Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1918 — TEXT OF NOTE PROPOSING PEACE. [ARTICLE]

TEXT OF NOTE PROPOSING PEACE.

Amsterdam, October 7 (by the Associated Press). —The text of the note forwarded by the imperial German chancellor. Prince Maximilian, to President Wilson, through the Swiss government, follows: “The 1 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 plenipotentiaries for the .purpose of opening negotiations. “It accepts the program set forth by the President of the United States in his message to congress on January 8, and in the later pronouncements, especially his speech of September 27, as a basis for peace negotiations. “With a view to avoiding further bloodshed, the German government requests the immediate conclusion©! an armistice on land and water and in the air.” It was announced that Turkey will take a similar step.