The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 24, 1918, Page 12

WILSON SENDS | PROPOSALS TO ALLIED CHIEFS | _THE SEATTLE = TEXT OF WILSON'’S | REPLY TO GERMANY [Continued From “Page| One| Bans of the kaiser, the pres- ent note, some felt, died to drive & wedge between Prussia, on the one side, and Bavaria and Saxony on the other The kaiser was referred to as the “King of Prussia.” and it was pointed out that his power ts still complete thru control of the 17 Prussian votes in the bundesrath. enough to defeat any constitutional amendment. Some observers believe that Ba- varia and Saxony, who have felt strongly the kaiser's domination, may take steps to foree his re- moval, This appeal was regarded “From the Secretary of State to si] Getto erete evidence of her unequivocal ac Charge d'Affaires in Charge of | ceptance of the terms and principles German Interests in the United | States, | “Department of State, October 23, | 1918. 1 “Sir: T have the honor to acknow: | ledge the receipt of your note of the {nd transmitting a communication | unde: © date of the 20th from the Ger. | man government and to advise you that the president has instructed me to reply thereto as follows: “Having received the solemn and explicit assurance of the German government that it unreservedly ac vepts the terms of peace laid down in his address to the congress of the | United States on the Sth of January, as more potent than the previous! efforts to stir up the German elec-| torate as a whole. Declaration of an armistice ts contingent upon the allies. If they are agreeable to the president's 14 terms and later peace pronounce ments, then their war chiefs may approve an armistice. There is added discussion now on Doth sides of the water as to the unity of war aims. Hence, it is an Ucipated that, as matters now stand, the allies are perhaps not entirely | enthusiastic over 1918, and the principles of settlement enunciated in his subsequent ad dresses, particularly the address of the 27th of September, and that it desires to discuss the details of their application, and that this wish and purpose emanated, not from those who have hitherto dictated German policy and conducted the present war on Germany's behalf, but from minis- ters who speak for the majority of the reichstag and for an overwhelm. ing majority of the German peoples and having received also the explicit promise of the present German gov ernment that the humane rules of the president's | civilized warfare will be observed, terms. He indicated as much when | poth on land and sea, by the German on September 27, he called upon the | armed forces, the president of the allied chancellories to come out into! United States feels that he cannot the open with their aims. decline to take up with the govern: | However, the forthcoming diplo-| ments with which the government of matic council is expected to clear/ the United S tes ix associated the | away all fundamental differences of | question of an armistice. opinion. Holland Steamer Reaches America With Boche Toys) AN ATLANTIC PORT, Oct. 24.— ‘The steamship Nieuw Amnsterdam, of the Holland-American line, arrived yesterday from a European port with 861 passengers. Americans aboard, and because of their exclusion, Berlin granted the Vessel immunity from attack. There were no/| There also were 7,000 tons of Ger. man-made toys aboard. The toys associated as a belligerent, with the were purchased from Germany be- | suggestion that, To Prevent War Renewal | “He deems it his duty to say again, however, that the only armistice he would feel justified in submitting for consideration would be one which | should leave the United States and the powers associated with her in a position to enforce any arrangements | that may be entered into and to make a renewal of hostilities on the part of Germany impossible. “The president has, therefore, transmitted his correspondence with the present German authorities to the governments with which the government of the United States is if these govern: | fore the war, and were in Holland | ments are disposed to effect peace! storehouses awaiting ship in August, i914. Because the purchase was consum- military advisers of mated before the war began, the United States permitted shipment to | an armistice as will fully protect the upon the terms and principles indi | cated, their military advivers and the the United States be asked to submit to the cov ernments associated against Ger-| many the necessary terms of such | interests of the peoples involved and insure to the associated governments | the unrestricted power to safeguard | And enforce the details of the pence| to which the German government has agreed, provided they deem such an armistice possible from the mill tary point of view. “Should such terms of armistice be suggested, their acceptance by Germany will afford the best con- | surrender. of peace from which the whole ac ton proceeds. Reforms Are Insufficient “The president would deem him | self lacking in candor did he not point out in the frankest possible terms the reason why extraordinary safeguards must be demanded. Six nificant and important as the consti tutional changes to be which are spoken of by the Gernan foreign secretary in his note of the 20th of October, it does not appear that the principle of a government responsi ble to the German people has yet been fully worked out, or that any guarantees either exist or are in con templation that the alterations of principle and of practice now partial ly agreed upon will be permanent “Moreover, it does not appear that the heart of the present difficulty has been reached. It may be that fu ture wars bave been brought under the control of the German people, but the present war has not been; and it in with the present war that we deal ing. It is evident that the German people have no means of command ing the acquiescence of the military authorities of the empire in the popu lar will; that the power of the king of Prussia to control the policy of the empire ix unimpaired; that the deter mining initiative still remains with those who have hitherto been the masters of Germany. Won't Deal With Kaiser “Feeling that the whole peace of the world depends now on plain | speaking and straightforward action, the president deems it his duty to | say, without any attempt to soften what may seem harsh words, that the nations of the world do not and can not trust the word of those who have hitherto been the masters of German policy, and to point out once more that in concluding peace and attempting to undo the infinite in juries of this war, the government of the United States cannot deal with any but veritable representatives of [the German people, who have been assured of @ genuine constitutional standing as the real rulers of Ger many. “If it must deal with the military masters and the monarchical auto erata of Germany now, or if it is like ly to have to deal with them later in regard to the international obliga. tlans of the German empire. it must demand, not peace negotiations, but thing can be gained by leaving this essential thing unsaid “Accept, sir, the renewed assur ances of my high consideration. j (Signed) “ROBERT LANSING. “Mr. Frederick Ocedertin, “Charge d’Affaires of Switzerland, ad Interim in Charge of German Interents in the United States.” | United States has 100 sugar beet | mills, 16 built in 1917 “LET FOCH TALK ‘AMERICANS GAIN TO ENEMY,” IS IN TOUGH FIGHT FRENCH OPINION IN MEUSE ZONE | "Dispatch From William Philip Simms United Frese leased Wire Direct to The Star Oct, 23.—(Night)—Let oh and the allied leaders many opinion here regard jerman note to Presi ing the lat dent Wilac Otherwise both the press and the public are curiously divergent, Some consider the note a clumay, tho vir | tual surrender; some think that it is a step forward, Others say it is a mere trap; but everybody seems to agree that Germany's situation, both internal and military, is such that a respite is absolutely necessary and therefore that the next words to Ber lin ought to be from Foch “It is a great pity that Marwhal | Foch has not already been author 4 the following ultimatum if of the entire entente, de Aceeptance integrally by ‘Yes or | Give Foch Lead The Temps says: “More than ever Foch ought to be given the lead.” Military And naval chiefs and American circles grimly comment on part of the note which otherwise is largely overlooked here, namely, Ger, many’s backdown on the question ot unrestricted U-boat warfare, which wan the direct cause of America’s entry into the war. Americans may it comes too late. Competent observers insist that Germany stands alone against the allies, Austria Hungary and Turkey already are out of the running, they say, and her own population is split | up on internal questions The almost unanimous quest of peace puta her between the devil and the deep sea of capitulation or revo lution, It is believed both are mere: ly @ queation of time, altho the al lied armien may yet be forced to strike the hardest blows of all Preachers Barred From Camp Lewis CAMP” LEWIS, Oct. 24—The war department bas barred preachers of all denominations from working among the soldiers, and has placed religious activities here and tn all other camps, entirely in the hands of the chaplains T. B. 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Taylor || By United Press Leased Wire | \] Direct to The Star i] WITH THE AMERICAN AR- MIES IN FRANCE, Oct, 23.— (Night)—The Americans, after repulsing a series of heavy coun- ter attacks, have again assumed the initiative on the whole front between Grand Pre and the | Meuse. | In a number of closely allied local operations they have reoccupied sev. eral positions which were temporart- | ly ceded to the Germans, These ad: | vances have again carried them north of Grand Pre, Rantheville and | | Brieulles. ‘Two new enemy divisions have been thrown into this front, and there are now snore than 30 German divi sions opposing the Americans here Artillery In Weak Reports indicate that the German) Jartiliery fire on the entire West| front has reached the lowest mark |mince the first few months of the | war | Britiah, | French and Americans de clare there is a remarkable prepon- derance of rifle and machine gun| wounds over shell wounds, The for mer injuries are light in the majority of canes, and permit early return of the casualties to the line. On the other hand, the beches are | suffering heavily from allied artillery fire, and their Jones greatly exceed | those of the allies, despite the ene my's norcna! advantage of defensive fighting. BRITISH, YANKS ADVANCE. ALONG | 20-MILE FRONT laa Cont when all the ciroumsan: taken into consideration. Little by little the American divisions are pushing forward, and both at Grand Pre and cast of Landres they can fairly te mid to have breached the Kriemhilde position, | “On the left of the American front, around Grand Pre, constant heavy artillery firing and | ¥ictous machine gun resistance. | More to the right, Romagne, Sous, | |Mont Faucon, Cunel, Clerges and) Nantiliots are kept continually un- der heavy bombardment by the en- emy, who is using good deal of| along the roads bebind the) | Ainerican linea. | Ladendortt Worried “On the east bank of the Meuse there in greater infantry activity and enemy patrols are continually | harasdng and counter attacking. | “It in quite evident that Luden-| dorff and the German general staff have ordered this part of the line| to be held at all costs, and that | reinforcements are being thrown in| against the Americans | “Despite all the efforts of the| enemy, who have every advantage | of terrain, the Americans are ad- vancing slowly, and with every Prospect of ultimate triumph.” The attack was resumed this morning on the whole front be-| the Sambre-Otse canal and/ the Scheldt, Field Marshal Haig re-| there is} Continuing their progress along this front, the British troops cromed the Encaillon river’ yester- day evening, less than two miles west of Le Quesnoy, capturing the | village of Beaudiginies. The villages of Neuville and Salesches also were occupied, A- strong German counter attack opposite Vendigies was repulsed Raismes forest, north of Valen: | was cleared of the enemy and three villages were captured in that region. There was local fighting west of Tournai without material change. “In sharp fighting yesterday even- | ing, on the front south of Valen clennes, we drove the enemy from | Vendiegies wood and captured New ville, Saleaches and Reaudignies, se- curing crossing» of the Eacaillon riv- er at the latter place,” the statenent “At the clone of the day the enemy counter attacked vigorously opposite Vendieges wood, supporting the in- fantry with strong artillery fire. “There was determined local fight- change.” Serbs Near Capital Serbian troops have made fair Progress toward their former cap- driving the Austro-Germans across the West Morava river, 90 Belgrade, the Serbian war office announced today. “After stubborn fighting the en- emy was forced to retreat on the Razanj front,” the report. said. “We crossed the West Morava northwest of that village, taking 300 prisoners.” FRENCH REPORT GAINS ON OISE PARIS, Oct. 24.—Local gains on the Oise front, between the Oise and the Serre, and north of Rheims, were reported by the French war office today, “On the Oise front we crossed the canal east of Grand Verley,” the communique said. “Despite enemy counter attacks, we hold the east bank. “Between the Oise and the Serre, there was lively fighting in the re gion of the railway north of Mesbre- court “North of Nizy-Le-Comte, we en- larged our gains during the night, “On the plateaus east of Veru: there were great artillery duels,’ A circular rake wald to be “efticl lent and labor saving has been patented by a woman, STORE HOURS: 9 A.M. 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