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Show ASKS MB TO HELPJfflHS Foreign Secretary Says New Conditions Mean Starving of Millions. I.O.VDON. Nov. 11. Dr. Solf the German Ger-man foreign secretary, has addressed a message to Secretary of State Lansing, requesting that President Wilson intervene inter-vene to mitigate "the fearful conditions" existing in Germany. Dr. Solf says, according to a German wireless dispatch received here today, that he fee'.s it his duty to draw President Presi-dent Wilson's attention to the fact that the enforcement of the conditions of the armistice, especially the surrender of transport, means the starving of millions, and requests that the president's influence influ-ence be directed toward overcoming this danger. Toe president, he points out, has declared de-clared that he did not wish to make war on the German people and did not wish lo impede its peaceful development. "The Herman government has received the conditions of the armistice," continues con-tinues Dr. Solf. "We had to accept , the conditions, but feel it our duty to draw the president's attention most solemnly and with all earnestness to the fact that the enforcement of the conditions must produce among the German people feelings feel-ings contrary to those upon which alone the reconstruction of a community of nations na-tions can rest, guaranteeing a just and durable peace. "The German people, therefore, at this fateful hour address themselves again to the president with the request that he use his influence with the allied powers in order to mitigate these fearful conditions." |