Arizona republican., 1918-10-15
(By The Associated Press) Has A Ring Like Steel

Has Ring Like Steel
 WASHINGTON Oct 14-The text of the president answer follows:
 Sir In reply to the communication of the German government dated the 12h instant which you handed me today have the honor to request you transmit the fol- lowing answer:
 ''The unqualified acceptance by the present German government and large majority of the rechstag of the terms laid down by the president of the United States of America ill his address to the congress of the United States the eighth of January 191S and in his subse quent addresses usfies the president in making frank and direct statement of his decision with regard to the communication of the German government of the Sth and Eth of October, 1918.
 ''It must be clearly understood that the process of evacuation and the conditions of armisce matters which must be left to the judgment and advice of the mill ary advisers of the government of the United States and the allied governments and the president feels 1t his duty that arrangement can be accepted by the govern ent of the Untd States which does not provide absolute satisfactory safeguards and guarantees of the mainte of the present military supremacy of the armies of the United States and the allies in the field
 ''He feels confident that he safely assume that this will also be the judgment and the decision of the a lied governments.
 ''The president feels that it is also his duty to add that neither the of the United States nor he quite the governments with which the government of the United States is associated bellgeren will
  of Germany continue the illegal and inhuman practices which they still persist in.
 At the very time that the German government ap- breaches the government of the United States with pro- posals of peace its submarines engaged ill sinking pas senger ships and not the ships alone but the very boats in which their passengers and seek to make their way to safety; and in their present enforced with drawa from Flanders and France the German armies pursuing of wanton destruction which has always been regarded direct violation of the rules and of o1x111a and vi sroved are being stripped of all they contain not only but often of their very inhabitants The nations associated against Germany cannot be expected to agree to cessa ton of while acts of nhumany, spoation and deso lation being continued which they justly look upon with horror and with burning hearts.
 'It necessary, aso in order that there may be no possibility of misunderstanding that the president should very soemny call the attention of the of Ger many to the language and plain intent of of the terms peace which the German government has accepted It contained in the address of the president delivered at Mount Vernon on the 4th of July last.
 ''It is as follows:
 |" 'The destruction of every arbitrary power any where that separately secretly and of it's single choice disturb the peace of the world if it cannot be presently destroyed at least it's reduction to virtually impotence The power which has hitherto controlled the German na- ton is of the sort here described It within the choice of the German nation to alter it. The presidents words just quoted naturally constitute condition precedent to peace if peace by the action of the German peo pie themselves The president feels bound to say that whole process of peace w in his judgment depend upon the deneness and the satisfactory character of the antees which be given in this fundamental natter indispensable that the governments associated against Germany should know beyond peradventre with whom they are dealing.
 ''The president will make separate reply to the roya and imperial government of Austria Hungary.
 Accept, sir the renewed assurances of my high con- sideration
 II (Signed) ROBERT LANSING.
 NTr E,oJo, .J- OoJ pc. im in charge0f German interests in the United States
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