Show GERMANY rs PEACE TERMS lAm LAID DOWN BY WILSON VILSON Offers to Evacuate Invaded Territory Territory Territory Ter Ter- as Prerequisite to toan toan toan an Armistice Al Suggests That the President May Occasion the Meeting of a Mixed for Commission Making the Necessary Arrangements Washington Gelman Germanys Germany's s reply to President Wilson's Wilsons Inquiry InterCepted Intercepted Inter Inter- as it was being sent b by the great wireless towers at nt Nauen and forwarded here Satur Saturday ay night October October Octo Octo- ber 12 2 In an nn official dispatch from France declares Germany German Is read ready to accept pt President Wf Wilson's Wilsons ons on's peace terms term l evacuate the invaded territory as a prerequisite to an armistice and that the iiI hid for peace represents the German people as liS well as ns the govern ment meat Text of Note The text of oC the note follows In reply to the questions of or the president of the United States of America the time German government o hereby declares The llie German h government ha has accepted ac tic- the time terms laid down heWn h by President dent Wilson In n hl his address of f January Janu Janti- ary nry Sib and in ill his subsequent addre ad- ad HIre re ses on the foundation of a n permanent perma neat nent peace leaCe of justice Consequently its object In entering into discussions would be lie only to agree upon practical details of the application of these se terms The fhe German government believes be- be lle es that the governments on of or tile the vowels powers associated with the government govern O ment of the Unites United States also take e eth th the position taken talen by President WIlson Wilson Wil WIl- son soil In his address The German government gov gov- O in iii accordance with the Aus- Aus tro-Ihm tro tro government for the time purpose of brin bringing ln about an nn armistice armi stice tice declares itself ready to comply with the time propositions of the time pres president in fl re regard ard to evacuation c The German government su suggests ests that the tIme president president dent lent ma may occasion the meeting of a mixed nixed commission for fur making the time necessary arrangements concerning the he evacuation The present German government o which has hns undertaken the lie responsibility for this step toward peace has been formed by hy conferences and In agreement with i time the great majority of the TIme The chancellor chan supported In all his actions h by bythe the th will of this majority speaks In the time name of ol the time German government o and of f the German people Signed SOLF State Secretary of Foreign Office Berlin October 12 1918 At the time fir first t rending reading the text would oud seem to answer in a manner which might lead to peace pence all the time questions President Wilson asked of Chancellor Maximilian In his which was ivas sent ent as us an answer to the time German peace note received here Oct October ber 7 7 In this inquiry the president de tie dared clarell he lie would not 1101 propose an nn armistice armi armi- stice while troops of the time central powers pow pow- I ers els remained on invaded soil he asked whether Pr Prince nce Maximilian accepted accepted ac uc ac- ac l tl the e terms of peace as laid Ind down or merel merely wanted to discuss them item n its as a n basis for ne negotiation and finally he lie asked aked whether the time chancellor br merel merely ted time mil mail militarists who have been conducting the war The rime one point which appeared to loom up In the time text of the unofficial copy coils is whether Chancellor Maximilian Maximil ian inn and amid Foreign Secretary Solf SoU can In reality represent the German people as ns the time reply declares they do |