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Show EMU HESITANT : IN REPLY I ON PEACE Aany Conflicting Re-, Re-, v ports Abroad; Wash-i Wash-i ington Believes Noth-- Noth-- ing Until Text Comes. e, - Competent Spokesmen a of Government Reiterate Reiter-ate "There Will Be No Series of Exchanges. AMSTEBDAM, Oct. 20. Accord-ing Accord-ing to advices reaching here today " from Germany, the German reply to . President Wilson may not he ready lggjl Monday. r WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. So many con- " Tictlng reports about a German reply to bu . 'resident "Wilson have come out of Hol- polil carsPd and Switzerland during the past few athat officials here are disposed now ;::o believe nothing on the subject until ta'he text of anote is received. k; Every version of the probable nature of ho reply, undor consideration if not adopted, indicates that the Germans are "preparing to come forward with what hey, at least, will expect the world to , jelleve is a long step toward meeting a ir ,.r.;ondition3 which President Wilson has V.-iaid must be met before there can be thought of an armistice or discussion. of frtbeacei Whatever may be the substance cflW) the note, It is believed here its form Vill be designed to make It difficult for 1 -'resident Wilson to avoid further exchanges. ex-changes. MAY DISPUTE RIGHT OF FOREIGN POWERS. According to one of the reports today, ;he Gerrnans will agree to evacuate Bel-j Bel-j j;lum and to abandon, provisionally, unrestricted unre-stricted submarine warfare, but will dispute dis-pute the right of foreign powers to med-, med-, ile with German internal affairs. An-3 An-3 thcr says the offer will include immediate imme-diate suspension of submarine warfare, 'political guarantees and an armistice which the American and German high i Commands will arrange on the battle-:c:field.'' battle-:c:field.'' A dispatch from Madrid saying ir:M be Spanish government had been in-.Cormed in-.Cormed that all German submarines had t;been ordered to their bases appeared to support suggestions that abandonment " of the U-boat campaign has been determined deter-mined upon. u- Competent spokesmen of the govern-Anent govern-Anent have said and reiterated that there :cis to be no drawn-out series of exchanges, jjf'if the German government seeks to talk li'Vtliout submission the president is ex-.poNl ex-.poNl to refuse to continue the discus-j discus-j tr.ion1 SAY GERMANY irf WILL SUSPEND DIVER WARFARE 0 PARIS, Oct. 20. The German reply to -'' President Wilson will announce an im- mediate suspension of submarine warfare tfand will offer political guarantees, Ger-Qffman Ger-Qffman newspapers say, according to a Ge-neva Ge-neva dispatch to L'Informatlon. The German papers declare that the new note will abandon the proposal for a mixed commission to discuss conditions e' of an armistice, "which the American and German high commands will arrange on the battlefield." o;f Berlin financial circles are said to be disturbed over a report that negotiations jtiav been broken off. REPLY HANDED ? SWISS MINISTER SATURDAY NIGHT r- LONDON, Oct. 20. According to unof- 1 'Tidal reports reaching Amsterdam, the Gejjfffi reply to President Wilson was de-tWJroed de-tWJroed to the Swiss minister in Berlin Saturday evening, says an Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph dispatch from Amsterdam. jfl In the note Germany consents to the evacuation of Belgium, but considers that (Continued on Page Two.) y, from Zurich says. It is added that the more rapidly the abdication Is brought about, the better for the country. LEADER DEMANDS HUNGARY DISUNION FROM AUSTRIA YOKE AMSTERDAM, Oct. 20. Count Michael Karolyi, leader of the Hungarian independent inde-pendent party, at the session of the Hungarian Hun-garian lower house, Saturday, submitted a motion demanding the economic, military, mili-tary, foreign and political disunion of Hungary from Austria, according to advices ad-vices from Budapest. LONDON OFFICIAL QUARTERS HAVE NO PEACE NOTE TIDINGS LONDON. Oct. 20, 11:17 p. m. Official Offi-cial quarters In London were sttl! without with-out news of the German reply to President Presi-dent Wilson at a late hour tonight. The view here is that In the event that the reply Is unacceptable to the entente powers Austria and Turkey will arrange a Joint conference for the purpose of taking independent peace action. DENMARK ASKS GERMANY TO CARRY OUT TREATY TERMS AMSTERDAM, Oct- :o. Denmark, according ac-cording to news agency telegrams to the Dutch press, has-sent a note to Germany suggesting that certain terms of the treaties executed between the two countries coun-tries In the period from 1S60 to 1S70 should be carried out. The Vaderland points our that article V of the treaty of 1860, which ceded the dukedoms of Schleswfg-Holetetn and Lauren burg to Prussia, provided for a plebiscite in, Schleswlg to drride whether the inhabitants would prefer allevlance to Germany or to Denmark. This provision. pro-vision. It Is declared, never has been carried car-ried out. HUN SOCIALISTS MAY HAVE SAY IN REPLY TO WILSON AMSTERDAM, Saturday, Oct. 13. German Ger-man independent socialists probably will participate in the drafting of the note to President Wilson, oc'cordlng to the Vos-slsche Vos-slsche Zeltung of Berlin. The newspaper news-paper states that Hugo Haaae, leader of the Socialist minority in the reichstag, and Georg Ledebour, HoHa,l!st democratic demo-cratic leader, have conferred on the subject sub-ject with Konstantin Fehrenbach. president presi-dent of the reichstag. "The people will defend themselves If they are obliged to do so," they are said to have Informed him. The organ of the general commission of trades unions has issued a statement on behalf of those organizations, declaring: declar-ing: 'We are prepared for most resolute resistance re-sistance If the enemy rejects our peace offer. We have no Intention of making peace at any price. We must resolutely reject such a peace as Imperialistic France and England would like to dictate." dic-tate." Belgian Flag Hying. AMSTERDAM. Oct. 20. The Delglan flag Is flying ovpr the town of Houck Just across the frontier from the Dut' h town of Sluls. A dispatch dated at Sluil Saturday says that entente sentries were expected to arrive momentarily on the Belgo-Holland frontier. 0E1M HESITANT IN REPLY Oil PEACE (Continued from Page One.) such a withdrawal will take severs mdnths time. Germany protests against the charges of croaity In the president's note and says sbe was forced Into submarine warfare V the allied blockade. Th'. German government. It is added, denies responsibility for the loss of women and children on torpedoed passenger ships, but to advance peace Germany Is Pl'epard. provisionally, to stop unrestricted unre-stricted submarine warfare. Finally, the note disputes the rlscht of foreign powers to meddle with German Internal affairs and declares Germany should enjoy the same right of self-determination as other nations. ORDER SUBMARINES HOME, THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT HEARS MADRID, Get. 20. The Spanish government, gov-ernment, according to the newspnpers, has received an official com mu Meat Ion 'rpfn the German government s rating thnt be German admiralty has ordered S'ih-nwrlnes S'ih-nwrlnes to return immediately to their bftes. KAISER AND CROWN PRINCE MUST GO, AS ONLY SOLUTION l)Vrx.7. oct. 20. The abdication of :;0i;Tor Wllllfm arid tho crown prince (sVn4 only means of solving the "ter- r Gsfle rrlsis," a'ordlng to opinions ex-'!. ex-'!. ted by th Munich I'oste, the Hwao-dffhf Hwao-dffhf TngwaeM and Franklm'he Morgen t'dsi". ft n FJtchange Telegraph dlsputch |