Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1918 — WILSON’S TERMS WILSONS TERMS [ARTICLE]

WILSON’S TERMS WILSONS TERMS

IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR HAS REQUESTED PRESIDENT TO END HOSTILITIES. Copenhagen, Oct. 6.—Prince Maxmilian of Baden, the new German imperial chancellor, anonunced in the reichstag yesterday that he had sent a note through the Swiss govenfinent to President Wilson in which he had requested Mr. Wilson to take up the question of bringing about peace and to communicate with the other belligerents regarding the subject. The chancellor told the reichstag he had addressed his note to the President of the United States because Mr. Wilson in his message to congress on January 8, 1918, and in his later proclamations, particularly his New York speech on September 27, had proposed a program for a general peace which Germany and her allies could accept as a basis for negotiations.

. Text of the Note. Amsterdam, Oct. 6.—The text of I the note forwarded by the imperial German chancellor, Prince Maxmilian, to President Wilson, through the Swiss government, follows: *‘The German government requests the President of the United States to take in hand the restoration of peace, acquaint all the belligerent states of this request and invite them to send representatives for the purpose of opening negotiations. ( “It accepts the program set forth by the President of the United States, in his mesage to congress on January 8, and in his later pronouncements, especially his speech of September 27, as a basis for peace negotiations. x “With a view to avoiding further bloodshed, the German government requests the immediate conclusion of an armistice on land and water and in the air.”. It is announced that Turkey will take a similar step.