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Show ram pits PIlGBpiS Three of Questions Which Answered One Way Mean War End. Unconditional Surrender Is Behind the Door Now ! i Open for Peace. By JAY JEROME WILLIAMS, Universal Service Staff Correspondent, j WASHI.VGTON. Oct. S. President Wil-j son in a ncue 01 inquiry .iispatohcd to t Me j German government this afternoon asks : three question.-;, which, if answered one way, mean an end to the war. This is l cause the answers would he equivalent 10 unconditional surrender. If answered in another way. they mean that the same inexorable result unconditional uncondi-tional surrender will be the fate of Germany, Ger-many, but it will be obtained through military supremacy and not diplomacy. ' The president leaves the door to peace ajar, hut if Germany looks in she will see only the fatal hand writ ins on the wall unconditional surrender. There is no escape from it. The vords themselves them-selves do not appear anywhere in the president's note, yet they seem to pop o;it from everv paragraph, and this is why: The first question asked by the president presi-dent is whether or not the imperial chancellor. Prince Max of Paden. to whom the quest ion na ire is addressed, means that the imperial German government govern-ment is ready to accept all of the principles prin-ciples the president has laid down as neeessa ry for peace, and whether "i;s ohiect in entering into discissions would j be" only- to airree upon the practical details de-tails of iheir application." Goes Hand in Hand. The second interrogation, which goes hand in hand with the firs:, has to do with t tie proposal of an armistice. Tne president says that before he could propose pro-pose a cessation of hostilities to the allies, al-lies, and before cood faith could be 'established 'estab-lished in any discussion. Germany would have to consent to withdraw her forces from all occupied territory. Therefore, does she consent? The third question is a request to the new chancellor to tell if he is speaking merely for the consti :i: ted authorities of l he empire w ho have so far conducted the war. The entire, matter resolves into the fact that it is impossible td discuss peace in any manner until Germany accepts without-further ado the fourteen principles set Tort h by the president in his address to congress on January 8. and in subsequent sub-sequent addresses dealing with the subject sub-ject of peace: also that no discussion can be begun until Germany has first s'gni- fied her willingness to withdraw all of her forces from occupied territory and her submarines from the high seas. Clean of Submarines. As a result Belgium. France. Russia. Serbia, Italy. M on fence ro and Rumania will have to he evacuated, .the seas s.wpt clean of submarines, and Germany will have to stand ready to allow the adjustment ad-justment of colonial claims with reference to the wishes of the governed populations: abandon economic control of Russian territory, ter-ritory, indemnify Belgium, restore Al- , sare-Ixrraine, restore , Itaiia irredenta, i consent to estahhsn an independent Foiisii state, see to the relinquishment of Turkish Turk-ish con; rol of non-Turkish popular ions and the establishment of autonomous government gov-ernment for the different nationalities of Austria-Hungary. And. if Germany says she will do all these things, her promise must come from one other, tnan a person speaking for the .Hohenzollerns and the military autocracy that y;unged the world into war. This is why Vne president asks the prince for whom he is speaking, and in reality it is the crux of the entire situation. Would End Episode. ShouM the chancellor's reoly indicate thai he talks for the "cons: it u ted a u -ti.ori ties'" his words on this point a:oi:e would end the entire episode, for. as the president said, "we cannot accept the words of those who forced the war upon us."' And to which he added : "We do not think the same Thoughts or speak the same tan-uaue." The president's tin-usual tin-usual departure in sending a note of inquiry in-quiry to the German government has proved the most surprising feature of the central powers' "peace offensive." of-fensive." 1-J very one heheve.j he wo1; 1,1 make an answer w h i h would bo a sharp rejection, especially :n view the stand taken in the ma'tr yesterday in the senate. Some senators tonignt pnva rpiy expressed disappointment disappoint-ment at his actinr But unusual reasons, it was intimated in official quarters, compelled t he president's presi-dent's Tin us;; a! stand. His noo. whim .Secretary Iansing said officiary "was no: a reply, but an inquiry," destroys the finfl nope of the military autocrncv. half hidden 'now behind the supposed - Socialistic Social-istic form of Prince Max, that the president's presi-dent's re;oinder would enable them to say to the German peopie: Haven of Intrigue. "Your only salvation is to fight on: the aH'es and the 1'nited States are set upon your destruction." The German paners. of necessity. wp . publish the president's questionnaire, it was said, and "many, many questions other than the ones he asks will he asked in Germany. There is slight hope in either official or dirlomattc quarters In the ca pitol tonight to-night tht Germany will answer the questions ques-tions so that thf ar.swers w ill be tantamount tanta-mount to unrordi'tonal surrender. Yet, Rs.it was pninUd out on every sirlc. such answers would mean the acromMishment of ecervthincr the ;19 are f:iht:nc for, pro iding the-. 'a me from a t ru-: unrt : iy s'lUpre and not from the haven of du-P'ie-fry and intrigue thnt the Gtrman military mili-tary autocracy represents. |