of the formal phrases of a diplomatic document that was President Wilson's word to the world that he had no thought of stopping the fighting at this stage.
 The senate chamber rang with the applause of senators as the ptesi- dents answer was read few min utes after it had been announced at the state department. Senator Lodge. the presidents chief critic in his course until today, issued a state ment expressing his qualification at the presidents decision. Opinion at the capitol and throughout official Washington was unanimously in ap- noval.
 The oficial note which will convey the presidents decision to the Ger man government, and more impor- tRnt. to the German people, was de- hvered today by Secretary Lansing 10 the charge of the Swiss legation who has been acting as the interme diary. It was given out publicly by Mir. Lansing at the state department at o'clock this evening. In full ii follows:
 Text of President Wilson's Answer. Sir: In reply to the communica- tion of the German government dated the 12t hinstant which you handed me today. have the honor to request you to transmit the following an- Bwer:
 ''The unqualified acceptance by the present German government and by a large majority of the reichstag o1 the terms laid down by the president of the United States of America 1T his address to the congress of the United States on the Sth of January ISIS, and in his subsequent addresses Rlstifies the president in making z frank and direct statement of his de eision with regard to the communica GOns of the German government O. kAe Sth and 12th of October, 1918.
 It must be clearly understood thf- the process of evacuation and tn' conditions of an armistice are mat .ers which must be left to the judg ment and advice of the military ad Eisers of the government of the Chit ed States and the allied governments and the president feels it his duty t say that no arrangement can be ac cspted by the government of tn United States which does not provid absolutely satisfactory safeguard and guarantees of the maintenanc of the present military supremacy o the armies of the United States an the allies in the field He feels con adent that he can safely assume tha nothing but this will also be the judg ment and decision of the allied gov ernments.
 "The president feels that it is als his duty to add that neither the gov ernment of the United States, nol he Is quite sure. the governments wit which the government of the Unite States is associated $ a belligerer will consent to consider an armistic so long as the armed forces of Ger many continue the illegal and inhu rnane practices which they still per sist in.
 At the very time that the Germa government approaches the govern ment of the United States with pro posals of peace it's submarines ar engaged in sinking passenger shiI Rt sea and not the ships alone but tn very boats in which their passenger and crews seek to make their way { safety: and in their present enforce withdrawal from Flanders and Franc the German armies are pursuing course of wanton destruction whic has always been regarded as in al rect violation or the rules and praC tices of civilized warfare Cities an villages, if not destroyed, are bein stripped of all they contain not onl but often of their very inhab1tant The nations associated against Gel many cannot be expected to agree a cessation of arms while acts of 1T humanity, spoliation and desolatio are being continued which they Just ly look upon with horror and wit burning hearts.
 Tt is necessary. also. in order tn; there may be no possibility of mis understanding that the presidel should very solemnly call the alter ton of the government of German 10 the language and plain intent cue of the terms of peace which u German government has now accep ed. It is contained in the address the president dA,ivered at Mount Vel non on the fourth of July last.
 Tt is as follows The destructic oG every arbitrary power anywhel that can separately, secretly and
 its single choice disturb the peat of the world; or. if it cannot be pre' ently destroyed, at least it's redutcic tc virtual impotency. The DOW,